Thomas Lam
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolThomas Lam is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with nine years of experience building developer infrastructure and cloud-native systems, currently advancing Canva's platform and Python ecosystem. He has focused on speeding up Bazel builds for large engineering teams, reproducible builds and CI/CD automation, and migrating on-prem services to AWS—skills honed at Animal Logic and in research optimizing CUDA workloads. Comfortable across DevOps, observability, and internal tooling, he pairs low-level performance tuning with pragmatic platform improvements that boost developer productivity at scale. A hands-on mentor who has taught software engineering at UNSW, he also brings a pragmatic streak (and a sense of humor: "Will code for food") to solving complex infrastructure problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Physics Information and Communication Techonology, High School Physics Information and Communication Techonology at Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary SchoolUNSW Sydney
Chinese, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (94)
gnu-make10
foreign10
pip10
ninja10
starlark10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
sequencing10
pypi10
python-bindings10
zip9
boost9
scalable9
python9
extensible9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lamcw/data-viewer
Apr 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
lamcw/localhost
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:348 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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