Max Mancini is Vice President of Ecosystem at Atlassian, where he leads the company’s efforts to build a thriving ecosystem of developers and enterprise applications. He believes that platform APIs, and the ecosystem that supports them, enable innovation and opportunity for Atlassian’s entire community of developers, experts and customers.
Prior to Atlassian, Max ran retail eCommerce engineering at Apple and the developers program and mobile business at eBay. He also launched eBay’s classifieds business, Kijiji, as the head of product and engineering and built their Disruptive Innovation team. He has been in various product, engineering and executive management roles in startups including Aha Mobile (acquired by Harman/Samsung), ConsumerReview, and PointCast. Max is a combat veteran and served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Max Mancini and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
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