Peter Cowan
Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Cowan is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building cloud-native microservices and backend systems in Java and Scala, currently shaping platform architecture at Atlassian. He progressed internally from Senior Software Engineer to Principal, bringing practical experience delivering scalable solutions across APAC during a secondment in Sydney. His career began with hands-on roles and internships focused on REST APIs and developer tooling, and he has a strong background in financial reporting software from CoreFiling. A Cambridge-educated computer scientist, Peter combines deep technical craft—he jokes “I will format your code” on GitHub—with people leadership, having run intern programs and mentored engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (68)
serverless10
microservices10
portable10
sidecar10
kubernetes10
ci-plugin10
pubsub10
octopus10
dapr10
event-driven10
state-management10
octopus-deploy10
charts9
golang9
powershell-module9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Michael-Upton/celtic-egyptian-ratscrew-code-kata
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:61 commits in 27 days
red-gate/SQLCI-VSTSTask
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:13 PRs, 30 pushes, 15 branches in 6 months
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