Key takeaways
- Atlassian has appointed Rajeev Rajan as its new Chief Technology Officer to lead global engineering and security teams.
- Rajan brings extensive experience from Meta and Microsoft, focusing on scaling technology companies.
- With over thirty years in the industry, Rajan aims to enhance Atlassian's collaborative software mission.
- He believes Atlassian has the potential to develop a leading global engineering team.
- Rajan holds advanced degrees in computer science and has a strong background in software team leadership.
Atlassian Corporation Plc, a leading team collaboration and productivity software provider, has appointed Rajeev Rajan as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In his new role, Rajan will lead and support all global engineering, IT, trust and security teams.
Atlassian works with 230,000+ customers across large and small organisations—including Bank of America, Redfin, NASA, Verizon and Dropbox—use Atlassian’s project tracking, content creation and sharing, and service management products to work together and deliver timely results.
With close to thirty years of experience in building and leading teams at pioneering global technology companies, including Meta and Microsoft, Rajan has joined Atlassian.
The India-born executive brings a range of experience in scaling global technology companies, having spent nearly five years at Meta, most recently as Vice President and Head of Engineering for Facebook and Head of Meta for the Pacific Northwest region.
Prior to Meta, Rajeev had a career spanning 23 years at Microsoft, working across multiple products from Exchange to SQL Server to Active Directory, culminating in Office 365.
The BITS Pilani alumnus holds a postgraduate degree in computer science from the Ohio State University. In addition, he spent a year in graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science program.
Rajan said he considers this appointment as the next step in his career, and believes that the role of Atlassian CTO is where he could contribute most meaningfully. As he spent the entirety of career in building and leading software teams, Atlassian’s mission to tap the potential of every team through collaboration and productivity software resonates with him.
‘Atlassian has the potential to become one of the top engineering teams globally as the company looks forward to tripling the engineering team in the upcoming years’, says Rajan.
