OutSystems, a global provider of modern application development solutions, has announced it has appointed Anu Bharadwaj, Vice President of Product at Atlassian, to its Board of Directors. Bharadwaj joins the OutSystems board with nearly 20 years of experience driving product strategy for businesses in various stages of growth, including leading Atlassian’s transition to the cloud and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) team.
“Anu’s strategic approach to helping development teams thrive through challenging, competitive and quickly-changing times is perfectly aligned with our mission to give every organisation the power to innovate through software,” said Paulo Rosado, Founder and CEO, OutSystems. “Anu has an impressive mix of great engineering prowess, experience leading distributed teams worldwide and scaling product management functions, which are valuable assets to OutSystems. She is an exceptional fit with our team and vision, and we’re thrilled to welcome her to our board.”
As the vice president of Product at Atlassian, Bharadwaj leads the Enterprise Cloud business and Data Centre business across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and other product lines.
“The OutSystems mission is critical today more than ever, as businesses need to adopt highly flexible, scalable, and innovation-led development environments to be competitive for the long term,” said Bharadwaj. “OutSystems is harnessing the power of AI as well as public and private cloud services to empower both professional developers and those without traditional development backgrounds to transform their skills and their organisations. I’m honored to contribute to a company that is leading organisations toward true competitive advantage and success through software.”