Shealan Forshaw
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorShealan Forshaw is a Senior Front End Engineer based in Sydney with over two decades of web and mobile development experience and 14 years in professional engineering roles. He specializes in React and TypeScript, owning projects end-to-end for clients ranging from Fortune 500/ASX 50 companies to startups and government. Known for rapid, iterative delivery, he pairs a strong design background with creative-technical fluency to bridge product and design teams effectively. Recently he has been accelerating development with AI tools and now contributes that practice to cutting-edge frontend work at Leonardo.AI. An award-winning developer (Webby, FWA, Australian Good Design Awards), he brings both creative technologist instincts and production-grade engineering discipline. Outside work he’s a film nerd and hot sauce enthusiast, traits that reflect a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1,326reputation
168kreached
4answers
43questions
Github Skills (200)
image-file10
google-maps10
scanner10
react-native-camera10
camera10
pkg10
radix-ui10
rpm10
electron-updater10
electron-builder10
vite10
worklet10
snapchat10
nuxt-module10
javascript10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
RuNpiXelruN/github-twitter-app
Jul 2018 - May 2024
A Go app that receives event data from the Github api and posts to Twitter
Contributions:1 PR, 2 comments in 5 years 10 months
golangapipoststwitterevent-data
shealan/Link-Social
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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