Currently, I work on Media Service, Canva's central media processing system that handles hundreds of thousands of requests per second and manages petabytes of data. I also lead development of the Annotation Service, which powers all of Canva's AI features and research by managing our machine learning data at massive scale with sub millisecond performance. Both services are critical infrastructure backing all of Canva's AI efforts.

Previously, I launched Canva's Public REST API and implemented our in-house OAuth 2.1 system. A highlight project was CanvaGPT – a ChatGPT app announced at OpenAI DevDay by Sam Altman. It became the most used GPT at launch, serving millions of users and driving significant user acquisition. I was selected to represent Canva at GitHub Universe in San Francisco and spent time visiting OpenAI, Facebook, Notion and Google.

• Worked on Media Service at the scale of hundreds of thousands of QPS
• Personally developed Canva features that closed the two largest enterprise customers to date and led to direct revenue growth in the millions of dollars
• Owner and Builder of Annotation Service supporting all of Canva's AI initiatives at scale
• Implemented OAuth 2.1 spec as a top-level microservice
• Developed bulk operations platform for images and design creation
• Created webhook notification system for design activities
• Wrapped core Canva features as APIs including:
  • Generative AI design creation
  • Document import pipeline
  • ML-powered design resizing
• Led 100k user microservice migration
• Developed Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations

Led end-to-end development of a two-sided marketplace for barbers, successfully launching on the Apple App Store. As sole engineer, architected and implemented the entire technical stack, achieving an efficient and scalable booking platform.

Trybe has gone on to service hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of transactions, with thousands of barbers and customers.

• Developed two native mobile applications in Flutter: a consumer app for finding and booking barbers, and a business app for barber appointment management
• Built real-time location-based discovery system with dynamic map interface for finding nearby barbers
• Implemented secure payment processing system with escrow functionality and automated payout pipeline
• Created real-time notification and direct messaging system for client-barber communication
• Designed comprehensive booking system handling scheduling, cancellations, and availability management
• Integrated analytics dashboard for barbers to track business metrics and booking patterns
• Built admin panel for user management, dispute resolution, and platform oversight

My work at the University of Queensland focused on leading design and development of the first ever robotics system to perform automated Craniofacial Superimpositioning – the process of identifying missing persons by superimposing a photo of the victim with a given skull. Work was done in C++ and Python, of which culminated in me becoming a published author in the International Journal of Legal Forensic Medicine. These days, some of my spare time is taken up working on my next article on the topic.