Jaiden Ashmore
Staff Software Engineer at Canva
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJaiden Ashmore is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms, currently shaping product engineering at Canva after senior technical leadership roles at Indeed and a long tenure at Atlassian. He specializes in full-stack development with strong Java and Node back-end skills and hands-on expertise in React and Redux for complex frontend systems. Jaiden has deep experience in platform and tooling teams—particularly JIRA-related work—bringing a pragmatic understanding of reliability, developer experience, and cross-team integration. He moves between individual contribution and technical leadership, mentoring engineers while driving architecture and delivery improvements. Based in Australia and grounded in a Computer Software Engineering degree from UNSW, he’s known for embracing new challenges and quickly adopting emerging technologies to solve product-scale problems. An early-career pattern of repeated internships at Atlassian and Macquarie Group hints at a long-standing appetite for learning and collaboration in production environments.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (34)
kotlin10
java10
ktor10
sqs-listener10
spring-boot10
graphql-java10
graphql9
umbrella8
medium6
launchdarkly6
asynchronous6
amazon5
thread-safety5
amazon-sqs5
redis5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JaidenAshmore/java-dynamic-sqs-listener
Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
Java SQS Listener library built to be customisable and dynamic during runtime
Contributions:25 releases, 222 commits, 349 PRs in 2 years 10 months
javasqs-listenerspring-bootsqs-queuequeue-listeners
JaidenAshmore/functional-futures
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Completable Futures in the common functional formats, e.g. map, filter etc.
Contributions:12 PRs, 17 pushes, 13 branches in 4 days
control-flowmapformatsenumsfilter
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