Heather King
Senior Engineering Manager, Core Data Platform
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHeather King is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in cloud data platforms and reliability, currently leading Atlassian’s Core Data Platform after a decade of building data and SRE teams across GCP and AWS. She combines deep technical roots in telecommunications and IoT research with pragmatic delivery experience, having driven large-scale, secure, and cost-optimized data platforms and EDW architectures under startup timelines. A committed people leader, Heather fosters blameless post-mortems, knowledge sharing, and developer experience improvements to unlock team performance. Her background in adaptive network research and wafer-test engineering gives her a rare systems perspective that informs resilient, efficient platform design. Based in Sydney, she has repeatedly translated complex technical problems into actionable strategies and measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Muckross Park CollegeMaster of Engineering Science (MEngSc) by Research Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) by Research Electronics and Communications Engineering at University College Dublin
Github Skills (144)
visual-studio-code-extension10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
test-framework10
ember10
appium10
isolation10
hsl10
javascript10
webdriver10
browser10
mochajs10
bdd10
html10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chinchiheather/cypress-eslint-preprocessor
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
chinchiheather/html-linter
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
A linter to check formatting of html files
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
linterlinthtml-filesformatting
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