Kylor Hall

Principal Software Engineer @Atlassian

Wellington, NZ

Technical leader on Atlassian’s Frontend Platform and Atlassian Design System, building scalable React foundations, setting engineering standards, and driving platform-wide architectural step changes. Delivering high-performance, maintainable UI systems, and developer tooling used by Atlassians and tens of thousands of ecosystem partners- Led technical direction for AI-assisted UI code generation, owning various Atlassian Design System to accelerate makers\' SDLC while directly owning the technical outcomes for Design and Product enablement, bridging the gaps between ideation, design, and code- Led platform-wide initiatives across 200+ teams to migrate thousands of packages across changes such as Emotion and Styled Components to Compiled, React 16 to React 18: https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/87026 - Built our custom metrics pipeline powering hundreds of frontend metrics used widely across the company for compliance and adoption for high-level goal setting and enforcement - Drove a top-level OKR and developer productivity initiative saving more than 130 engineering years, impacting Atlassian through large-scale adoption of design system foundations impacting thousands of Atlassians as visible through the visual changes Atlassian has gone through between 2023–2026 - Standardized the way Atlassian builds and styles user interfaces, focused on performance: https://atlassian.design/components/eslint-plugin-ui-styling-standard/overviewPublicly visible artifacts- Spoke at Figma Config 2024 presenting Atlassian Design System\'s adoption and productivity programs to nearly 10k viewers - Went on the Dive Club podcast in 2026 talking about how Atlassian does AI prototyping to around 50k viewers and listeners