Kenneth Pahn

Software Engineer @ Canva

Location

Sydney, NSW

LinkedIn

Kenneth Pahn

Email

jobs@k.pahn.co

Intro

Hey! I'm Kenneth Pahn, a Software Engineer (Frontend) at Canva surfacing export capability to millions of users via the Download menu, including the new Use my printer feature.

I use TypeScript (React) day-to-day, and have a strong background in Python from prior experiences at Thales, Freelancer.com, and Optus.

Experience

July 2025 - Present

Canva

Software Engineer (Frontend, Design Experience - Downloads)

Sydney, NSW
  • Led end-to-end design and launch of Use my printer, enabling direct printing from Canva across web, desktop, and mobile without requiring manual file downloads.
    • Defined architecture for cross-platform print flows and drove alignment across 3 teams on capability detection, file handoff, and fallback behaviour.
    • Independently identified and delivered mobile rollout opportunity, increasing feature adoption by 20%.
    • Reduced print flow failure rate by 95% prior to launch through redesign of status handling and removal of unreliable polling edge cases.
  • Owned and scaled multiple high-volume download experiences including Single Page Download, PDF Password Protection, and PDF Sheets Orientation.
    • August 2024 - July 2025

    Software Engineer (Full Stack, IT - Internal Apps)

    Sydney, NSW
  • Designed and delivered scalable rate limiting infrastructure for internal platforms supporting key employee workflows, eliminating recurring HTTP 429 incidents after rollout.
    • Drove technical alignment on implementation approach through evaluation of alternatives, design documentation, and stakeholder coordination across teams.
    • Guided internal consumers through migration strategies including caching and request throttling to maintain critical workflows during rollout.
  • Rearchitected internal company goal management capabilities to support new goal types, improving organisational alignment.
    • Expanded Jira sync to support multi-instance sync during migration period.
    • Improved indexing, discoverability, and search experience through integration with Glean for AI-powered search, and development of persistent filters and sorting.
  • Developed backend and frontend components to parse and render Slack Kudos messages and reactions as part of the Canvanaut Wrapped experience designed to improve retention and morale.
    • January 2023 - August 2024

    Tesserent - Cyber Solutions by Thales

    Software Developer (Full Stack, Seer Security - Dev Team)

    Remote
  • Appointed acting team lead within 8 months, mentoring 3 engineers and coordinating delivery priorities across the team. Translated client needs into structured technical outcomes.
  • Led production-readiness initiatives for Python/Django/React web application including licensing constraints, persistent browser container sessions, telemetry integration, password reset flows, and CI/CD security scanning.
  • Improved performance of paginated application views by up to 5x through query optimisation.
    • June 2021 - January 2023

    Freelancer.com

    Software Engineer (Frontend - Freelancer Enterprise, UI Engineering, Software Infrastructure Teams)

    Sydney, NSW
  • Delivered cross-platform mobile UX improvements contributing to a 33% increase in 28-day average Android Play Store rating through implementation of generalised permissions framework, animated splash screen, automated app rating prompts, and native page transitions.
  • Improved merge/build time through 20% faster iOS E2E tests and optimised build trigger algorithm.
  • Acted as SME for Capacitor/Ionic Native, unblocking multiple teams on cross-platform feature delivery.
  • Placed 2nd in company-wide hackathon for developing LLM-assisted bid generation functionality.
    • April 2019 - June 2021

    Singtel Optus

    Graduate (Networks Data Engineer, Networks Security Threat Specialist)

    Macquarie Park, NSW

    Education

    The University of New South Wales

    B. Information Systems (Pass with Distinction)

    Sydney, NSW
    2019

    WYWM Academy

    Cyber Security Analyst Certification (ID: mh4L15MqxY)

    Online

    Skills

  • Languages: TypeScript (React, Angular, Capacitor, Playwright, Jest), Python (Django, unittest), HTMX
  • AI & Developer Tools: Cursor, Claude, Git (GitHub, GitLab), Docker, Sentry, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

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    Location

    Sydney, Australia

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    Kenneth Pahn

    Email

    jobs@k.pahn.co

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