Software Engineering Manager at Atlassian - Bitbucket
Austin, Texas, United States
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TJ Kells is a Software Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience leading high-impact engineering teams at Atlassian Bitbucket. Based in Austin, he blends deep systems and infrastructure expertise—from custom Asterisk PBX work to large-scale platform development—with a track record of coaching engineers, driving release and change management, and delivering pragmatic proofs-of-concept. He advanced from hands-on systems and DevOps roles to principal engineering and management, retaining a practical knack for packaging, tuning, and operational tooling. Known humorously as a "Bitbucket human analogue" on GitHub, he brings a developer-first mindset to bridge product, reliability, and developer experience across distributed teams.
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
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TJ Kells - Software Engineering Manager at Atlassian - Bitbucket