Saman Shafigh
Group Engineering Lead at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSaman Shafigh is a Group Engineering Lead in Sydney with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-led SaaS and growth-focused engineering teams, currently leading five product teams at Canva on subscription and collaboration growth. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering (from serverless backends to React front-ends) with platform design—having previously led core platform initiatives like notifications, API integrations and recommendation systems at ELMO. His background includes founding and shipping mission-critical systems early in his career (a nationwide blood-transfusion web app) and a research thread in NLP-driven vulnerability classification from a PhD program, which informs a data-driven approach to product and security trade-offs. Known for shipping delightful user experiences (“I just love to build things that make people happy to use”), he pairs technical depth with a track record of leading cross-functional teams to measurable growth.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering at University of Science and CulturePhD Candidate, Computer Science and Engineering, PhD Candidate, Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW AustraliaBachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering, 1st Class Honours with High Distinction, Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Engineering, 1st Class Honours with High Distinction at Charles Sturt University
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Github Skills (92)
testing10
declarative10
javascript10
phantomjs10
jestjs10
frontend10
react10
headless-browser9
lambda9
serverless-applications9
jsx9
user-interface9
facebook9
sam9
aws9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SamanShafigh/fuzzy-mac802154
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
SamanShafigh/nodejs-addons-performance-evaluation
Jul 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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