Software Engineer · Atlassian
Software engineer at Atlassian — I build AI systems and the distributed machinery underneath them. Nights and weekends, I ship side projects.
I like the hard, invisible parts — consensus, latency, and the seams where AI meets real systems — and I care about the visible parts too.
By day I'm a software engineer at Atlassian working on AI and distributed systems: agent workflows, evaluation, and the infrastructure that keeps them fast and correct at scale.
By night I ship side projects across wildly different domains — a trading workbench, a multiplayer card game, an artist's gallery, a personal control plane. What follows is a tour of six of them. Each section is dressed in that project's own design system, so scrolling is a walk through six visual languages.
01
Kanban · AI coding sessions
A desktop Kanban for Jira tickets with one-click AI coding sessions. I owned the realtime board sync and the agent-session orchestration.
Drag a ticket, spin up an isolated git worktree, and hand it to an AI session — then watch the board update live across machines. Personal tasks are first-class.
v3.0.4 · macOS (Apple Silicon) · 106 MB
grovo move-local-task-to-jira LOCAL-3 --board-id <id>Command-line tool
curl -fsSL https://emilegivental.com/grovo/install-cli.sh | shgrovo CLI v3.0.4 · also installable from Grovo › Settings › Agent setup
02
Curriculum tooling
An authoring + lesson-planning tool for math enrichment programs. I built the problem graph and the worksheet / slide generators.
Compose tagged problems into ordered lesson plans, then generate printable worksheets or present them live — one data model, many outputs.
03
Personal control plane
A control plane for feature flags, experiments and cost across my own projects. I built the edge API and the flag-evaluation SDK.
Flip a flag in the dashboard; consumers pick it up within a request. Runs on the edge at roughly $0/mo — a tool I run for myself.
04
Artist portfolio + CMS
A museum-quiet gallery and CMS for a working painter. I designed the picture-frame system and the collector / purchase flow.
White walls, hairline borders, and a switchable frame motif — museum gold, gunmetal, hanging-wire. The paintings are the only color on the page.
05
Trading workbench
A desktop charting, alerts and backtesting workbench with an MCP server. I wrote the DSL evaluator and the WebGL chart renderer.
Express metrics and alerts in a tiny DSL, backtest against cached bars, and let an agent create them from the outside — mutations live-render in the open window.
06
Multiplayer card game
A realtime, multiplayer take on the card game Dutch. I built the authoritative game server and the pure rules engine.
Players sit around a circular table and draw, swap, snap, and finally call DUTCH — all synced over sockets and refereed server-side.
Small mods I built for my own sessions and use every day. One command installs them; they load in every new Claude Code session.
curl -fsSL https://emilegivental.com/mods/install.sh | shNeeds Claude Code in your terminal. Or download the source and run claude plugin marketplace add on the folder.
A side pane listing everything Claude created, updated, read or deleted across Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket and Loom during the session — click any row to open it.
curl -fsSL https://emilegivental.com/mods/install.sh | sh -s -- atlassian-trailStart, stop and open a repo's dev servers from a side pane instead of typing npm run dev. The buttons come from a .claude/dev-services.json in the repo.
curl -fsSL https://emilegivental.com/mods/install.sh | sh -s -- dev-launcherI'm open to senior / staff conversations in AI and distributed systems. If you're hiring for hard problems at scale, I'd love to hear what you're building.
Got a weird prototype, a side project, or an idea that needs a systems brain? I'm always up for nights-and-weekends collaborations — pitch me.