Chris Kerr

Frontend developer for Canva.

I am working to bring Offline functionality to the Canva suite, allowing users to continue working while temporarily offline. We are doing this by developing frontend and service worker functionality which enables local cache supported app loading.

Due to the scale of Canva, my work is largely planned and executed through technical design documents. These are often shared across relevant teams, so being able to balance priorities and stakeholders is critical to my feature delivery.

I was a fullstack software engineer at Functionly, developing a web application that helps businesses to optimise their organisational structure.

In the role, I led new feature planning and releases, drove innovation, shaped architecture, and conducted rigorous testing.

In order to give back to the Svelte community I also worked in my own time to create a handful of patch contributions back into the Svelte ecosystem.

I worked as a freelance Typescript Dev while travelling around east coast Australia living our van 🚚.

I worked as a software developer with an organised sports team uniforms/gear startup.

We managed a customer facing React application, which enabled customers to 3d design their uniforms, share, purchase and plan their seasons; and an internal dashboard which was used to manage leads, sales, operations, customer service, financial reporting, and most of the remaining business process.

We primarily used Hasura Graphql as our backend, with node services as custom resolvers for any specific business logic required.

I studied Javascript, React, Node, and Ruby.

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Travelled through Asia, Europe and a little bit of USA.

Partner Account Manager: March 2015 - October 2016

Partner Enablement: September 2013 - March 2015