Nov 2023 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Currently driving monolith re-architecture for Confluence Cloud to enable modular services, faster builds, and clearer code ownership. Re-introduced incremental build tooling, reducing build times where only one module changed from several minutes to under 30 seconds. Providing technical leadership on development velocity, modularization, and system reliability, with a continued focus on mentoring teams and building internal expertise around large-scale legacy platforms.
• Previously, architect for Confluence's FedRAMP Moderate effort, primarily focusing on readying the Java monolith for deployment in a compliant environment. In addition to direct technical contributions, spent a lot of time mentoring to build skills with the monolith (and legacy Java code) in a previously microservice-heavy team.

Jan 2020 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• The Developer Experience team is an internal facing team, responsible for all aspects of improving productivity and ensuring quality for around 400 back-end engineers working on the Confluence Cloud product.
• Grew team from two engineers to seventeen in three squads; previously had one squad reporting indirectly.
• Successfully coached and navigated the promotion cycle for multiple engineers, including Senior to Principal and Senior to Engineering Manager
• As a platform team, we drove projects to modernize the Confluence monolith library/JVM usage, including retiring Jackson 1 and upgrading the JDK used twice, from 8 to 11 and then 11 to 17, and completed the migration of all Java plugins to a single build/monorepo.
• Reduced Confluence monolith local build-restart time times from roughly 10 minutes to 4 minutes, and CI build/test times from over 60 minutes to 20 minutes
• Improved Confluence Cloud BE monolith release cycle frequency from 4 to 14 production releases per week and median release latency from 72+ hours to < 24 hours, as well as fully-continuous releases to staging and the internal pre-prod environment used by 10,000 Atlassians.
• Led the team in acting capacity starting in Jan 2020; formally transferred to the management position in May 2020. Promoted to Senior Engineering Manager fall 2023.

Jun 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Back-end developer on Confluence Cloud. Lead developer on our integration to an platform user profile retrieval, Confluence's highest volume (to that date) internal platform integration, and a key component of our GDPR strategy, allowing us to remove PII from Confluence databases in favor of the central Atlassian Identity service. Lead developer on a number of Confluence "Devloop" projects, including Launcher - a system to run the cloud application locally with live staging traffic and integrations.