Tony Lechner
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Lechner is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in high-traffic cloud backend systems, primarily using Python and Go. He’s proven at modernizing large legacy codebases and scaling mission-critical services, having led Atlassian’s Bitbucket Python 2→3 migration and designed a service bus to enable decomposition toward microservices. Tony pairs deep systems-level expertise in C on Linux with pragmatic engineering, often optimizing hot paths by moving them into native code to yield measurable cost and performance gains. He also obsessively improves developer experience—rewriting Bitbucket’s local dev environment cut bootstrap times from up to an hour to under 12 minutes and inner-loop latency to seconds. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he brings a blend of hands-on implementation, cross-team alignment, and a knack for turning operational pain points into durable productivity wins. Based in Milwaukee, he’s the sort of engineer who not only keeps services running at scale but makes it noticeably easier for others to move fast and fix things themselves.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems and Services, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems and Services at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Github Skills (57)
nerdtree10
django-framework10
python10
django10
git-status10
orm10
eve-online9
web-framework8
line-series8
apache-cordova8
phonegap8
text-editor7
integrate7
facebook7
rsa7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tonymke/testrattingcapitals.com
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 116 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 3 months
alliancewall
tonymke/tkursed
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:125 commits, 80 pushes, 4 branches in 28 days
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