Summary
Guido Barbaglia is a Senior Engineering Manager with over 14 years of hands-on software experience and more than 18 years across engineering roles, currently leading teams at Atlassian after shaping API developer experience at Zendesk. He combines deep expertise in Docker, AWS (SAA certified), reactive programming and headless ecommerce with a track record of driving platform and developer tooling improvements across startups and enterprises. Guido excels at mentoring engineers and improving delivery practices, having led distributed teams and rebuilt platforms using serverless, static-site generators and microservices. He also contributes to healthcare tech as a volunteer for MS Australia and has published peer-reviewed work, reflecting an appetite for real-world impact beyond shipping code. Made in Italy and based in Western Australia, he brings a global perspective and a curiosity for continuous learning that fuels pragmatic, customer-focused engineering.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Software Engineering at Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Telecommunications Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
Portuguese Language and Culture, Portuguese Language and Culture at IPSAR - Istituto Portoghese San Antonio Roma
Australia - Working Holiday Visa
Italian, English, Portuguese, Chinese