capital · May 21, 2026
Atlassian Fires 1,600 Employees Including Infra Engineer Who Built $1.79B Systems
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Atlassian laid off 1,600 employees in March 2026 including Vasilios Syrakis. Vasilios Syrakis spent eight years building edge infrastructure for Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket using Envoy proxy, sidecar architecture, DynamoDB, SQS, Packer and SaltStack across 13 AWS regions. The layoffs redirected resources to AI investments with over 900 roles cut from software R&D. Vasilios Syrakis released a 38-minute YouTube video on May 15 2026 detailing the exact architecture used by 350,000 customers.
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