Resume:
Connor Williams
Professionally curious software engineer providing value by solving problems and optimizing processes.
Experience
Canva:
Canva is an Australian design technology company striving to empower the world to design.
- Backend Engineer (mid-level) (February 2024 - Present):
- Working in Marketing Automation team to deliver an internal platform to improve marketing workflows and user experience.
- Agile team working in 2 week sprints.
- Delivering features in co-ordination with other engineers; both within the team and larger organisation.
GROW Inc:
Australian FinTech delivering a platform to improve global wealth management called DLTA; currently deployed in the Australian superannuation market.
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Fullstack Engineer II (mid-level) (December 2021 - January 2024):
- Worked in a small team to deliver significant performance uplifts to the core platform to meet the demand of upcoming client transitions.
- Temporarily supported a separate Squad over 12 weeks to handover key client deliverables while their Engineering Lead was solely focused on a complex technical and business solution.
- Worked in a Squads-model team to deliver features within the Finance and Insurance domains of the platform.
- Translating requirements from business stakeholders into technical solutions and details for the entire squad.
- Training and guiding new and more junior employees with the codebase and technical practices.
- Discussing platform wide changes or improvements with the wider team.
- Reviewing code and ensuring high quality.
- Supporting production issues.
- Previously worked with other key individuals in BAU (Business As Usual) team to support the business leading up to and directly following the initial launch of the platform.
Previous roles include:
- Engineer I (junior) (June 2020 - December 2021)
- Engineering Intern (November 2019 - June 2020)
Technical Experience
- Technologies:
- Kotlin/Java (JVM):
- 4+ years experience with delivering both functional and test code in a large Kotlin codebase.
- Highly confident delivering scalable web services in a large JVM codebase using SpringBoot.
- Taught myself Java as a teenager to create mods for Minecraft.
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Typescript/Javascript:
- Experience with writing in both frontend and backend applications.
- Very capable delivering web services and executable scripts using Typescript.
- Most comfortable on the frontend with React (NextJS or t3-stack).
- Comfortable writing tests using Jest. Eager to pick up other testing frameworks in this space.
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Amazon Web Services:
- 4+ years experience working within a complex, existing AWS infrastructure.
- Confident in my ability to deliver integrations with S3, SQS, Lambdas, SNS, Batch, and other AWS services.
- Experience mocking AWS services within testing frameworks
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High confidence and capability with Terraform, Git, Shell, Buildkite, SQL.
- Side Projects
- Recently rebuilt my personal portfolio site
- Developed using create-t3-app
- Delivered using Vercel
- Content is managed via Contentful CMS
Education
- 2018
- Diploma of Software Development; Mt. Druitt TAFE NSW
- 2017
- High School Certificate; Greystanes High School
Outside of Work
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Native english speaker.
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Mechanical keyboard enthusiast.
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Organise regular basketball scrimmages to stay active