The Full Stack Network (And Everything We Broke Along the Way) | Richard Olson | Megaport Connect

What does it take to build a global hybrid multicloud network? Richard Olson, Tech Lead at Canva, shares the architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons learned scaling infrastructure across clouds, regions, and bare metal at global scale.

Recorded at Megaport Connect 2026.
Chicago | Thursday 22 October

ABOUT THE SPEAKER | Richard Olson, Tech Lead (Networking and Compute), Canva

Richard has spent the past four years growing Canva's network from a single cloud region to a global, multi-cloud fabric spanning hyperscalers, neoclouds, and data centres. He has twenty years in networking, is a self-confessed automation hipster, and got his start in IT throwing rocks into trees.

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