Deinyon Davies
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDeinyon Davies is a Senior Software Engineer in Sydney with 11 years of experience building creative, user-facing systems, currently focused on Photo Effects at Canva. With a Distinction and University Medal in Games Development from UTS, he blends graphics, interactive media and full‑stack engineering—skills honed through early VR research, 3D modelling, and desktop/.NET work. He progressed at Canva from software engineer to senior roles, applying TypeScript and React expertise alongside backend .NET experience from earlier roles. Deinyon has a strong visual-computing sensibility informed by hands-on multimedia and architectural-visualisation work, which informs pragmatic, pixel-aware product decisions. Known for enjoying the craft of coding and sharing that joy, he brings a creative, maker mentality to large-scale product engineering. Quietly, his career reflects a steady move from specialist graphics work into scalable consumer features that marry technical depth with delightful UX.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Games Development, Distinction with University Medal (3.73 GPA), Bachelor of Science in Games Development, Distinction with University Medal (3.73 GPA) at University of Technology Sydney
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
cg10
blender10
x-plane10
addon10
rendering9
rendering-3d-graphics9
dm8
unity-game-engine6
scraper6
stream5
youtube5
video-encoding5
hls-stream4
mse3
discord-bot3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ddoodm/ProtoShade
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
A GLSL:ES Shader Prototyping Utility for Android
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
ddoodm/WaniKani-Private-API-CSharp
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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