Josh Nelsson-smith
Senior Frontend Engineer at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJosh Nelsson-smith is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building robust, accessible web experiences using JavaScript, React, TypeScript and Node. He has driven platform-level improvements at REA Group—migrating multi-tenant systems to sharded architectures, enabling micro-frontend rollouts, and creating custom metrics workers to boost developer experience and performance. At Canva and previous roles at Deloitte Digital and Monash University he’s focused on shipping well-tested, production-ready interfaces and improving team delivery through smarter tooling and architecture. Known for pairing practical engineering with a product mindset, he routinely balances developer ergonomics, performance and accessibility when tackling complex frontend problems. An early leader who’s led student teams to deliver enterprise solutions, he brings both hands-on coding chops and a knack for improving how teams work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Software engineer, Bachelor’s Degree Software engineer at Monash University
English
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Github Skills (15)
marie10
ui-framework9
javascript8
simulator7
docker6
assembly6
architecture6
react6
nextjs5
api3
nodejs3
api-server2
sorting-algorithms2
mongodb2
rest-api2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jnelssonsmith/sorting-algorithm-visualiser
Oct 2019 - May 2020
A project to help visualise different sorting algorithms and their relative performance.
Contributions:47 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
sorting-algorithms
MonPlan/releases
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes in 2 months
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