Atlassian appoints new head of engineering, commerce and enterprise agility

Team collaboration and productivity software provider Atlassian has announced the appointment of Shamik Sharma to head of engineering, commerce and enterprise agility. Sharma will report to Atlassian’s chief technology officer (CTO) Rajeev Rajan.

An industry veteran, Sharma has three decades of experience in technology and engineering. He has been the co-founder of Cure.fit/Cult.sport where he spent over five years. Before that he was the chief technology officer (CTO) and chief product officer (CPO) at ecommerce platform Myntra. He has held multiple senior leadership positions at Lytro Inc., RockYou, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, Confluent Software and HP, among others.

“Shamik’s experience in technology and e-commerce will add much value to Atlassian, both globally and in India. We want to become a 100-year company at Atlassian and the meaningful work that our teams are contributing to in India is critical to this trajectory. As India is our fastest-growing R&D site globally, we’re confident that Shamik will only help accelerate our path to building a world-class engineering team,” said Atlassian’s Rajan.

The Jira Software-maker announced the appointment of Paranth Thiruvengadam as the India site leader and head of engineering IT service management (ITSM) in October. With this appointment, Thiruvengadam will be leading the company’s 1,700 India-based workforce.

In an earlier interview with TechCircle, Atlassian CEO and co-founder Scott Farquhar said that the company will begin storing data in an India-based data centre from the first half of 2024. “Whilst many companies are happy to have the data centre somewhere in the cloud, there are many other Indian government agencies and regulated industries that require us to have an Indian data centre. So we've made huge investments to be able to put our data in a data centre in India. We'll be utilising Amazon's data centres in India,” he had then said.