Hendrik Swanepoel
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorHendrik Swanepoel is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building and integrating scalable web and mobile products, currently at Canva after leading the integration of Over into GoDaddy Studio. He combines hands-on mastery of TypeScript, React, RxJS and backend services with proven leadership—having launched a Link-in-Bio site builder across iOS and Android while managing direct reports and cross-functional stakeholders. Hendrik excels at rescuing complex UX systems (undo/redo engines, sync) and architecting high-performance web editors, and he has translated that expertise into popular Pluralsight courses on React and TypeScript. Comfortable in startups and large enterprises alike, he drives pragmatic DevOps and CD improvements to meet governance and performance standards. Colleagues rely on him to bridge design, product and engineering to turn ambitious creative tools into reliable, production-grade experiences.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (17)
rspec10
rails10
appconfig10
ruby-on-rails10
erb9
amazon-web-services9
html9
css8
testing8
page-layout7
layout7
wcf6
github-pages6
github6
git6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hendrikswan/pluralsight-ts-advanced-types
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Code to follow along with PS course on advanced TS types
Contributions:36 commits, 9 pushes in 1 month
followtypescriptfp-tsoop
hendrikswan/pluralsight-angular-redux
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Source code used in pluralsight.com course on using angular with redux
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 7 months
pluralsightreduxangular
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