Grew Trello’s engineering team from 20 to 200 and successfully led through Atlassian acquisition and integration
Experience
Executive Roles
Opportunity@Work
Fractional CTO
Recast
Fractional CTO
Poggio Labs
Head of Engineering
Atlassian
Head of Engineering (Trello)
Trello
VP of Engineering
Do Something
Director of Technical Product
Barry Clark
Partner
About Me
I am an engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and leading high-performing teams. I have expertise in scaling products (100M+ users) while maintaining high standards, integrating acquired companies, and developing tech leaders. I have a proven track record for establishing processes that define successful hiring strategies, from the interview and onboarding stage to career development frameworks and performance management, assessing team composition along the way, and making necessary adjustments. My approach is to work with teams to understand the biggest opportunities for improvement and then assist in setting up the right environment for engineering excellence.
Career Highlights
I began my career as a Level Designer, contributing to Grand Theft Auto IV at Rockstar Games and pushing gaming technology boundaries. From there, I progressed into leadership roles, eventually becoming the VP of Engineering for Trello, where I successfully grew the engineering team from 20 to 200. I led that team to scale the business to 100M+ users, 10M+ monthly active users, and 1B+ API requests. I also pioneered effective remote work practices before they became mainstream, developed Trello’s enterprise offering (onboarding Fortune 500 clients), and successfully integrated with Atlassian post-acquisition. On the CTO leadership team at Atlassian, I worked with other engineering leaders to roll out processes across our 2,000+ person engineering team. I’m most proud that even throughout a lot of change and big company integration, we continued to be a beloved product and an incredible place for top engineers to work. After Atlassian, I joined an early-stage startup, Poggio Labs, to scale the team as we built a data-connected CRM to take on Salesforce and HubSpot. We onboarded some world-class customers and iterated rapidly on the CRM product before eventually sunsetting the CRM and resetting our efforts, focusing on a new generative AI product.
Techquity Solutions
I thrive on developing solutions that meet the needs of customers, and for that, you need great people. I am passionate about assessing and helping companies create a great culture by developing an intentional strategy for building high-performing teams with top engineers, hiring leading talent, empowering engineers to take on challenging projects, and mentoring tech leadership to drive innovation and foster success.
Innovation & Impact
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Proven track record of attracting and retaining top talent by building a culture with high standards that empowers engineers with autonomy
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Grew the engineering team at Trello from 20 to 200 and led the team through the Atlassian acquisition and integration
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Directed a large-scale, three-year user migration project for Atlassian post-integration
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Scaled Trello to 100M+ users, 10M+ monthly active users, 1B+ API requests
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Developed Trello’s enterprise offering, onboarding Fortune 500 clients
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Contributed to the development of Grand Theft Auto IV, significantly impacting gaming technology
Why Techquity?
I appreciate the opportunity to work with talented tech leaders, collaborating on exciting projects and making an impact by helping companies succeed. Working with the best and learning from those who have achieved what you have not enables you to push yourself to go beyond what you thought was possible; I believe we can deliver that for our clients by living it.