The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next

About This Session

Coding isn’t the bottleneck anymore — alignment is. Atlassian has spent over 20 years building the tools that engineering teams run on, and now CTO Taroon Mandhana shares what changes when AI reshapes the entire development lifecycle: engineers operating as tech leads of multi-agent systems, PMs and designers shipping code (and the quality debates that follow), and results that Atlassian’s own engineering teams are seeing as a result of working in AI-native ways. He’ll share what’s working, what’s overhyped, and the questions that nobody has figured out yet — like measuring AI ROI and managing token spend.

Speaker

Taroon Mandhana

CTO AI and Teamwork · Atlassian

CTO AI and Teamwork of Atlassian

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Taroon Mandhana is CTO of AI and Teamwork at Atlassian, a leading provider of productivity and collaboration software. In his role, Taroon oversees engineering teams responsible for Atlassian’s flagship products, including Jira, Confluence, and Loom—which are bundled within the Teamwork Collection. He also leads the development of Rovo, Atlassian's AI, which includes Search, Chat, Agents, and Studio. Outside of Atlassian, Taroon holds nearly 15 years of AI experience. In his previous roles, he led the Search team at Microsoft Bing and later joined Meta to lead their Facebook Search and Marketplace teams. In his second stint at Microsoft, he led the company’s content teams and built the personalized recommendation feed, Microsoft Start. Taroon graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and received his Master’s from the University of Texas at Austin. In his free time, he enjoys going on hikes around the Pacific Northwest with his family.