Summary
Jonathon Creenaune is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience, currently serving as Lead Principal Developer for Jira at Atlassian in the Greater Sydney area. He has driven large-scale platform transformations—most notably leading the multi-year migration of Confluence and Jira from single-tenant to stateless, multi-tenant, horizontally scalable architectures. Jonathon built and evolved Atlassian’s PaaS on Kubernetes, championing emerging technologies like OSB/Service Catalog and service mesh while later leading infrastructure and platform organizations. He blends hands-on architecture and platform engineering with people leadership, including work on job architecture for individual contributor and management tracks. Known for assembling and coaching unusually strong engineering teams, he pairs pragmatic system design with a taste for ambitious, long-running projects.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney