Jean-Michel Lemieux is the vice president of engineering at Atlassian, an award- winning enterprise software company that helps innovators everywhere plan, build, and launch great software. Jean-Michel leads the team of engineers who invent and write the code that runs more than 100,000 active Atlassian product instances around the world. He’s also responsible for the design and operation of the Atlassian OnDemand hosting platform. Atlassian has more than 20,000 customers—including Microsoft, Facebook, Cisco, Oracle, Proctor & Gamble, Exxon, BMW and NASA— using its collaboration and software development products to work smarter and deliver faster results.
Prior to Atlassian, Jean-Michel served as the chief architect for Rational Team Concert, a division of IBM that focuses on building collaborative development environments. Previously at IBM, he was on the founding teams that invented and built Eclipse (eclipse.org) and the Jazz platform (jazz.net). He’s also held leadership and engineering roles at Object Technology, Inc. (acquired by IBM), ObjecTime (acquired by Rational Software), and Hewlett-Packard.
In addition, Jean-Michel has been a committer on the Eclipse platform since its inception, and co-authored the Eclipse Rich Client Platform book published by Addison-Wesley in 2005. Jean-Michel has filed two U.S. patents on software configuration management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Ottawa.