Inside the Developer Engagement Pilot: Who’s in and what’s next

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We're excited to share updates on a new pilot, built for the developers shipping on Forge and the Atlassian platform.

TL;DR We’ve launched the Developer Engagement Pilot, a focused pilot within the Atlassian Champions program for developers building on Forge and the Atlassian platform. A small, focused cohort is partnering with us to share real-world patterns, content, and feedback and to help us measure developer-to-developer impact through community-led efforts. You’ll start to see more technical content, talks, office hours, and open feedback loops led by these pilot members. You can support the pilot today by asking them questions, inviting them to speak, engaging with their work, and sharing feedback. This is a small and closed pilot. We’ll learn, adjust, and open more opportunities as we scale future cohorts.

Why we’re starting small

The best parts of this community have always come from builders helping builders answer the hard questions in a thread, sharing their first-hand experience after wrestling an app into shape, and showing someone the shortcut that saves them an afternoon. That kind of contribution is everywhere, and it’s enormously valuable.

The Developer Engagement Pilot is how we’re learning, too. With a small, focused cohort, we can move quickly, test ideas honestly, and better define what our community of builders needs and how we can help meet those needs, while shaping an approach to recognizing developer-to-developer impact that holds up before we bring it to more people. We’re treating this group as collaborators; their instincts and feedback will shape what comes next.

What is the Developer Engagement Pilot?

It’s a focused community of developers who are actively building on Atlassian’s developer platform, primarily Forge today, and who are invested in helping others succeed. Pilot members are both expert builders and community leaders. They:

• Ship real apps and integrations on Forge and the Atlassian platform

• Share how they build through examples, talks, and content

• Help level up other developers and partners across the ecosystem

Think of it as the developer lane within the Atlassian Champions program. Pilot members get everything that comes with being a Champion, with a focus on access and opportunities tailored specifically to their work as developers.

Who’s in the pilot?

This first cohort represents different regions, backgrounds, and ways of building on the platform including Marketplace partners, in-house app builders, and community contributors who are already showing up for other developers. A huge thank you to our founding members:

@Akash Singh  @Anamika Soni  @DPKJ  @Harrison Ponce  @Huwen Arnone _ACE_  @Julian Wolf  @Bernandina Ortiz  @Matthias Gaiser _K15t_  @Paul Pasler _Seibert_  @Peter Van de Voorde  @Sm Tahsin  @Steffen Burzlaff _K15t_  @Yassin Bennaceur

What can you expect from pilot members?

These builders are already contributing in deeply technical ways. The pilot makes that work more visible — so you know who the technical leads are and where to find the best conversations, content, and patterns. Expect them to:

• Share practical, code-level examples of how they build on Forge and the Atlassian platform

• Publish technical blogs, demos, and “how we built this” breakdowns

• Host and speak at developer-focused sessions, meetups, and office hours

• Answer questions and share patterns across our developer and Atlassian Community spaces

• Surface real-world builder feedback back to Atlassian

What’s next

This is the beginning. We’re learning alongside this first cohort, refining how we measure and grow builder-to-builder impact, and identifying more opportunities as the program scales.

To our founding cohort: thank you for jumping in early and helping us get this right. We can’t wait to build with you.

[Said Bennaceur]

This is fantastic to see , Congratulations to all the founding members, including @Yassin Bennaceur from ONETEEM 🎉 It's inspiring to see builders helping builders, and I'm excited to follow this pilot and learn from everyone involved. Great initiative 

[Thorsten Letschert _Decadis AG_]

What a lineup! 💪 Curious to see where this is going.

[Paul Pasler _Seibert_]

Honored to be part of this founding cohort. What drew me in is exactly the spirit described here: builders helping builders, sharing the "how we built this" details that save someone an afternoon.

My focus is Forge, and I'd love for this to be a two-way street: bring me your hard questions, the edge cases, the "is this even possible on the platform?" moments. That's where the best conversations start.

Excited to learn alongside everyone here. Let's build. 🚀

[Andreas Springer _Seibert Group_]

A great program with lots of great people! Godspeed!

[Robert Wen_Cprime_]

Such an elite group!

[Huwen Arnone _Deiser_Devoteam_]

So cool! Thanks for having me on board @Lindsay Brown

Exciting!! 🥳⚡

[zoltanersek _outpostlabs_dev_]

So cool to see this. It's great to see Forge developers supported via this program.