About

Huw Evans is a talented Product Manager currently working at Atlassian, where he has achieved an impressive career trajectory. He is one of the fastest-promoted APMs ever and the youngest L4 Product Manager in the company's history. In his current role, Huw handles 2x L5 roles across the Measurement Platform and the Transactional Data Platform. He is responsible for the experimentation tooling and a full, enterprise-compliant managed storage solution for any internal team. Huw's past experience at Atlassian includes working as an Associate Product Manager on the Forge team, where he led a customer-driven overhaul of the strategy to pivot toward an iframe-based solution. This overhaul cut back on 1/3rd of all reported security issues. During this time, he also worked with a colleague on a prototype for a work-focused social network with ease-of-use and discoverability at the forefront. As a Prototyping Intern at Atlassian, Huw worked with the Design System Team to build out Atlassian's tooling architecture for designers. During his time, he built out a plugin for the design app Sketch that shipped UI components and graphic assets to product designers. Additionally, he reduced day-to-day frustrations designers have with Sketch and the Atlassian Design Guidelines. He also championed and pushed for an open-source release to Atlassian's Ecosystem developers as the Vendor Sketch Plugin. Huw's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) in Computer Science and Financial Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Sydney, which he completed in 2020. He also holds a 99.90 ATAR from The Scots College, which he completed in 2016. Huw's skills and expertise include product management, frontend, and UI. He has 2.35 years of relevant experience and is passionate about delivering customer-driven solutions that enhance user experience and improve product functionality.