Case Study: Be The Match achieves faster, more efficient bone marrow donor matching with Atlassian

Be The Match speeds up bone marrow donor matching with Atlassian

Be The Match, the nonprofit National Marrow Donor Program and the world’s largest DNA registry with 30 million potential donors, builds software used by transplant centers to match donors to patients. Its engineering organization struggled with a mix of homegrown and one-off vendor tools that caused duplicated effort and poor visibility across engineering, business owners, and leadership.

The team adopted Jira and then rolled out the full Atlassian stack—Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Confluence—to centralize tracking, code management (replacing CVS/SVN), CI/CD, documentation, and HIPAA-compliant access controls. The integrated platform enabled coordinated delivery of 20+ projects, unified legacy search and management systems, aligned teams across the US and Europe, and improved development speed, efficiency, and quality—helping accelerate donor matching and get more life‑saving treatments to physicians.

Be The Match

Mike Mccullough

Chief Information Officer