Harrison Dempsey
Head Of Design, DevEx & DevAI at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolHarrison Dempsey is a design and developer leader with 11 years at Atlassian, rising from graduate product designer to Head of Design for Developer Experience and DevAI in Sydney. He blends product design, developer tooling and emerging AI product strategy to improve how engineers work, having led cross-functional teams across Jira, data experiences and AI initiatives. Known for a hands-on approach—designing by day and coding "by night"—he pairs pragmatic craft with strategic leadership to ship complex, user-centered developer products. His background in software development and interaction design gives him rare empathy for both designers and engineers, and he often experiments publicly with code and prototypes that bridge UX and developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Software Development Interaction Design, Bachelor of Information Technology Software Development Interaction Design at University of Newcastle
Github Skills (2)
mate5
application-management3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
haytchde/atlassian-vscode-theme
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
haytchde/gpt-bot-discord
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 10 days
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