Charlie Mckenzie
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorCharlie Mckenzie is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on development experience and a 12-year focused career delivering interactive web experiences, games, and high-performance PWAs. He has led teams and shipped award-winning projects for clients like ABC, PBS Kids, Google, BMW and Nintendo, and earned recognition including a UN Media Peace Awards commendation and a Webby Honouree. Charlie blends deep frontend expertise (TypeScript, React, Angular, WebGL/Three.js) with backend and DevOps know-how, and has driven architectural initiatives from microservices to provably fair iGaming RNG systems. He’s equally at home mentoring teams and scaling engineering processes as he is prototyping experimental game engines and AI-assisted pipelines to accelerate asset creation. Based in New South Wales, Australia, Charlie combines entrepreneurial grit—co-founding startups and leading product pivots—with a persistent curiosity for pushing interactive technology boundaries.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (35)
angularjs-material10
wallet10
lts10
angularjs10
javascript9
analytics9
redux9
typescript9
observables9
material-design9
state-management8
angular8
react-three-fiber8
rxjs8
post-processing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dreamoftrees/material
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:33 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
materialmaterial-designangular
immutable/lottie-web-threejs
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
Render After Effects animations natively on Web, Android and iOS, and React Native. http://airbnb.io/lottie/
Contributions:89 pushes, 10 branches in 7 months
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