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To whom it may concern,
I am excited to apply for the Software Release Manager position at Atlassian. With over seven years managing release pipelines and cross-functional release processes across engineering, QA, and product teams, I am enthusiastic about bringing my DevOps-first mindset and operational rigor to a company whose products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) I have relied on daily to coordinate large-scale releases and incident response. Atlassian’s mission to unleash the potential of every team aligns with my commitment to build predictable, transparent release operations that empower engineering teams to move faster and safer.
In my current role at TechWave Australia, I lead the end-to-end release lifecycle for a multi-service SaaS platform deployed on AWS and Kubernetes. I designed and implemented a GitHub Actions + ArgoCD pipeline that reduced mean-time-to-deploy by 45% and cut release-related rollbacks by 60% year-over-year. I own release orchestration, risk assessment, and stakeholder communications for quarterly and hotfix releases — coordinating across 8 engineering squads, product managers, and SRE. I have hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Splunk, and PagerDuty, and I introduced standardized runbooks and automated smoke tests that decreased post-release incidents by 30%. Prior to TechWave, I managed release schedules at a fintech startup working with Stripe and AWS services, where I improved deployment predictability from 70% to 95% on-time delivery through data-driven gating and improved release governance.
Beyond technical delivery, I prioritize building scalable release practices that align with business goals. I advocate for feature flags, progressive delivery (canary and blue-green), and automated rollback strategies to minimize customer impact — practices I know integrate well with Atlassian’s focus on developer productivity. I also have experience training teams on release readiness, creating metrics dashboards (lead time for changes, change failure rate, MTTR) and running post-release retrospectives that feed concrete improvements back into the pipeline. My career goal is to lead release operations that enable rapid innovation while maintaining strong reliability and compliance, and I am excited by the opportunity to contribute these capabilities to a product-led organization with global scale.
I would welcome the chance to discuss how my experience managing complex release pipelines, implementing CI/CD best practices, and driving cross-team collaboration can support Atlassian’s engineering and product objectives. Thank you for considering my application — I look forward to the possibility of speaking with you and exploring how I can help your teams deliver faster, safer releases.
Sincerely,
Olivia Martin
