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Joshua Steele

Frontend Software Engineer @ Canva

Hi there I'm Joshua - nice to meet you. Adelaide-based, building fast and expressive interfaces. Obsessed with Neovim, web performance, and clean builds.

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Joshua Steele@joshocalico

about

$ cat about.md

I'm a frontend software engineer at Canva and a graduate of the University of South Australia, working out of Adelaide. I spend my days shaping interfaces that stay quick under real load and a delight to use.

My core stack is Vite, React, and TypeScript, and I obsess over web performance and lightning-fast, clean builds. I follow the Vite and VoidZero ecosystem closely, write most of it in Neovim, and care a lot about beautiful, expressive, composable developer tooling - the kind that makes the next person faster too.

currently into

  • Vite / VoidZero
  • React + TypeScript
  • Performance budgets
  • Clean, fast builds

experience

$ cat ~/work/canva.md

Frontend Software Engineer

@ Canva

Building the surfaces people reach for first - search, discovery, and AI-assisted design - with a relentless eye on speed.

Search & Discovery

On the C&D team, shaping how millions of people find the right template, photo, or element at the exact moment they need it.

Performance

Trimming bytes and milliseconds across the frontend - fast, lightweight, performant experiences that hold up under real load.

Magic Design

Contributing to Magic Design, Canva's AI-powered design generation, so a rough idea turns into a finished layout in seconds.

projects

$ ls ~/projects
featured

chromatic

Beautiful, expressive and composable color and text formatting for the CLI, written in Gleam.

GleamMIT2
featured

web3getter

Stitch, share and combine your web3 data into a beautiful, privacy-preserving, customisable dashboard.

TypeScript

joshuasteele.net

My personal website and corner of the internet.

TypeScript

HubNotify

A GitHub event notification tool - because given enough time everything (including Slack) becomes email.

TypeScript

vision-playground

A TypeScript experiment and playground for vision ideas.

TypeScript

Word2Vec-Playground

Having some fun learning about Word2Vec and the papers surrounding it for a research project.

Python

visual-patchbay

A JavaScript project exploring visual patching and routing.

JavaScript

advent-of-code-24

My Advent of Code 2024 solutions, one puzzle at a time.

TypeScript

Path2JSON

A simple SVG path to JSON converter.

PythonMIT
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stack

$ echo $TOOLS

Clean, high-performance frontend engineering. My core stack is Vite, React, and TypeScript - the rest are tools I reach for as the work calls for them.

  • Vite
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Web performance
  • Frontend engineering
  • Gleam
  • Python
  • Neovim (editor of choice)