Trent Apted
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTrent Apted is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience building high-performance, cross-platform C/C++ systems and graphics-accelerated applications. His career spans research-led HCI work—earning a University Medal and a PhD focused on tabletop interfaces—to production engineering roles at Kokomo Capital and Google where he scaled low-latency trading systems and contributed to Chrome. Tristan combines deep systems and concurrency expertise with a practiced eye for user-facing interaction, having published HCI research early in his career and later architected resilient, high-throughput services for global exchanges. Now at Canva, he brings the rigor of research and large-scale product engineering to design robust, performant features. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky cross-platform and concurrent problems, and he uniquely pairs academic curiosity with hands-on delivery in both startup and hyperscale environments.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Stackoverflow
36reputation
783reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (75)
collaboration10
gstreamer10
chromium10
vaapi10
dom10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome10
chrome10
microsoft-edge9
web-platform9
safari9
javascript9
devtools9
youtube9
browser9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tapted/bebeneme
Dec 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
tapted/tapted.github.io
Jun 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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