Diogo Lucas

Software Architect, Atlassian

Diogo sucks at writing about himself and can't wait for the day he will be famous enough that someone will do it for him. And bring perfect lattes. Coming to think of it, scratch the writing, let's just have the latte, please. Ahem, but he digresses. Whenever he is not struggling with the hard work of describing who he is, he does software architecture stuff, which is mostly about drawing lots of arrows and boxes in a whiteboard, talking to LOTS of people (sometimes involving coffee, although nobody EVER volunteers to bring him a latte) and coding (yes, you still have to do that as an architect). Oh, he is also a teacher and to his credit he has NEVER asked a student to write about themselves. If you came here for the catchy words, here's some of the stuff he's been involved with: architecture, platforms, APIs, agile, devops.

Kelly Snow

Lead UX designer, Atlassian

Kelly is a San Francisco-based designer with a background in Psychology and Information Science. At Atlassian, she is focused on the Marketplace.

James Hazelwood

Senior Developer, Atlassian

James has been a dev at Atlassian for the last six years, the last half of which he has been doing remotely, from beautiful Tasmania, Australia. Lately he's been working on the Atlassian Developer platform. When he has some time to himself he loves grabbing his surfboard and thick wetsuit, and paddling out into the icy Tasmanian seas.

Nick Muldoon

Product Manager, Easy Agile

Nick joined Atlassian in 2007 and became product manager for GreenHopper in 2009. He led the refresh of GreenHopper which became known as Jira Agile, now Jira Software. In 2012 Nick moved to Atlassian San Fransisco to lead Atlassians push into the agile software development space and guide customers on their agile transformations. Nick joined Twitter in 2013 and began working with the leadership team to start an agile transformation. During his time in Silicon Valley he particpated in and hosted the Agile Industry Consortium which saw agile coaches from large companies all over America come together to share their experiences. In 2015 he returned to Australia with his young family and created Easy Agile with another Atlassian Alumnus, Dave Elkan. Easy Agile is an Atlassian Marketplace vendor delivering story mapping and roadmapping solutions for Jira.

Ralph Whitbeck

Developer Advocate, Atlassian

Ralph Whitbeck has over 20 years experience as a web developer. At Atlassian, Ralph is a Developer Evangelist for the Ecosystem team where he strives to make developers lives easier in creating new add-ons for Atlassian products. As an avid supporter of open source, Ralph served on the Board of Directors for the jQuery Foundation and had lead the Developer Relations program for jQuery. You can find Ralph on Twitter at @RedWolves

Erika Fisher

Head of Privacy, Atlassian

Erika has been in-house counsel at Atlassian for over two years. Prior to joining Atlassian, she was outside counsel for dozens of technology companies in and beyond Silicon Valley, including Atlassian. Her expertise is in all things technology law, including data privacy and security. In her role as Atlassian's Head of Privacy, she works closely with all aspects of the business that handle data to ensure Atlassian is doing right by our customers and others. Her favorite value at is "Don't F&^%k the Customer," balanced with "Seek to Understand" and she firmly believes the best decisions are the ones where the customer's interests are at the center.

Maarten Arts

Designer, Avisi

Design is often seen as a vague and time-consuming process that requires very specific knowledge. Maarten’s goal is to show you that design is not that difficult by introducing your to simple techniques that anyone can apply. Maarten is a designer at Avisi where he has worked on several Jira and Confluence apps. He has worked closely together with developers in teams of all sizes. At Avisi’s monthly "tech-days", Maarten likes to introduce developers to pragmatic design techniques. After work, you will find him in the local climbing gym.

Lucy Denton

UX Designer, Atlassian

Lucy is a Sydney based UX Designer, with a background in computer science and multi-disciplinary design. Working at Atlassian, Lucy has the unique role of helping third-party vendors create well designed apps for Atlassian products. To do so, Lucy works to ensure vendor developments enrich the products' experience and work harmoniously with the existing experience and visual design.

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John Paz

Senior Technical Writer, Bitbucket Cloud dev docs, Atlassian

A reformed Atlassian administrator and longtime Atlassian user who now works for Atlassian as a Senior Technical Writer for Bitbucket Cloud on developer documentation.

Alan Parkinson

CEO and Head of Engineering, Hindsight Software

Alan is an experienced coach in agile methods, and has a particular passion for delivering high- quality software systems as a team. With more than 17 years in the software industry, Alan's journey started as a developer and tester and he has spent the last 8 years helping companies implement behaviour driven development (BDD). This has also included contributing heavily to the development of BDD-related open source projects such as the early version of Cucumber- JVM.

Roberto Dominguez

Founder & CEO, Comalatech

Roberto Dominguez is Comalatech's founder and CEO. He's been the driving force and creative mind behind Comalatech since it was founded in 2005. He has a degree in Computer Systems Engineering, and over 25 years of product development experience, but what really makes this guy bloody amazing is that he comes up with so many wonderful-crazy ideas and burns with a passionate enthusiasm for the industry, all while staying so level-headed. A close rival to his passion for creative ideas is his obsession with Barça, music, photography, and reading depressing books. Roberto lives and works out of Vancouver, but heads to Spain every chance he gets.

Lori Kaplan

Head of Design, Ecosystem, Atlassian

Lori Kaplan is a seasoned design leader having grown up with Silicon Valley and the tech industry. She is known as much for her foundational work in design systems and guidelines (she authored Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines) as she is for her work with some of the hottest tech companies (Apple, Netscape, Netflix, Groupon, Atlassian top the list) during their brightest moments. Lori is passionate about bringing simplicity and ease to technology that solves real problems so that people can focus on their passions. She has designed everything from OS components, developer tools, and desktop applications to e-commerce websites and apps. She builds and leads teams to deliver award-winning and popular customer-focused experiences. Lori has worked in several domains including small business, communications, entertainment, and most recently financial services, always bringing the conversation back to the people who use the product.

Becky Todd

Senior Developer Experience Writer, Atlassian

Becky is a Senior Developer Experience Writer at Atlassian. She is passionate about creating great user experiences with content. She specializes in information design, content strategy, information architecture, content development, and coaching subject matter experts on writing.