Richard Atkins
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolRichard Atkins is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead based in Sydney with 14 years of experience shaping Java and C++ systems and mentoring engineering teams. At Atlassian and previously Avaya he drove architecture and delivery for complex, secure communication and management platforms, blending backend services, desktop clients, and embedded C++ components. He’s passionate about improving engineering practice—advocating behavioral change, tooling and new languages—and actively develops others’ skills through coaching and ISO-quality practices. An open-source contributor, he added Karma config parsing and robust tests to the well-used depcheck project, favoring safer parsing over direct evaluation. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs systems-level design with hands-on coding in Web Services, JMX, Struts, Swing and VxWorks. Collected coursework and continual self-study keep him evolving toward systems architecture while still shipping production software.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
dependency-management10
parserator10
javascript10
nodejs10
parser10
k10
testing10
computer-engineering9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
depcheck/depcheck
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Check your npm module for unused dependencies
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the `depcheck/depcheck` repository by adding initial support for karma config files. This involved creating a parser for karma configuration, which identifies and extracts plugin dependencies. The user also implemented and refined testing for the karma parser, using proxyquire to mock dependencies. Further commits included code style improvements and a switch to parsing configurations instead of evaluating them directly to improve code maintainability.
npm
atlassian-forks/atlassian-axis-1.x
Aug 2023 - Nov 2025
Atlassian Fork of Apache Axis1 Java
Contributions:30 reviews, 1 branch, 27 comments in 2 years 3 months
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