Software engineer · Sydney

Hi, I'm Yifan Lu.

I’m Yifan Lu, also known as Yifan Qiu, a software engineer based in Sydney, Australia. I work at Atlassian and build frontend and backend software with React, TypeScript, Java and Spring Boot. I graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Computer Science.

Software engineering at Atlassian

I joined Atlassian in Sydney as a Graduate Software Engineer in February 2026, following a software engineering internship in 2024–2025.

Product development at Fivecast

At Fivecast in Adelaide, I worked on licensing, permission workflows and automated testing across React, TypeScript and Java.

University projects and experiments

My earlier Svelte projects include a 2048 game, a typing trainer and a calculator. Explore the working demos in my project archive.

Capabilities

Skills

React

Design systems, component architecture, and polished product UI.

92%

TypeScript

Type-safe interfaces, maintainable frontend structure, and DX.

90%

Java | Spring Boot

Service APIs, backend workflows, and pragmatic delivery.

78%

JavaScript

Interactive client logic, browser APIs, and rapid prototyping.

90%

C++

Systems thinking, performance-sensitive code, and fundamentals.

95%

Rust

Safety-focused tooling, lower-level work, and modern systems patterns.

72%