Atlassian has appointed Rajeev Rajan as its new Chief Know-how Officer (CTO). Primarily based in Washington state within the Pacific Northwest area of the U.S., Rajeev joins Atlassian with shut to 3 a long time of expertise constructing and main groups at pioneering world expertise corporations together with Meta and Microsoft.
In his new function as Chief Know-how Officer at Atlassian, Rajeev will lead and assist all of the Engineering, IT, Belief and Safety groups throughout the globe. This key management rent is ready to play an necessary function in setting technique and steering Atlassian on its path of accelerated development.
The India-born government brings a wealth of data and expertise in scaling world expertise corporations, having spent practically 5 years at Meta, most not too long ago as Vice President and Head of Engineering for Fb and Head of Meta for the Pacific Northwest area. Previous to that, Rajeev had a profession spanning 23 years at Microsoft working throughout a number of merchandise from Alternate to SQL Server to Lively Listing, culminating in Workplace 365.
Talking about his new function, Rajeev Rajan, CTO, Atlassian stated, “As I seemed on the subsequent step in my profession, the set of learnings and experiences I needed to have, and the place I might be most useful, the CTO function at Atlassian excited me. As somebody who has spent their total profession constructing and main software program groups, Atlassian’s mission to unleash the potential of each staff by means of collaboration and productiveness software program actually resonated with me. Over the following few years, we’re tripling our engineering staff and I imagine Atlassian has the potential to turn out to be one of many high engineering groups on this planet. I’m excited to place techniques in place that may guarantee we stand the take a look at of time, protect the distinctive Atlassian spirit, and welcome new staff from all elements of the world.”
Rajeev has accomplished a grasp’s diploma in Pc Science from The Ohio State College and likewise spent a yr in graduate college within the Pc Science program on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has additionally accomplished a B.E. (Hons.), in Pc Science on the Birla Institute of Know-how and Science, Pilani.
