Jacob Bass
Head Of Engineering at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Bass is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience currently serving as Head of Engineering at Atlassian from Sydney. He specializes in aligning strategy, product and technology to build high-performing teams and deliver business-enabling software, having grown and mentored teams from startup to enterprise scale. Jacob has hands-on backend experience—contributing to projects like keystonejs/keystone-classic—to improve stability and performance through pragmatic tooling and caching improvements. He has led multiple language and architecture transitions, including migrations from JavaScript to TypeScript and Kotlin, and designed SSR and microservice strategies that measurably improved client performance. Known for combining formal mentorship with practical engineering, he balances delivery rigor with developer enablement. Outside work he keeps things simple: code and coffee.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
nodejs10
keystonejs10
backend9
back-end-development9
cms9
expressjs8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
keystonejs/keystone-classic
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Node.js CMS and web app framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 68 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to backend functionalities, including healthcheck implementation and improvements. They introduced a `safeRequire` utility to handle module dependencies, ensuring the application's stability. Additionally, they modified email handling, and updated code to use the latest version of `canQueryListFactory`. Finally, they implemented a feature to cache and write admin bundles to disk, improving application performance.
cmsnode-jsjavascriptnodejskeystonejs
bassjacob/.dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:186 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 6 months
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