Mike Lee
Client Platform Group Lead (Senior Eng Manager)
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Lee is a senior engineering leader with 12 years of experience scaling client platforms and UX infrastructure, currently growing Canva’s Client Platform group of 100+ engineers. He has built and led cross-functional teams across accessibility, design systems, internationalisation, mobile and performance, shipping initiatives like product-wide theming, PDF accessibility, and user-editable alt text. Mike combines hands-on frontend expertise with people development—promoting engineers into their first lead roles and embedding platform practices across the org. His work emphasizes equitable, inclusive user experiences and measurable platform adoption rather than just component libraries. Based in Australia, he pairs a technical Computer Science background with a GradCert in Economics, giving him a pragmatic, metrics-oriented approach to scaling engineering impact. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who turns design-system investments into measurable product and accessibility outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Student Exchange Computer Science, Student Exchange Computer Science at University of California, DavisAustralian National UniversityUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (19)
member9
font-family8
google6
sass6
css6
intranet6
simplify6
font-size5
statistics5
npm4
fonts4
scale4
database4
google-fonts3
website-development3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
michaelnamlee/editor
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 months
reactconfigurableweb-editorjavascripteditor
michaelnamlee/cakeform
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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