Thomas Farr
Software Engineer at Atlassian
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Farr is a software engineer based in Auckland with 14 years of industry experience and a strong focus on scalable backend systems, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure. He has led complex migrations and platform improvements at Education Perfect and AWS, including a large‑scale .NET Framework to .NET Core refactor, migration of monoliths to ECS/Fargate, and organization‑wide OpenSearch API migrations from Smithy to OpenAPI. At AWS he owned multi‑language OpenSearch clients, drove code generation to reduce maintenance, and coordinated releases, CVE remediations, and cross‑team API consistency. He is hands‑on across languages and runtimes—C#, TypeScript, Rust—and has repeatedly automated workflows to cut operational time from minutes to seconds. Comfortable both mentoring teams and building developer tooling, he pairs pragmatic architectural choices with an appetite for experimentation (notably pioneering Rust CLIs and serverless Lambdas). Now at Atlassian, he continues to scale developer experiences and cloud-native systems while maintaining a strong emphasis on maintainability and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Otago
Github Skills (101)
opensearch10
cmake-modules10
indices10
masking10
specification10
elasticsearch10
razor10
devkitpro10
go-client10
linux10
dotnet10
api-specification10
api10
razorengine10
meilisearch10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Xtansia/anitomy-c
Jun 2018 - Nov 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 6 months
Xtansia/opensearch-java
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Java Client for OpenSearch
Contributions:3 PRs, 327 pushes, 265 branches in 2 years 3 months
javaopensearchjava-client
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