New Role and Leaving Adobe

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:59:00 -0400

In light of Andrew Shorten's blog post yesterday (http://www.ashorten.com/2009/11/03/new-role-at-adobe/) I suppose it's time for me to make an official comment about where I am and what I'm doing. I've left Adobe to accept a new position covering product management for developer tools at Atlassian. Many of you know Jira and Confluence, but fewer may be familiar with the other Atlassian developer offerings; FishEye, Crucible, Bamboo, Clover, and more. Hopefully we'll change that soon and help you all discover our incredible developer and collaboration tools. For those of you who are already familiar with Atlassian, I look forward to bringing my years of work with you at Adobe (and Macromedia and Allaire) to help influence the direction and experience delivered by these products. "So why Atlassian?" Simply: it's an incredible company. I'm reminded of the early Allaire days a customer driven, innovative, different kind of software company. One look at the company values page at http://www.atlassian.com/about/ (be sure to watch the video, too!) and you'll see why I knew that this was a place that I could call home! Plus, we're able to help solve the problems of *all* kinds of developers working on all sorts of software projects *regardless* of technology or language preference. I've spent my entire career helping developers be more successful, and Atlassian is the best company in the world doing that today. "But why leave Adobe?" Of course it wasn't easy to make this decision after so many years at the company. The technology and people there are incredible to be sure. But it was time for a new challenge and for the opportunity to play a more strategic role in helping define the company's success. Atlassian is at a terrific point in its growth, and I can't wait to be a part of moving it to the next level. The Flash Platform is great technology and Adobe is an outstanding company I'm proud of my accomplishments there and I will miss my colleagues, but I hope to continue to work with them (and with many of you) as customers of Atlassian (the Flex team uses Jira and Confluence already!) I'll be relocating with my family to Sydney Australia, Atlassian's hometown, any day now. We've sent some of our things off by sea already and we're now just waiting on our Visa to be processed. To the many friends I've made in Australia over the years, I'm delighted to have a chance to live in such a wonderful place! Many of you met my wife Wendy and maybe even my kids Emma and Ellery, and they're thrilled too. To the many friends I've made elsewhere through my work at Adobe, I do hope we stay connected! I think you'll find that my new products continue to deliver what I've tried to do all along: make hard things easy and delightful. I'll continue to use this blog to share my thoughts on software development and the tools that I manage: I hope you will continue to read it. Until then, thanks and keep in touch! Tim

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New Role and Leaving Adobe