Rebecca Fitzhugh
Lead Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Fitzhugh is a Lead Principal Engineer at Atlassian with a two-decade track record building developer platforms, engineering productivity tooling, and cloud infrastructure that scale across thousands of engineers. She specializes in transforming engineering workflows through AI-native development and has driven measurable improvements—like a 60% reduction in pull request cycle time and 25% faster CI—while advancing platform reliability and FedRAMP readiness. Prior roles at Rubrik and as a leader of cloud and developer relations efforts show deep experience in ecosystem integrations (Terraform, Ansible, VMware) and developer tooling. A former Marine Corps systems analyst, she brings disciplined systems thinking and operational rigor to complex platform architecture challenges. Based in San Francisco, she combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering and a strong interest in how human intent will pair with autonomous tooling to reshape software delivery.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA International Business Policy, Master of Arts - MA International Business Policy at Georgetown UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA International Politics, Bachelor of Arts - BA International Politics at Penn State University
Github Skills (75)
nagios10
get-started10
sdk10
powershell10
github-flow10
use-case10
golang9
terraform9
python9
icinga9
terraform-module9
vmware9
validation-framework9
puppet8
ansible8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rubrikinc/rubrik-sdk-for-go
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
Rubrik SDK for Go
Contributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 4 months
gosdkgolang
rfitzhugh/terraform
Jul 2018 - May 2020
Demos of Terraform
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
terraform
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