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Global e-commerce SaaS provider, BigCommerce, has a new chief engineer of its Australian operation who will oversee the design, development and testing strategy with a team of more than 25 engineers at the company's Sydney headquarters.


Former VP of Australian software company, Atlassian, Soren Harner, has been appointed as BigCommerce's vice president of engineering in Australia. He also previously worked with content management giant, Vignette.

'I'm a software engineer at heart.  Nothing gives me more joy than working with great people to create software that combines elegant design and solid engineering to create opportunities for millions of people.  BigCommerce does just that, and the people behind the product are second to none.  I'm excited to join the team,' Harner said.

Mitch Harper, co-founder and CEO of BigCommerce, said Harner shared the BigCommerce passion for building 'industry-dominating software and his track record doesn't lie.' 'We've got big plans and engineering is at the core of everything we do' Harper added.

According to Harper, BigCommerce has big growth plans in2012, which include doubling headcount across the company to 200 people, over 50 of which will be engineers working from Sydney.

Harper said BigCommerce is currently hiring over 20 talented software engineers in its Sydney headquarters.

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Peter Dinham is a co-founder of iTWire and a 35-year veteran journalist and corporate communications consultant. He has worked as a journalist in all forms of media – newspapers/magazines, radio, television, press agency and now, online – including with the Canberra Times, The Examiner (Tasmania), the ABC and AAP-Reuters. As a freelance journalist he also had articles published in Australian and overseas magazines. He worked in the corporate communications/public relations sector, in-house with an airline, and as a senior executive in Australia of the world’s largest communications consultancy, Burson-Marsteller. He also ran his own communications consultancy and was a co-founder in Australia of the global photographic agency, the Image Bank (now Getty Images).

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