Jacob Foley
Senior Backend Engineer (User Voice) at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJacob Foley is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems, analytics platforms, and production AI features across Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He combines a PhD-level understanding of computer science with hands-on delivery—from architecting data lakes, CDC and reverse-ETL pipelines to shipping payments and risk systems that scale to eight-figure volumes. At Thinkific he helped found the AI Committee and Core AI Team, bridging governance, training and prototype RAG/embedding solutions for customer feedback; he now focuses on applying generative AI to surface and act on user voice at Canva. Comfortable leading teams and negotiating vendor strategies, Jacob blends full-stack and data engineering fluency with practical ML/AI application experience. He’s especially interested in turning unstructured text into operational signals, and has a track record of translating research-grade ideas into production tooling and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science at University of New England (AU)
English
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Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (5)
jacobjfoley/sage
May 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:388 commits, 182 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
jacobjfoley/perigee
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
A near-future space salvage game
Contributions:1 PR, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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