Summary
Nebula Alam is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with nine years of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems and integrating cutting-edge AI into production products. She has driven impactful features at Atlassian and Kraken—improving Jira Service Management adoption and delivering market-critical electricity distribution integrations—while mentoring teams to adopt Scrum and engineering craftsmanship. At IBM she combined research and product delivery, leading deep learning and NLP efforts for regulated industries, open-sourcing compliance tooling, and architecting automated ML pipelines for hybrid cloud deployments. As a sessional academic at Deakin she mentors final-year projects that apply LLMs for educator assessment, bridging industry-grade engineering with student-led open-source initiatives. Comfortable across Python, Go, Java and modern DevOps/Kubernetes toolchains, she excels at turning research prototypes into reliable services that meet real-world compliance and performance needs. A curious problem-solver, she deliberately focuses on automating tedious human workflows so people can concentrate on higher-value work.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne