Summary
Eugene Chernenko is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems and over a decade in engineering leadership across major tech firms. Currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian, he focuses on platform engineering, growth metrics, personalization and A/B experimentation to improve signups, costs, DORA metrics and SLOs. Previously he led global developer experience and web engineering initiatives at Microsoft, Booking.com and Spotify, aligning product and engineering across continents and bootstrapping processes for large, diverse teams. Eugene blends hands-on technical judgment with people and product management—building CI/CD, package management and developer tooling while coaching teams through organizational change. He has a background in web and full-stack development, machine learning product work, and a master’s in Information Security and Telecommunications, which informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and developer UX. Notably, he has a track record of improving developer productivity at scale by unifying toolchains and defining deterministic package and release systems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree / Research Associate Information Security and Telecommunications, Master's Degree / Research Associate Information Security and Telecommunications at National Aviation University
English, Ukrainian, Dutch, Polish, Russian