Raoul D'cunha
Engineering Manager at Canva
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolRaoul D'cunha is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performing, distributed software teams across startups and large enterprises. He has led initiatives from architecture to production at companies like Canva, Atlassian, Hopin and Cornerstone, specializing in distributed systems, observability, and cost-optimizing migrations. Known for mentoring engineers and fostering ownership, he combines hands-on technical judgment (from microservices and cloud migrations to AI-powered product features) with pragmatic people leadership. Raoul has repeatedly driven measurable outcomes—reducing costs via DB migrations, improving CI/CD and monitoring, and shipping analytics and platform tooling that enable scale. Comfortable managing across time zones, he thrives on turning ambiguity into clear delivery plans and scalable engineering processes. Outside of engineering, his background in music hints at a creative, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Music, Music at Trinity LabanBachelor of Engineering (Honours), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Software Engineering at University of Auckland
Github Skills (38)
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
vscode10
visual-studio-code9
visual-studio9
mercurial8
csharp8
gecko7
jellyfin7
dotnet7
firefox7
mozilla7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
raouldc/Surface-AirHockey
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
raouldc/config
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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