Hannes Obweger
Engineering, JXL
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHannes Obweger is an engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building developer-centric products and teams, currently working on JXL within Appfire after co-founding and serving as Co-CEO of JXL (acquired in 2024). He previously led engineering at Atlassian and founded Radiant Minds, creators of Jira Roadmaps (now Advanced Roadmaps), demonstrating deep domain expertise in Atlassian ecosystems and productizing complex planning workflows. With a PhD in Computer Science from TU Wien, Hannes blends research-led thinking—information visualization, complex event processing, and data mining—with pragmatic product delivery. He has a strong track record of turning R&D projects into commercial platforms, from Automic’s Enterprise Control Center to enterprise-grade Jira plugins. Based in Sydney, he pairs hands-on architecture and frontend skills with leadership in scaling teams and go-to-market execution. An uncommon strength is his combination of journalism/communication training and technical depth, which helps him translate complex technical visions into compelling product narratives.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyBachelor's degree Journalism and Communication Science, Bachelor's degree Journalism and Communication Science at University of Vienna
English
Github Skills (91)
atlassian10
parcel10
compile10
csf10
data-center9
dispatch9
testing9
compile-time9
forge9
keystonejs9
shared-state9
jira9
redux9
webpack9
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
atlassian/vscode-extension-jira-frontend
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
atlassian-labs/babel-plugin-storybook-csf-title
Mar 2020 - May 2021
A Babel plugin to generate titles for Storybook CSF stories at compile time, typically based on the story file's file name.
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 8 commits in 1 year 2 months
babelcompile-timebabel-plugincompilestorybook
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