About

Mike Ortman is an experienced Staff Software Engineer currently working at Atlassian, a leading software company. With over 11 years of relevant experience, Mike has a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions. Mike has worked his way up the ranks at Atlassian, having previously held the positions of Senior Software Engineer and Frontend Software Developer. In his current role, he is responsible for developing and maintaining the backend elements of Atlassian's documentation site and related tools. Mike works closely with the UX design and content design teams to perform experiments on the content, using A/B tests to evaluate the effectiveness of those changes. He has also built out and maintains cache infrastructure and microservices on AWS to increase the performance and reliability of the documentation website, resulting in a service uptime of over 99.9% and strong resilience against DoS attacks. Mike's technical expertise is evident in his work on a content recommendation system against Atlassian's large documentation corpus. He developed the system to find content that a user might be interested in reading, using modern NLP techniques to analyze each document, build a latent space vector representation of each document, and a neural network to score documents from previous clickthrough analytics. This project showcases Mike's ability to leverage cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. Prior to that, he attended Seymour High School. His technical stack includes Software Engineering and Senior Software Engineering. Overall, Mike Ortman is a skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong track record of delivering high-quality software solutions. His technical expertise and ability to leverage modern technologies make him a valuable asset to any software development team.