Vel Yanchina
Engineering Manager at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolVel Yanchina is an engineering manager based in Sydney with 11 years of experience bringing pragmatic, impact-focused software delivery to high-growth product teams. At Canva since 2017 he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership, and more recently explores venture and product opportunities through Airtree. His background spans fast-paced betting platforms and startups, moving from QA and customer-facing roles into senior engineering positions—an uncommon path that gives him strong empathy for cross-functional stakeholders. A generalist technologist with a Stanford Ignite credential in innovation and entrepreneurship, he favors practical solutions that accelerate learning and the business.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Ignite, Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Stanford Ignite, Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Technical University of SofiaMaster's Degree, Information Systems, Master's Degree, Information Systems at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bulgarian, English, German, Russian
Github Skills (73)
objective-c-library10
render10
storekit10
in-app-purchase10
receipt-validation10
pdfbox10
appstoreconnect10
ecosystem10
desktop-application10
swift10
xcode-plugin10
arkit10
finder10
java10
leancloud10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
velyan/Mark
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Xcode extension for generating MARK comments.
Contributions:4 releases, 37 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 5 months
swiftiosxcode-extensioncommentsxcode
velyan/awesome-xcode-extensions
Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
Awesome native Xcode extensions.
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
xcode-extensionsextensionsswiftiosmacos
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