Nicholas Lambourne
Engineering Manager, AI at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolNicholas Lambourne is an AI engineering manager at Canva with a decade of experience building ML infrastructure, production ML systems, and developer onboarding programs. He leads the AI Evaluation Platform team, blending hands-on machine learning engineering with team leadership to ship reliable evaluation tooling across a large product org. His background spans research-grade ASR pipelines at The University of Queensland to site reliability and infrastructure work at Atlassian and Canva, giving him a rare combination of research, platform, and SRE perspectives. An active contributor to open-source projects like Batavia, he now focuses on bridging evaluation, robustness, and developer productivity for AI features at scale from his base in Sydney.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Laws at The University of QueenslandExchange Studies, Computer Science, Exchange Studies, Computer Science at University of ConnecticutStartup Pre-Accelerator Program, Startup Pre-Accelerator Program at UQ VenturesQueensland Certificate of Education, Queensland Certificate of Education at Cannon Hill Anglican College
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Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
javascript10
builtin10
virtual-machine10
python10
testing10
unit-testing9
csv6
pytest6
utf6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
beeware/batavia
May 2018 - May 2018
A JavaScript implementation of the Python virtual machine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 3 days
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily worked on implementing and refining built-in functions within the Batavia JavaScript virtual machine. They focused on improving error handling for the `int()`, `float()`, `hex()`, and `sum()` functions, ensuring compliance with Python's behavior. Additionally, the user made corresponding changes to test files to accommodate the implemented changes and added new tests to cover edge cases and ensure the functions' robustness. Their contributions improved the accuracy and stability of Batavia's built-in functions.
javascriptpythonvirtual-machine
nicklambourne/resume
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:51 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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