Jordan Sim-smith
Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Canva
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Sim-smith is a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Canva with eight years of experience building scalable, event-driven microservices and microfrontends. A University of Auckland software engineering graduate, he has a strong track record of performance-driven engineering—delivering up to 20x and 50x speedups across archival and image-processing systems—and has led migrations that tripled feature delivery velocity. Jordan combines hands-on API and cloud-native development (C#, .NET, EF Core, Golang, AWS) with practical architecture work, prototyping distributed microfrontend patterns and containerising services for greater scalability. He’s mentored junior engineers and helped found NZ’s largest student tech club, showing a consistent focus on team enablement and reliable delivery. An engineer who values measurable impact, he favors event-driven designs and automated test and CI workflows that turn complex requirements into predictable roadmaps.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering at The University of AucklandNCEA, NCEA at Sancta Maria College
English
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jordansimsmith/task-scheduler
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:127 commits, 1 push in 1 month
jordansimsmith/personal-website
Aug 2018 - Nov 2024
Website all about me built with React.js and Gatsby.js!
Contributions:4 PRs, 97 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 4 months
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