Steven Shen
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Shen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 8 years building backend systems and data-intensive services across startups and global platforms. He’s worked on time-series-heavy architectures using TimescaleDB/Postgres and serverless refactors at Lynxx, moved into travel-tech at Amadeus, and supported high-scale backend engineering at TikTok before joining Canva. Comfortable across Django, Angular, and cloud-native patterns, he focuses on pragmatic, reliable systems that handle large volumes of telemetry and GTFS data. Colleagues would describe him as hands-on and straightforward—he prefers hiking and camping over social media reels and sloganeering—and brings that practical mindset to engineering trade-offs. With a Computer Science degree from UNSW, he combines a strong academic foundation with real-world production experience across diverse domains.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (4)
vote9
voting8
irc7
python5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jysim3/pointr
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
Pointr - A point/attendance system for UNSW colleges. Winner of the 1st IRC Hackathon
Contributions:381 commits, 269 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
pythonattendance-systempointunswcolleges
StevenShen1999/projectSiriusA
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
A practice frontend project using Vue.js
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
vue-jsvuefrontendfrontend-practicevuejs
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