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Derek Huether

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Derek Huether is Lead Principal Solutions Engineer for Atlassian’s Enterprise Strategy and Planning group. He shapes how Atlassian positions its solutions within evolving market trends. He leads high-impact strategy workshops, executive briefings, and advisory sessions with key accounts to shape their long-term technology vision. He uses his deep understanding of customer challenges and market trends to guide the product and sales teams.

Prior to Atlassian, Derek helped transform how people work at companies like Walmart, GEICO, and Capital One and federal agencies like the National Archives and the National Institutes of Health.

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  • To Catch A ThreadDump

    Ever needed to know which thread was blocking another from executing? Then take a look at the thread dump! A thread dump is a snapshot…

  • Jira 3.5 Released

    Atlassian Software Systems today announced the release of Jira 3.5, the professional issue tracking and project management software application. Jira 3.5 focuses on convenient time-saving…

  • Atlassian Codegeist Meetups

    We’re planning two meetups for Atlassian developers in the near future: one in Sydney and one in San Francisco. This is a chance to get…

  • Spread the word about Codegeist

    Help us spread the word about Atlassian Codegeist! While it may slightly lower your odds of winning first prize, you’ll make up for it by…

  • The Occasional Ray of Light

    Still, it’s depressing sometimes, spending most of your time looking at your creation through a distorting lens that shows only its flaws. It’s very easy…

  • Bundled Confluence Plugins released into the wild; run free, little guys.

    Many have asked, and we have answered: we’ve moved all of the bundled Confluence macros into the DevNet Subversion Repository for your hacking pleasure

  • Codegeist Submissions

    Just a quick note to plugin developers: don’t forget to submit the plugins you’re working on now to Codegeist. You can publish them, share and…

  • Announcing Atlassian Codegeist

    Win up to $5,000; 8 weeks to build the coolest plugin That’s right, people. It’s time to show us your stuff. We’re announcing Atlassian Codegeist:…

  • An Easy $10,000 for Java Developers

    Atlassian Software Systems announced their first annual “Codegeist” plugin competition. $10,000 USD will be given away in prize money. The coolest, most useful, most elegant…

  • Magic Millions

    I know it’s a dubious claim (LOC – bah!), but sometime in the last month our public SVN repository cruised passed 1 million lines of…

  • Atlassian Receives Deloitte Fast 500 Award

    Atlassian Software Systems today announced its selection by Deloitte in the Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific.…

  • How We Use Jira and Confluence For Agile Development

    Given that the Confluence team had significantly ramped up its agility in recent releases, I thought it was a good opportunity to chime in about…

  • Jira 3.4.3 Released

    Atlassian announces the latest release of the award winning issue-tracking platform – Jira 3.4.3 – available in Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions. This release includes…

  • Finally – a direct link to download the JDK!

    Firstly – if you distribute server-side Java applications, then this URL will make your life a lot easier: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/jdk/download.jsp. If that doesn’t mean anything to…

  • The devil is in the details

    After a recent discussion about licenses in relation to a new Confluence plugin, I thought a quick post to the developer blog on the subject…