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Kelly Snow

Lead Designer, Atlassian

Anatoli Kazatchkov

Development Manager for HipChat Ecosystem, Atlassian

Anatoli is an engineering manager in charge of HipChat platform. During his 9 years in Atlassian he worked on different teams such as Confluence, Bamboo, Integration and HipChat. Anatoli honed his skills working as a developer, team lead, and a development manager in both small and large teams on projects such as cross platform installer, Confluence's inline comments, JIRA-Confluence integration, HipChat integrations, and Bamboo Cloud. In his latest role in HipChat he and his team have been working on creating a platform that allows add-on developers integrate business services seamlessly into HipChat.

Dave Elkan

Co-Founder & CTO, Arijea

Dave is a former Atlassian who has worked on JIRA, the Atlassian Marketplace, the Atlassian Ecosystem Developer relations team and finally as a Javascript engineer and team lead on HipChat. Since leaving Atlassian in late 2015, Dave co-founded Arijea, an Atlassian Marketplace business building agile story mapping and roadmap solutions for the Enterprise. Dave places great emphasis on devspeed and automation to ensure that Arijea's small team punches well above their weight.

Louis Lepper

Software Developer, Atlassian

I'm a software developer working for Atlassian on the Confluence Core Platform and API team. Over the last quarter I've been working to extend the capabilities of Atlassian Connect inside of Confluence. Personally I'm very interested in computer networks. Outside of software I'm a huge foodie.

Alexander Yavorskiy

CTO, Financial Engines, Inc.

Alex Yavorskiy is a veteran technologist and a Robo Adviser pioneer. In the last 16 years he helped turn Financial Engines (FE) into the largest independent RIA in the United States. Alex helped build unique services that use a combination of computer algorithms and human advisors to help millions of ordinary Americans plan for retirement. Throughout his tenure with FE, Alex played a number of different roles on the company's Technology Team, both as individual contributor and as a technology leader. He worked on diverse set of features including scalable and pluggable backend batch job infrastructure, all aspects of Managed Accounts service, advisor centric and operational tools, as well as consumer facing web applications. Most recently, Alex served as VP of Engineering for Consumer Products Development Team, where he led efforts to modernize UI tech stack and embrace continuous delivery practices. Currently, Alex serves as a Financial Engines CTO and Technology Evangelist. He is leading rearchitecture of monolithic application to microservices on the cloud, with special focus on serverless cloud technologies.

David Chou

Staff DevOps Engineer, Financial Engines, Inc.

Just like how Pokémon evolve - David was once a Build & Release Engineer who now has evolved into a DevOps Engineer. In addition to things like Jenkins/Puppet/AWS he is also the resident Atlassian admin running JIRA/Confluence/FeCRU/Hipchat on-prem.

Nathan Burrell

Senior Developer, Atlassian

Nathan Burrell is a software engineer from the Central Coast, Australia that has had a varied career in the software industry. He has worked with warehousing and logistics software in COBOL and C#, to making game engines in C++ and DirectX. He is currently working on cloud-scale products written in Java running on AWS. He studied software engineering at the University of Newcastle. His current role as a Developer on Bitbucket Pipelines enables him to help Atlassian with democratizing CI/CD so all teams can start practising it, and by doing so helping every TEAM in Building the Future.

Ben Mackie

Development Manager, Atlassian

Ben has over 15 years experience building and leading collaboration and intelligence solutions for global markets. He loves seeing the power of a platform deliver a consistently awesome experience to customers and developers. He is the Development Manager for the Confluence Platform.

Brian Swift

Principal Product Manager, Atlassian

Brian Swift is a Principal Product Manager at Atlassian, responsible for Confluence Platform & Ecosystem. Prior to joining Atlassian, he helped launch and lead product initiatives for Fabric, Twitter's mobile developer platform. In his free time he enjoys trying new coffee shops in Sydney, playing soccer and watching University of Michigan sports.

Luke Kilpatrick

Developer Program Manager, Atlassian

Patrick Streule

Architect, Atlassian

Patrick is the architect of Connect for HipChat at Atlassian. Before HipChat, he was the architect for Connect in JIRA and Confluence. What motivates him most: seeing great ideas being implemented on the Connect platform, be it as part of a hackathon or by a for-profit business.

Klaus Ihlberg

Development Team Lead, Atlassian

Klaus is a development team lead in the Confluence Platform Core API Team. He's been working with his team on creating new API's and extension points for the Confluence Cloud Ecosystem, including CQL, Custom Content, Theming and many others. When Klaus is not working you will most likely find him cooking or enjoying craft beer.