Steve Roberts
Engineering Manager at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSteve Roberts is an experienced engineering manager based in Melbourne with nearly two decades in digital product development and over a decade in hands-on engineering leadership. He has led teams across startups and large organisations—most recently at Canva—bringing a blend of technical depth, product design sensibility and commercial acumen to modernise UX and scale delivery. Steve co-founded a web-based gaze-tracking startup, has driven growth-hacking and lean teams at Xero, and built engineering and delivery capability as Head of Engineering at Common Code. He excels at turning complex legacy systems into usable, high-quality products that deliver measurable business value and user impact. Colleagues know him for combining strategic thinking with a designer’s eye, often stepping into product, research or support work to unblock progress.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis at The University of Western Australia
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Github Skills (61)
face-detection10
face10
amazon-cognito10
photo10
storage10
aws-lambda10
barrage10
rails10
amplify10
ruby10
aws-apigateway10
dynamodb10
aws10
serverless-framework10
sst10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ACloudGuru-Resources/Course_Go_Serverless_with_a_Graph_Database
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Discover the power of graph databases by working with a highly connected dataset you already have at home: your family photos
Contributions:19 commits, 38 pushes in 6 months
discoverdatasetgraph-databasesconnecteddatabases
mbudm/marikasosnowski.com
Jun 2020 - Feb 2025
mikis placeholder site
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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