--- title: "Who We Are" chapter: true weight: 13 --- # Who Are We? ## Atlassian Atlassian is a software company that provides solutions for teamwork and collaboration. It was founded in 2002 by two Australian entrepreneurs, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. Atlassian’s products include Jira, a project management and issue tracking tool; Confluence, a content management and knowledge sharing platform; Trello, a visual task management app; and Bitbucket, a code hosting and collaboration service. Atlassian has over 200,000 customers worldwide and more than 5,000 employees. Atlassian provides a range of products and services for modern software developers. Some of them are: Jira Software, a project management and issue tracking tool that helps teams plan, track, and release software. Confluence, a content management and knowledge sharing platform that helps teams collaborate on documentation, specifications, and designs. Bitbucket, a code hosting and collaboration service that supports Git and Mercurial version control systems. Opsgenie, an incident management tool that helps teams respond to alerts and incidents faster and more effectively. Forge, a cloud development platform that allows developers to build and distribute apps for Atlassian products without managing infrastructure or security. These products are designed to help software developers work more efficiently, collaboratively, and securely across the entire software development lifecycle ## Snyk Snyk is the leader in developer security. We empower the world's developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Our developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an overall improved security posture. Snyk's Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer's workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the [Forbes Cloud 100 2021](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3284913-1&h=4228673096&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fcloud100%2F%231919c9ce5f94&a=Forbes+Cloud+100+2021), the [2021 CNBC Disruptor 50](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3284913-1&h=1332762136&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2021%2F05%2F25%2Fthese-are-the-2021-cnbc-disruptor-50-companies.html&a=2021+CNBC+Disruptor+50) and was named a Visionary in the [2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AST](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3284913-1&h=66430650&u=https%3A%2F%2Fsnyk.io%2Fblog%2Fsnyk-visionary-2021-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-ast%2F&a=%C2%A02021+Gartner+Magic+Quadrant+for+AST). ## Next Section: Prerequisites In the next section, we'll cover prerequisites for the workshop.