Alex Gisby
Principal Developer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gisby is a Principal Developer based in Sydney with 16 years of experience designing and delivering high-scale web applications and AWS infrastructure. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (Kotlin, TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres, Dynamo) with technical leadership—having led teams of 10–14 through product launches, multi-region backend migrations, and complex core system designs. His career spans consumer media (BBC iPlayer Radio), high-throughput media services and platform work at Atlassian, and earlier e-commerce and internationalised sites, showing a strong track record of operational excellence and incident management. Comfortable spec’ing language-level solutions (ANTLR) and custom querying/permissions systems, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into robust, scalable architectures. Beyond shipping features, he’s known for building repeatable control surfaces, monitoring practices and developer tooling that keep systems resilient under millions of daily requests.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Digital and Photographic Imaging, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Digital and Photographic Imaging at University of Westminster
Github Skills (31)
php9
templating9
python8
go8
webservice7
authentication6
expressive5
juniper5
reader5
relay-modern4
no-database4
php-framework3
relay3
sqlite2
mysql2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
solution10/calendar
Jul 2014 - Apr 2017
Straightforward calendars, with events, for any templating system.
Contributions:2 releases, 44 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
templatingphpcalendarcomposer-packages
Solution10/config
Aug 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 6 months
readerbarebones
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