Ken joined Atlassian in early 2019 as a Solutions Engineer. He has nineteen years of experience in the IT industry. He started his career fixing computers at the University of Pittsburgh and held several different positions there. He then did a short stint as a defense contractor writing code on various projects ranging from simple signal deconfliction to complex control systems. Just before joining Atlassian he served ten years in public service as a civil servant within the Intelligence community working to build and maintain one of the largest and most complex multi tenant Hadoop cloud systems.