Laurenz Stampfl
Software Engineer at Canva
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurenz Stampfl is a software engineer based in Vienna with six years of experience, currently working on 2D graphics at Canva and specializing in Rust. He is an active open-source contributor—most notably to the Typst typesetting system—adding features like array zipping, date/time handling, and improving PDF export quality. His background spans full-stack web work, real-time sockets with Django Channels, and MongoDB optimization and querying in production contexts. A graduate student at ETH Zürich with earlier honors in NLP from TU Wien, he blends strong academic training with practical engineering. Colleagues describe him as a systems-minded developer who enjoys pushing language-level ergonomics in Rust while shipping user-facing improvements. He often surfaces non-obvious quality gains by improving export pipelines and low-level data handling that materially raise product polish.
5 years of coding experience
Vienna University of TechnologyExchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at University of BathMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
pdfa10
compiler10
pdf10
compiler-compiler10
rust10
typesetting10
exporter10
markup9
data-manipulation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
typst/typst
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 19 PRs, 459 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Laurenz contributed to the Typst typesetting system by implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added an array method for zipping arrays and support for date & time handling, extending the system's capabilities. Furthermore, they worked on improving the PDF export by embedding the Typst version and fixing issues related to grayscale image processing. This demonstrates a focus on enhancing the core functionality and output quality of the typesetting system.
compilermarkuptypesetting
typst/subsetter
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Reduces the size and coverage of OpenType fonts.
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
opentypepdfsubsetting
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