Summary
Grant Tibbey is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Melbourne with 12+ years building and stabilising high‑scale web platforms and DevOps organisations. He has led teams at Atlassian and Envato, where he built a DevOps function from scratch, reduced outages, and prepared subscription platforms for growth at 360k+ active subscribers. Technically fluent across cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD (Buildkite, Jenkins), automation (Chef, Rake), and a wide stack from Ruby/Rails and Python to .NET and Java, he pairs hands‑on engineering with people leadership and mentoring. Grant emphasizes co‑located, collaborative teams and a culture of empowered, cross‑functional contributors who aren’t limited by job titles. A pragmatic problem solver, he has a track record of turning legacy monoliths into automated, resilient systems while balancing operational cost, security and reliability.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing, Computing, Bachelor of Computing, Computing at Monash University