Dan Tao
Head of Engineering for DevOps at Atlassian, scaling developer tools and minimizing daily toil.
Dan Tao leads the engineering teams behind Atlassian’s developer tools. He focuses on building better workflows for engineers, guiding products like Bitbucket Cloud, Compass, and Jira’s Open DevOps.
Before Atlassian, he spent time building software at Google, ThoughtWorks, and various startups. He knows how to handle complex infrastructure and recently steered Bitbucket’s migration from local data centers to AWS. He regularly shares practical lessons from Atlassian’s own delivery processes, showing engineering teams how to minimize toil and ship secure software faster.
