Justin Or
Software Engineer at Canva
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Or is a software engineer based in New South Wales with eight years of experience building cloud-native systems and tooling across fintech, insurance, and design platforms. With a dual background in Computer Science and Mathematics from UNSW, he combines strong algorithmic intuition with practical DevOps and microservices expertise, having accelerated deployments (notably a 500x speed-up at MLC) and revived performance testing suites. He has shipped production systems and analytics at NAB, contributed to AI research on speech indicators of cognitive decline, and currently develops scalable features at Canva. Comfortable across the stack, Justin brings an academic rigor—he has tutored university algorithms courses—to pragmatic engineering, often focusing on automation and infrastructure improvements that pay dividends in reliability and velocity.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Normanhurst Boy's High SchoolNorth Sydney Boy's High SchoolUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (84)
mining9
language-learning9
stream8
sentence8
subtitle8
docker-container7
media-player7
literate-programming7
browser-automation7
hls-stream7
player7
jekyll7
shift7
hosts7
nginx7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xpire/portfolio
May 2020 - Apr 2022
My portfolio
Contributions:10 PRs, 52 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 11 months
javascriptreact
xpire/blog
May 2021 - Oct 2023
fastpages blog to quickly blog about things
Contributions:5 PRs, 60 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
fastpages
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