Atlassian CTO Viswanath talks cloud computing platforms, scale, innovation

May 23, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.

Sri Viswanath, CTO of Atlassian, will outline his vision for the company’s cloud platform plan and tech strategy on Tuesday and you can expect a heavy dose of scale and new use cases. Before coming to Atlassian, a collaboration software company, Viswanath spent three years at Groupon when he was CTO. Before Groupon, Viswanath was vice president of research and development for mobile computing at VMware. He also had stints at Ning, Glam and Sun Microsystems. We caught up with Viswanath to talk shop ahead of his appearance at AtlasCamp, Atlassian’s developer conference in Barcelona.

How does the Groupon experience apply to Atlassian? Viswanath said that the Groupon provided experience in managing a large number of people at scale. For instance, Groupon had 1,700 people spread across 10 areas across the globe. "That experience was good for learning how to run a large organization at scale," said Viswanath. "It takes a lot of focus and organization to get 1,700 people productive." Atlassian is similar in that its dispersed and global…

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