At Atlassian’s scale, it’s mind-boggling to consider how rapid innovation and product architecture changes are implemented on a daily basis. This episode covers the “how” spanning effective team collaboration to cloud transitions.
Swati Raju is Head of Engineering, Confluence Cloud at Atlassian. She previously was a CTO, eng manager and IC at various companies including Groupon, Yahoo, and Ticketmaster. In this episode, we cover how Swati builds effective remote engineering teams. We also cover how Atlassian was able to shift from server to cloud while mitigating the impact on customers during this huge architecture shift. Finally, we dive into where Confluence is leveraging AI to improve the user experience and help customers be able to better accomplish their work. There’s learnings in this episode from early stage to massive scale.
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In this episode, we cover:
(01:25) - Building Effective Remote Eng Teams
(04:23) - Maintaining & Building Culture Remotely
(07:59) - Goal Setting to Enable Decentralized Decision Making
(10:28) - Balancing Resiliency & Innovation
(12:36) - Rituals & Anti-Patterns for Remote & Cross-Team Collaboration
(20:21) - Managing Transition from Server to Cloud
(25:23) - Building Enterprise Grade Products
(29:42) - Preparing for and Managing Downtime
(33:49) - AI’s Impact on Knowledge Workflows Across Atlassian Products
(37:04) - Starting with Thinner Slices of the Product to Iterate with AI
(40:41) - Main Challenges with AI Adoption Today
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Swati Raju (Head of Eng, Confluence Cloud, Atlassian) - AI's Impact on Workflows, On Prem to Cloud Transitions, Building Effective Remote Eng Teams