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SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Jose Milanes — Software Engineer

I’m Jose. I build reliable systems, simplify the complex, and help teams do their best work. At Atlassian, I work on release-tracks, a Tier 1 service that manages when customers receive changes and new features for apps and sandboxes in their organization.

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01 / EXPERIENCETHE JOURNEY SO FAR

Built with purpose.
Backed by impact.

A few chapters in solving hard problems
with good people.

Atlassian

JAN 2025 — PRESENTCURRENT ROLE

Software Engineer II

Building the systems and tools that make enterprise engineering more reliable, secure, and productive.

  • Raised deployment pipeline reliability from 70% to 90% through redesigned PR verification and parallel test execution.
  • Reduced high-severity incidents by 50% with SLOs, automated alerts, and standardized observability.
  • Built an internal MCP server that lets 500+ engineers and AI agents get instant compliance answers.
  • Designed a Temporal-backed orchestration API to sequence batch jobs and eliminate concurrency-driven data corruption.
More of the work
  • Migrated a microservice into a monorepo supporting 30+ engineers with zero downtime, preserving history and tooling.
  • Built automated data pipelines powering Release Tracks dashboards and product insights.
  • Implemented distributed locking with Java and PostgreSQL serializable transactions for a high-traffic enterprise service.
  • Standardized AES-GCM encryption across 7+ platform services using HashiCorp Vault.
Kotlin & JavaTemporalPostgreSQLPythonAWS

Atlassian

JUL 2023 — JAN 2025

Software Engineer I

Creating a stronger foundation for enterprise compliance and internal platforms.

  • Standardized GraphQL schemas and resolvers across 4 applications, accelerating development cycles by up to 50%.
  • Automated 4 recurring cloud inventory reports, saving a week of manual effort per cycle and supporting FedRAMP Moderate compliance.
  • Shipped an API to migrate 1M+ records to a new compliance data model.
GraphQLAPI DesignCloud Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services

MAY 2022 — AUG 2022

Software Development Engineer Intern

Making data more consistent and development environments more dependable.

  • Built migration scripts for 200+ analytic reports, improving environment parity for 15+ developers and testers.
  • Reduced concurrency-related data inconsistencies using strict isolation levels with SOQL and Apex DML.
PythonApexData MigrationConcurrency
02 / SKILLSTHE TOOLS BEHIND THE WORK

Skills

01

Languages & systems

Robust services. Thoughtful interfaces.
Performance that holds up at scale.

JavaKotlinPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptDistributed SystemsREST & GraphQLMicroservices
02

Cloud & infrastructure

The foundation to ship confidently
and keep things running.

AWSDockerKubernetesTemporalCI/CDApache AirflowDBT
03

Data & reliability

Consistent data. Clear signals.
Fewer surprises in production.

PostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBMongoDBRedisSplunkSignalFXMicrometer

Good engineering is a team sport.

Technical design reviews · Mentorship · Cross-functional collaboration
03 / FOUNDATIONS

Education & achievements

EDUCATION

B.S. in Computer Science

Florida International University

CERTIFICATION

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

ALWAYS PROBLEM-SOLVING

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HAVE SOMETHING IN MIND?

Great things start
with a conversation.

Whether it’s a technical challenge, an interesting idea,
or just a hello—I’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch josemilanes99@gmail.com