Samuel Tumewa
Software Engineer (Backend) at Canva
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Tumewa is a backend software engineer with eight years of experience, currently building scalable services at Canva after driving ETL and distributed ML integration work at Apromore. He is proficient in Java (Spring Boot), Python, and TypeScript, and has production experience with AWS, Docker, MySQL/Postgres and Trino, pairing backend APIs with thoughtful database and ETL design. Samuel combines academic rigour from a BSc and MEng at the University of Melbourne with practical system-level thinking—he has researched microservice integration and fault-tolerant patterns for the Australian Bureau of Statistics. He’s contributed to teaching and mentoring as a university tutor and project supervisor, bringing an agile coaching mindset to team projects. Outside work he pursues linguistics and AI/ML hobbies, including a conlang dictionary and an OCR-driven game knowledge base that showcase his appetite for applied research and tooling. Reliable, curious and systems-oriented, he prefers pragmatic solutions that bridge data pipelines and model-driven features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (5)
process-mining10
java9
business-process-management8
javascript8
process-modeling7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Red-lebowski/info30005-2018-SE
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Chill-X/crown-for-aces-randomizer
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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