Stewart Connor
Senior Backend Engineer at Canva
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolStewart Connor is a Senior Backend Engineer and current team lead for Canva’s renderer team, bringing six years of hands-on experience building high-performance backend systems. He began at Canva as an intern where he prototyped a C++ Skia-based renderer that improved output performance by an average of 7x and integrated via JNI with Java services—work that informs his ongoing focus on bridging native performance with scalable cloud backends. Based in the Greater Sydney Area, he combines C++ and Java expertise with pragmatic product thinking honed at both startup and enterprise scales. Known for turning performance bottlenecks into production-ready solutions, he holds a Computer Science degree with distinction from UNSW.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The Jannali High SchoolUNSW Sydney
Japanese
Github Skills (17)
multiline10
pdf9
svg8
graphic8
opengl8
ios7
android7
metal7
vulkan7
rust7
rendering5
command-line-arguments4
binding3
parser3
drawing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
velyan/rust-skia
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Safe Skia Bindings for Rust
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 5 months
rustskia
StewartCanva/cosmic-text
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
Pure Rust multi-line text handling
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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