David Norrish
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Norrish is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years’ experience building production-grade ML systems, currently shaping ML workstreams at Canva after leading model development and infrastructure at Seer Medical. He specialises in Python, Unix and AWS, and has driven rewrites to modern tooling (PyTorch Lightning, ClearML) and serverless pipelines that cut clinician review time of EEG/ECG studies by over 90%. His background spans computational genomics, neuroscience, public health policy and data science consulting, giving him a rare mix of domain expertise and product-focused engineering. David prioritises robust, maintainable systems and a collaborative, mentorship-driven culture, while practising epistemic humility and continual learning. Outside work he’s interested in health tech and effective altruism, and has translated academic research (e.g. biologically grounded forecasting for seizure prediction) into explainable production services. Based in Melbourne, he combines hands-on R&D with pragmatic deployment experience across edge devices, cloud APIs and internal monitoring tools.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityThe University of Melbourne
French
Github Skills (56)
artificial-intelligence9
named-entity-recognition9
python9
text-classification9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
ai9
spacy9
cython9
nlp9
experiment9
experiment-manager8
version-control8
deep-learning8
entity-linking8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
norrishd/playground-express
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
utmittal/pyramidal-action-party
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 16 pushes, 9 branches in 17 days
nlpapipythonunder-developmentretrieval
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