Today we are talking to Sri, the CTO at Atlassian. And we discuss Atlassian’s open company no nonsense culture, How to unleash massive potential within your team, and why you can only be successful if the people you lead are successful.

All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

Sri Viswanath is the chief technology officer (CTO) at Atlassian.

Before joining Atlassian, Sri served as CTO and senior vice president of engineering at Groupon, Inc. Prior to Groupon, he was the vice president of research and development for mobile computing at VMware, a provider of cloud and virtualization software and services. Sri also served as senior vice president of engineering at Ning, Inc. and managed the application development, platform engineering, and operations teams responsible for innovating and scaling the Ning Platform. He was instrumental in Ning’s acquisition by Glam. Prior to Ning, Sri led development of a number of very successful open-source and business-to-business products at Sun Microsystems.

Sri serves on the board of directors of SendGrid and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Clemson University and a management degree from Stanford University.

ABOUT Atlassian

Atlassian is a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. With over 138,000 global customers (including 85 of the Fortune 100), we’re advancing the power of collaboration with products including Jira, Jira Service Desk, Jira Ops, Confluence, Bitbucket, Trello, and more. Driven by honest values, an amazing culture, and consistent revenue growth, we’re out to unleash the potential of every team.