Vel Yanchina
Engineering Manager at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolVel Yanchina is an engineering manager based in Sydney with 11 years of experience bringing pragmatic, impact-focused software delivery to high-growth product teams. At Canva since 2017 he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership, and more recently explores venture and product opportunities through Airtree. His background spans fast-paced betting platforms and startups, moving from QA and customer-facing roles into senior engineering positions—an uncommon path that gives him strong empathy for cross-functional stakeholders. A generalist technologist with a Stanford Ignite credential in innovation and entrepreneurship, he favors practical solutions that accelerate learning and the business.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Ignite, Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Stanford Ignite, Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Technical University of SofiaMaster's Degree Information Systems, Master's Degree Information Systems at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bulgarian, English, German, Russian
Github Skills (57)
swift-framework10
objective-c10
algorithms10
xcode-plugin10
ios10
objective-c-library10
arkit10
swift-extensions10
pdf10
desktop-application10
render10
java10
plugin10
llm-inference10
xcode10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
velyan/Mark
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Xcode extension for generating MARK comments.
Contributions:4 releases, 37 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 5 months
xcode-extensionmarkmark-commentsswift
velyan/iOS-Goodies
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Your favorite iOS Newsletter, now open source.
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
ios
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