James Navin
Principal Developer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Navin is a Principal Developer based in Sydney with over 13 years of hands-on industry experience and a 17+-year software engineering background spanning government, consulting and product organizations. He leads architecture and delivery at Atlassian after senior and leadership roles at Geoscience Australia, Idea Logica and CSC Australia, consistently shipping web, mobile and 3D visualization solutions for complex scientific and enterprise domains. Comfortable across back-end Java systems and front-end visualization stacks, he has a track record of turning intricate geoscience data into clear, usable interfaces for both specialists and the public. He combines technical leadership with company-level perspective from his time as Director at Idea Logica, balancing product delivery with business and stakeholder management. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who mentors teams to produce reliable, maintainable systems under demanding constraints. He brings an ANU software engineering foundation and a rare blend of domain-driven visualization experience and enterprise-scale platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
English
Github Skills (66)
eclipse-rcp9
earth9
leafletjs9
sdk8
rcp8
eclipse8
earth-science8
cesiumjs8
leaflet8
tplink7
catalog7
science7
arcgis-js-api7
java7
pact-node7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jfnavin/maven-karma-webjars-example
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 1 month
jfnavin/code-owners-java
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Annotations and utilities for defining code ownership in a shared monorepo environment.
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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