About
Hi there, I'm Shahid Zaman!
Engineering leader by the day and dad of two otherwise.
And ...
Currently working at Canva as an Engineering Manager, leading a team of backend and ML engineers. We work on making sense of content - extracting signals that power search, generative AI, and a range of other user-facing features across the platform. I am particularly interested in the topics of search & recommendation technology, engineering/team culture, leadership and inclusion.
Links
- Talk on Effective Feedback at LastConf Brisbane, Oct 2025
- Lighting talk on Practical D&I at Sydney Technology Leaders meetup, May 2023
- Microservice talk at Sydney JVM Meetup, 2016
- My talk on Jekyll/Github blog at Web Direction What Do You Know event, March 2016
- My team won the first prize in the Mashup at the Mitchell Hackday, 2011, with the Newserve application.
- I was part of the team that developed an Android application RemindAnyWay (RAW) for App My State 2010 competition organized by the Govt. of Victoria and won the popular choice award.