Matt Doar
Head Toolsmith at Adaptavist
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Doar is a senior software tooling leader based in San Jose, CA, with more than a decade and a half of experience building and evolving Atlassian-powered development environments. As Head Toolsmith at Adaptavist, he leads cross-cutting toolchains and workflows, guiding large-scale Jira implementations and integrations with Artifactory, GitHub, and other DevOps tools. He previously served as Staff Engineer and Senior Jira Administrator at LinkedIn, where he governed a very large Jira instance, trained administrators, and presented at Atlassian Summit 2019. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded Consulting Toolsmiths and the JDiff open-source project, reflecting a passion for transparent release engineering and community-driven tooling. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Networking from the University of Cambridge and a First in Computer Science from St. John’s College, blending rigorous academic training with practical, scalable infrastructure delivery. He remains an active member of the Atlassian community, known for mentoring peers and sharing knowledge across global teams.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Networking, Ph.D., Computer Networking at University of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryB.A, M.A, Computer Science, (First), B.A, M.A, Computer Science, (First) at St. John's College, University of Cambridge
english, uk and us
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Github Skills (21)
exchange-web-services10
jira10
microsoft-exchange10
outlook10
matrix9
office3659
python9
python-client9
chat9
web-services8
matrix-org8
exchange8
python37
velocity6
jql6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tied/practical-jira-plugins
Jul 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:3 commits in 11 days
mdoar/One-Offs
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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