Blake Kus
Principal Creative Technologist
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBlake Kus is a Principal Creative Technologist with 13 years of experience building award-winning interactive experiences and leading engineering teams across agencies and product companies. He blends deep hands-on development—WebGL, full-stack systems and novel algorithm R&D—with creative storytelling, most notably as the sole developer of Google's Through the Dark. His work has earned over 100 international awards (including Cannes Lions, D&AD, Webbys and FWA Site of the Year), reflecting a rare combination of technical craft and creative ambition. At Canva and previously Google, R/GA and VML he has scaled teams, invented bespoke algorithms (e.g., wave detection from raw GPS) and shipped robust production systems for global brands. Based in Sydney, Blake is driven to push creative boundaries even when it means leaving his comfort zone, pairing pragmatic engineering leadership with exploratory technical experiments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing, Bachelor of Computing at Western Sydney University
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Github Skills (38)
windows10
linux10
google-cloud10
image-manipulation10
dedicated-server10
plugin9
tournament9
3d9
php9
svg9
pug9
fluent-api8
canvas8
addon8
source28
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kus/php-image
Feb 2014 - Dec 2017
Wrapper for PHP's GD Library for easy image manipulation
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 10 months
image-manipulationphp
kus/csgo-buy-script
Apr 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
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