Craig Knott
Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Knott is a Principal Engineer based in Austin with 12 years of experience designing cloud-native systems, microservices, and supply chain security solutions at scale. At Atlassian he has led cross-functional engineering teams to consolidate post-deployment verification, architect CICD data collection and deployment controls, and deliver compliance and production-readiness automation. He blends hands-on SRE experience—building SLI/SLO services, migration tooling and autofix orchestration—with strategic technical leadership and mentorship. Craig pairs deep systems and automation skills from a mechatronics and software background with recent executive leadership training and an MS in Computer Science, enabling him to translate complex regulatory and reliability requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions. An engaging presenter and problem-solver, he also has a track record of reducing operational toil through well-architected automation and platformization.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Control Systems and Automation Engineering, Honours IIB, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics, Control Systems and Automation Engineering, Honours IIB at The University of QueenslandCertificate in Executive Leadership, Strategic Leadership & Communication, Certificate in Executive Leadership, Strategic Leadership & Communication at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Github Skills (28)
graph10
terraform10
aws10
terraform-provider9
hashicorp9
terraform-module9
docker8
terragrunt8
declarative8
infrastructure8
hcl8
container8
infrastructure-as-code8
golang8
terraform-cloud8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
craigknott/CEIT_Sensors_DeviceFirmware
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 1 month
craigknott/CEIT_Sensors_Unity3dScripts
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 2 months
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