David Hearnden

Distinguished Engineer at Canva

David Hearnden is a distinguished engineer at Canva, where experiences also include roles as Chief Technology Officer and Technology Wrangler since November 2012. Prior to their tenure at Canva, David served as a Senior Software Engineer at Google from January 2008 to November 2012 and was a PhD student at DSTC Pty Ltd from 2003 to 2007. Additional experience includes working as a tutorial assistant at the School of ITEE, University of Queensland from 2000 to 2006, an intern at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in 2004, and as a vacation student at DSTC in 2001. David holds a PhD in Software Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours from The University of Queensland.

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Canva

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Launched in 2013, Canva is a free online visual communications and collaboration platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful.


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