Jesse Smit
Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Smit is a seasoned engineering leader based in Sydney with 15+ years delivering reliable, scalable software and over five years in engineering management building and growing high-performing teams. He combines hands-on full‑stack development experience with strong solution architecture skills and AWS mastery (including architect certification), focusing on resilient, operable, and extensible cloud patterns. At Atlassian and prior roles he has owned delivery and people accountability across multiple teams and a dozen direct reports, while also acting as a scrum/process lead to improve team performance. His background spans startups and enterprise products—from designing core accounting systems at MYOB to architecting big-data cloud solutions and zero-downtime production systems. Jesse values technical credibility alongside leadership, maintaining coding and architecture chops even when focused on management. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic, delivery‑driven architect who prioritises long-term operability and consistent team improvement.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
rkazakov/tea-club
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Come and share a good strong cuppa tea with us @ MYOB Sydney
Contributions:13 commits, 9 PRs in 11 months
teasharemyobsydney
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