Summary
Pablo Torralba is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Menlo Park with two decades of computer science experience and a decade in leadership roles, currently leading engineering at Atlassian after senior cloud and infrastructure stints at Headspace, MasterClass and Google. He combines deep systems, SRE and cloud expertiseโhaving led large migrations to Kubernetes, Terraform, and unified CI/CD pipelinesโwith a people-first leadership style that builds diverse, trusted teams. Pablo has a track record of improving developer productivity and reliability (notably a 65% CI time improvement and building SRE practices at MasterClass) while keeping security and compliance front and center in healthcare and enterprise contexts. Outside pure tech, he is a certified mental health and well-being coach and Stanford LEAD alumnus, bringing an uncommon emphasis on team psychological safety and resilience to high-stakes infrastructure work.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate: Learn Engage Accelerate Disrupt, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate: Learn Engage Accelerate Disrupt at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Associate of Arts - AA Psychology, Associate of Arts - AA Psychology at Foothill College
Certificate in Mental Health Coaching (CMHC) Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions, Certificate in Mental Health Coaching (CMHC) Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions at Headspace Training Institute
Bachelor Degree on Computer Science Programming concurrency algorithms system architecture graphics network architectures., Bachelor Degree on Computer Science Programming concurrency algorithms system architecture graphics network architectures. at Universidad Politรฉcnica de Madrid