Nic Barker
Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolNic Barker is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building products at Canva from Sydney and co-founding small ventures like Notivo and Superdry Software. A fan of Rust and TypeScript, he blends front-end craftsmanship with systems-level thinking—demonstrated by open-source work on a high-performance C UI layout library where he improved touch interaction, drag scrolling, and renderer examples. He has roots in product and web roles across startups and research institutions, pairing practical product leadership with hands-on engineering. Nic studied Computer Science and Immunology at the University of Sydney, reflecting a curiosity for cross-disciplinary problem solving that shows up in both his code and his approach to product design.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Fort Street High SchoolThe University of Sydney
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
html10
c1710
c1110
ui-design10
layout10
canvas9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nicbarker/clay
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
High performance UI layout library in C.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 37 reviews, 163 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily focused on enhancing the front-end aspects of the "clay" UI layout library. They updated website links, fixed unclickable links in the canvas renderer and the official website example, and set touch-action to prevent mobile issues. The user also addressed a bug in the drag scrolling of the container and added scrollbar functionality with examples. Furthermore, they improved the overall HTML renderer and made several enhancements to the official website example.
layoutui
nicbarker/river
Aug 2019 - May 2022
River is an experimental assembly-like programming language.
Contributions:3 releases, 28 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 10 months
assembly-languageriverstructure-editorcompilerprojectional-editor
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