Geoff Evason
Engineering Director at Canva
Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolGeoff Evason is an experienced engineering director with 17 years of building and scaling web, mobile, and desktop products, currently leading engineering at Canva from Gosford, Australia. He combines hands-on technical depth in Ruby on Rails and iOS/Objective-C with broad ownership across implementation, delivery, marketing, support and strategy. Geoff has a strong track record managing 24x7 platform availability and performance at scale (Envato Markets) and founding startups that delivered high-traffic consumer sites and successful educational apps. Known for instituting disciplined Agile, TDD/BDD practices and mentoring managers, he balances commercial priorities with technical risk management. Colleagues describe him as a practical, metrics-driven leader who still dives into code and architecture to unblock teams.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B. A. Sc Computer Engineering, B. A. Sc Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (28)
react-redux10
rails-gem10
webpack-server9
react-on-rails9
redux-store9
react8
webpack8
redux8
immutablejs8
react-rails7
rails6
ruby6
slack-bot6
javascript6
react-native6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
geoffevason/register-api
Feb 2009 - Mar 2009
Contributions:3 commits in 5 days
geoffevason/code-kata-video-store-refactor-java
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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