Summary
Avi Knoll is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years’ experience building reliable distributed systems and functional-service architectures, currently working remotely on Jira Service Desk from Canberra and Sydney. At Atlassian he led design and implementation of a purely functional, scalable permissions service that handled massive load with minimal operational overhead and influenced company-wide API and documentation practices. He combines deep formal-methods knowledge from time at NICTA and a pragmatic, language-agnostic engineering approach that prioritises safety, observability, and long-term maintainability. Beyond coding, Avi has taught internal courses on testing and functional programming, contributed to diversity initiatives, and brings a background in neuroscience and computer science that helps him ask the right questions before designing solutions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, German