Fawaz is the Head of Infrastructure at Canva in Sydney. Previously he worked in leadership roles at Zulily and Amazon in Seattle.
Fawaz is a business-oriented product & technology leader with 20 years of experience in global, large & mid-size organizations with an outstanding record of achievement in technology innovation, development and delivery.
Canva
2020 – current
Canva brought me back to Sydney where I was charged with leading & growing the nascent Infrastructure organisation. We are now a flourishing group of over 200 engineers & product leaders building Cloud, Reliability & Developer Platforms that are at the forefront of ensuring Canva continues to scale.
Zulily
2018 – 2020
As an engineering leader, I managed & served as the technical voice for multi-disciplinary product & engineering teams within Store & Marketing Tech with over 50 web, mobile, and service engineers and Product Managers we owned the complete e-commerce platform including Mobile apps, Website & all supporting APIs and services.
Amazon
2015 – 2018
I managed teams within the Payments Services organisation primarily looking after the historical payment transaction lookup service, data warehousing & operational tools. I was also a member of the core leadership team that migrated Amazon's payments processing engine from a legacy monolithic service to a decoupled micro-service architecture.