Summary
Liam Pillay is an engineering manager and web-focused leader with eight years of experience building high-traffic products and teams, currently accountable for web engineering at Leonardo.Ai and holding engineering leadership at Canva. He combines deep React and JavaScript expertise with game development and interactive systems experience, having architected AI-driven canvases, 3D texture generation tools, and metaverse integrations across multiple blockchains. Liam has a track record of scaling teams from founding stages to 30+ engineers and shipping features used by millions of creatives, while formalising coding conventions, release processes, and documentation. He also runs his own software studio, blending client-facing SaaS work with entrepreneurial product launches and teaching experience in game programming. Curious about decentralised tech, he applies emerging innovations pragmatically to empower creators and bridge user-facing UX with complex backend systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Bachelor's degree, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at Bond University