Maggie Xu

Maggie Xu is a Software Engineer at Canva, based in Sydney, Australia. She is a product-driven full-stack engineer currently focusing on frontend specialization. Her professional background includes significant experience in various roles within software engineering and data analytics.

Professional Experience

• Current Role: Software Engineer at Canva, where she is involved in projects that merge design and technology.1

• Previous Positions:

  • Eucalyptus: Software Engineer (May 2022 - Present), where she worked on enhancing product efficiency.
  • Invivify: Software Engineer/Data Analyst (July 2020 - Present), focusing on automation and data visualization.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS): Software Development Engineer (April 2020 - March 2022), contributing to the Redshift AQUA team, which develops a distributed hardware-accelerated cache layer.
  • Internships: She has also interned at AWS and Freelancer.com, gaining experience in serverless applications and frontend infrastructure.12

Education

Maggie holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where she studied from 2017 to 2020. Additionally, she participated in a Chinese language program at National Taiwan Normal University.1

Skills and Interests

Maggie's technical toolkit includes languages and frameworks such as React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, and Python, among others. She is passionate about the intersection of technology and design, and in her spare time, she explores data analytics and machine learning.12 Outside of her professional interests, she enjoys dancing, sports, and traveling.