Jason Luppnow
Software engineer building distributed systems, platform tooling and observability.
I'm based in Australia and have spent the last five years building payments and observability platforms, most recently at Canva. Outside work, I'm building my own game and training for my next marathon.
- status
- open to full-stack, platform and infrastructure roles
- focus
- Kubernetes, distributed systems, observability
- stack
- Go, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres
- where
- Australia, remote
Selected work
Go · Kubernetes · Helm
VPA Manager
A Kubernetes controller that automatically creates and deletes Vertical Pod Autoscaler resources by watching the state of your workloads.
View source for VPA ManagerGDScript · Game
Evolv
A tower defense game with a modular evolution system. My passion project outside of work.
In progress
Where I've worked
Oct 2025 – Nov 2026
Canva · Full-Stack Developer, Observability
Responsible for the end-to-end experience of visualization, metrics, continuous profiling, and standardized alerting for all Canva products and services.
Aug 2021 – Oct 2025
Virtual Gaming Worlds · Full-Stack Developer, Risk and Payments
Focused heavily on global transaction scaling, real-time security, fraud prevention, and seamless user experiences.
Let's talk
I'm open to full-stack, platform and infrastructure engineering roles. Email is the quickest way to reach me.