Samuel Sharpe
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Sharpe is a Senior Software Engineer based in Brisbane with 11 years of experience specialising in frontend architecture and UI engineering, complemented by full-stack fluency. He focuses on building engaging, accessible, and high-performance user experiences underpinned by well-tested foundations, design systems, and TypeScript-first codebases. Samuel drives developer productivity through CI/CD, automation, system tooling, and pragmatic adoption of AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery. His open-source contributions include improving test coverage, modernising tooling, and removing deprecated dependencies in the popular react-boilerplate project, reflecting a practical commitment to maintainable, scalable front-end foundations. Currently at Leonardo.Ai, he blends product-focused engineering with a keen eye for developer experience improvements learned across roles in gaming, betting, and enterprise software.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at CQUniversity
English
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
styled-components10
enzyme10
jestjs10
react10
testing10
webpack9
react-boilerplate9
redux-saga8
redux8
cicd7
i18n-js6
ember-i18n6
rails-i18n6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
🔥 A highly scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a focus on performance and best practices.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 PRs, 10 pushes, 285 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to improving the quality and functionality of the React front-end application. They addressed test warnings and errors within the component tests, enhancing the test coverage of existing UI components. They also refactored the codebase by using styled-components and removed deprecated dependencies. Furthermore, they updated the code to support newer Node.js versions and ESLint rules.
redux-sagawebpack4react-routerreactjsfire
samit4me/babel-plugin-filenamespace
Aug 2016 - Oct 2021
Use file structure to namespace your code
Contributions:12 releases, 68 commits, 66 PRs in 5 years 2 months
file-structurebabelbabel-plugin
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