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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Building a privacy-focused platform that helps people organize gift exchanges and wishlists for free, without needing accounts.

210k+ names matched

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Building an app that brings notes, tasks, links, and files together in one private place you never have to organize.

Waitlist · Launching Q4 2026

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

2022 — 2023

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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1793 contributions in the last year

GitHub

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Travelled 10 countries and 30 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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