Brad Stillwell
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Stillwell is a senior software engineer based in Wellington with over 20 years of professional experience and a demonstrated track record of delivering low-latency, high-throughput systems across domains from real-time train monitoring to globally scaled accounting platforms. Currently building edge compute and advanced routing at Atlassian, he previously led engineering and AI/data efforts at Xero, promoting CI/CD, trunk-based development, security shift-left practices, and evolutionary architecture across multiple teams. He combines hands-on systems and backend expertise (C#, Python, Docker, AWS) with strong leadership and mentoring skills, growing engineers into technical leads. A pragmatic founder and machine learning practitioner, he has shipped startup products and advised AI platform development, bringing both operational rigor and product curiosity to large-scale distributed systems. An uncommon strength is his history of building fault-tolerant, latency-sensitive messaging and data pipelines—from London Underground to global financial and SaaS platforms—giving him deep expertise in reliable real-time engineering.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of OtagoNanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer, Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer at UdacityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bvstillwell/udacity-mlnd-capstone
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:82 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
bvstillwell/udacity
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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