TJ Kells
Software Engineering Manager at Atlassian - Bitbucket
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTJ 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.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bovine University
English
Stackoverflow
4,371reputation
551kreached
98answers
17questions
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Github Skills (131)
parser10
django-blog10
commonmark10
markdown10
game-engine9
javascript9
content-security-policy9
estate9
jquery9
django9
substitution9
rust9
authentication9
python9
security9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
systemsoverload/monaco-languages-extended
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 11 months
systemsoverload/pastie-sane
Apr 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
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