Oliver Richards is a senior machine learning engineer at Canva, where he develops innovative photo editing effects. Before this, he helped build Canva's photo editor as a backend engineer. With a background in robotics and medical devices, Oliver worked as an investigations engineer at Resmed and competed in the RoboCup competition. He holds degrees in mechatronics engineering and computer science from UNSW, where he completed a thesis on world modelling for domestic robotics. He’s passionate about image processing & understanding, photo editing tools and underwater photography.