Neil Pearson
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolNeil Pearson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable web and cloud systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has led backend and frontend efforts at companies like BigCommerce and OrionVM, designed a payments SDK, and now contributes at Atlassian while blending engineering leadership with hiring and UX improvements. A founder who built and ran a tax-management product for sole traders for 14 years, he combines product empathy with deep full‑stack skills (Ruby/Rails, Go, React/ES6, Python). Known for pragmatic architecture and occasionally theatrical all‑hands presentations, he pairs technical rigor with a knack for making engineers happier and more productive.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
North Sydney Boys' High School
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Github Skills (90)
mls10
visa10
payment-service10
payment-gateway10
storekit10
in-app-purchase10
google-pay10
checkout10
bigcommerce10
sdk-nodejs10
payment-integration10
sdk10
rest10
payment10
obsolete10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hx/rubocop-schema
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
JSON schema for RuboCop config files
Contributions:68 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
hx/rack-traffic-logger
Oct 2014 - Aug 2017
Rack Traffic-Logging Middleware
Contributions:65 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
rackrubyloggingtrafficmiddleware
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