Erik Budtke
Senior Software Engineer, Compass at Atlassian
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Budtke is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience transitioning from QA to hands-on engineering and management roles at companies like Blackbaud, Dealerware, and Atlassian. He blends technical depth with people-first leadership—coaching teams, fostering autonomy, and creating learning opportunities while shipping impactful software. Comfortable toggling between IC and manager responsibilities, he returned to a senior engineering role at Atlassian after leading product teams as an engineering manager. Erik’s background in QA gives him a pragmatic focus on quality and testability that informs both architecture and team processes. He holds a BA in Computer Science from UT Austin and is energized by continuous personal growth through building real-world software.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, German
Github Skills (10)
azure-cosmos-db10
spring-data9
documentdb9
cosmosdb9
cosmos8
data-access8
azure7
gradle-plugin5
gradle-kotlin-dsl5
gradle4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Blackbaud-ErikBudtke/java-buildpack
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
foundrycloud-foundrybuildpackjava-applicationsjava
blackbaud/mf-action-board
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
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