Jake Lane
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Lane is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 12 years of experience building performant web platforms, currently driving frontend and build-tool improvements at Atlassian. He has deep expertise in performance engineering for Jira Cloud and has made notable open-source contributions to high-impact projects like Parcel (optimizing caching and HMR) and Atlassian’s @compiled CSS-in-JS tooling. Comfortable across the full stack, Jake blends low-level build-system optimization with frontend developer experience improvements, and he’s shipped production work in Go, Kotlin, TypeScript and React. Before Atlassian he taught algorithms and data structures at the University of Adelaide, reflecting a strong foundation in CS fundamentals and a knack for translating complex concepts into practical engineering.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Engineering (Software), 6.156/7, Bachelor's Degree, Engineering (Software), 6.156/7 at University of AdelaideHigh School, High School at Nuriootpa High School
Github Skills (28)
caching10
code-transformation10
javascript10
css10
css-in-js10
typescript10
s610
bundle10
performance-optimization10
typescript-types10
build-tools10
nodejs10
typescripts10
bundling10
react10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
atlassian-labs/compiled
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A familiar and performant compile time CSS-in-JS library for React.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:496 reviews, 138 commits, 247 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the development of the `@compiled` library, focusing on features related to the transformation of CSS-in-JS code. Their work included moving codemods to a separate package, adding plugin hooks to the codemod system, and implementing unit tests to validate the plugin's behavior. Furthermore, they updated the package structure to support multiple codemods and refactored code for better performance and maintainability.
babelreactcompile-timejs-librarycss
parcel-bundler/parcel
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 9 PRs, 56 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jake made significant contributions to the Parcel bundler, focusing on caching mechanisms and performance improvements. Their work involved optimizing the caching of large blobs, refactoring request graph serialization for improved efficiency, and addressing HMR-related issues to enhance the development experience. These changes impact the core functionality and build process of Parcel, improving its robustness and scalability. The contributions demonstrate expertise in build tool internals and optimization.
configurationzerocommonjscssjavascript
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