Summary
Paul Knittel is a founder and product-driven technologist with 11 years of experience building consumer and enterprise software, currently leading a Sydney-based health app venture. He scaled product and engineering efforts at Canva—owning Android, later iOS and web transitions—helping win multiple Google Play and Apple awards while driving activation and retention growth through experimentation. Paul began his career building full-stack products and data visualizations, co-founding startups like FlowPro and Pixler, and has hands-on experience from embedded manufacturing to power-plant optimization. Comfortable moving between code, product strategy, and growth experiments, he combines startup grit with large-team coordination and a mission to use technology to improve billions of lives over the next decade.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The University of Queensland
English, German