Hello, I'm Oly.

I'm a software engineer. I design and build things that people find useful and enjoyable.

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I work at Canva, empowering 240M people to design

Currently in

Sydney, Australia

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recent work

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Building publishing and collaboration features that help people design together and share their creations with the world.

2023 — Now

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Helped build tools and platforms to support early-stage founders in 30+ locations around the world.

2022 — 2023

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Built a privacy-focused secret santa generator. It makes organizing gift exchanges simple and secure.

20k+ names matched

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Building tools that help engineers craft and maintain high quality, well designed products.

Launching 2026

Building a productivity app that helps you auto-organize your things and take action on them using AI.

Launching 2026

more about me

I wrote my first line of code 12 years ago. Since then, I've been learning how to build things that work well and make a positive impact. I love working across the stack - from designing in Figma to setting up infrastructure, building frontends, and writing reliable backends.

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Studied Computer Science at UNSW

First Class Honors 2021

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1249 contributions in the last year

GitHub

Last commit

Travelled 8 countries and 17 cities so far

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Love coffee and tea equally, especially with warm banana bread

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Last played

Spotify
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Loser

Tame Impala
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Department of Computational Craft

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