Tom Saunders
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolTom Saunders is a Senior Software Engineer based in Canberra with 12 years’ experience building cross-platform hybrid mobile apps and backend services, currently contributing at Canva. He specializes in automating tedious manual tasks and has deep hands-on experience with Cordova/PhoneGap, native plugins for Android/iOS/Windows Phone, PHP and JavaScript. Tom has progressed from developer roles to engineering lead positions, shipping REST APIs and mobile solutions for organisations like Humanetix and Noggin. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, maintainable systems—and he signals attention to detail (and a sense of humor) by asking recruiters to include the word "Monkey" in outreach.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BIT, Information Technology, BIT, Information Technology at University of Technology Sydney
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Github Skills (20)
tie10
reader8
ionic7
pyodide7
scalable6
phonegap-plugin6
angular6
react6
nodejs6
vue6
stencil-components6
android6
toolchain6
typescript6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tomsaunders/pyrite
Apr 2014 - Nov 2021
.TIE file reader
Contributions:18 commits, 14 PRs, 15 pushes in 7 years 7 months
pythonfile-readerpyodidetiereader
eh-tac/pyrite
May 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:11 releases, 17 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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