Tom Wright
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Atlassian
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolTom Wright is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer based in Melbourne with nine years of experience building resilient cloud infrastructure, automation, and SaaS platforms. Currently leading SRE at Atlassian after heading SRE at Culture Amp, he brings deep AWS expertise from hands-on roles implementing enterprise cloud foundations, networking, and security guardrails. Tom blends operational leadership with software and DevOps craft—having moved teams from individual contributors to collaborative engineering groups and driven monitoring, de‑siloing, and serverless container adoption. His background in computer vision research and machine learning informs a pragmatic approach to observability and automation, and he’s active on GitHub as @tomwwright. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex distributed architectures into auditable, repeatable systems while mentoring teams to sustain them.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
NSW High School Certificate, NSW High School Certificate at Bega High SchoolCertificate IV Information Technology (Networking), Certificate IV Information Technology (Networking) at Bega TAFEHonours Computer Science, Honours Computer Science at La Trobe University
Github Skills (73)
python10
terraform10
automation10
infrastructure10
ssh10
network-configuration10
ansible10
aws-cloud10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
development-kit10
amazon-web-services10
cloud-development-kit10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomwwright/graph-battles
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
Browser-based strategy game build with Phaser, Mobx, and React
Contributions:153 commits, 4 PRs, 77 pushes in 4 years 5 months
reactbrowsermobxstrategywebpack
tomwwright/aws-cdk
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:36 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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