Brian Bobryk

Product owner engineering management tools, Bloomberg LP

Sherif Mansour

Distinguished Product Manager, Atlassian

Sherif Mansour has 15 years of experience in software development. He is currently a Distinguished Product Manager for Atlassian. For 6 years he was been responsible for Confluence, a popular social collaboration tool for product teams. Today Sherif heads up the cross-product cloud experience for all of Atlassian’s products. Areas of expertise include agile product development. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.

James Rotanson

Product Designer, Atlassian

James is a Product Designer working on simplifying the Jira configuration experience. He specialises in bringing abstract concepts into high-fidelity experiences that ultimately champions the user. Passionate about bridging the gap between design and development, his work has been featured by Google Singapore and Vivid Sydney. You can usually find him sketching away or checking out the latest ramen scene around town.

Erika Sa

Product Manager, Atlassian

Erika is a Product Manager with a mission to get every customer working smarter with Jira Software. Previously she worked on the new boards experience in Jira Software Cloud’s next-gen project. Currently she’s focused on building new advanced planning features into Jira Software. When she’s not working, you can find her practicing handstands wherever possible.

Phil Oye

Principal Product Manager, Atlassian

Phil is a Principal Product Manager at Atlassian and works on the Atlassian Platform focusing on our cross-product rich-text editor. Before moving to Platform, Phil worked on Confluence on the content experience. Previously, Phil was at Campaign Monitor and before that consulted to companies like ESPN, Gucci, Tiffany, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lego. When he’s not pondering keyboard shortcuts, you can find him arguing about coffee, cocktails, design, and tech. You can find him on Twitter at @philoye.

Jessi Smith

Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Washington University

Jessi Smith is a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator currently dedicated to working on a global, phase II/III, multi-center Alzheimer’s disease trial sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She has 20 years of experience in the medical field, having worked in billing and coding, patient care, emergency services, and most recently, clinical research. Since January 2014, Jessi has been an integral part of the growth and development of the Clinical Operations team on a multi-therapeutic, adaptive, platform-based drug trial aimed at finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. One of her responsibilities is the development and oversight of reporting tools that are used to track vital aspects of the trial. She credits the use of Jira and Confluence with providing a unique and customizable tool that excelled over the software options that were previously available in the organization.

Michael March

Atlassian Solution Architect, Isos Technology

Michael March's 20+ years of business experience has been a crucible of improving companies ranging in size from a two-person startup to Fortune 500 companies. He has been involved in aspects of the business ranging from heavy software development to the management of massive computing infrastructures, purposefully shifting organizational sizes, types, domain foci and operational foci. Michael March created Arizona's first Internet service twenty years ago as a co-founder and CEO of Internet Direct, Inc. Michael March continued his pioneering efforts in shaping the commercial internet after Earthlink acquired Internet Direct, Inc. in 1998, serving as the head of Earthlink's internal tools teams. Michael March has dedicated his career to helping in the automation of every aspect of IT infrastructure for organizations of all sizes. This automation has been applied to all portions of the businesses, from development to operations to customer support.

Jane Allard

Director of Engineering, Akamai

From Technical Software Trainer to Director of Engineering, Jane has held many roles in large software companies. For the past 10 years she has focused on process improvement for software development using techniques adapted from lean business process improvement.

Shane Colledge

Senior Technical Program Manager, Akamai

Shane Colledge has been a senior program manager at Akamai since 2016 and has an extensive background in program management and business development. For eight years he lived in the Middle East providing humanitarian aid to refugee populations.

Michael Godeck

Business Analyst,

Michael Godeck has over 25 years of experience as consultant to Fortune 500 telecom, aviation, insurance and pharmaceutical clients on software development and development practices, serving in roles of developer, architect, team lead and business analyst.

Matthew Watson

Bitbucket Pipelines Development Manager, Atlassian

Dev Manager at Atlassian 9 years across FishEye, Bitbucket Server, Jira dev tools Integration and Bitbucket Pipelines. 25 years in industry...

Albert Wang

Developer, Atlassian

Albert has been a developer in the Jira Service Desk Cloud product team for just over 3 years. Over his career he's worked on and lead projects of different shapes and sizes - with teams of different shapes and sizes. This breadth of experience has helped him refine his project management skills. He still has much to learn but he's here to share what he's learned so far!