Brian Du Preez
Engineering Manager at Atlassian
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorBrian Du Preez is an engineering manager based in Melbourne with over two decades of software development experience and a 12-year track record in engineering leadership. He blends deep technical fluency—across Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud (AWS/OpenShift), and streaming/data systems—with a focus on operational reliability and shipping production-grade APIs. In roles at Atlassian, ME Bank and Suncorp he has led teams of up to 18 engineers, improved onboarding to cut time-to-first-commit dramatically, and established cross-organisational communities of practice. Brian has a proven habit of tackling high-throughput data problems and proof-of-concepts (including a 1.5M msg/hr trading POC) while still rolling up his sleeves for architecture and delivery. Recently his attention has shifted from pure technology to people leadership—coaching, structuring technical-lead roles, and removing barriers so engineers can grow and teams perform. He combines pragmatism and curiosity, often introducing new tooling and processes to accelerate delivery without sacrificing stability.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (11)
hamcrest5
sailsjs4
testing4
spring3
windows-service3
spring-boot3
java3
backend3
angularjs2
windows1
angular1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bdupreez/Blog
Jun 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 11 months
bdupreez/pactdemo
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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