David V
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid V is a software engineer based in Sydney with 15 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, embedded software, and full-stack tools, currently contributing at Canva. He combines practical engineering with mentoring—formerly an academic tutor and active robotics mentor at The Drop Bears—bringing a thoughtful, educational approach to team collaboration. A committed open-source and security enthusiast, he has contributed meaningful fixes and features to projects like the Matrix-Discord bridge, the WeeChat Slack plugin, and the WPILib robotics libraries. His work spans low-level HAL improvements and simulation (power/energy calculations) to transpiler correctness for Python-to-Java bytecode and voice-command integrations for Talon. David often focuses on edge-case bug fixes and robustness (buffer/thread handling, MIME/file uploads, boolean semantics), the kind of behind-the-scenes reliability work that keeps systems trustworthy. He pairs academic training in science and computing with a steady track record of improving interoperability across diverse tooling and platforms.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Macquarie UniversityHigh School Computing (HS1917), High School Computing (HS1917) at UNSW Australia
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Github Skills (50)
javascript10
c-language10
slack-api10
transcode10
python10
scripting10
testing10
typescript10
tal10
spi10
wpilib10
java10
javas10
chat10
script10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
talonhub/community
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Voice command set for Talon, community-supported.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:261 reviews, 28 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to enhancing the Talon voice command system by adding support for new features and fixing bugs across multiple languages and applications. They made improvements to the macOS Slack integration, including fixing unread message functionality. They also added support for JavaScript/TypeScript, including new features such as "export" and made CSS and Java enhancements. Furthermore, they refactored existing code and resolved conflicts to improve the system's overall quality and usability.
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wpilibsuite/allwpilib
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Official Repository of WPILibJ and WPILibC
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:309 reviews, 16 commits, 53 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributes to the core functionality of the WPILibJ and WPILibC libraries. Their work involves fixing driver station behavior, ensuring proper button state handling and synchronisation. They also made improvements to the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) by making the headers C-compatible, adding includes, and reporting SPI ports correctly. Furthermore, the user implemented power and energy calculation for the simulated Power Distribution module.
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