Justin Velluppillai
Engineering Manager at Canva
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJustin Velluppillai is an engineering manager based in Canterbury, New Zealand, with 12 years of experience building and leading high-performing software teams across startups and scale-ups. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering with people leadership, having grown teams, improved processes, and driven OKR-aligned delivery at Matomo and Canva. As a long-time open-source contributor to Matomo, he’s tackled both front-end UX and back-end data improvements—demonstrating attention to privacy-minded analytics and pragmatic engineering. Justin also brings entrepreneurial experience founding HostJars and co-founding SaaS products, turning free tools into profitable offerings. His background in psychology and computer science gives him a rare blend of technical depth and a strong understanding of team dynamics and product behaviour.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Psychology & Computer Science, BSc, Psychology & Computer Science at University of CanterburyBachelor of Science (Honours), Master of Science (MSc), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Master of Science (MSc), Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (12)
php10
javascript10
privacy10
back-end-development10
web-analytics10
analytics10
angularjs9
front-end-development9
css8
html8
phpunit8
mysql8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
matomo-org/matomo
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Empowering People Ethically with the leading open source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data. Matomo lets you easily collect data from websites & apps and visualise this data and extract insights. Privacy is built-in. Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. And we love Pull Requests!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 222 reviews, 84 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Justin contributed to the Matomo project by addressing multiple areas, including front-end modifications and back-end improvements. Their work involved adding new translation strings for UI elements, integrating new features, and modifying existing functionality, such as allowing POST'd token_auth in the web cron archive. The user also made contributions to the codebase by removing redundant attributes from tracking code and improving database interactions.
analyticspiwikcollectmatomomysql
justinvelluppillai/Airliner-Identification
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
This is a website dedicated to helping people learn the difference between Boeing and Airbus commercial aircraft
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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