Ryan Rushton
Staff Software Engineer at Canva
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Rushton is a Staff Software Engineer based in Queensland, Australia, with a decade of experience shipping front-end-first web applications at scale, most recently at Canva where he progressed from Frontend Engineer to Staff Engineer. He combines a solid academic grounding in mathematics and computer science with practical product sensibility honed across health and engineering organisations like Orion Health and the Australian Institute of Sport. A pragmatic UI specialist and hands-on contributor to popular open-source projects such as Destiny Item Manager, Ryan focuses on improving UX through thoughtful component work and responsive styling for both desktop and mobile. Outside of work he’s a dad and gamer, a background that surfaces in his collaborative, user-focused approach and appetite for iterative polish.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics and Physics at University of New England (AU)
Github Skills (11)
dse10
typescript10
dsdt10
dex10
user-interface10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
des10
react10
typescript-types10
css9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DestinyItemManager/DIM
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Destiny Item Manager
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:725 reviews, 1360 commits, 586 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily worked on implementing features and making stylistic improvements to the user interface. Their commits focused on adding a new mod selector and refining the styling of existing components, making adjustments for both desktop and mobile interfaces. The changes involved modifications to React components, as well as associated CSS files, indicating a focus on front-end development. This user's contributions included UI enhancements and adding more functionality to the UI.
reactbungieitemdestinytypescript
ryan-rushton/git-branch-manager
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Git branch and stash manager
Contributions:36 PRs, 79 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 1 month
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