Summary
Rashmi Modhwadia is an engineering manager based in Sydney with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, automated developer environments and reliable production systems. She has progressed from software engineering into site reliability and leadership roles at companies like Orion Health, DroneDeploy, Slyp and now Canva, specializing in CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, orchestration and security across IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and edge/IoT contexts. Known for applying systems thinking to remove bottlenecks, she couples technical design with process optimization to empower teams to ship faster with higher quality. Rashmi has led cross-functional teams to deliver air-gapped, production-grade Kubernetes releases and designed multi-architecture release pipelines, demonstrating a pragmatic balance of hands-on engineering and team enablement. Her practical motto—“break and fix things”—reflects a learning-first approach that turns experiments into durable operational improvements.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Engineering Technology Software Engineering, Bachelor in Engineering Technology Software Engineering at Auckland University of Technology