# Dan Tombs

Dan Tombs is a Solution Architect at Appfire with hands-on experience across the Atlassian ecosystem since 2016. He’s worked with end customers, solution partners, and now helps teams thrive by shaping tools and processes around how they actually work and not the other way around. Dan champions automation as a path to scaling productivity, reducing context switching, and unlocking what teams do best.

### Latest from Dan Tombs

Live Fields for Jira Cloud: Customize your Jira field behaviors  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/customize-live-fields-for-jira-cloud)

Help! I’m hitting Jira automation limits  
[Read eBook](https://appfire.com/resources/resource-library/guides-ebooks/jira-automation-limits-infographic)

Unlocking efficiency: How to automatically create subtasks in Jira  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/how-to-auto-create-subtasks-in-jira)

Streamlining issue creation: A guide to automating Jira issue templates  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/automating-jira-issue-templates-guide)

Unleash the power: 6 automation ideas for Jira that will transform your admin life  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/6-automation-ideas-for-jira)

Jira automation limits (and how to get around them)  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/jira-automation-limits-and-how-to-get-around-them)

Advancing digital business in 2024 means stripping silos, optimizing collaboration, harnessing AI  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/advancing-digital-business-in-2024)

How to create an automation in Jira to move issues  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/how-to-create-an-automation-in-jira-to-move-issues)

Which Jira workflow automation solution is right for me?  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/which-jira-workflow-automation-solution-is-right-for-me-and-my-team)

How to automate Jira issue creation  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/how-to-automate-jira-issue-creation)

The complete guide to automating Jira: Built-in automation vs. third-party automation apps  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/complete-guide-to-jira-automation)

Power Scripts™ for Jira & Simple Issue Language (SIL®) now Groovy compliant  
[Read post](https://appfire.com/resources/blog/power-scripts-for-jira-sil-groovy-compliant)