Summary
Talbet Fulthorpe is an engineering manager based in Melbourne with 12 years of experience blending creative digital arts and software engineering. Currently leading engineering at Canva after senior and staff engineering roles at Qantas Loyalty and Culture Amp, he excels at scaling teams and products across design-forward, user-centric platforms. His background as a founder of a web and app studio and earlier lecturing in animation and video editing gives him a rare mix of hands-on product craft, visual storytelling, and technical leadership. Talbet’s toolset spans front-end and multimedia workflows informed by deep familiarity with Final Cut Pro, Maya and the Adobe suite, enabling tighter collaboration between design and engineering. He’s known for turning creative briefs into robust web and mobile experiences and for mentoring engineers to deliver polished, production-ready work. Outside of product teams, he brings entrepreneur’s pragmatism from running Hectare and a teacher’s clarity to technical communication.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University