Puneet Kala
Head Of Engineering at Atlassian
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPuneet Kala is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience scaling product and platform teams across fast-growth startups and large enterprises, now serving as Head of Engineering at Atlassian. He has held senior leadership roles at Nutanix, Apna, Swiggy and Walmart Labs, blending hands-on technical delivery with organizational building and hiring. Early career roots in software and consulting gave him deep systems and integration experience, while recent roles emphasize product-led engineering for marketplace and infrastructure teams. An automation-first practitioner, he contributes to notable open-source projects including Joomla CMS and Percona’s Grafana dashboards, where he implemented Selenium and Playwright system tests for real-world UIs. Known for turning brittle test suites into reliable CI assets, he brings a quality-driven mindset to large distributed systems. Based in Bengaluru and an IIT Kharagpur alumnus, he combines rigorous technical instincts with pragmatic leadership.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (15)
test-automation10
uitest10
php10
javascript10
playwright10
selenium-ide10
codeceptjs10
webdriver10
selenium10
ui-testing10
joomla10
testing10
grafana-dashboard9
content-management9
content-management-system9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
percona/grafana-dashboards
May 2020 - Apr 2021
PMM dashboards for database monitoring
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:160 reviews, 59 commits, 348 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Puneet primarily focused on implementing and maintaining UI tests for the Grafana dashboards within the repository. Their work involved utilizing Playwright to create and update tests, including features for video support and integration of the Selenoid helper. The user's contributions addressed specific issues and functionalities, ensuring comprehensive testing of the PMM-UI components. The changes involved modifications to existing test scripts and pages, as well as fixing failing tests and adding new test cases.
mysqldatabase-monitoringdashboardspmmdatabase
joomla/joomla-cms
May 2013 - Oct 2019
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:66 commits, 12 PRs, 45 comments in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Puneet primarily contributed to system testing within the Joomla CMS repository. Their commits focused on developing and implementing system tests for various components, including the back-end Tags Manager. The code changes involve creating and modifying test files using Selenium and PHP, specifically focusing on testing functionalities such as adding, editing, and changing the state of tags within the Joomla CMS.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
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