Rhys Lloyd
Software Engineer at Canva
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolRhys Lloyd is a software engineer with 13 years of professional experience, currently building UI at Canva after senior and staff engineering roles at Catch and Empired. He specialises in frontend systems, turning UX designs into inclusive, highly testable component libraries using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Storybook and Testing Library. Known for breaking complex interfaces into composable, reusable pieces, he prioritises developer experience, maintainability and accessibility alongside visual polish. Rhys blends hands-on implementation with mentoring and cross-discipline communication, making technical trade-offs clear to designers and stakeholders. Based in Adelaide, he brings a practical, detail-oriented approach forged across consulting and product teams, and a personal ethos of “working UI” reflected in tidy, well-tested code.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing, Multimedia, Bachelor of Computing, Multimedia at University of South Australia
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
1,125reputation
21kreached
15answers
11questions
gulp
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
testing10
material-ui10
interpreter10
state-machine10
e2e10
jsx10
minification10
html10
json10
statechart10
nodejs10
svelte10
css10
web-components10
material-design10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
justrhysism/webstorm-settings
May 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:112 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
fusion-com-au/foundry-release-require-branch
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
Forces releases to happen on a specific branch.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 6 years
forcesfoundryminecraftcloud-foundry
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