Jordan Mele
Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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RockstarJordan Mele is a software engineer based in Sydney with 10 years' experience building maintainable, high-performance backend systems. Currently at Canva, he focuses on consistency, extensibility, and measurable performance gains, and has contributed upstream to the widely used Bazel build system by optimizing initialization, refining Starlark docs, and hardening APIs. He combines pragmatic engineering with a developer-tools mindset—reducing rebuilds and eliminating subtle runtime errors—to make large codebases easier to evolve. Colleagues know him for bringing clarity to complex systems and for quietly improving developer experience at scale.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
56reputation
2kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
starlark10
build-system10
bazel10
java10
documentation8
api-design8
json6
uwp6
threejs6
microsoft-edge-extension6
google-chrome-extension6
chrome-native-messaging6
react-three-fiber6
react6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 1 commit, 36 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed to the Bazel build system, focusing on improving its performance and maintainability. The contributions include optimizing the repository rule environment initialization to reduce restarts and improve build times. Further work involved refactoring and normalizing the Starlark API documentation to improve readability. The user also addressed null pointer exceptions and made the `get_default_canonical_id` public API.
build-systembazelcorrectscalablemulti-language
userfrosting/web
Jan 2017 - Feb 2021
The official website for UserFrosting
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
userfrostinguserfrosting-documentation
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