Steven Sinatra

• Working daily on planning on performance work to make Canva fast, leading a team and encouraging external dependencies to help out and build a performance culture.
• Found quick wins and architectural changes to encourage performance as a default experience.
• Set up and communicated knowledge on using synthetic metrics and real user metrics on web performance.
• Casually maintaining build systems and finding improvements on developer experience.

• Spearheaded the movement to a front-end build system using Gulp (at the time) to precompile LESS files to CSS on build time rather than on runtime in the browser as a development workflow.
• Improved standardisation and consistency of CSS-based UI components.
• Aided in the development of modular JS infrastructure with SystemJS and jspm in personal time with just two people.
• Delivered performance focused culture, analysed and improved the load time of landing pages, whilst simultaneously collaborated on design and development of new landing pages.
• Involved in the rollout of Angular to the company front-end infrastructure, migrating sitewide components to the new framework, and made initial development work of the UI components implementation.

Written an article about succeeding in a hackathon and lessons learnt from doing it.

• Diploma of Software Development, 2013 — 2014
• Bachelor of IT (Mobile Application Development), 2014 — 2015