Oly Su
Product Designer at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolOly Su is an end-to-end Product Designer and Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience crafting user-centric, technically robust products across startups, government and enterprise. Currently designing platform and SDK experiences at Canva after shaping Buildkite’s visual pipeline UX and first visual pipeline builder, Oly blends hands-on React/Next.js fluency with deep product discovery and research practice. Known for turning complex, technical problems into fast, shippable outcomes—like reducing onboarding activation from eight hours to under five minutes—Oly also drives growth through SEO, documentation and tooling improvements. A collaborator who mentors teams and champions inclusive design, they pair a software engineering background with design leadership to bridge product, design systems and engineering. An often-overlooked strength is their technical writing contributions to widely used developer docs, demonstrating an ability to make complex developer workflows clear and accessible.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Graphic Design, Bachelor Graphic Design at Auckland University of TechnologySt Kentigern College
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
api-documentation10
documentation10
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
buildkite/docs
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The source files for the Buildkite documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:141 reviews, 316 commits, 128 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Oly primarily contributed to the Buildkite documentation repository, making changes related to the Test Analytics section and GraphQL API documentation. Their work involved refining existing content, adding new sections, and restructuring information for clarity. They also updated the navigation links and added instructions for using specific tools such as gotestsum.
buildkite-documentationbuildkitesource-files
aigovernancereview/aigovernancereview.github.io
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:51 PRs, 40 pushes, 41 branches in 1 year 6 months
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