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. 

Personal Statement

I have led product development teams from concept through to implementation. I understand the importance of teamwork, task delegation and accountability. My technical expertise allows me to communicate effectively with development personnel while my business experience proves valuable when selling concepts, communicating ideas and negotiating with stakeholders. I have proven this leadership by delivering technology solutions on time & with quality.

I thrive on tackling complex technology problems, focusing on leading by doing and coming up with elegantly designed solutions.

I know how to build high-performing teams. Aligning & motivating a group of highly skilled individuals towards a shared vision is my speciality. I advocate leadership & autonomy at all levels to encourage career growth & ownership.