Meet Satej Mirpagar, Senior Technical Program Manager, Atlassian

Satej is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Atlassian with over 20 years of experience optimizing performance across various tech stacks. His journey has taken him through some of the largest banks and security companies. Currently, he is working on enhancing the performance of Jira Cloud, used by 83% of Fortune 500 companies. Remarkably, Jira even played a key role in NASA's Ensemble project, helping to send the Curiosity rover to Mars.

In this episode, we will explore his tech journey and talk about the innovative hackathon culture at Atlassian, including the quarterly held hackathons called ShipIT and how they foster collaboration among developers across the globe. We discuss the difference between Innovation Sprints and hackathons and explore how to increase the number of projects that turn into real products and tools - what could be done to improve the impact of hackathons even further? We also discuss Satej's ideas around development velocity, what typically slows it down, and what can be done about it: it's about giving developers the best tools, continuously improving code quality, increasing developer joy, and more....