Carmel Hinks is a Sydney-based software engineer who joined Atlassian in 2015. She received her B.Sc degree in software engineering from Curtin University (Perth, Australia), where she also spent several years teaching students about application and database design. Since realizing her passion for microservice architecture, she has specialized in the development and maintenance of highly critical cloud platform services. Carmel has an avid interest in sharing knowledge, frequently harnessing opportunities to speak at anything from local meetups through to international conferences.