Gene Taylor

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Summary

Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian. 11+ years on Jira’s backend, currently leading one of two teams (~17 engineers) extracting Jira’s core issue API from the monolith into a new DynamoDB-backed service.

Experience

Atlassian — Sydney, Jan 2015 – present

  • Senior Engineering Manager, Dec 2023 – present
    • Lead one of two teams (~17 engineers) on Issue Backend, the group extracting Jira’s core issue API from the monolith into a new DynamoDB-backed service. My team owns the migration path; the sibling team owns the new service. Group of 34 within a ~200-person department.
  • Engineering Manager, Jun 2020 – Dec 2023
  • Senior Developer, Apr 2018 – Jun 2020
  • Developer, Jan 2016 – Apr 2018
  • Graduate Developer, Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

Education

University of Otago

  • Postgraduate Diploma, Philosophy (2013–2014). Dissertation: Homotopy Type Theory and the foundations of mathematics.
  • Diploma for Graduates, Computer Science (2013–2014).
  • Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy.

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