René Leistikow

René Leistikow is an accomplished engineering manager with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, currently serving at Canva since May 2021 in roles related to cloud essentials and components. Prior to Canva, René held a senior position at Origin Energy, focusing on migrating legacy applications to AWS while leading project teams. Experience includes backend development at Clipchamp and DevOps engineering at Guvera, where René contributed to global cloud infrastructure and microservice development. Early career roles involved software development for SIV.AG and research in cloud security and AI/ML at the University of Rostock. René holds a Diplom-Informatiker degree from Universität Rostock in Mathematics and Computer Science.