Fawaz Ahmed

Fawaz Ahmed is a seasoned engineering leader currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Canva since August 2020, following a tenure as Director of Engineering. Prior experience includes positions at Zulily, where Fawaz headed the Core Platform organization and managed the Customer, Order, and Payments services team, and Amazon as a Software Development Manager in Payment Services. Fawaz's earlier roles encompass Technical Team Lead at Fujitsu Australia Software Technology, Senior Consultant at Quantum IT, and Principal Architect at Dimension Data's Cloud Business Unit, where significant contributions included leading a team for multi-tenant cloud service platforms. Additional roles include Managing Partner at Red Vireo, Senior Developer at Basis Design, and Software Engineer at Educational Assessment Australia. Fawaz holds a Bachelor of Computer Science with a focus on Computer Software Engineering from the University of New England and has a foundational education from IISJ.