Strategy
Enterprise AI Strategy
Working with leadership teams to figure out where AI actually fits in the business, and where it doesn't, then turning that into an adoption plan their teams can realistically deliver against.
Mark Davidson · AI · APAC
Principal AI Solutions Engineering Lead, APAC at Atlassian.
I work with the region's largest enterprise accounts across strategy, architecture, and the engineering behind production AI systems.
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Most of my work is done alongside customer teams. I help them figure out what AI can usefully do in their environment, design the solution end-to-end, and build enough of it with them to make sure it actually works.
It's a role that sits somewhere between architect and engineer, close enough to the customer to understand the real problem, and close enough to the code to know whether the design will survive contact with production. I've found the work goes better when those two things aren't separated by a wall.
Strategy
Working with leadership teams to figure out where AI actually fits in the business, and where it doesn't, then turning that into an adoption plan their teams can realistically deliver against.
Architecture
Designing agentic and LLM systems across data and retrieval, evals, guardrails, and observability, that stay secure, governed, and stable once they're running under real production traffic.
Transformation
The change side of AI adoption: enablement, operating model, and ways-of-working, so the technology lands with the people who have to use it day-to-day, not just the teams who built it.
The Work
The Audience
The Focus
The Shapes
Atlassian
Principal AI Solutions Engineering Lead, APAC
Aug 2025 – Present
Technical lead on agentic AI and production LLM systems for the top 1% of enterprise accounts across APAC. Called in on the region's largest AI opportunities to unblock C-level architecture, security, and governance concerns and translate them into named ROI outcomes. Represents Atlassian's view on the future of the software development lifecycle and knowledge work in customer keynotes and executive forums.
Atlassian
Senior Enterprise Solutions Engineer
Jan 2022 – Aug 2025
Technical lead on strategic and enterprise accounts, shaping architecture and driving complex transformation deals from discovery through closure.
Data Action (Fintech)
Senior Solutions Architect
Jun 2021 – Jan 2022
Technical lead for enterprise banking clients of a fintech processing $403M in transactions monthly.
GLiNTECH
Senior Solutions Architect
Aug 2019 – Jun 2021
Client-facing architect on cloud migrations, business process re-engineering, and end-to-end delivery for private and public sector clients.
KPMG (Financial Services Consulting)
Technology Operations Manager
Feb 2018 – Aug 2019
Led technical operations for a $60M big four financial remediation program with a risk-and-compliance focus.
Certifications
Building an AI Strategy
AGSM at UNSW Sydney (Executive Short Course)
Trained to build AI strategy at the executive level, from identifying where AI creates value to adopting it responsibly.
SAFe 6 Practitioner
Issued 2024
Equipped to align large, multi-team programs around shared objectives and a steady cadence of delivery using the Scaled Agile Framework.
Lean Six Sigma
Green Belt certification
Skilled in analysing and re-engineering processes to cut waste, reduce cycle time, and deliver measurable efficiency gains.
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