About

Corné Alant is an accomplished Engineering Manager with over 12 years of relevant experience in the software development industry. Currently, he is serving as an Engineering Manager at Atlassian, where he is responsible for supporting development teams to build exceptional software products. He has a proven track record of driving engineering culture across organizations and providing technical leadership on various aspects of engineering, ranging from agile practices and DevOps principles to technical design and architecture. Before joining Atlassian, Corné co-founded Hivemanager, where he served as the CTO. He also worked as a Principal Engineer at ASB Bank, where he was responsible for promoting technical architectures that empowered teams to deliver engaging customer experiences. During his tenure at ASB, he provided guidance and support with technologies such as containers, microservices, event-driven architectures, public APIs, and cloud platforms. Corné holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Intrapreneurial Management from the University of Johannesburg. He is also a certified developer-associate from Amazon Web Services, a Microsoft Certified Professional, and a Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Specialist. Additionally, he holds a TOPCIMA certification in Management Accounting from The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Corné's technical skills include Senior Software Engineering, Microservices, and DevOps principles. He is a proactive individual who possesses excellent communication and leadership skills and is always keen on learning new technologies.