Dave Durbin
Tutor at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorDave Durbin is a seasoned software engineer and tech lead with a decade of experience building everything from C++ systems and enterprise back ends to web and native mobile apps. Currently leading Visual AI and ML efforts on Canva’s Video Tech team in Sydney, he focuses on computer vision, VFX, AR/VR and games to make creative tools more magical at scale. He combines hands-on model and system engineering with academic rigor—pursuing a part-time PhD on producing animation-ready quad meshes from depth maps—while also tutoring creative writing, bridging technical and creative disciplines. Known for lifelong learning and cross-domain curiosity, he thrives at the intersection of research, product delivery and user-facing creativity.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
github10
git10
deploying10
java10
keras-tensorflow10
intellij10
modular9
rest9
clojure9
math-library9
nlp9
image-processing9
python9
differentiation9
opencv9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Scoobadood/TSDF
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:185 commits, 4 PRs, 147 pushes in 11 months
Scoobadood/Animesh
Feb 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:861 commits, 2 PRs, 147 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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