Atlassian
Head of Engineering — Cloud Migration Platform
Feb 2025 — Present
- Lead a 100+ distributed engineering org enabling scalable, reliable data migration across Atlassian's product teams.
- Re-engineered the migration platform to halve typical large-migration times with higher success rates and fewer manual interventions.
- Industrialised tooling and playbooks to migrate complex enterprise customers — including major banks and retailers — and into restricted, government-grade cloud environments.
- Drove 3× seat-migration throughput while cutting 28% of budget through automation and AI-assisted tooling.
GitLab
VP of Engineering
Mar 2019 — Sep 2025
- Led 160+ globally distributed engineers across AI Research, Security, Compliance, Growth, and Fulfilment — supporting GitLab's Ultimate tier ($400M+ ARR).
- Founded the Incubation Engineering department, pioneering GitLab's generative-AI and model-validation efforts; shipped LLM-based vulnerability explanation and remediation.
- Recruited and mentored diverse, high-performing teams with consistently high retention and top engagement scores.
- Drove the successful integration of multiple large technology acquisitions as part of the M&A team.
Local Measure
Chief Technology Officer
Dec 2014 — Feb 2019
- Led and mentored engineering leaders and teams to deliver on the product roadmap and commercial goals.
- Scaled the org through local hiring, established a UK team, and managed offshore and outsourced partnerships.
- Drove agile delivery — scrum implementation, sprint planning, and cross-team coordination — and served as technical point of contact for clients and partners.
- Established security penetration-testing programs and managed R&D rebate documentation.