Gary Xue
Senior Developer at Atlassian
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Xue is a senior developer and technical lead with 15+ years of international experience designing and delivering full‑stack systems across telecoms, enterprise SaaS and customer‑facing web apps. He combines strong computer science foundations and a Master’s in Distributed Computing with hands‑on expertise in Java, Node.js, React/Angular and databases, and has led cross‑functional teams through architecture, integration and global rollouts. At Atlassian he contributed backend features around metrics, JWT auth and cryptography healthchecks, reflecting a focus on secure, observable services. Gary also applies machine learning knowledge to practical projects—he completed Coursera specializations in ML and deep learning and built a product recognition app—demonstrating curiosity for applied AI alongside robust systems engineering. Known for gathering domain knowledge from diverse stakeholders, he prioritizes long‑term, business‑aligned solutions that scale across regions.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bacheler, Computer Science, Bacheler, Computer Science at Sun Yat-Sen UniversityThe University of Melbourne
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
back-end-development10
jwt9
apidoc9
api9
nodejs9
configuration-management8
security8
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
atlassian/github-for-jira
May 2022 - Jan 2023
DEPRECATED (moved to private repository) - Connect your code with your project management in Jira
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1655 reviews, 215 commits, 580 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily contributed to back-end functionality within the project. The first commit added metrics-related functionality including the addition of a micros_group field, which suggests contributions to monitoring or analytics. The second set of commits involved adding JWT as a cookie, as well as feature flags in the backend, improving security and authorization, which also involved tests. The final set of commits involved integrating the Cryptor and adding a healthcheck for the cryptor.
integrationjiraatlassianproject-managementtrello
gxueatlassian/test-repo-1
Jul 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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