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Engineer Vasilios Syrakis, who built core infrastructure for Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) and was laid off, published a 38-minute technical breakdown of the systems he designed, including Envoy proxies, Rust auth containers, and centralized edge architecture.

pov: you're Vasilios Syrakis you spent 8 years building the infrastructure that powers Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket for 350,000 companies > you designed Envoy control planes from scratch > you deployed 2,000 proxy servers across 13 AWS regions > you wrote auth containers in Rust > you moved every Atlassian product behind a centralized edge then one morning you get the email "to self-fund AI investment" so you sit down, hit record, and spend 38 minutes explaining every system you built for free because you no longer have a reason to stay quiet
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pov: you’re Vasilios Syrakis

you spent 8 years building the infrastructure that powers Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket for 350,000 companies

you designed Envoy control planes from scratch you deployed 2,000 proxy servers across 13 AWS regions you wrote auth containers in Rust you moved every Atlassian product behind a centralized edge

then one morning you get the email

“to self-fund AI investment”

so you sit down, hit record, and spend 38 minutes explaining every system you built

for free

because you no longer have a reason to stay quiet

Mr. Buzzoni (@polydao): Atlassian’s revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter Atlassian’s move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure

his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy

what he revealed:

> Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers >

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