Mathew Dickson
Senior Principal Program Manager at Atlassian
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMathew Dickson is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years in software and program management, now a Senior Principal Program Manager at Atlassian after a decade-plus tenure at Microsoft. He has driven complex hybrid and edge Azure solutions—spanning SaaS, hardware, and software—and led product lifecycles for rugged, regulated, and air-gapped environments. As a hands-on principal engineer he has actively contributed to core Azure Functions and WebJobs open-source projects, improving templates, host runtime features, and SDK extensibility. His background blends large-scale product strategy (including StorSimple and Azure Data Box) with deep operational chops in storage, automation, and malware-detection pipelines. Comfortable coordinating cross-geo teams and partner ecosystems, he pairs technical depth with program-level execution to move high-stakes initiatives from vision to production. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who surfaces subtle infrastructure risks early and turns them into executable roadmaps.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (41)
unit-testing10
javascript10
back-end-development10
net10
azure-webjobs-sdk10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
system-design10
cicd10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-functions-host
Sep 2015 - Oct 2022
The host/runtime that powers Azure Functions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 1211 reviews, 825 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mathew appears to be involved in the development of the Azure Functions host, focusing on the implementation of new features, particularly support for host warmup. The commits demonstrate modifications to core components like WebHostResolver and WebScriptHostManager, which are critical parts of the host's architecture. The contributions include refactoring code and adding checks to ensure proper environment handling, indicating a strong focus on backend logic and system stability.
hostazure-functionsserverlesspowersruntime
Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-extensions
May 2015 - Sep 2022
Azure WebJobs SDK Extensions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 587 commits, 114 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mathew primarily contributed to the development of the Azure WebJobs SDK extensions, focusing on adding functionality for file processing and timer triggers. Their work involved the creation of example projects and implementations for managing file events, including code for multi-instance file locking, and adding cron expression support to timer triggers. Additionally, the user fixed bugs and enhanced the code for more robust handling of schedule updates, also integrating TraceWriter for more detailed logging.
azure-functionssdkextensionswebjobsazure-webjobs-sdk
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