Harrison Leach
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHarrison Leach is a senior software engineer based in Sydney with six years’ experience building performant front-end and full-stack applications, and 5+ years focused on React and TypeScript. He has shipped features and led library upgrades at Xero and Canva, driving measurable performance gains such as a 15x reduction in interaction delay on large invoices. Harrison combines hands-on front-end craft—design systems, developer tooling and SPA/MFE workflows—with backend experience in C#, .NET, AWS and Azure, and has automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform to dramatically cut manual onboarding time. Known for pragmatic profiling and optimisation, he balances user-facing polish with scalable engineering practices and enjoys coding off-hours as well as playing football.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Hons) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Hons) Software Engineering at University of Auckland
English
Github Skills (23)
internationalization10
localization10
translation9
to-do9
globalization9
intl9
icu9
react9
react-intl9
django8
formatjs8
javascript8
routines8
monorepo7
typescript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HarrisonLeach1/sunny-town
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:264 commits in 1 month
HarrisonLeach1/workout-tracker
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
An app to create workout routines and exercises to track your workout progress during isolation.
Contributions:97 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year
workoutisolationroutines
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