Gonçalo Cardoso
Head Of Engineering at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGonçalo Cardoso is a Head of Engineering with 11+ years of experience leading front-end-focused teams across startups, agencies, and large tech companies, now driving delivery and engineering strategy for a 30+ engineer group in Atlassian’s Jira Cloud Platform. He blends deep JavaScript and performance-first front-end expertise—honed building web apps at scale and mobile-optimized HTML5 games—with a clear passion for coaching, cross-functional collaboration, and customer-centric UX. Known for turning complex product priorities into measurable team goals, he partners closely with product and design to ship features like advanced issue search, JQL editor, and company-managed boards. Based in Sydney, he brings a practical mix of hands-on technical credibility and people-first leadership, fostering diverse, safe, and high-performing teams. An enthusiastic JavaScript evangelist, he still values occasional coding to stay connected to the craft and mentor by example.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Multimedia Engineering, Bachelor's degree Multimedia Engineering at Instituto Superior de Tecnologias Avançadas
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (15)
ember-cli-addon7
addon6
ember-addon5
styles5
near4
ember-cli4
emberjs4
cli3
ember2
sprite1
windows1
macos1
atlas1
cpp1
libvips1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gcardoso89/portfolio
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:114 commits, 1 PR, 78 pushes in 2 years 6 months
gcardoso89/fireworks-canvas
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:14 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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