{"basics":{"name":"Mo Kargas","label":"Staff Software Engineer","summary":"Staff Engineer at Canva. Based in Victoria, Australia. Staff software engineer with 20+ years building high-performance web applications. Staff Engineer at Canva, previously Staff Engineer at Leonardo.Ai, including founding engineering on Dream Lab. Based in Victoria, Australia.","location":{"region":"Victoria","countryCode":"AU"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokargas/"}]},"work":[{"name":"Canva","position":"Staff Engineer","startDate":"2026-01","summary":"Staff Engineer (Jan 2026–Present)","highlights":["Founding engineer of Dream Lab, Canva’s first Leonardo.Ai integration."],"location":"Melbourne"},{"name":"Leonardo.Ai","position":"Staff Engineer","startDate":"2024-05","endDate":"2025-12","summary":"Staff Engineer (Aug 2025–Dec 2025); Senior Software Engineer (May 2024–Aug 2025)","highlights":["Led React and TypeScript architectural refactors whose patterns were reused across features.","Built shared components and utilities that more than one team adopted.","Wrote documentation that turned architecture and QA practice into guidance other engineers could use.","Raised the bar on maintainability and testing through code review.","Brought AI programming tools into the engineering workflow.","Seconded to Canva to build Dream Lab, integrating Leonardo.Ai image generation into Canva. Core stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Playwright, Testing Library, Sentry."],"location":"Melbourne"},{"name":"Independent","position":"Independent technical practice","startDate":"2022-05","endDate":"2024-04","summary":"Independent technical practice, Unreal Engine, Blender, and generative tools, May 2022–Apr 2024","highlights":[]},{"name":"Doshii","position":"Senior User Interface Engineer","startDate":"2021-03","endDate":"2022-05","summary":"Senior User Interface Engineer, Doshii, Mar 2021–May 2022","highlights":[]},{"name":"Silverpond","position":"Senior Frontend Developer","startDate":"2020-03","endDate":"2020-07","summary":"Senior Frontend Developer, Silverpond, Mar 2020–Jul 2020","highlights":[]},{"name":"Hyperkind","position":"Senior User Interface Engineer","startDate":"2019-07","endDate":"2020-01","summary":"Senior User Interface Engineer, Hyperkind, Jul 2019–Jan 2020","highlights":[]},{"name":"Silverpond","position":"UI Developer","startDate":"2018-06","endDate":"2019-03","summary":"UI Developer, Silverpond, Jun 2018–Mar 2019","highlights":[]},{"name":"The Walt Disney Company","position":"User Interface Engineer","startDate":"2015-03","endDate":"2018-02","summary":"User Interface Engineer (Mar 2015–Feb 2018)","highlights":["Delivered websites, campaigns, and activations from prototype to production for Disney and Marvel properties.","Built SPAs, games, and immersive experiences for Star Wars, Ant-Man, Captain America, and Moana.","Prototyped Kinect, Unity, and AR/VR work, including WebAR and WebVR.","Built component libraries and front-end architecture for Disney and Marvel web properties.","Named projects: Captain America: Civil War, Star Wars — Choose Your Side, Antman Army, Moana: Search the Sea, I, Rebel (Rogue One), Marvel.com.au, ShopMyDisney.com.au."],"location":"Melbourne"},{"name":"Svelte Studios","position":"Lead Developer","startDate":"2013-10","endDate":"2014-12","summary":"Lead Developer, Svelte Studios, Oct 2013–Dec 2014","highlights":[]},{"name":"Fusion","position":"Front-end and Mobile Developer","startDate":"2010-05","endDate":"2013-09","summary":"Front-end and Mobile Developer, Fusion, May 2010–Sep 2013","highlights":[]},{"name":"The Cloud Concept","position":"Web Developer","startDate":"2007-03","endDate":"2010-05","summary":"Web Developer, The Cloud Concept, Mar 2007–May 2010","highlights":[]},{"name":"Whitecursor","position":"Web Developer","startDate":"2005-03","endDate":"2007-01","summary":"Web Developer, Whitecursor, Mar 2005–Jan 2007","highlights":[]}],"education":[{"institution":"Flinders University","area":"Computer Science and Physics","studyType":"Bachelor of Science","startDate":"2002","endDate":"2006"}],"skills":[{"name":"Frontend","keywords":["TypeScript","JavaScript","React","Next.js","Tailwind CSS","Angular","HTML","CSS"]},{"name":"Creative technology","keywords":["Three.js","WebGL","Unity","Unreal Engine","Blender","AR/VR"]},{"name":"AI","keywords":["AI product engineering","generative image tools","AI development tools","agentic workflows"]},{"name":"Platform","keywords":["Playwright","Testing Library"]}]}