Principal Engineer · Atlassian · San Francisco

I build platforms for AI and search at scale.

I'm a Principal Software Engineer leading AI & Search initiatives at Atlassian — designing the retrieval, ranking, and orchestration systems that quietly power products for millions. On the side, I ship small, opinionated projects.

10+ years shipping at scale 2 granted patents 2 live independent projects
01 — Selected work

Independent projects, shipped & live.

Two small products built outside the day job — both available now, both opinionated about what they don't do.

02 — Experience

A decade of building at scale.

Mostly behind the scenes — search infrastructure, distributed systems, and the platforms that hold modern SaaS products together.

2022 — Present

Principal Software Engineer

Atlassian — AI & Search Platform

Leading platform initiatives behind Atlassian Intelligence and unified search across Jira, Confluence and the broader cloud. Architecting retrieval, ranking, and LLM orchestration at company scale.

SearchRAGPlatform
2018 — 2022

Senior / Staff Software Engineer

Atlassian — Cloud Platform

Built core backend infrastructure powering products serving hundreds of millions of users. Owned reliability, latency, and developer experience across multiple high-traffic services.

Distributed systemsJVMAWS
2015 — 2018

Software Engineer

Earlier roles — startups and enterprise

Cut teeth on full-stack web, mobile, and data systems. Took products from zero to one and learned what it takes to keep them running at three in the morning.

Full-stackiOSData
03 — Contact

Get in touch.

Best for advisory on AI and search platforms, indie collaborations, or comparing notes on what's working at scale.

Open to interesting problems & the people thinking carefully about them.

I read everything that lands in my inbox and reply to most. The fastest route is email; for anything time-sensitive, say so in the subject line.