Leslie Alldridge
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Canva
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolLeslie Alldridge is a Senior Software Engineer specialising in infrastructure with eight years’ experience building resilient, cost-efficient cloud systems and modernising legacy codebases. Based in Wellington, she has driven multi-million dollar AWS cost savings, implemented company-wide compute and SLO automation, and built bespoke observability and on-call tooling at scale. Proficient in Python, Typescript, .NET, Terraform and Kubernetes, she combines hands-on coding (including front-end React work) with pragmatic TDD and runbook-driven operational practices. A collaborative mentor who enjoys pair programming and lifting team reliability, she also steps into Incident Commander duties when needed. Outside engineering she’s an Ironman trainee and former personal trainer, bringing the same discipline and iterative improvement mindset to systems and sport.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Spotswood CollegePersonal Training certificate, Personal Training, Personal Training certificate, Personal Training at New Zealand Institute of Sport (NZIS)Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Accounting, Japanese, Commercial Law, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Accounting, Japanese, Commercial Law at Victoria University of WellingtonFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Dev Academy Aotearoa
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
1,525reputation
128kreached
57answers
20questions
Github Skills (192)
xmlhttprequest10
slack-bot10
http-client10
xero10
javascript10
browser10
refer10
websocket-client10
ajax10
nodejs10
flask-migrate10
aws10
django-auth10
relic9
flask-sqlalchemy9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
leslie-alldridge/react-competency-checklist
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
A competency checklist for students who are learning React.
Contributions:10 PRs, 26 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 7 months
checklistreactcompetencyjavascriptreactjs
leslie-alldridge/jokebot-slack
Oct 2018 - Sep 2024
jokebot-slack
Contributions:13 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
slackslack-bot
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