Emma Fitzgerald

Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian

About

Emma Fitzgerald completed a combined Bachelor of Science (Advanced Mathematics) and Bachelor of Engineering (Computer) at The University of Sydney in 2008. She then completed her PhD in computer science, also at The University of Sydney in 2013 before moving to Lund, Sweden. There, she worked as a researcher in networked systems and performance at Lund University for ten years, becoming an Associate Professor and participating in international research projects with both academic and industry partners. She has worked on Wifi, 6G, communications for smart factories, and the Internet of Things, among others. At the start of 2024, she returned to Sydney and made the shift to industry. She is now a senior software engineer at Atlassian ,on the Cloud Storage Engineering team.

Emma Fitzgerald has presented the following presentations

    Arul Arulappan Emma Fitzgerald Building SaaS scale Data store using PostgreSQL at PG Down Under 2025
    How to build and run a large PostgreSQL fleet with millions of databases.

    presented by Arul Arulappan and Emma Fitzgerald

    Atlassian runs one of the largest Postgres fleets in the world with millions of databases. In this talk we will present how we have built and manage this scale, and the steps we are taking to build the next generation of this critical infrastructure that underpins our cloud version of Jira and Confluence. We will cover: - Criticality of Postgres for Atlassian. Most of Atlassian's products use...

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    Fri 17 2025 Development