Michael Oates
Senior Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Oates is a Senior Principal Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience crafting scalable full‑stack systems at Atlassian, where he progressed from graduate developer to senior principal roles. He has driven technical direction for major products including Confluence Content Types and Whiteboards, led real‑time multiplayer and WebGL initiatives, and helped integrate acquired products like Loom into large-scale platforms. Michael combines hands‑on engineering—spanning Java, Python and modern web tech—with cross-team leadership on platform efforts such as Forge, app persistence, and paid app support. Notably, he pioneered adoption of Cloudflare Durable Objects for scalable multiplayer and has a track record of moving prototype work into GA across complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computer Engineering, BEng, Computer Engineering at University of Newcastle
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Github Skills (64)
datatypes10
peer-to-peer10
yjs10
collaborative-editing10
realtime9
crdt9
apollo-server9
collaboration9
p2p9
throw8
code-generator8
graphql8
dependency-injection8
firefox8
code-generation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Myrannas/glide
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
Myrannas/async-datastore
Jun 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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