Andrew Mcclenaghan
Senior Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Mcclenaghan is a Senior Principal Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and scalable web applications across finance, public sector, healthcare and SaaS. Currently at Atlassian after leading Cloud Operations and Engineering at Itoc, he combines strategic leadership with deep technical delivery—designing Terraform-driven multi-tenant cloud estates, CI/CD pipelines, and containerised deployments. He’s practical and results-oriented, known for speeding release cycles (e.g., cutting commit-to-dev times to under 15 minutes) and implementing secure, auditable platforms to meet government standards. An active contributor to the Serverless Framework, Andrew has improved AWS deployment flows and plugin extensibility, reflecting his focus on developer experience and reliable automation. Based in Brisbane, he excels at translating C-level strategy into engineering outcomes while still diving into code and operational detail when it matters.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Northside Christian CollegePersonal Development Personal Development, Personal Development Personal Development at New Horizons - Brisbane
Github Skills (10)
serverless10
javascript10
aws10
aws-cloudformation9
plugin-development8
jtest8
testing8
jes8
cicd7
nodejs7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 192 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Serverless Framework by modifying the AWS deployment process and enhancing the plugin system. Key changes include refactoring the S3 bucket cleanup procedure and adding functionality to handle function descriptions. The commits also show improvements to the testing framework and adding a template for creating new plugins, demonstrating a focus on both backend logic and development workflow improvements. Additionally, there were updates to documentation and configuration of plugin managers.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
markdown-confluence/markdown-confluence
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Publish your Markdown Files to Confluence
Contributions:308 releases, 5 reviews, 16 commits in 12 days
confluenceconfluence-markupconfluence-pluginmarkdownmarkdown-to-confluence
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