Paul Tuckey
Staff Software Engineer at Canva
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorPaul Tuckey is a Staff Software Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand with 14 years of experience building and leading mobile, web and SaaS platforms. He combines hands-on engineering with product and architectural ownership, having scaled a presentation SaaS as CTO—re-architecting frontends, moving backends to serverless on AWS and cutting hosting costs by an order of magnitude. Paul is customer-facing and delivery-focused, comfortable mentoring teams and managing contractors while shipping complex features like rich editors, rendering pipelines and analytics microservices. His open-source UrlRewriteFilter, licensed by Atlassian, highlights deep Java back-end expertise and a pragmatic approach to performance and maintainability. At Canva and previous public-sector roles he’s balanced rapid prototyping with robust authentication, indexing and document-processing systems. He’s passionate about mobile computing and quality UI design, but equally adept at low-level performance improvements and operational cost optimisation.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
gzip10
java10
annotations9
annotation-processing9
http-client8
http6
caching6
pycharm6
amazon-web-services6
python6
amazon-s36
aws-elasticsearch6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
paultuckey/urlrewritefilter
Jun 2012 - Dec 2022
A Java Web Filter with functionality like Apache's mod_rewrite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 144 commits, 45 PRs in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the URL rewrite filter. Key contributions include redesigning gzip support, separating annotation processing into a separate module, and adding a request proxy with custom request entity handling. The user also dropped support for older logging methods, added new features and fixed several bugs. These changes are essential for the filter's core functionality and maintainability.
crystal-langjava-webmodapacheweb-services
paultuckey/vue3-plugin-bootstrap5
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:23 releases, 69 commits, 57 pushes in 2 months
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