David Symonds is a software engineer with extensive experience in leading technical teams and projects. They served as a Senior Architect at Atlassian from 2022 to 2024, where they directed the Identity team and set technical strategies. Prior to that, they were a Staff Software Engineer at Google and held leadership roles at Stripe and in several other esteemed organizations. David has also contributed as a casual tutor and lecturer at the University of Sydney, teaching advanced computer science topics and creating innovative competitive assessments. Presently, they are a Staff Software Engineer and Group Tech Lead for the Cloud Platform at Canva.
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Sydney, Australia