Summary
Bruce Chapman is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11+ years of experience scaling product and platform teams across cloud and e-commerce domains. Currently Head of Software Engineering at Atlassian, he previously led growth engineering at Atlassian and managed grocery and merchant trust platforms as an SDE manager at Amazon. He blends founder-level product instincts from running his own firm with enterprise delivery experience, driving SaaS strategy, architecture, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment. Based in Queensland, he pairs an MBA and a Bachelor of IT with hands-on background in cloud operations, SaaS delivery, and team building dating back to early web and mortgage systems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and customer-focused, often translating complex technical challenges into commercially viable roadmaps. Beyond management, his career shows a consistent thread of moving teams from custom on-premise work to scalable cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of IT, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of IT, Management Information Systems, General at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
MBA, MBA at The University of Queensland