More than 3,000 people have contributed to GitLab. The GitLab Inc. team consists of the following 2,307 team members and their 374+ pets. We believe we're the world's largest all-remote organization and we currently have team members in more than 65 countries and regions. This page lists who people report to, and on a separate page we detail the organizational structure. You can get a sense of the team culture and our inclusion by visiting our culture page and our Identity Data page.
'Before joining GitLab Aaron was leading Cloud Center of Excellence teams, bringing a wealth of experience in DevSecOps, SRE and Event Driven Automation practices. His background in these fields has shaped his expertise in creating resilient, secure, and automated infrastructures. Outside of work, Aaron is a foster parent, dedicated to making a meaningful impact on children's lives.'
Aakriti is an Indian expat living in south Germany, who loves Korean food, slipping in several languages in one sentence and photographing absurd things. She enjoys weight lifting. She is an open source enthusiast, who has been building and using open source software for several years. Most of her recent work is in Ruby.
Anthony Baer enjoys helping customers throughout their DevOps journey to optimize processes using automation. With 20+ years of experience within the software development lifecycle, Anthony has experienced the changes and innovation that has occurred in this realm. Going forward, every day brings a new opportunity to improve. In his spare time, Anthony enjoys urban hiking, motorcycling, travel, and learning. Anthony lives with his wife, two children, and two cats.
Very passionate about sales, tech, sports and travel. Artem is living Berlin for about 30 years, was born in the Ukrain and has a sales background with over 7 years experience.
Alana enjoys creating products for developers, devops teams and security analysts. She is always learning about something new, from ethical hacking, to container orchestration, to cryptocurrency, to personal finance, to mountain bike maintenance. When Alana's not trying to figure out what to build next, she is looking for the best powder line to ski or the next best trail to run.
Ayush has over 7 years of experience building web apps with Ruby and Go. He enjoys tackling challenges that help him learn and grow. Plus, he loves sharing his thoughts on software development on LinkedIn!
As a software engineer, Andreas has been straddling the line between development and infrastructure roles in startup environments. Before joining the Scalability group, he focused on database engineering and worked from GitLab's database group in development and as a Database Reliability Engineer for GitLab.com. Away from the keyboard, you'll find him in a dockyard refitting a steel cruising ketch (a sailboat), welding in his workshop or cooking in the kitchen. He enjoys being around water on a sailboat, as part of the deck crew on a German tall ship, in a kayak or when diving.
Before joining the GitLab team, Abubakar has worked in the academic environment providing support and maintaining IT infrastructure. He also actively participates in several training programs targeted at youths and students. In his spare time, Abubakar reads and also participate in the local developer community events.
Alexander is passionate about machine learning and distributed computing. Prior to joining GitLab, Alexander worked on UnReview, a code reviewer recommendation system, as an engineer and co-founder. Alexander is excited to join GitLab and help the team integrate UnReview capabilities into the GitLab platform. Outside of work, Alexander enjoys reading, hiking, and skiing.
Allen has worked in software for several years, enjoys making stuff, telling stories and learning new things.
Alexandru's passion for software development started in high school, where he was introduced to Borland Pascal. That continued with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and a career in Software Development. In spare time he loves to spend time outdoors with his wife and two boys, fishing, playing sports or just taking walks.
Andrejs enjoys crafting all kinds of tools around testing and development productivity. He is also keen on contributing to open source projects. In his free time he enjoys adrenaline packed activities like racing motorcycles or freeride skiing.
Adam works as a software engineer since 2010. Adam is passionate about the Ruby language and solving performance problems. In his spare time, Adam loves traveling and spending time with his family.
Adam has spent the majority of his career history in high-demand healthcare environments and has built a strong set of skills in Support, Systems Administration and DevOps. It is his passion to work on the frontline of large scale distributed web applications and to reduce workload through automation, documentation and process improvement. Adam feels most at home inside a bash terminal surrounded by open source software.
Adam is an experienced backend web developer with many years of experience in customer success and technical account management. Prior to joining GitLab, he provided technical advisory service to enterprise customers as they used Drupal and other open source technologies to build their digital experiences, all while maintaining a steady stream of development work by building internal tools to help improve his team's efficiency. All of this combined led to a love of DevOps, which in turn led to GitLab. Outside of work, Adam enjoys woodworking and jazz trombone.
Before joining Gitlab, Adam spent many years working on payment gateway systems, product ingestion tools for retailer integration and identity management platforms. When he's not coding, he enjoys playing beach volleyball, riding his motorcycle, cooking and reading.
After starting her career as a software developer for the DoD, Aleesha decided to get back to her passion of teaching and become customer-facing, acting as a trusted advisor for her clients. In her free time, Aleesha likes to spend time traveling with her husband or staying home with her four pets.
She loves seeing people succeeding at solving complex technical problems. Self motivated, curious and relentless until a problem is addressed with an optimal solution. She loves working with diverse, multicultural teams.
Amir is originally from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. After graduating from Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Amir started his career in accounting & finance. Shortly after that, he realised that he would love to venture into the world of business specifically tech sales. Amir is now an SDR at GitLab covering APAC. During his free time, Amir mostly spent his time playing touch rugby, futsal and listening to music
Raised in Toronto, Canada and now living in Whistler. The last decade of my life has been in the sales world in different capacities. From my point of view it's all about being Client-Centric. Getting a 360-Degree understanding of an organizations needs & challenges and providing solutions to enable efficiency, growth & innovation. When I am not working I am spending time with the loves of my life, my hubby Jon and my daughter Arielle. We love to snowboard, surf, being in nature, and in the company of our family & great friends.
I am a customer-centric, data and quality-driven professional who strives for optimal customer experience. Over the last two decades, I have accumulated expertise in system administration, software engineering, and DevOps practices. I help organizations leverage DevOps practices increasing their efficiency in achieving their business goals. I believe technology is essential, but we can't achieve ambitious goals without fostering respectful and inclusive human interactions.
Starts May 18th
Arthur is a Professional Services Manager based in France. Before joining GitLab, he has worked in the video game industry and in the enterprise automation space. In his daily work, Arthur tries to keep the bigger picture in mind at all time. When not working, he enjoy sports, practicing a new skill, or playing games of all kind.
Agnes is a dual qualified attorney in both civil law and common law legal systems with substantial international experience in both private practice and in-house. She grew up in Hungary where she became a bar qualified lawyer before moving to Dublin, Ireland in 2010. She is a practicing solicitor in Ireland, and an SRA admitted solicitor in the United Kingdom, and she also studied law in Italy. Agnes has a passion for languages - she's bilingual English/Hungarian and she's a qualified translator and interpreter in Italian. She has over 15 years of experience negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, having worked for the last nearly 10 years as in-house counsel in the software and technology sector. Agnes is mother to three young daughters and she loves spending time with her family, staying active together and occasionally carve out some time for crafts and drawing or listening to audibooks. Agnes is a remote-work advocate and she's an avid supporter of empowering women in tech roles.
Ahmad has been passionate about web development since he laid his eyes on web forums back in 2003, hasn't stopped coding ever since. He's interested in diving deep down the technology stack, figuring out how everything works and how to make it work better. He contributes to the Rubinius project on some occasions, and when he's not working, he can be fiddling around with 3D modelling or learning new languages.
Ahmed started tinkering with computers at a young age, and he hasn't stopped since. He has 7+ years of experience building and delivering software at scale, and working in agile and fast paced environments. He spent most of that time focusing on backend, infrastructure and data topics. In his spare time, you can find him explaining a technical concept to a friend, reading an article about politics/economics, savouring some tasty plate, or riding an e-moped around Berlin. He also likes reading comics, cooking lasagne (whenever possible), and playing video games.
Aaron strives to leverage his 20+ years of software development experience to make other developers' lives a little easier. He enjoys programming as a hobby, as well as writing, speaking, singing and woodworking.
Aishwarya is a homegrown backend engineer, mediocre chef and a self-appointed food plating designer. She is deeply invested in contributing to open source software and has been involved with multiple Rails Girls chapters in the past. She loves to travel, write travelogue, play outdoor sports and grow veggies in her backyard. When she has the time, she volunteers at [Embracing the world](https://www.embracingtheworld.org/about-us/).
Anastasia is a frontend software engineer. Prior to GitLab she worked at Xanadu Quantum Technologies, bringing quantum educational platforms to life. If she is not coding, she is probably gaming, reading, crocheting, having a cuddle with her cat Cleo or going out with some friends.
Joined June 3rd, 2019
Ashley approaches everything with a customer-first mindset and has a passion for solving tough challenges by taking a data-driven approach. Prior to GitLab, she held various marketing, product and engineering leadership roles at Alteryx, Tableau, Amazon and NASA. Ashley has a passion for scaling companies by creating new categories and positioning/messaging cool, innovative technology to customers across the globe. She lives in Tahoe with her husband, Bobby, and two yellow labs, Bruce and Betty - you can find them on the GitLab Pet page! For fun she enjoys skiing, surfing, traveling and attempting to golf.
In my current role, I specialize in designing and executing full-funnel lifecycle marketing programs that enhance the customer experience and maximize lifetime value. I am passionate about leveraging data-driven insights to optimize campaigns and achieve measurable results. I enjoy learning new recipies, traveling, hiking, and exploring the outdoors. You can find my dog, Kira, on the GitLab Pets Page!
From Venezuela, Alejandro has been passionate about computers from the moment he once actually deleted System32 and tried to fix it. Since then he has developed Web applications for a variety of clients with a wide range of technologies. He believes in Torvalds' concept of "good taste" in code and strives to achieve it. Outside of programming he enjoys trading card games and discovering new music.
Technology enthusiast, Alejandro started his career as a networking and systems support engineer. Always striving towards finding and solving the next problem. On his free time he enjoys reading on philosophy, psichology, sci-fi or anything Tolkien-related; learning new things, gaming and feeding his always-hungry cat.
Alex is a product designer with over ten years of experience crafting consumer and enterprise products for leading brands. With a deeply rooted belief that human experiences drive business transformation, Alex helps co-create exceptional product experiences that transform brands at scale by making a meaningful impact on businesses and their customers.
Alex first became interested in Open Source when he discovered Linux in 2003. After trying most distros, he realized the true way of Gentoo and has used it ever since. In his free time he enjoys playing video games, reading, swimming, and of course hanging out with his 2 cats.
Alex taught himself to code instead of doing homework. Fortunately that "Internet" thing worked out and a couple of decades later he is still able to build innovative web applications for a living. When AFK Alex enjoys spending time with his family, exercise, bouldering, and nerding out on business and finance.
Prior to joining GitLab, Alex has spent most of her career focusing on developing her skill as a customer/team specialist. She enjoys helping people and has a huge passion for ensuring everyone has the best experience. After hours she enjoys building puzzles, spending time with friends and family and exploring all the beauty that Cape Town has to offer.
Alexander loves securing software at every step of the process and making security frictionless for other engineers. In his free time, he enjoys building wireless community networks, running Tor relays, and working on obscure personal projects.
Alexander grew up in Wisconsin and has lived in Atlanta, San Francisco, and now Denver. He is classically trained as a physicist, but has dumped all that knowledge in favor of building cool things on the web. He loves contributing to communities to help others and currently lives in an apartment building with seven of his friends where they take turns cooking dinner. In his spare time he reads, runs, rock climbs, plays with his cat and tries to build his tolerance to spice.
Alex Buijs has over 15 years of experience creating web applications. He enjoys using the latest techniques and a diversity of frameworks. He takes pride in creating beautiful and minimal code. He has a master's degree in AI. Besides programming, he is father of an adolescent daughter, practices zen meditation on a daily basis, loves making electronic music, watching movies, skying and paragliding.
Alex is a hands-on, data-driven business professional interested in problem solving across Go-To-Market, Finance, and Product organizations in the technology industry. He's passionate about data analytics and using it to drive company strategy, scale operations, and inform financial results. Prior experience at Salesforce and in Management Consulting. Outside of work, Alex enjoys music (playing bass with local bands and attending concerts), as well as traveling, cooking, learning new languages, and spending as much time as possible outside.
Alex specializes in Technology Risk Management with a background in project management and performing external/internal IT audit services. Prior to joining Gitlab, Alex worked for KPMG where he focused on performing SOX Consulting Services as well as IT Audit and SOC 1 & 2 engagements. In his free time he enjoys playing golf, skiing, and cooking BBQ on his deck.
With his strong passion for devops, Alex found his way to GitLab after 2 years of sporadic community contributions. In his spare time Alex likes building custom keyboards (for typing), spending time with his kid and numerous pets, and judging beer as a certified homebrew judge.
Alex has worked at multiple startup companies within different roles of operations and marketing. Focusing on the improvement of the Community Program Members' experience and providing more opportunities for others to contribute. I enjoy skiing, cycling, and creative business pursuits.
Aleksei started his career in bioinformatics and was always searching for challenging problems to solve and new areas to explore. He values self-explanatory, modular code and likes helping others to learn and improve. In his spare time, he enjoys black coffee, books, traveling, and narrative video games.
Alessio received his first computer when he was 8yrs old, nobody in his family knew how to use it but Alessio looked so happy with his new toy. Time passed and Alessio's room started to look more like a lab than a proper child room. Lots of his adolescence nights were spent coding and playing online games. After the university he worked as a software engineer but he always had production engineering tasks also. If not on a computer you may find him with his family, playing some board games or trying to fix gardening problems in his backyard.
Allison lives and breathes Project Management and comes with over 10 years of experience in Professional Services. Outside of work, Allison travels with her family as much as possible (which includes lots of eating), loves to cook and bake, workout, and ride her scooter. She can also knit a pretty mean scarf.
Allison is a backend engineer who enjoys making nice experiences for users. Outside of work, Allison has a dog and enjoys outdoor activities like hiking and snowboarding as well as indoor climbing, reading and cooking.
Allison is a creative and passionate sales professional with over a decade of experience. For the six years prior to joining GitLab Allison was specifically focused on the DoD and US Army, introducing them to innovative technologies to enhance their productivity and mission readiness. In her spare time, Allison enjoys cooking, doing yoga, traveling, trying new restaurants and spending time with friends and family.
Alper has a passion for open source software, and startups. He''s worked for enterprise software companies and cofounded several startups where he worked in engineering, growth and product teams. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, and Physics as well as an MBA. He enjoys swimming, running, hanging out on HN with an interest on AI/ML.
Aman has worked across the tech-stack in a variety of domains and is passionate about problem solving, and coffee. When he is not trying to brew his own coffee or talking about Star Wars, Aman loves traveling, especially out to the ocean/sea/discernibly large water bodies.
Alvin enjoys solving problems and helping people. In his spare time, he likes reading and hiking. He also volunteers with the STEM Wana Trust in Tauranga to help engage young people in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
Alyssa spent her career as a technical support specialist. She has a passion for helping others and sharing her knowledge as much as possible. She is naturally inquisitive and she enjoys learning new things. Outside of work, she loves cooking, traveling and exploring new places & cuisines. Sheβs also into travel and food photography.
Amanda is a native Californian, born and raised in the LA Area and currently resides in Half Moon Bay, CA. Sheβs passionate about all things events especially swag, menus, working with vendors, and finding interesting speakers. Prior to GitLab, Amanda was in the wealth management industry working on client and internal training events. In her free time, Amanda can be found walking on the beach with her pup, trying new restaurants, working out, and playing board games with her boyfriend.
In her UX practice, Amelia aims to prioritize collaboration and to amplify otherwise unheard voices. She aims for simplicity in her designs and is committed to continually growing and improving as a designer. In her free time, she wanders through the beautiful Pacific Northwest forests and listens to all the live music she can.
Amie Bright has dedicated her professional career to advancing the data capabilities of organizations. She believes that decisions and strategies should be based on data. Ensuring the integrity and quality of data by developing effective data management aligned to appropriate data usage is essential for confident and decisive decision-making.
Adam has learned that the best ideas, and the best work, come from accepting challenges that every initiative holds. He strives to continually harness and embrace the ambiguity of the creative process in order to achieve the most effective and efficient outcomes, all while finding the common goal that unites others from different disciplines and talents to work together. When Adam isn't working on the latest and greatest brand initiative you will find him spending time with his family at the beach or completing his next DIY project.
Andy has spent years working remotely in all sorts of places across the country before landing in Baltimore, MD He lives in a 140+ year old rowhome with his wife and son. He has no formal engineering training but does have a Masters degree in Anthropology. He started out in backend engineering after school but when he got involved in operations work the philosophy of SRE ignited his passion for automating operations (and everything else!). When not building out automation in the cloud Andy enjoys brewing craft beer, cooking, video games, building/painting miniatures, and drinking copious amounts of tea. π«π¬π§
Outside work I enjoy coffee, sourdough baking, video games, and personal development pursuits. I value continuous learning and strive for excellence in my work.
Trained as a graphic / digital designer, my UX career started in the Silicon Valley where I worked in different UX roles for various startups and larger technology and financial organizations. My leadership track started at Amazon where I led the Kindle Store UX team (shortly after my stint at AWS where I enjoyed being the first designer). Thereafter, I applied my leadership in different cultural contexts across yet mmore varied industries, maturing the function of UX while driving product excellence. With my last few roles, I've returned to focus on the joy of delivering awesome developer software experiences.
Amr Zaher is a professional with a strong background in SaaS customer success. Passionate about building lasting relationships and helping clients achieve their goals and business objectives, Amr leverages his expertise to drive customer satisfaction and retention.Amr enjoys exploring diverse cuisines, staying active with Taekwondo, and experimenting with new fitness routines
Amy lives in London and spends most of her spare time running. She's usually training for a marathon that she'll happily tell you all about. '
Amy converts cups of tea to polished writing. While a technical writer by day, she makes math quilts and math art by night. She shares a tiny condo (crammed full of books) with her husband, their astonishingly terrible house panther, and a murderous tuxie catbeast. She reads constantly and voraciously, and adores everything from literary fiction to comic books. She's watched every existing film that won an Oscar for Best Picture or any of the Best Screenplay awards.
Analissa (Ana for short) is a 3X Salesforce Certified Administrator & Developer based in Austin, TX. She started her Salesforce journey as an 'accidental admin' and eventually had an opportunity to learn Apex as a method of supporting her team. Ana eats, breathes and lives Salesforce, going so far as making educational (but mostly funny) Salesforce videos. When not 'forcing around, Ana can be found running around Town Lake, reading lots of books (like...a lot), walking her dog Rollei or playing video games. In a past life, she was a Photography Historian and knows a whole boatload about photographs.
Aysegul likes to help people with her knowledge and experiences both in normal and work life. She graduated from Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2018 and started her career as a Support Engineer in 2019. She learned about face recognition technologies, cameras, Linux and so on. Outside of work, she likes sports, painting, photography, watching movies, travelling and many other things.
Prior to GitLab, Aathira has worked with marketing teams at Cloud Automation, RPA and HealthTech companies. She enjoys building well-researched, succinct messaging for campaigns and marketing assets. She is a planner, and to-do lists are her buddies. Come weekend, she loves trying out different food joints, catching up on her reading and spending time with family.
Andras is interested in devops and machine learning. He loves challenging problems and creative solutions. In his spare time, Andras loves making music, hiking, and gardening.
Andras is passionate about reliability and scalability, with a pragmatic approach to computer architectures and a 20-year history in systems administration and SRE. He is driven by the success and happiness of human beings. When not working, Andras learns and teaches karate, enjoys riding his motorcycle and cooking for his family.
AndrΓ© is a self-described web nerd who grew up with the web. He has a twin brother but (he says) he's not the evil one. Loves bridging the world of Design and Engineering with accessibility in mind. While on breaks from that, he enjoys snowboarding, mountain biking and is thrilled by landscape and architectural photography, especially when done at night.
Andrei has been working in the software development industry for over a decade and is still passionate and excited about it. He believes great software is built only when people work together, share their ideas and insights and push the whole community forward. He enjoys working with people and pushing the limits of what they think is possible for them. Outside of work, he is a big mountain sports fan, does scuba diving, plays guitar, and makes cocktails occasionally.
Andrew fell into working on websites by joining and running hackathons in his undergrad, and can't seem to stop building. He also loves (making) cocktails, (baking) bread, and (playing) video games.
Andrew spent 17 years living in London before returning home to Cape Town in South Africa. Before joining GitLab, Andrew cofounded Gitter where he was the CTO. Married with two kids, he spends what little spare time he has tinkering with machine-learning, building contraptions of questionable usefulness. Away from technology, his passions are travel, photography, motorcycling and the great outdoors.
Andrew has experience working in a fully managed hosting company that allows him to build his Sysadmin and DevOps prowess. He loves anything tech related, naturally curious and enjoys learning new things. Outside of work, you can probably find him eating at a new ramen shop in town, playing boardgames, listening/reading some books/tech news.
Andrew enjoys building and securing software.
Originally trained as in industrial designer, Andy has been designing interfaces and experiences since the touchscreen revolution. His attention to detail allows him to design effectively and efficiently with the ultimate goal of letting design dissolve into behavior. Andy is a history nerd and random fact sponge who can be found at most trivia nights. He also enjoys playing hockey, golfing, traveling the world with his wife and aspires to get his pilot's license one day.
As a Backend Engineer Andy is building software for more than 8 years and is passionate about clean code and test driven development. He shares an office with his two cats and likes cooking, biking and improv theater.
Andy has been championing DevOps practices since before the term was coined. In particular, he has been finding ways to improve people's work through using test automation. Outside work, Andy is kept away from hobbies by chasing his kids around. When Andy does have time he enjoys building things, gaming, gardening, and reading.
Angelo is passionate about code. He started working when Internet Explorer 6 was still a thing. He strongly believes education and technology are great enablers, so he's spent time teaching programming to refugees as a volunteer. He loves philosophy, music, series, cycling, playing Nintendo Switch, cooking, photography, and making lists. But most of all, he loves his daughter.
Anjela is a Travel and Expense professional at GitLab, aiming to create a seamless travel experience for the diverse needs of its global remote workforce. Outside of work, her passion for travel thrives. An aviation enthusiast, she might have been a flight attendant in another life. She loves solo trips, mastering credit card points and hunting for award flight deals.
Anna is a self-motivated developer who is always eager to know the product in depth. She is driven by new challenges and likes to learn constantly. In her free time, Anna plays classical piano and performs in a rock band on drums.
Annabel is a product designer (former frontend engineer) with a passion for creating beautiful and functional applications. She has learned bits and pieces of various languages during her career, but is most excited about JavaScript, SASS, and Rails. In her free time she enjoys curling up with a good book, inventing cookie recipes, and spending time with her wonderful family.
Anne is a passionate UX Researcher and has been serving user needs and solving human centered design problems since 2008. She has a background in Psychology and Human Factors. Moreso she is a certified yoga teacher with over 700 hours of training, which she mainly accumulated while traveling the world for two years. It's fair to say that Anne absolutely loves to travel and learn about people and cultures across all continents. Anne enjoys the outdoors and her favorite element is water. Any activity related to it, be it surfing, scuba diving, swimming or beach walks, bring her tremendous joy.
Annie changed careers from occupational therapy and nannying to become a data analyst in 2022. She has developed a love for Tableau and data analytics - as well as remote work. When she's not at work you can find her travelling the world, rock climbing, or sharing about data with others on social media.
Adrian joined GitLab to work in the People Analytics function, using his background in Statistics and Data Analysis to help the company make data informed People decisions. Adrian has held various data analytics roles throughout his career, but has really found his passion for using statistical analysis to help improve lives in the field of People Analytics. When not working he is spending all of his time with his wife and their 3 children.
Artur has been passionate about web development for a while, he also has been passionate about design. In his spare time, Artur does track and field and sometimes competes in 5k/10k races.
Aric is a support engineering manager with a background in linux system administration. He loves to learn and is always looking to expand his knowledge base. When not working, Aric can be found traveling, exploring the outdoors, cooking, woodworking, or watching football with his wife and son.
I have always been more interested in what happens backstage that creates and supports what everyone sees up front. Always seeking to understand how things work, I enjoy modifying and repurposing hardware and software in order to create interesting and fully customized products and experiences. My background as a system implementation and network engineer allow me to do this in a myriad of environments. Outside of work I enjoy exploring the outdoors with my wife, playing music, and learning new things from new people.
Arran enjoys building tools that solve problems for people, especially other engineers.
Software is my craft. During my career I have had the opportunity to work with remarkable people building systems at scale and leading technical teams.
Amanda is a mom, a fixer and a helper who loves to learn and to make things easier for people wherever possible.
Arun is interested in low-level details, systems programming and distributed data systems. In his spare time, he enjoys playing drums, listening to alternative and rock music, and reading Hacker News.
Artur is passionate about helping people to resolve technical difficulties. He started his first job as a technical support engineer at Grammarly. There he learned more about different automation tools and realized how technilogies can make everyday tasks much simpler. When Artur has free time, he likes to do a lot of different things such as weight training, reading, watching movies, playing computer games, and travelling.
Loves to travel, cook and learn about other cultures. Enjoys funfair and karaoke!
Ash loves making peoples lives easier and more fun by writing & deploying simple software solutions. In his spare time he loves tinkering with electronics and pouring countless hours (and dollars) into the ultimate open source based home automation system.
Amy is based in the Wexford countryside of South East Ireland. She comes from a career of back-end engineering and API development. She has been an Engineering Manager for the past couple of years and loves the challenge. In her spare time she enjoys being outdoors, hanging out with her dog and trying new things.
Asmaa is a Senior Support Engineer with an experience in Linux, DevOps, and automation. She is curious, loves to know how things work, and loves working on projects that make things easier. Aside from work, she loves to read, go on long in new cities, and spend time with her family.
Anton is one of our southernmost GitLabbers and is based in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has a Bachelor of Information Technology from Otago Polytechnic and has spent the majority of his career as a full stack web developer. Anton is all about enhancing the cyber world and loves IOT automation in the workplace, at home and beyond. His utmost passion is finding solutions for issues that clients face, and getting them back on track. Outside of work, you will find Anton doing cardio or weights at the gym, playing the latest video games or bringing his trivia brain to a pub quiz with friends.
Anna has worked on software projects for a number of companies, including several gov tech providers as well as an on-demand staffing platform. She is enjoys building tools alleviate users' pain points so they can focus on what's really important. Outside of work, she enjoys biking, canoeing, watching women's basketball, learning to DJ, and hanging out with her cat.
Anton has more than a decade of expertise working in IT field, and is always working to develop and contribute new skills. In his spare time you can find him kitesurfing on a sunny day or enjoying bush tracks with his family.
I am a naturally curious individual who is passionate about people and technology. I believe that technology is foundational to any organisations success and I have been fortunate enough to land in a position that allows me to help organisations scale whilst coaching and developing individuals to reach their potential.
Andrew has taken on many roles across the web-engineering field, from full-stack software engineering to DevOps and full-spectrum software security
Avielle is a backend engineer who loves clean, well tested code. She also loves video games, lying in the sun, and her two little house panthers.
Joined June 2022. Into Linux, (Neo)Vim, cycling, drumming, van-camping, traveling and eating food.
Achilleas has been using GitLab since version 2, back when the default username and password were not documented. He started actively contributing to GitLab in 2013, in 2014 he became a member of the core team, and ultimately joined GitLab in 2015. He was introduced to Linux in 2006 and since then he tried many distributions until finding Arch Linux which won his heart and has been using it daily since 2009. As an open source enthusiast he is contributing to many projects, and is mostly into System Administration. He likes traveling and attending conferences that promote the free software movement.
Alec has always liked to work on challenging problems with a broad solution space. This has led him to the Gitlab distribution team, where he is incredibly excited to work on some of the biggest problems in developer tools right now. He also likes code side-projects in his spare time to try out different languages and frameworks.
Customer Assurance is at the heart of the modern enterprise. In my previous roles at Salesforce, Immersive Labs and EY, my goal has always been to ensure Security Assurance drives revenue, growth and increased trust across the value chain. Love working with Engineering, Sales, Product, Marketing and customers. Outside of that I love reading, walking and enjoying London.
Adam is a Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience architecting modern cloud-based applications and platforms, including 10 years in a technical leadership role within sales consulting organizations. He has a unique ability to communicate business value and platform vision to business stakeholders, build CxO relationships, and conduct deep technical discussions with architects and engineers. Outside of work, Adam loves traveling to far away places, listening to and playing music, and spending time with his dogs (Boxers).
Bala is a passionate programmer who likes Ruby for its simplicity and can also fiddle with other popular programming languages. Over the years he has been a product developer, platform engineer and an SRE. He has expertise in building integration platforms, improving application/platform observability, and solving scalability related bottlenecks from the application to the infrastructure. Away from work he usually spends time with his daughter and family, follows cricket and likes reading science fiction books on space and the universe.
Balu is from Kerala, southern most part of India and is passionate about anything related to Freedom and Privacy. He has been contributing to different Free Software and language computing communities for quite some time, especially in Packaging (he is currently a Debian Developer), Software Development, Localization, and Evangelism. Other than a computer geek, he is mainly a procaffinator and a bibliophile. He enjoys reading (and sometimes even writing) poetry too.
Barbara is an IT Program Manager who is passionate about finding solutions to problems and implementing applications that support business processes within GitLab.
Basti is an engineering manager who has previously worked across the whole web stack with different frameworks and languages. He is passionate about helping team members grow and building teams that can deliver impact. Outside work he likes to spend time with his family, read or go bouldering in a nearby gym.
Dominic is a software developer with a preference for simplicity. Away from keyboard, he enjoys sports, hiking and traveling to remote places.
Brandonβs past experience includes working on customer success teams and data analytics. Here at GitLab he ties those two things together to generate key insights for the Customer Success Operations team. In his free time he enjoys playing and watching sports such as soccer, baseball, and golf as well as taking hikes and finding any excuse to spend time outside.
Brazilian Software Engineer with a keen interest in algorithms and machine learning. Being an avid learner, I have worked mostly on R&D, touching a variety of technologies and following my curiosity. When not at work, I enjoy spending time with friends, playing guitar and travelling.
Becka grew up in California and earned her BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia, not knowing what would come next. Fast forward a few years (and career categories), and she was ever so lucky to land in UX, at the intersection of Psychology and Design. When she's not designing you can find her doing other art and craft-related activities, watching tons of movies, hiking with her dog, watching live music, traveling, practicing mindfulness, and doing yoga.
I join Gitlab having been in Technology Sales and Alliances for over 20 years working for companies like Sysdig, Docker, Red Hat, ATT, Century Link and a few others. Iβve been a part of the Container/Cloud Native/Kubernetes/Docker ecosystem for the last 7 years as part of the Global Alliances teams at Red Hat, Docker and most recently Sysdig before joining Gitlab. Each time building successful and award winning Partnerships supporting large scale, programmatic GTM plans for companies including IBM, Red Hat, HPE, Rancher/Suse along with Federal Systems Integrators and Global Systems Integrators.
Ben was previously a Unix Infrastructure Engineer at an insurer, university, and a bank before joining GitLab to provide support for customers' installations. Outside work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, getting tasty things to grow in the garden, cycling, reading, and photography. Ben's been in front of a computer keyboard since his childhood, when it had a cassette recorder built into it, and is still learning with Linux, and an installation of GitLab, at home.
Betsy is part of the All-Remote Marketing team at GitLab. She has a background in journalism, and is passionate about storytelling and connecting people. She spent her first two years at GitLab as Talent Brand Manager, telling the story of life at GitLab. Betsy loves to paint, garden, visit the beach, and spend time outdoors with her husband and their Golden Retriever.
I started my career as electrical engineer specialised in telecommunications. Experience on Unix S5R4 and Oracle shifted my interests to infrastructure, technical support and software development. Exposure to technical sales generated some interest along the jouney, becoming a full time role in 2014.
Brandon has a wealth of experience throughout all stages of the sales process and enjoys the challenge and satisfaction of helping to identify and solve his customers most urgent business needs. Brandon is married and has two beautiful little girls, Lily and Lucy. He spends the majority of his free time boating, camping and playing guitar.
Bhavya is a Senior Security Consultant with a total experience of 6+ years in the Security IT industry She started her career as an Android developer and then branched out to the market offering of Application Security where she has developed extensive expertise in conducting comprehensive Threat Modelling sessions and meticulous Manual Penetration Tests, in addition to performing Code Reviews and carrying out vulnerability assessment tasks such as automated scans (SAST and DAST) for numerous large-scale web applications. She is also proficient at building and managing client relationships, providing quality deliverables at scheduled timelines, leading teams, training and / or working with developers on vulnerability remediations.
Bishwa is a passionate software engineer who likes to decompose complex problems into simple iterables. When not punching keyboard, Bishwa likes going out for gastronomy night, or hosting it. Additionally, he likes lifting weights and putting it down, as a pastime.
Bruce has a history of serving and leading teams that US Government customers with Cyber Security solutions. He has worked with both Civilian and Department of Defense customers. Bruce is based in Haymarket, Virginia whith his lovely wife and 3 children. When he steps away from his GitLab work you are likely to find him riding his bike with his family or involved in some type of maker project.
Bojan is an agnostic software engineer passionate about technology, who never gets tired of learning and accepting new challenges. He lives his life traveling from place to place, exploring the world and its hidden gems. If he stays in one place for too long, he feels restless. Routine is a big no for Bojan; to avoid it, he creates his own problems, and then solves them as a true engineer.
Brendan has worked in the digital space for over 20 years as a video & motion graphics editor, fullstack developer, technical director, engineering manager and DevOps / SRE engineer. He lives near London with his partner, a very spoiled dog, and two mischevious cats. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, travelling, hiking, swimming, playing flight simulation games in VR, starting new technical projects and abandoning new technical projects. Brendan moved to the UK in 2004 from his native Australia and kinda forgot to go back home.
Bernard enjoys working with people and tackling complex challenges that can be either technical or non-technical. He loves brain teasers and jokes, so share some when you meet him. He is recently working on furnishing his new home and building the perfect home office setup.
Bob has a keen eye for the good stuff. He's always on the lookout for software that looks nice and gets out of the way. He started tinkering on his SE/30 and never stopped. Since 2009 he has been developing web apps and backends in Ruby on Rails that match his own expectations. Preferably on a mech keyboard that sounds as beautiful as it looks. He listens only to the best of books and reads the greatest music (or vice versa) while roaming between Belgium and Poland. Firm believer in the standing desk, having a beard and learning by living.
Bo is a jack of all trades with skills ranging from sketch artist, musician, and martial artist to network engineering and most trades in construction. Bo thinks it is important to know he is not a master at most of his skills, but loves learning them. When he is not learning new things, Bo loves to be away from technology and populace to join nature in the wondrous outdoors where he loves to do as much of nothing as possible. Preferably, with family whom he considers top priority.
Born and raised in Hong Kong but now living in Australia, Bonnie is a Product Designer who is passionate about solving complex problems and crafting quality user experiences for software. In her spare time, she enjoys going to live shows, exploring new restaurants, and hanging out with her kitties.
Boughty has been working to enable innovation and digital transformation for 20 years primarily through the channel and loves finding ways to help channel partners exceeed customer expectations while building profitable businesses. Engaging with people about almost anything is a happy place for Boughty and he is always looking for new places, cultures, and flavors to explore with his family.
Brad has a passion for facilitating genuine human connection and meaningful innovation through technology. When not studying for his cloud computing bachelor's degree, Brad enjoys spending time with his family, reading, listening to music, and exercising outside.
Brady is excited to join GitLab and the Commercial Sales team, hoping to build relationships and impact the company. In Brady's spare time, he enjoys playing hockey, traveling, hiking, and finding the best food spots.
Brandon has a background in fullstack engineering. He joined GitLab as a frontend engineer and has since transitioned into engineering management. He moved to The Netherlands in 2021 from his origional home Cape Town, South Africa. He believes in the vision that everyone can contribute and is excited to be part of GitLab's amazing, global team of creative people.
Brendan has a background in Accounting, English teaching, and Technical Writing. He has written documentation for a variety of product areas, from API references to Fintech software, and now DevOps. He's passionate about learning, understanding complex content, and enabling people through clear writing. When he's not working, Brendan enjoys reading, traveling, cooking, and hiking.
Brett has been programming for many years - from writing a version of Centipede for the TRS-80 to Ruby on Rails and macOS applications. He's always working on something, so you can usually find him in front of the keyboard.
Brian is passionately committed to helping companies make the transition to DevOps / Agile / Lean processes and increased team productivity. He has written two books about agile transformations and has been a long-time proponent of DevOps automation. Outside of work Brian enjoys exercise, audio books, riding his motorcycle, travel, and spending time with friends and family.
Ben is a DevOps fanatic who loves technology and using it to make life easier. Ben started his career as an accountant, but a love of computer science turned him into a DevOps engineer before too long. Now he works as a Solutions Architect, bringing his knowledge of DevOps and GitLab that he gained over his years as an engineer to help solve his customers problems.
Results-driven senior executive with over 20 years experience building, leading and advising multi-billion dollar technology companies through complex restructurings, hyper growth and capital markets transactions. Public and private company strategic CFO, extensive IPO experience, relationships with buy/sell side with comprehensive background in mergers and acquisitions. Multiple successful exits. Excellent leader with a track record of documented contributions leading to improved financial performance, heightened productivity and shareholder value creation. Strengths include leadership, creativity, adaptability, teamwork and communication. Brian received his Bachelor of Science in Finance from Lipscomb University and a Masters of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.
Bronwyn has a deep passion for data privacy both personally and professionally. A naturally curious and analytic individual with motivation to solve for "x," she enjoys the iterations, growth opportunities and challenges for GitLab as data privacy laws evolve around the world. Even outside of work, you will still find her reading about privacy enhancing technologies and staying on top of what is happening in block chain and smart contracts. Bronwyn is a woodworker and loves crafting in general to unplug and calm the mind.
Hi I am Bruno. I am a support engineer (EMEA) at Gitlab. Previously I worked as Linux Systems Administrator for 6 years in the telecommunications industry. I also have a software development background. I am a cryptocurrency miner/enthusiast, and when I am not working I like to travel, play video games and research tech related stuff.
Bryan spent his career in software development, systems engineering, and technical product management and has seen- and now advocates for- the benefits of investing in devops automation. Outside of work, he spends most of his spare time with his family and pets (harper and pebbles)
After a successful career as senior IT leader, Bryan is part of the Strategic Field Org, helping organizations demonstrate value from IT. His time is spent with executives and engineers alike, helping them understand how DevSecOps practices accelerate business growth and help harmonize engineer and developer culture. Bryan can often be found presenting at conferences, participating on podcasts, or writing articles for popular technology news outlets and his own newsletter. Outside of his professional work, he thrives in a non-digital world, enjoying the shores of Scotland and beyond through his love of sailing. He lives with his bonnie wife and three rambunctious boys on a smallholding on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Briley is an engineer from Alabama. She works at GitLab on the Verify team. Outside of work she can be found taking her dogs to the park, skiing, hiking, or playing music with her friends.
Buckβs passion for software development is rooted in his deep love of puzzles + problem solving and helping people. Buck lives in live in Brooklyn, NY in the US. Prior to joining GitLab, he worked for NYSE, EverFi and Surfwatch Labs in software engineering roles. Outside of working hours you can him binge watching prestige tv + bad action movies, reading, running, playing / watching basketball (also baseball / football / tennis - really any / all sports and inane competitions of any kind) or at a concert or comedy show.
Bryce is a man who wears many hats. Primarily he is a diversified marketing operations professional but comes from a background in sales, customer success and retention. Outside of work, he enjoys flyfishing, camping, skiing, mountain biking traveling and spending time with his wife and 3 kids.
Brittany has been a software engineer for 12+ years, and is passionate about finding ways to make the work experience better for everyone. She enjoys spending time with her pets, Aiko and Decima, preparing for the next session of Dungeons & Dragons (forever DM and proud!), and gaming with her partner. She has also recently gotten into gardening, hiking, and kayaking!
Brian started his career as Cyber Security professional and spent 5 years doing Application Security before becoming a Software Engineer. Brian is deaf, but grew up without sign language and prefers to communicate using spoken English. In his free time he enjoys yoga, learning American Sign Language, gaming, and spending time with friends and family.
Byron specializes in security compliance work with degrees in Management Information Systems and International Business. Prior to GitLab, he worked for KPMG mainly focused on external IT audits for SOX, SOC1 and SOC2 compliance in addition to internal IT compliance work. When he's not working, he enjoys running, golf, tennis, soccer and any other outdoor activity he can find along with spending time with his partner and their dog, Lucy.
Caleb is passionate about technology, problem solving, and helping others. Before joining GitLab in 2019, he provided technical support in a number of roles within the Web Hosting industry. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time outdoors or being with friends.
Born and raised in Germany, Christopher has 2 years of sales experience and business development. Prior to joining GitLab, Christopher acquired most of his experience working for a global language learning provider, where he dedicated his time to expanding and improving the business. His studies in Industrial Engineering and Management helped him understand business aspects across multiple departments. In his exchange semester which sent him abroad to Finland he found himself digging deeper into Sales. Outside of work, you can find Christopher working on his photography skills (profile picture excluded), programming(still a work in progress), expanding his music library or hanging out with friends and family.
Cameron works cross-functionally to help empower strategic decision making on the Corporate Finance team. Prior to joining GitLab, Cameron spent his career in the valuation consulting world. Cameron is a baseball fanatic with a love for homemade pizza, hiking, and spending time with his wife and daughter.
Camellia is a design generalist: She is curious about human behaviours and the human mind. She creates stuff when it is necessary; when she creates them, they must be easy to use; after all, she makes them beautiful ;)
Cameron loves solving problems. He enjoys RPGs, board games, computer games, Hurricanes hockey, and spending time with his family.
Caroline is interested in helping to improve the lives of developers, whether through building great DevOps tooling or through empathetic leadership. Outside of work, she enjoys creating stuff, studying psychology, spending time with friends, and playing with cats.
Carolyn loves to understand how people dynamics can help solve problems within a business. She is passionate about organizational design, leadership development and team effectiveness. She is also interested in learning more about scaling culture in an all remote environment. In her free time, she loves to spend time with her family and practice yoga.
Before moving to GitLab, Carrie worked at a small mapping tech company as a Client Success Manager and Training Coordinator. In her free time, Carrie enjoys trying new reatuarants, traveling, movies and being outdoors with her Malamute/Akita mix, Scooter.
Cassiana is passionate about working on the People team because it perfectly aligns with her love of helping all team members feel heard, understood, and supported. Cassiana loves seeking out new vegetarian food adventures, listening to comedy podcasts, re-watching all the rom-coms, pet rescue videos, and traveling the world. She also believes that laughter is healing. Her People Operations responsibilities at GitLab have ranged from supporting team members in the complete onboarding/offboarding lifecycle, to converting team members due to international expansion, and now with strategizing and implementing all People Compliance initiatives and projects. Read more in her README.
Cathy joins GitLab as a Senior Contract Manager on the legal team. With over 20 years of experience negotiating contracts in the technology market, she is a seasoned professional with a multitude of skills to draw from. Cathy was with Cisco Systems, Inc. for six years in procurement and with Red Hat, Inc. for ten years supporting the sales team on the revenue side. Since she has negotiated both sides of the table; she brings a 360 perspective to her contribution to GitLabβs success. Cathy especially enjoys cross functional collaboration; working with the finance, security, procurement and revenue teams in order to mitigate risks to GitLab, customers, partners, resellers and employees. She is very excited to be on the GitLab journey with you and to ensure success for GitLab and the ecosystem it creates.
Carolyn is a data analyst and senior manager on the Product Data Insights team. She is passionate about leveraging data and visualizations to tell a story, crafting creative solutions to complex problems, and collaborating across teams. Carolyn lives in Portland, OR with her husband and rambunctious Wheaten Terrier, Gus. In her spare time, you can find her hiking, exploring the National Park system, eating delicious food, or enjoying a cocktail with friends.
A Philosophy major with a passion for helping customers and supporting peopleβs growth, Cristian Enache is a Sales Enablement professional with over 10 years of experience in various customer facing roles, including customer support, account management, business development, as well as sales leadership roles. Coming most recently from Acronis Cyber Protection, where he was a Sales Enablement Manager, Cristian is looking forward to helping support the Sales team and having a positive impact on our Gitlab community. He lives in Bucharest, Romania, and in his spare time he likes swimming, reading, taking long walks, cooking and meeting with friends. His favorite authors are Umberto Eco, Stieg Larsson, Frank Herbert and Igor Bergler.
Born and raised in Southern California, Chris is an experienced developer, technical account manager and consultant with an education in Computer Engineering and Communication Management. In his formative years, Chris built his experience as a web developer within higher education using numerous open source content management systems such as Drupal, Wordpress, OpenJournal, Expression Engine, and Movable Type. After discovering a passion for Drupal, he transitioned to technical consultancy focused on buiilding complex web applications at scale, helping small business, large enterprise, government and education customers plan, develop, launch and maintain secure, performant and reliable websites. Prior to joining GitLab, Chris provided leadership to a technical account management team focused on supporting customers in cyber security and vulnerability management. In his free time outside of work, he enjoys live music, pro sports (Lakers, Dodgers), gaming and spending time with his wife, two kids and dog Code.
Chad has been doing coding, sysadmin, and ops for 30+ years, since the dawn of the web and before - from mainframes to the cloud. He has contributed to and created several open source projects. His hobbies include traveling, volunteering, learning Spanish, listening to and making music. Chad joined GitLab because their values are closely aligned with his own, and he believes in an all-remote culture. He is a happy user of the GitLab product for his own personal projects. A note on areas of "expertise" listed: "I'll never really consider myself an 'expert' in anything, but that's the nature of imposter syndrome and moving right on the Dunning-Kruger curve. I do know a few things about the topics of expertise I've listed, though (as well as many more), and at a minimum I can find someone else to ask ;)"
Edβs professional passion is to create business value with channel and alliance partners. He has held channel, alliances and marketing leadership positions at technology companies including Cisco Systems, LogRhythm, CareerBuilder and Gigamon. He's helped develop business with partners of all types through partner enablement, automation, programs and marketing. In his spare time, you'll find him on a bike, skis or a hiking trail, ideally with his family and friends.
Charlie is a developer-turned-security engineer who likes to learn, enthusiastically share knowledge, and build (and play with) rule-based systems. When not doing that, her time is split between hanging out with family, playing music, growing things, and making things out of wood.
Charlie is a journalist-turned-Software Engineer. She enjoys sharing her knowledge as a Fullstack Software Engineer by writing blog articles. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling the world, working out (in various forms such as running, strength training, pilates, tennis, and barre), spending time outdoors, and hanging out with friends.
Learn and grow, that is my ninja way #naruto. Love to code and always looking forward to learn something new. Love anime and gaming. This is what keeps me up at night. Skills/Interests: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, ReactNative, Redux, Spring, Docker, Java, Kotlin
Chloe has dedicated her career to providing a fantastic customer experience and is excited to help GitLab grow. Outside of work, she takes a lot of pictures of her cats and watches a lot of television. She attended her first Star Trek convention when she was one-year-old, and it has been a slippery slope ever since. Her favorite is βthe one with the whalesβ, but she loves all space operas equally. She also has a very useful degree in Latin, so sheβs available for all of your demon-summoning needs.
ChloΓ© is a Solutions Architect with a background in Business Development and Digital Marketing.
Chloe is passionate about being a quality advocate. Prior to GitLab, she worked as Software Engineer in Test at Oracle and GitHub. She loves building things from scratch, optimizing and simplifying solutions in process. In her spare time, she enjoys playing piano and guitar, and hiking with her dog.
Joined August 9th
Chris has spent most of his career working with the federal government, working on a wide range of problems. Outside of work, he is usually overseeing some kind of insane trouble, his 3 boys have gotten themselves into.
Chris is a technology enthusiast from Cape Town South Africa. He has a bachelors degree from the University of South Africa, and spent most of his career as a Linux Systems Engineer for a web hosting company. There he developed a passion for diagnostics and troubleshooting and a deep love and respect for Linux and all things open-source. He lives with his wife, their 6 cats and a family of tortoises. When he's not tinkering on one of his many computers, he's playing rock music on his Fender guitar or playing games online.
Chris is a UX design leader with 15 years experience building products, defining strategy, and crafting vision. Outside of work he loves travelling, going to the theater, and spending time with his family.
Chris is a hacker with over twenty years of professional experience in information technology. He enjoys breaking the things he loves, like Linux distributions and open-source software, in an effort to make them stronger.
Based near Paris, France, Christian has been developing Git since 2006. He is passionate about open source projects, especially development tools.
Christian is interested in both Security and Automation and combining the two for the best of both worlds. Outside of work he is an avid snowboarder.
Christina joined Gitlab in March 2020. She is enjoying the sun along with her family in Athens, Greece.
Christine is a problem solver who enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve results, and she is excited to do this at GitLab as part of the Chief of Staff to the CEO team. Prior to joining GitLab, she led the Business Consulting and Analytics team at Bloomreach, and before that she was a strategy consultant in Accenture's technology industry group. She has a B.S. in Materials Science from MIT, where she realized she wasn't as good at math as she thought she was. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Christine now lives in San Jose, California with her partner and two pet bunnies, Cinnabun and Teddy. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, listening to podcasts, hiking, traveling, gardening, and trying to find more space for her house plants.
Prior to joining GitLab, Christopher was a pre-sales engineer and part-time developer. He has an interest in systems administration, cyber security, software development and picking up new skills, learning new technologies in the vast field of IT. In his free time, he enjoys trying out new experiences, nature walks and the ocean.
Kaburu is Tech enthusiast with a passion for DevOps, Security, and Customer support. Prior to Gitlab, he worked in the Fintech sector, aligning infrastructure architecture plans and processes with security standards and business goals. He has a keen eye for quality and endeavors to eliminate pain points through automation. He enjoys swimming, hiking, and family time.
Chad is a product designer with over a decade of experience creating delightful and intuitive experiences for users with complex business needs. When he's not at work, some of the things he's learning about these days are how to play the violin, how to make great backyard pizza, growing a pollinator garden, watercolor painting, and keeping an urban sketch notebook.
Changzheng has years of experience in software engineering and has worked on different areas including embedded system, virtualization, networking, web application and blockchain before joining Gitlab. In his spare time, he loves playing soccer, and skiing with his family.
Charl has an empathetic approach to support and loves helping customers through their technical challenges. This is rooted in his passion for learning new technologies and growing through each customer interaction. Prior to joining GitLab he has worked in telecommunication industry for over 14 years in technical support. Majority of this was in a senior role with a focus on improving customer experience. In his personal time he enjoys keeping his mind in shape through taking on new tech projects or tinkering with the latest tech gadgets. To keep his body in shape he enjoys cycling, hiking and swimming.
Coung is a software developer with a passion for writing clean code. Outside of work, he likes to play piano, guitar, and video games.
Originally from South Africa, Collen has a background in enterprise software sales and freelance tech journalism. He is fascinated with how great software is made and the positive impact it can have on our professional and personal lives. In his free time he reads (a lot), travels, and takes average photos.
As a CSM, Conley brings his expertise in large scale DevSecOps transformations to Enterprise Gitlab customers. He specializes in SDLC metrics, like the DORA 4, and lets the data tell the story. Outside of CSM-ing, Conley likes to hike the foothills of the Appalachian, push himself with a good WOD, and explore different breweries.
Connor's career in software engineering and security led him to product management. He loves finding the essence of customer problems and working with teammates to solve them. Connor started his career in the U.S. Department of Defense and has built products in several startups: StackRox (Kubernetes security), Expanse (Internet exposure scanning), and Assemble (compensation and pay equity). Connor holds an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science (with honors in International Security Studies) from Stanford University. When he's taking advantage of a nonlinear GitLab workday or putting Family and Friends First, you can find him parenting, cycling, rock-climbing, reading the latest in computer security, or diving down any number of esoteric rabbit holes.
Corey has a background in cloud security architecture and security compliance. Prior to GitLab, he managed a team of consultants at KPMG focused on public sector compliance initaitives, including helping several clients achieve FedRAMP authorization.
Corinna is a web developer since 2009. While she made some frontend development experiences in the past her focus is on backend development using Ruby on Rails. Outside of work, she spends most of her time with her family, playing the occasional video game and being a football coach for a youth team.
Costel is a security engineer with hands on experience in all phases of an security engagement for web applications, API, mobile or infrastructure.
Courtney enjoys making the lives of her stakeholders easier with improvements to the quote-to-fulfillment process. She is passionate about partnering with internal teams and customers to reduce inefficiencies. Prior to GitLab, Courtney worked in business transformation services at Forcepoint and business operations at Dell EMC. Outside of Gitlab, Courtney enjoys traveling, exploring new restaurants, pilates and playing tennis.
I enjoy working with companies and consulting them with (complex) solutions to make them more efficient. Focus on DevOps and OpenSource solutions. On the private side, I enjoy almost all kinds of sports, focusing on running, preparing and eating a good meal, and walking with my little dog Jambo (check out the pet page).
Craig is an enormous and unrepentant nerd from Dunedin NZ. Years of working as a system administrator and devops engineer has made him a little cynical, but he's working on it, and still manages to keep a mostly cheerful outlook, as long as he's busy. He loves tech stuff (particularly FOSS), sci-fi, cooking/baking, music, and spending entirely too much time playing Factorio
Craig is a lifelong software engineer who loves to work in an Agile manner to deliver useful, working software in the fastest and most flexible way possible. When he's not coding you'll find Craig in the ocean, surfing, swimming or snorkeling.
I am an experienced strategy, planning, and operations leader. I love building and cultivating relationships with others, and collaborating to solve complex problems. I thrive in ambiguity. One of my key differentiating skills is the ability to anticipate challenges, and rally teams to work together to build an aligned set of solutions. I am an efficient operator with strong executive and presentation skills. During my career, I have led large cross-functional programs, driven significant operational efficiency initiatives, led strategy and planning for corporate functions, and serve as a trusted advisor to C-Suite executives and Board Directors.
Crystal is an Senior Engineering Manager in the Package stage. When not working she enjoys running, cooking, dog walks, local music and spending time with her family and friends.
She is very happy to assist/help customers and contribute to expand their business together. Outside of work, she loves driving with her dogs and winter sports.
Cedric is customer obsessed and has worked in Customer Success for over 10 years.
Cam is a curious software engineer who enjoys writing software that people love to use. While not working, you will find him travelling, running, or tinkering on his latest hobby electronics project.
Camilo's first contact with an opensource project was back in 2017 and then he fell in love with the idea of community and contribution that it involves. He is passionate about technology and customer happiness. In his spare time, Camilo loves traveling, attend community meetups and surfing the world wide web.
Christopher is originally from New Jersey and currently lives in the sunny plains of North Carolina. After starting out his career in finance, Christopher transitioned into technology and became one of the first Ansible engineers. Christopher currently runs enablement for the global sales development team here. In his spare time, Christopher volunteers as a public school teaching assistant.
Cynthia has experience in support, engineering, education, information and knowledge management, and technology with roles primarily focused on implementing technology for better user experience and services that aids people in using technology. She likes to solve problems and help people solve their problems. She is always keen on improving things, especially documentation, workflows, and accessibility. She also contributes to community discussions and events.
Dan Eckhardt is an IT risk professional specializing in IT assurance. Prior to GitLab, Dan worked at Deloitte as an IT Advisory Senior Consultant serving a variety of large public companies with SOX compliance, SOC 1, and SOC 2 issuance. In his free time, Dan enjoys playing video games, golfing, traveling, watching anime, and trying new foods.
Passionate software architect. With my roots in software development, I found a calling in DevOps and
Test Automation. I enjoy gaming, sailing, learning languages, and spending time with my family.
Daniel is also on the project team of the Selenium project and currently
maintains the Selenium Docker images
Daniel is a Cloud DevSecOps subject matter expert with more than a decade of experience working for both private sector startups and federal government contractors. Daniel comes to GitLab from a defense contractor where he architected DevSecOps pipelines for deploying cloud-agnostic, hybrid AI applications at large scale. As a Solutions Architect at GitLab, Daniel consults Department of Defense customers (primarily the US Army) as they adopt DevSecOps and agile cultures through their implementation of GitLab. Daniel's interests include traveling, fashion, and video games.
Grateful to be a founding member of GitLab's Contributor Success team. I like solving problems and supporting other people. As an open source maintainer, I help grow communities and work with contributors. I love developing in Ruby on Rails but also enjoy working cross functionally with other teams. My life has evolved from my dedication to personal development, volunteering and hypertrophy training.
Daniel has lived in Hawaii for most of his life and has been working on web applications ever since graduating with a degree in Computer Science. He is passionate about gaming and has worked for multiple gaming companies in the past before joining GitLab. During his free time, he enjoys discovering new games, browsing Reddit, and learning how to be a good parent for his daughter.
Dan joins GitLab after 7 years designing award-winning websites and apps for public and private sector clients. Before that he sharpened his skills creating live event experiences β Drum & Bass raves. He loves the craft of design, is compulsively curious and a passionate collaborator. Away from his computer you'll find Dan, with his wife and kids, dodging rain along the Welsh coast, playing games, or trying new food.
Danny has over 20 years experience in DevOps Security, IAM & Threat Intelligence having worked for both large US multinational vendors and start-ups in the ANZ & SE Asia region. Danny joined GitLab because of its innovation and customer driven culture, he has worked with many enterprise customers, with many of the same customers over the 20 years based on his reputation of business outcomes and trust.
'Danny is a support engineer with a passion for open source technology, luthiery and PC gaming. After many years working in support, Danny has found his joy in helping people with technology and developing automation to make life easier.'
Dan is originally from Sheffield, England and other than brief stints living in Madrid, Spain and Lyon, France has made London his home since 2010. He joins GitLab with over six yearsβ experience as an attorney specialising in technology, intellectual property and data privacy. Dan is a keen runner and hiker, and particularly likes the breathtaking scenery of Americaβs Pacific Northwest.
Darby is enthusiastic about all things related to engineering leadership, DevOps culture, startups, and running.
Life is short. Saving the time to commute and spending it with your family at home is a great blessing.
Darren grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and developed his passion for computing technology, software development, entrepreneurship and innovation while living in Austin Texas. Darren held services business portfolio management, and SaaS product managemetn roles. Before joning GitLab in 2019, Darren Eastman served in various product management roles, including Nike Inc., where he worked on standardizing DevOps practices across the software development organization. Darren Eastman holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Masters in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Darren is an advocate for work-life balance and spends his free time hanging out with his family, running, watching sports or pottering around in the garden.
"By dint of building well, you get to be a good architect" - Aristotle
Dasha is passionate about crafting seamless user experiences, particularly translating complex user needs into intuitive software solutions. She started her career in the startup space and has since worked for large companies and in consulting. She lives in San Diego, CA with her partner and a pup named Fitz.
Dave started his first ventures into code when Dreamweaver was still for hipsters and spacer gifs made up a big chunk of an average website. He applauded the fall of table layouts and the rise of web standards and still feels strongly about making the web a better place. He loves both learning and sharing new concepts and skills. In his spare time, he spends time with his two kids, reading, getting stronger in the gym and drinking coffee.
Dave is a normal Boulder area person. He comes from an Agile background and loves exploring where Agile, DevOps, and SRE meet. His sanity is maintained by skiing, practicing yoga, and playing pickup ultimate frisbee games.
David is a nerd about all things infrastructure, especially storage and scalability. He loves spending time cooking and sharing meals with his family.
I'm a listener, a story teller, an agilist, a part time runner, an avid college football fan and loyal husband and friend. I like to look at life like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Make your own way, but most importantly, have fun while doing it. If you can find like-minded people to share your adventure with, you've already won. I enjoy bad puns, making people laugh and especially learning new things. Also, there's not a home project that I won't attempt at least once. Smile, learn something new today and if you can, make a new friend.
David has over 10 years of solid software development experience especially in Ruby. He loves working on a project where he can contribute to the broader product development cycle by actively participating in the ideation and user research stages. He has a very supportive wife and 2 active children. He enjoys playing variety of sports especially Basketball and Football(Soccer). He also enjoys dabbling in organic gardening, wood working and raising farm animals in his country property.
Based in Switzerland, David is a passionate code writer. After working several years for insurance companies and startups, he worked in a digital signage company before joining GitLab. When not spending time with his family, you can find him sailing on hobie cats or playing online on PC games.
David is a Fullstack Engineer who enjoys tinkering, foraging, cycling and surfing.
My focus is on helping developers make better software, and continually discovering better ways to do that. The rest of the time I chase my 3-year-old daughter around the house, and when she's sleeping I play board games.
David started his software career with Visual Basic and has been chasing the high ever since. Since moving from developer to manager David has taken a keen interest in developing high performing teams, Remote Development and AI driven solutions for software.
Dylan recently graduated from the University of the Pacific with his M.S. in Business Analytics and B.S. in Applied Math. He became passionate about coding and development after a few coding courses in college. Anytime he is not in front of a computer, he is doing everything he can to stay active; that often includes playing pickleball a few times a week, running, swimming, surfing in the summer, and snowboarding in the winter.
Davis is a Backend Engineer who loves exercising, gaming, reading, and creating things. When he isn't working or nerding out, he's spending time with his wife and two pugs.
Dima is a backend engineer withing a passion for Ruby, test-driven development, and clean code.
I like cooking, dogs and used to play professional tennis.
Dani became professional data analyst in 2017 after a brief career in fintech. Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, good food and playing piano. She was born in Guangzhou, China and spent her formative years in Vancouver, Canada. After several years of living in multiple cities in Germany, she currently lives in the Netherlands.
David is a network security professional with over 15 years of security research and product strategy experience. Prior to GitLab, David worked for Spirent Communications leading the Cybersecurity product strategy and product team as well as leading UX Design and Threat Research for all of Spirent. Davidβs career has also included roles at the industryβs top security research and testing labs. David holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from NYU School of Engineering and is a frequent speaker at major international security conferences. David and his wife live in the greater Dallas, TX area with their two dogs Lexi and Luthor. David spends his free time hiking with his wife as well as playing with their dogs in the backyard. David also enjoys playing video games and watching movies with his wife.
Deepika, a software developer , has worked on multiple tech stacks but is inclined towards front end development for quite some time. She likes to learn new things and that is what keeps her motivated. Outside of work, she has a beautiful daughter who lights up her world and enjoys spending time with her family
James is an experienced technology sales professional who excels in building strong client relationships and bringing value to customers. James has several years of experience working with Large Enterprise Corporations and Public Sector Entities. He is currently focused on helping clients streamline and consolidate their Software Development Lifecycles and DevTool Chains. In his spare time, James enjoys traveling, being outdoors, playing his guitar, meeting his fitness goals, and spending time with friends and family.
Dennis specializes in application security and security testing. Before joining GitLab, he obtained a PhD at the University of Luxembourg on the topic of automated security testing and worked at Ripple securing blockchain applications. In his spare time, Dennis loves rock climbing and playing boardgames with friends.
Customizing the HTML and CSS of my MySpace profile introduced me to programming at a young age. Later on, my curiosity with human-computer interaction grew, and lead me to pursue a career in digital analytics. Iβve helped organizations across different industries set up their web analytics tool in order to improve their digital experience and marketing presence. When Iβm not analyzing data sets, you can catch me paddle boarding with my dog, playing tennis, woodworking, or completely transform into a couch potato watching the latest A24 movie.
Denys is a developer, sometimes a public speaker and occasionally a writer. Being 2-in-1: an art school graduate and an engineer, Denys is passionate about psychology, physics, history, drawing. In his day-to-day job he enjoys getting to the heart of the matter of things and processes. Originally from βCSS sideβ, for the last years Denys has been building Javascript applications, still breaking CSS, abusing HTML and working with performance optimisations of pretty much all aspects of the front-end toolset.
Derek comes to GitLab with a background in Product Management and Software Development. He has been both a frontend and backend engineer, an Engineering Manager, and a Product Manager. Derek started programming when he was 8 years old and loved taking apart electronics to learn how they work. He found his passion when an opportunity presented itself to move into Product Management. Figuring out the problems that people are facing, coming up with a plan to fix those problems, and working to implement those plans drives him in all aspects of his life. With a degree in Linguistics and Communications, Derek is passionate about languages and culture and always enjoys learning new things about people. In his spare time, he enjoys playing with his two amazing kids, playing guitar and bass, and doing pretty much anything with his wonderful wife.
DΓ©sirΓ©e loves to save time by automating tasks. She is also always on the hunt for bugs whether they be in code or the garden.
Devin has been in front of a screen since his first Commodore 64. He has explored most aspects of the industry from the front end to networking, and is currently focusing on making services resistant to the chaos of the internet. In his time away from a terminal, he plays guitar and dances tango.
Dmitry is a software engineer who has been in love and working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails since 2010. Before joining GitLab, he had been working remotely for almost 6 years. In his free time he enjoys reading, riding a motorcycle, going on walks and playing guitar.
Seasoned professional with 2 decades of experience working with large organizations to deliver DevOps transformations and capabilities. Very passionate about delivering value, leading successful transformations, and providing strategies in complex environments. Supported many industries, including finance, healthcare, consulting, and the United States Public Sector, helping them through DevOps and agile transformations.
Before joining the GitLab team, Daniel worked as both an engineer and developer advocate focused on cloud native technologies. His passion for open source led him to work as a maintainer and contributor in open source communities focused on CI/CD and Kubernetes. In addition to his engineering work, Daniel has always been passionate about learning about new techologies and sharing what he learns with others.
Dan is originally from New Jersey but has lived in Overland Park, Kansas since 2008, as he and his wife have welcomed a son, a daughter, and a dachshund in that time. He joins GitLab after nearly two decades as an attorney specializing in litigation and risk management, most recently at a leading cybersecurity company. When not spending time with his family, Dan enjoys general success with crossword puzzles, some success with CrossFit, and very limited success trying to pick winners of golf tournaments.
Diana's interest in software development began with an internship at a startup in Munich, Germany. After graduating with a degree in German and History, she started working on customer sites, training, and helping teams implement enterprise software. She saw firsthand the power of documentation to both help and confuse, and moved into technical writing full time. Diana enjoys triathlon, hiking, yoga, and drinking loose leaf teas from around the world. Here's a link to Diana's README.
Software Engineer and Technology enthusiast with experience in back end development, project research and team leadership. Interested in Cloud, Blockchain and Machine Learning Technology.
Dirk is an experienced sales professional and loves to support clients to develop and deliver better software more effectively and efficiently. With more than 20 years in enterprise IT Dirk is passionate about making customers' Agile and DevOps transformation successful. Located in Germany Dirk is a sports enthusiastic. He lives in Bottrop with his wife and 2 boys.
Divya is a fullstack web developer since 2016 with a focus towards backend development using Ruby and Rails. She is passionate about problem solving in programming and various technologies. Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, hiking in the mountains and occasional gardening.
Dheeraj has been building apps since the time he got introduced to VB6 in high school. He is quite adept at writing JavaScript, an open source lover, and web security enthusiast. When he is not writing code, he spends time finding and reporting security vulnerabilities in web applications. In his spare time Dheeraj enjoys playing football, caffeinating or craving for good food.
With a background in Sales and Management Consulting, David has spent the majority of his career helping to re-shape Go-To-Market strategies for a wide range of Tech Companies across the globe. With a passion for driving change in Sales Organizations with data driven insights, there isn't a challenge too big to tackle. When he is not heads down in a spreadsheet, you can find him and his wife backpacking the wilderness, snowboarding various mountains, or dirt biking any trails worth exploring.
Gluing things (or people) together is something that Dmitry always liked. Always keen to work with OpenSource projects he sought any opportunity to join OpenSource team to serve the community. Enjoying GitLab as a user he finally can help others to experience the best GitLab has to offer.
Based in Ireland, originally from Montenegro. What drives me in my role is producing actionable insights and innovative frameworks and knowing that I've contributed to something meaningful. In my free time you can find me looking for cheapest plane tickets and best travel deals. In my free time I enjoy hiking, cycling, running, podcasts, gaming and photography.
Daniel is very eclectic in his passions, having interests ranging from carpentry, exotic music instruments, experimental and traditional outdoor activities, all the way to programming, games and cutting edge technology. In Customer Support, he's found the perfect marriage between his love for communication, helping out people and having fun solving problems and technical challenges.
Dominic enjoys building and helping others build secure software. When not at his computer, Dominic can be found roaming the Dublin mountains.
Donald started programming years ago, and eventually developed a fondness for all things JavaScript. Recently, he has focused on growing and developing engineering teams. Most of his free time is spent running around with his wife and three daughters.
Donna is passionate about minimising operational toil through automation, process improvement and good obserability practices. She fosters a culture of excellence, inspiring and mentoring those around her to strive to do the right thing. When not at a computer, she can be found hiking in the Scottish highlands or exploring the world in her campervan with her dogs.
Dilan was born and raised in colorful Colorado, where he also attended Colorado School of Mines for his undergrad and grad. Originally slated for a career as an engineer in Oil and Gas, Dilan found a passion entrepreneurship and creativity which landed him in a product management role in tech. He likes to find creative solutions for user pain points, and delivering delightful experiences in products. You will typically find him in his garage working on a project car, finding some DIY project around his house, or in the mountains somewhere camping, skiing or mountain biking.
Douglas is a software developer that fell in love with Ruby since 2007 and the open-source community surrounding it and has been working with Ruby on Rails for the past 3 years. Before joining GitLab, he was working remotely for nonprofit organization based in Brazil. He enjoys to improve people's lives with the product he is working on, so GitLab was a perfect match to him. In his free time, he loves to drink a good beer and, spend time with his friends.
Dov joins GitLab with a background in Product Management, Demo Solutions, and Technical marketing. He brings strong capabilities around Observability solutions which includes Logs, Metrics and APM. In his spare time Dov enjoys running, attending soccer matches, and spending quality time with his wife and 3 kids.
Dan has been in pre-sales engineering roles for the past 20 years, helping some of the most prominent companies in Financial Services, Healthcare, and Media & Telecom solve extremely challenging business problems using enterprise software. Outside of work, you can find Dan at the gym or traveling with his family.
With more than 10 years of work-experience in technical sales, Andrea is passionate in creating value for customers and partners with market leading products and services. She has the ability to be analytic, focused, stay calm under pressure and be self-motivated. This and a sense for the needs of others alows her to successfully lead teams of international Solution Architects worldwide. Dedicated and commmit to the task she undertakes, she enjoys challenges and mastering new technologies, personalities and situations.
Drew's around, and into the whole brevity thing.
Before joining the GitLab team, Drew was involved in the GitLab community as a member of the core team. Outside of work Drew enjoys traveling, wrenching on his 1966 GMC truck, gardening, and spending time with his wife, son and their two dogs.
Darva started her career as a Computer Engineer designing microprocessors. Early on in her career, she transitioned to software engineering and has not looked back. She has a diverse programming background with expertise in languages including Java, JavaScript, C#, VB.Net, Drupal, and ofcourse Ruby. For the last several years she has sharpened her Remote Management skills managing a team of developers working remotely.
Dave is a marketing leader with a wealth of experience in consumer, business, and developer marketing. He is passionate about building and leading high performing marketing teams and enabling companies to succeed in the market through strategic positioning, messaging, and go-to-market initiatives. When he's not a marketeer, Dave loves running, cooking, and aspiring to be a rock and roll guitarist. He is a member of the San Francisco Friends of the Urban Forest board of directors. He lives in San Francisco with his amazing daughter (Ella), wife (Melissa), and dog (Louie).
Doug has over 10 years of experience in the devops space. From crafting configuration management systems, to reporting and various other developer focused tools. Through this experience Doug has developed a strong empathy for developers and their need for effective tooling in that workspace. Doug has a strong belief in continual growth and a hunger for knowledge. This belief drives him to learn from others and to look for ways to improve on a daily basis.
Davoud is a Senior Security Assurance Engineer based out of Southern California. His experience includes IT risk, audit, and security compliance as a consultant and for companies in tech industry. During his free time he enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, and cooking.
Duncan has over fifteen years of support engineering and systems administration experience. He enjoys troubleshooting and repairing complex systems and finding effective automations. When away from a screen he can be found cycling, tinkering with cooking, or reading.
Dustin is an experienced software engineer, focusing on cloud-native infrastructure. In his free time, he enjoys reading, hiking, and going to concerts.
David is a Senior Data Analyst on the Marketing Strategy and Performance Team.
Drew is a cybersecurity professional with deep experience in/around the US Federal Government. He is passionate about "common sense" compliance and ensuring security controls meet business needs. His free time is occupied by a busy family and self-study on a variety of topics.
Dylan is a programming geek. He loves learning new programming languages and working with new technologies and is a big fan and long time user of GitLab CI/CD. In his free time he likes snowboarding, tennis, soccer and table tennis.
Diana is a frontend developer who cares about user impact, loves UX, and will help you with all the git related questions. In her free time, she listens to podcasts about linguistics, plays board games, and participates in local tech meetups.
Elif is a Senior Support Engineer in the Americas team. Prior to GitLab she worked at LandSure Systems Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA). Elif is passionate about DevOps and automation and likes investigating issues. Outside of work she likes spending time with her family, especially swimming, ice skating, biking and rollerblading. On her own time she also enjoys watching movies and reading.
Born and raised in Istanbul, Eren has worked in numerous architectural and team-lead roles in DevOps and Data Engineering, since he moved to Hamburg in 2013. His enjoyment of using GitLab for CI/CD and GitOps across different companies and roles led him to join GitLab in July 2023. In his free time, he can be found playing drums, composing music for his band, participating in local chess tournaments (despite often losing), or enjoying time with his partner.
Working remote at GitLab has allowed me to move back to my favorite city in the world, Austin Texas. I'm also grateful I get to spend so much extra time with my dogs!
Edmond is passionate about technology and is a fan of positive disruption that drives better results. He has worked with customers for over 20 years to deliver better software and IT services across all industries. A self admitted-foodie, heβs always on the lookout for his next vacation destination to sample new flavours.
Brazilian expat living in the Netherlands since 2016. Parent, ADHD'er. Proud generalist, past professional experience include Android development, Backend, Frontend, Data Science Insights and Machine Learning Engineer. Loves building and growing communities, boardgaming and Legos.
Eduardo is a frontend engineer with an unusual background: It was during his structural biology PhD that he fell immediately in love with coding. For the past decade, he has worked as a scientific programmer, fullstack, and later as a frontend developer. His ultimate passion is the web platform, which he considers the most accessible and ubiquitous platform ever created.
Eric was born and raised in Austin, TX but migrated to Holland, MI with his wife (Abbi), daughter (Maya), and three dogs (Dante, Gil, and Jasmine). He's worked in the tech industry ever since graduating from Texas State University with a bachelor's degree in Finance and discovering that tech and engineering were of way more interest to him than financial jobs. He enjoys writing novels and short stories, birding and hiking, 3D printing, playing chess, and spending much of his free time with his wonderful family.
Edward spends his free time outdoors, hiking, camping and kayaking in the Pacific Northwest, along with his wife Andrea and his dog, Lucas. When not in the woods or on a lake, he is often working on his ever-growing homelab, with a passion for all things automation and self-hosting.
Eirini joins GitLab to drive marketing campaigns in EMEA, after spending several years in the ed tech and ad tech sectors doing all things marketing. She also has a soft spot for graphic and UX design. She enjoys traveling, playing board games, walking with a cup of coffee in hand, eating chocolate and pop corn (together) and trying all sorts of sports and fitness classes (from softball to aerial yoga).
Emma is a Site Reliability Engineer and loves automation and troubleshooting. She lives in the mountains of Colorado, spending her free time plein air painting, backpacking, and building her backyard permaculture food forest
Eugie is a software engineer based in the Philippines. He has been building applications using various languages and frameworks for almost a decade before joining GitLab. Outside of work he enjoys his daily morning coffee, reading, and the occasional hikes.
Nicknamed 'The Fox', Eliran graduated engineering at the Technion and has since focused on leading business growth for software companies. He managed the Customer Experience group at ClickTale, built a monetization ecosystem for Conduit and most recently co-founded OhTell, a micro-video hotel review company. Outside work you can find 'The Fox' in the water or on land, training for IRONMAN triathlon races.
Ellen is a Senior Financial Analyst. Prior to GitLab, she spent 6 years in the tech industry and 7 years at an institutional investment consulting firm. She is passionate about data analysis and partnering with business leaders to drive results. Outside of work, Ellen enjoys exploring Charleston especially the beaches and cuisine with her husband, two kids, and dog.
Elsje has worked in software sales and marketing for most of her career and was a freelance consultant for over a decade providing inside sales support to software companies. Elsje is passionate about coaching and encouraging SDRs and BDRs through the Sales Development organisation and seeing them grow their careers at GitLab.
Eugene joins GitLab over 5 years of experience as an attorney focused on data privacy matters. He settled in Los Angeles in 2013, where he currently resides with his wife, daughter and two cats. During his spare time, Eugene likes to play basketball and golf, read, and write thoughts on film.
Emily comes from a system administration background and finds joy in helping the community. Occasionally, you can find her either scrolling through memes or binge watching TV shows in her spare time.
With an education in English/technical communication, paired with a deep interest in computers, Emily is driven to make tech more accessible to a wide audience. Throughout her career, she has held various technical writing roles across industries ranging from data protection to life science to ecommerce, and now DevSecOps. Outside of work, Emily enjoys video games, crochet, travel, spin classes, and learning to play the cello.
Emily is a Product Designer based out of Toronto, Canada. When she is not working you can find her somewhere camping in the wilderness, traveling, skiing, experimenting with SFX makeup or just hanging out at home with her partner and two cats.
Emily is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, spent a brief three year stint in NYC, and has made Nashville, Tennessee her home since 2003. She and her husband are both lawyers and spend most of their time running after their two boys and all of their activities (currently baseball, soccer, hockey, mountain biking, drums, and guitar). In the rest of her spare time she rides horses and attempts to engage in endurance sports like running and triathlon.
As a designer, Emily is a passionate advocate for design systems, accessibility, and a collaborative approach to design. In her free time, she's an avid traveler and caretaker of 2 cats and 100+ houseplants. She's logged over 500 unique craft beers on Untappd, and she once got attacked by an ostrich. She's weirdly passionate about the differences between em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens—ask her about it!
Emma is a Backend Engineer based in Melbourne, Australia. She's originally from Korea and loves playing tennis and traveling.
Emma has a deep sense of curiosity rooted in her scientific education in Physiology and Evolutionary Biology. After starting her career in horticultural research she shifted her path to the world of Business Analytics and hasn't looked back! She loves all analytics topics, but Product Analytics hold a special place in her heart. When she is not poking around a dataset or deciding on which visualizations best communicate the right story, she is exploring the Northwestern mountains of Colorado, reading a sci-fi novel, or trying to learn how to cook something exotic and new.
Erika is passionate about DevOps and products that allow Engineers to focus on innovation. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with a zest for efficient collaboration, transparency and impact. When not sprinting towards a deadline, she actively adventures in the wilderness - sometimes with her young son in tow.
Enrique is passionate about design, developing software in a kind environment, and achieving high user satisfaction with his work. In his free time he enjoys cooking, writing, and relaxing on the beach with his partner.
Evan is passionate about language and knowledge sharing. His interests include politics, history, and Australian Rules football.
Nashville native, plant dad, and tech nerd. Studied Management Information Systems at Belmont University. Hobbies include music production, graphic design, and exploring new cities.
Erick has been building web applications using Ruby on Rails and a bunch of different frontend frameworks for almost a decade now. A strong proponent of Test Driven Development and clean code design, he is passionate about always improving his craft, learning the best practices for any type of work he is doing. When he's not writing code, he is always on the lookout for new coffee shops, exploring different types of single origin coffee. His favorite dripper is the Hario V60.
Eric has been fascinated by computers and information security for many years, and has been lucky to turn those interests into a career. In his spare time, you can find Eric riding his gravel bike for long distances somewhere in the central US, attending college football games or travelling to places near and far.
Ermia, with a background in Information Technology, started her journey into web development. Her passion in this field led her to achieve a honor diploma in programming through the National Skills Competition. Ermia's adventurous spirit keeps her eager to step out of her comfort zone. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, and she's also a writer, using her words to express her unique perspective in the tech and literary realms.
Erran is passionate about security and automation to make things easier for everyone.
Ethan has been writing software professionally for over 15 years. In that time he's worked in many languages, like Java, Ruby, Erlang, Scala, and Clojure. Additionally, over that time he's worked in a variety of industries like language learning (Rosetta Stone), real-time ad bidding, orthodontic practice management, and online coding courses. He's enjoys learning new languages and technology as much as possible. Outside of work, he enjoys playing boardgames with his wife, downhill skiing (when there's snow), traveling, tinkering with 3-d printing, and watching movies.
Etienne is a passionate software developer and open-source enthusiast. When he is not coding, Etienne hangs out with his wife and his two twin daughters, goes for runs and plays the piano.
Eugenia became a software developer after a brief career in chemistry. She started working with RoR in 2015 and Ruby and open source quickly became her passions. Prior to working at GitLab, she worked writing Ruby code on a variety of projects. She's a life-long learner and cat enthusiast that enjoys travelling and drinking dark beers.
Eva is a software engineer working with Ruby since 2018. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, music, and sports, especially figure skating and yoga. You also can often find her in the mountains, skiing in winter, and hiking throughout the rest of the year.
Evan is excited to join the GitLab team as an SDR after 7 years as a fitness coach and gym manager. Working in the fitness space Evan was able to develop close relationships with people to help them solve problems and achieve their goals. Evan looks forward to taking that experience to help GitLab customers. Evan lives in Atlanta with his fiancΓ©, Katie, and their cat, Nugget. On Saturdays in the Fall you will find Evan cheering on the University of Georgia Bulldogs!
Ezekiel is a Frontend Engineer, while primarily working with javascript he has experience in a range of languages enjoying the thrills of learning and understanding the sometimes strange, but interesting ways computers are becoming part of our lives. When he is away from the keyboard you can find him volunteering to help others learn to program, dribbling around on the football (soccer) field, exploring the world of sound synthesis or tumbling down a wikipedia hole.
Before joining the GitLab team, Fabien was lead developer of Gemnasium, a SaaS to monitor software dependencies. He enjoys coding in Go and SQL, and he's a true fan of Postgres! In his free time, Fabien enjoys listening to podcasts, running and going for long walks in the countryside.
Fabio is originally from Sicily (Italy) and lives in Dublin. He started programming in Turbo Pascal in 1998, when he was 13 and since 2009 he has been in love with Ruby. He's passionate about clean code, DDD and finding appropriate terms on Thesaurus. In his spare time he loves playing and composing music, landscape photography, reading books and cooking his favourite dishes.
A web developer who loves contributing to open source projects.
Software enthusiast who started his career developing desktop applications. Former member of a repositories/task management company who is here to make GitLab better. Likes playing RTS video games and boxing in his free time.
Firdaws is a Senior Support Engineer with a background in software engineering. She loves learning how things work, acquiring numerous life skills, and working on projects that make everyday tasks easier. Outside work, she loves wandering around the globe and spending quality time with family and friends.
Firdaus is a DevOps practitioner since the start of her career i.e. 2014, having great experience working with tools and technologies that support collaboration and cross-team cooperation with an emphasis on automation using DevOps practices. Personally, she loves spending time with friends&family, listening to music, watch series(esp Netflix), drive to see places and cooking.
Florie is passionate about anything Frontend, especially CSS. When she's not at her computer coding or playing video games, she enjoys sewing, dancing and playing board games.
Fiona has a background in English and Psychology and has written documentation for a variety of product areas, from HVAC Systems to Financial Technology, and now DevOps. She's passionate about simplifying complex content, and how humans process information. When she's not working, Fiona enjoys running, traveling, music, and trying out new recipes. If she had to bring one item to a desert island, it would be a jar of marmite.
Helping teams adopt transformational practices and technology for over 20 years
François has worked in multiple domains as a software engineer, tech lead, and now manager. Outside of work, he enjoys volleyball, traveling, Netflix-binging, video games - and has put most of this on hold since becoming a dad.
FrΓ©dΓ©ric started to code to make games and continued on learn how to make web sites and applications. Outside of work, he can be found gaming, reading, hiking, travelling or watching japanese animes.
Frederic has been in offensive security for quite some years, in multiple areas, enjoying the discovery of security issues, coding necessary tools and exploiting/chaining issues in pragmatic ways. In his spare time, he likes hiking and traveling with his wife and kids, observing nature and participating to eco-friendly projects.
Fred is a Backend Engineer from Calgary, Canada. Fred initially studied biology in university but quickly developed a passion for programming and writing software. In his free time, he enjoys bouldering, camping, board games, video games, music, and cooking.
Furkan has been working on web applications using Ruby on Rails and different frontend frameworks for more than 6 years. He loves playing video games and watching TV shows.
FΓ©lix is passionate about software security during the day and enjoys outdoors sports during off hours.
Fabian has a background in Bioinformatics where he analyzed large amounts of genomic and transcriptomic data. He is passionate about building products that solve interesting problems and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. In his free time, Fabian can be found cycling, swimming, cooking and playing Dota2.
I'm a gritty, product-minded individual with a passion for data and my heart set on making an impact. I see customer problems as well as the vast capability that technology and design offer to solve problems elegantly. I have a background in marketing, website development, cloud technologies, and APIs -- this gives me confidence in working with customers, stakeholders, and engineers to innovate and implement products/features that solve for real customer and business outcomes. When out of the office, I like to escape to the mountains with my girlfriend and two hound dogs for snowboarding, hiking, fly fishing, mountain biking, off-roading or other activities.
Gabe is motivated by solving really hard problems and building products that fundamentally change the world for better. He is relentlessly focused on continuous improvement and regularly speaks at conferences about product management, organizational theory, and building with agility. In addition to contributing to GitLab, he enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, flying planes, and attempting to master the art of smoked BBQ ribs.
Gabriel is the first Brazillian in the team, before joining GitLab, he was fighting the scalability and performance battle on a daily basis for fast growing startups and projects. He loves metrics and proudly works from a data-driven perspective. He also loves to grind his own coffee and help build online communities in his spare time.
Gabriel comes from a smaller but beautiful city called Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany. After studying computer science in Regensburg, he quickly moved to the field of DevOps and worked 5+ years for Mercedes-Benz to build up their CI/CD strategy with GitLab CI. He loves to explore the world and surf wherever possible. If there are no waves around, he loves to climb, play chess, or hit the Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) mat. Gabriel is also an enthusiast for music, espresso and good food.
Gary's love for computers started at 6 years old when he first played βCookie Monster Count Upβ on his parentsβ Apple IIe. From there he made his way through making DOS batch files, mIRC scripts, actual programming training, Northwestern University, and finally - GitLab! He also likes the Pittsburgh Penguins and his dog Franklin.
Gayle's passion for product is rooted in her deep empathy for others and desire to creatively solve customer problems. Prior to joining GitLab, she worked for JumpCloud, Twitter, and Gnip (acquired by Twitter) in Product and Program management roles. Gayle and her partner, Jeff, and daughter, Mar, live in Boulder, Colorado and enjoy the outdoors, cooking, traveling, fly fishing together, and spending time with friends and family. Gayle is passionate about women's equality and leadership. She is a mentor for the University of Colorado-Boulder Leed's School of Business and serves on the Board of Directors for the YWCA of Boulder County.
Gina is dedicated to designing usable and efficient experiences for users. She has a passion for empathizing with users, which stems from her studies in engineering psychology. Her detail-oriented and data-driven work style help her achieve her daily tasks. She is a huge dog lover and enjoys anything active. Offline, you'll find her attempting to try new workouts or somewhere outdoors with her pups by her side.
George is a user experience engineer based in Athens, Greece. He's passionate about designing and implementing functional and effective user interfaces. He has been involved in a number of projects focusing on network resource management over heterogeneous networks and service orchestration over programmable infrastructures. Moreover, he has been practicing user experience design and frontend engineering along with small and cross-functional teams while keeping collaboration a top priority. When he's not cherry-picking commits, he's probably on the move, running, or having fun with friends.
George is a passionate software engineer who enjoys solving problems with elegant and simple solutions. In his spare time, George likes to travel, play tennis and video games.
A firm believer in the saying "Do what you love, and youβll never work another day in your life". While not hacking away on the laptop you can find him in the climbing, crossfit or regular gym. Pro dog petter.
I am a Physics Engineer with a MS on IT. I worked on the Oilfield Industry for 10 years before transitioninig to IT. Joining GitLab has been a big achievement. On my free time I enjoy Juggling, Gaming and Crossfit.
Gregory is a backend software engineer from South Africa with a penchant for raucous laughter and silly jokes. As one of the first alumni from 2016 WeThinkCode_ cohort, he enjoys sharing his knowledge and mentoring new developers when possible. When he's not writing code, you can usually find him playing video games, watching nerdy science documentaries or travelling about.
Gaby is a Frontend Engineer with a background on software engineering. Gaby has worked in several startups and as a freelancer prior to joining the GitLab team. Gaby enjoys books, movies, sewing, hiking and spending time with her dog Nala.
Gavin is a Backend Engineer who loves solving problems and coding in Ruby. In his free time he also enjoys cycling, running, swimming, playing piano and guitar.
Hi, I'm Abhi, leading the quality transformation journey with the Test Platform team in the Infrastructure department. My professional path has been shaped by extensive experiences in enhancing Quality practices across leading tech companies. Outside the office walls, I'm an enthusiast of mountain adventures, capturing life through my camera, and engaging in coffee-fueled storytelling.
Meet Dominique, a Solutions Architect at GitLab. She is a passionate individual with interests in music, technology, and giving back to the community. Dominique prides herself on being a keen learner, solver of problems, and connector of dots and people. She is always interested in finding more efficient ways of doing things and helping others do the same. She is an Ambassador of OpenUK, an organisation advocating and promoting the use and development of Open Technologies in the UK. In addition, Dominique is a frequent attendee, as well as organiser of several DevOps related Meetups and Conferences, such as Docker London and DevOpsDays London. When she is not geeking out over the latest DevOps technologies, you can find her indulging in her love for cooking, playing video games, watching anime, or pursuing her passion for music by singing and spinning tracks as a techno DJ.
Aaron Burgess Joined GitLab May 17th following 13 years in the IBM DevOps World Wide team. Aaron brings to the table a vast number of relationships into the IBM sales organisation that will be used to align our DevOps message into wider IBM Sales activities. Married to Gem, father to Luke and Amelia. Passionate about running, fitness and cake. Coaches a football team, loves to travel and dreams of owning a VW camper van and taking remote working to another level!
Based in Chicago (but frequently traveling), Giuliana contributes to the People Business Partner team at GitLab supporting the Product and Security divisions. Forward thinking and people passionate, she is energized by technology, human development, and business strategy. She loves all things Italian, photography, writing, language, and immersing herself in different cultures. A curious traveler, she has lived in four countries (so has her cat) and traveled to over thirty.
Glen is a Professional Services Manager based in the Pacific Northwest region, USA. His career has included work in test, development, program management, IT operations, and leadership for companies such as Microsoft and Nordstrom. Glen is a big fan of "what needs to be done?" and is willing to step into any role as the need arises. In his off time, Glen enjoys hiking, gaming with friends (board and video), hanging out with his pups, and volunteering at the Seattle Humane Society.
Grace is a frontend engineer who enjoys building delightful experiences for both end users and fellow engineers. Outside of work, Grace knits, bakes, gardens, and goes on adventures with her husband and dog.
Godfrey R. Sullivan has served as a member of the board of directors of Splunk, Inc., an enterprise software company, since 2008 and served as Chairman from 2011 to 2019. Mr. Sullivan previously served as the Splunk President and Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to 2015. Prior to joining Splunk, he served as President from 2001 to 2007 and Chief Executive Officer from 2004 to 2007 at Hyperion Solutions Corporation, a performance management software company (acquired by Oracle Corporation). He served as Hyperion's Chief Operating Officer from 2001 to 2004, and as a member of the board of directors from 2004 to 2007. Mr. Sullivan serves as a member of the board of directors of CrowdStrike, Inc. a cybersecurity technology company, since November 2017, and Marqeta, a digital card issuing platform, since May 2021. Mr. Sullivan previously served as a member of the board of directors of Splunk Inc. from 2008 to 2018, RingCentral, Inc., a provider of cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions, from 2019 to 2021, Informatica Corporation, a data integration software provider, from 2008 to 2013, and Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, from 2005 to 2018. Mr. Sullivan holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University
Graeme is passionate about open source, infrastructure-as-code, kubernetes and cloud native technologies. In his off time he spends his time video and board gaming, as well as getting out to enjoy a new micro-brewed beer whenever he can.
Grant is an enthusiastic developer who specializes in various types of Automation and Performance testing. In his spare time he's likely to be hanging out with his wife, friends or family. He also enjoys gaming, watching TV or movies and avoiding exercise at all costs (although he knows he'll have to do it sometimes).
I like solving problems, helping others, security, and open source. In my spare time I enjoy reading, playing guitar, exploring nature, and learning new things.
Graham brings over a decade of experience as a designer, strategist, and advocate in tech, with a passion for designing dynamic, accessible spaces for all! You can often find him tending to his container and hydroponic gardens, hiking the beautiful PNW, or gaming with his dog, Rosie.
Grzegorz is a developer who has worked on open-source projects since 2002. He enjoys creating software that people actually love using, so GitLab was an obvious choice for his next company to work at. Before joining GitLab, Grzegorz worked in a startup environment on introducing new technologies and improving software quality. Then, after a few years of exploring the corporate galaxy, he decided to move to a startup environment again. In his free time Grzegorz enjoys running in the forest and reading three books at once.
Gonzalo first became interested in Linux in the mid-to-late '90s when he wanted to set-up a home gateway to share his broadband connection with the rest of the household using ipfwadm. This sparked an interest in the OS followed by an almost weekly change of distro for a while. Gonzalo is passionate about cloud computing, containers and automation. Gonzalo is a proud father to two beautiful daughters that ensure his free time is kept to a minimum. Hobbies include football (aka soccer), padel and improving his home barista skills.
Fix all the vulns! Garret is passionate about software security, free/open source software, a fan of Haskell and functional programming, and in a past life a mathematician and physicist. Outside of software security, Garret enjoys playing video and board games, walking nature park trails and being cat dad to Maggie.
Gabriel is originally from Seattle, Washington, United States, but is now settled with his family in the Netherlands with their 2 cats and dog who thinks she is also a cat. Before joining Gitlab, Gabriel worked in a variety of engineering roles for multinational companies in the video game industry, health services and telecommunications. He enjoys automation, biking, chess, cooking, dancing, languages, reading, traveling (30 countries and counting), and spending time with family doing the aforementioned.
Oscar is an avid fan of the Go programming language and enjoys using it to implement new solutions. Outside of technology, he enjoys cooking, gaming and spending time outdoors.
Halil has always been fascinated by the world of science and technology. He grew up in Turkey and went on to study microbial ecology in Istanbul before moving to Germany, where he received his PhD. However, he eventually decided to pursue a career in software engineering as he moved to Silicon Valley. Now, Halil is a skilled backend engineer who enjoys developing and maintaining scalable, reliable systems using Ruby and Golang programming languages. In his free time, he loves watching TV shows and exploring the many museums of the Netherlands, where he currently resides.
David has been doing software sales for more than 14 years now. When not helping customers be successful, David is often found walking in nature trails, cycling and rock climbing, usually with his wife Shihan. At home, David spends most of his time playing with his 2 daughters Ning and Xuan, meditating and doing aerobics. David's daughters have 2 pet conures called Red and Carrot.
Hanif is originally from Jamaica and currently lives in Manchester, UK. Heβs an experienced digital marketing professional who specialises in SEO but equally adept at Paid Search, Email and Social Media Marketing. Hanif enjoys spending time with family and friends, listening to music, cooking and exploring new places.
Hans is based out of Dublin, Ireland and has worked in technology for over 10 years. He loves the outdoors and is passionate about mountain biking, surfing and finding the most remote spot in the west of Ireland to go camping with our campervan. 1st-time dad to a beautiful baby girl.
Harish lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and loves spending his time with his beautiful wife and two daughters. Most of the time he spends off the computer is spent reading, exercising, watching movies, and visiting awesome places. He loves traveling and has developed the itch to explore new places. Thankfully he works at a company awesome enough to encourage this!
Harley is from Cork, Ireland. She was previously the International Payroll Manager for Gitlab and has now transitioned over to the People group as the Employment Solutions Partner. She is always looking for ways to learn and grow. In her free time you might find her on the side of a cliff (Rock Climbing) or exploring the country with her three incredible boys.
Harsimar is a software/technology enthusiast. He loves drawing portraits, working out and spending time with family and friends.
Hayley is a software developer with an eclectic background ranging from running 35mm film projectors to being a professional genealogist. She's originally from the verdant green land of the Appalachian Foothills, but she now happily lives in the Pacific Northwest. She likes to learn about natural languages, cook tasy food, go on runs, and make terrible, terrible puns.
Hillary is a product and security leader with a passion for solving meaningful problems in elegant ways. She lives in Los Gatos, CA with her husband and two Welsh Corgis. Prior to GitLab, Hillary served as a product executive in the container security space and led teams in building software tools and executing intelligence collection missions for the National Security Agency. Hillary holds an M.A. in Security Studies from the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service and an S.B in Management Science from MIT. In her free time, you'll usually find Hillary reading books, watching movies, or exploring the great outdoors.
An extrovert Mexican guitar folk player turn tech enthusiast living in Edinburgh. Luis loves connecting with people from different cultures, ask a lot of questions and listens to their stories. He spends most of his time reading history, philosophy, and politics books, all while sipping a strong black coffee or enjoying a cold Corona beer.
Hila is a Professional Services Project Manager based in Toronto, Canada. She comes to Gitlab with over 10 years of experience working as a Project Manager and a Mechanical Engineer across various industries. In her spare time she enjoys being with her family and friends, hiking , yoga and being outdoors as much as possible.
Heinrich loves building software that solves user problems. He likes Ruby and has used it for most of his career but is also passionate about functional programming languages like Elixir. In his free time, he likes tinkering with Arduinos and other embedded systems.
Himanshu has been writing JavaScript since it was popularly known as DHTML and had an alternative language VBScript to code in. He has written server-side JavaScript with classic ASP, Windows Scripting Host (WSH), HTML Applications (HTA), and more recently in the browsers for large-scale applications and on the backend using Node.js. In his spare time, he likes to create video games. He created Sheeping Around - a multiplayer card game about grazing and stealing sheep. He also likes to do illustration and travel to places.
Hannes is living in the north-east of Germany very close to the baltic sea. He has a passion for technology and music, so if he's not tinkering arround on his Raspberry Pi's, he's singing and playing guitar, violin or piano together with his 4 kids.
I enjoy being involved in all aspects of product development - strategy, architecture, coding, security and customer support. The chance to learn something new everyday and solve a problem gets me out of bed in the morning. I was born and brought up in India, but I moved to Melbourne at 17 to build an independent life for myself. I love cooking, eating, reading true-crime stories and taking spontaneous road trips.
Coding for a living and for fun. Once in a while, writes on Bit Maybe Wise.
I am an experienced software quality engineer skilled in test automation and quality assurance. Apart from work, I like to travel, play basketball, play the guitar and spend time with family and friends
Hongtao enjoys staying at the crossroad of math, machine learning and software engineering. His mission is to drive real-world value by building beautiful machine learning applications and developing clean, reliable, scalable and maintainable code. Outside of work, you'll find him enjoying or brewing nice coffee, watching movies or practicing archery.
Hordur is a polyglot Backend Engineer with a background in Math and Computer Science. He's based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with his wife, their baby son, and their cats. Outside of work, he spends most of his time with his family, enjoying the little things in life.
Hossein has been programming for more than 20 years. He started as an enthusiast in high-school, where he landed his first gigs. Since then, he worked in different roles across multiple domains throughout his career, searching for interesting puzzles to solve. He is trained as a statistician and worked as one for a while. He studied the socio-political aspects of intelligent systems in his Ph.D. Thesis. Hossein enjoys working with his daughter, cooking for the family and extensively reads on Theories of Education.
Hitesh is always curious to learn new things and apply them in real life. Apart from building software, he loves to play video games, watch movies, go on hikes.
Haim is a value-driven and result-oriented product manager. Having worked for startups and enterprise, he has extensive experience driving innovation and technology transformation in B2B SaaS companies. While not working, he enjoys hiking and biking together with his family in the incredible trails routes all around Israel.
Hiroki is located in Tokyo, Japan. His background includes automation, security monitoring, infrastructure engineering, infrastructure security, and DevSecOps. In his spare time, He loves spending time with his family, reading, coding, drinking tea, and learning.
Hannah has worked in various roles in software, including engineering, QA, and product. She feels like she found the perfect niche in the cloud space, having had 2 previous roles working in Product in cloud platform and IAM. She's an avid outdoors lover and finds her clarity through sweat sessions at the gym.
Ian has been interested in computers from an early age. Both making them do things, and figuring out why they do other things. His professional career has been mostly systems oriented, with an occasional foray into the software development world. In his spare time, he enjoys brewing and drinking beer, trying new restaurants, and exploring Minnesota.
Igor started his career as a software engineer back in 2013. Before joining GitLab, he was working for companies from London and Hamburg. Igor enjoys Ruby language, but also passionate about functional programming. In his spare time, you can find him drinking beer, watching movies, smiling or daydreaming :)
Isaac has been working in information security professionally since 2000. Starting in network penetration testing, then moving into application testing in early 2000's when he joined @stake in Cambridge, MA. He moved to Japan in 2005 when Symantec bought @stake. In 2010, he joined Veracode to help lead the R&D efforts for their dynamic analysis product lines. When not working, he enjoys playing with his son and walking his dog with his wife.
Igor is Backend Engineer from Toronto, Canada. He is passionate about engineering craftsmanship and secure software. In his spare time he likes to read scifi, listen to podcasts, and rock climb.
Despite doing JavaScript for more than a decade, Illya is still in love with coding. He joined GitLab after running his own company for several years to focus more on development activities. He does a lot of public speaking and his primary interests are performance, static typing and building maintainable code. During his free time he is teaching JavaScript for fun and profit
Imre is an open source enthusiast, an avid learner, loves cloud computing and containers, and frequently tinkers with the latest DevOps tools.
Indre lives and breathes marketing, with over 10 years of experience in different areas of marketing (events, marcomms, digital marketing) and a true passion for strategy, data and analytics which helps create effective campaigns that drive ROI. Her main focus is delivering best in class customer experience across all customer touchpoints. Indre loves active sports, nature, travelling and spending time with her awesome family.
Ian comes from a background of Technical Program Management, primarily focused on leading the Platform Releases of the Android Operating System. Before that, he was a Network Engineer responsible for Google's production network. He thrives in environments which requires cross team collaboration and solving organizational wide challenges with no clear immediate answer. Ian was living GitLab's values before he even knew about them, and is extremely excited to be able to use them every day at work as well as in his personal life. Outside of work, Ian spends his time training/competing in Formation Skydiving as well as participating in events around the world. He holds eight National Medals and four World Records.
Ilonah is a Product Designer, always eager to learn something new. She loves digging into problems and finding meaningful progress towards a solution. When she's not working, she enjoys cooking, reading and discovering new places and hobbies.
Irina is a backend engineer passionate about designing and architecting systems
Israel is an energetic, data analytics professional who loves to execute the data analysis process from soup to nuts. He has a strong background in finance having served in the banking industry. Israel is passionate about providing excellent service to his teammates and clients. In his free time, he enjoys training kickboxing and jiu-jitsu, serving as a youth counselor, and traveling the world having adventures.
Itzik has joined GitLab, bringing a wealth of experience in Technical Marketing and Product Management. His expertise lies in bridging the divide between business and technology, leading to heightened customer satisfaction. Itzik enjoys four wheeling in his jeep to explore hidden pearls of nature, spending quality time with his little kids, and takes pleasure in preparing distinctive dishes.
Igor has been building and operating software systems for a while.
Jack is a software engineer that specializes in frontend development. His obsession for code is matched only by his obsession for coffee.
Jacki is a UX leader who has previously worked at Visa and Rackspace. She is constantly looking for ways to make good things better. She has three dogs and lives in Austin, TX. She likes gardening, reading, traveling, and Marie Kondo-ing just about anything.
Jackie joins GitLab from a background in SaaS Program and Release Management in Austin, Texas where she managed teams to support Enterprise customers with their software solutions. She is excited to join the CI/CD team in the Release Stage as a Senior Product Manager. A self-proclaimed Texan, Jackie enjoys spending time at her family ranch on the weekends, boxing competitively in the South, and training to be a better athelete.
Jacopo is a software developer from Brescia, Italy. He started to contribute to GitLab in late 2016. He focuses on bug fixes and new features in various sides of the app: backend, frontend, api, quality. He enjoys test automation and static code analysis tools. In his spare time he enjoys gym training and watching programming talks.
Jaime is a software engineer who has been working with Go writing backend applications for the last few years. He enjoys mentoring others and spreading the Go love. In his spare time, he can be seen playing video games, walking his dog and going to concerts with his partner!
Jake was born in Poland, raised in NJ, and has lived in a few places across the Americas. Jake is a mechanical engineer, a strategy consultant and has an MBA/MS from University of Michigan (Go Blue!). He is a passionate hiker, cyclist, snowboarder and an occasional mountaineer. Jake currently lives in San Francisco with his amazing wife and son.
Jake is a technology enthusiast, passionate about all things tech as well as playing guitar, golfing, and traveling. Prior to joining GitLab, Jake worked in both IT and sales for an IT and cyber security solutions integrator in Southern California.
Jade joins GitLab after 6+ years working in the payments industry with a main focus in negotiating large scale hardware and technology commercial transactions. She has dabbled in many different areas of law including, human resources, patents and trademarks, immigration, data security and compliance, and insurance in her time serving as general counsel. In her free time, Jade is tending to her residential zoo of 3 dogs, 2 cats, and 2 children. She is an avid TV binger and reluctant jogger. Jade likes to start her morning at the gym and does the daily NYT Wordle in between reps. She is located wherever the military takes her - usually kicking and screaming.
James has been contributing to the open source community since 2003. He worked remotely as a Ruby engineer for Vodafone before joining GitLab, where he is an engineering manager focused on people and process improvements. When he is not in front of a black screen, you can find him enjoying sea-sports, cycling, or keeping up to date with the latest trends in technology, Astronomy, and top spinning.
Raising the security bar day by day.
James began his programming career in Microsoft Excel, automating spreadsheet reports with VBA. He somehow enjoyed that enough to pursue other avenues of software development using tools produced in the current century, eventually landing in the backend. Outside of work, James is learning to fly an aeroplane, buys too many books (but reads too little), plays videogames, procrastinates for his computer science masters, and very occasionally practices photography.
James is a software developer based in Oregon, USA. Before GitLab he worked for several web hosting companies, and most recently, with Intel. He is an avid fan of empathy and transparency and loves to include that in his work. When not working, he's likely playing D&D or spending time with his wife and son.
Programming since I was 10. Copying software long enough to remember using a hole punch on a single-sided & double-density floppy. Temporal Lobectomy, in 1993, which removed 39 cubic centimeters of my left hemosphere. I begged the DR to allow me to take a chunk home for a paperweight but he said no. :(
Jan loves Linux and software development. When he is not working, he likes skiing and reading Terry Pratchett's books.
Jane has a passion for creating calm in the midst of chaos and loves to shape processes and workflows that feel as natural as breathing. She has led technical support teams since the early 2000s and delights in supporting people to be their best and do what they love. Outside of work, Jane is a serial-hobbyist - calligraphy, board gaming, cooking, reading, book binding, painting⦠the list goes on!
Jannik says "Hi" from Berlins urban jungle. Prior to joining GitLab he has been working as freelance Developer. Jannik is a strong-believer in boring Solutions and a Web-Performance Enthusiast. In his freetime you will find him traveling the seven seas or behind a drumkit.
Although living in the city of beer where she was also born Jarka spent almost 4 years in Switzerland and still loves that country. She's had experience with different programming languages and started loving Ruby immediately after she tried it for the first time. In her free time she tries to do a lot of sports, loves hiking (especially in mountains), traveling around the world or reading books.
John has been an enthusiastic computer nerd going all the way back to his first computer, a TRS-80 model I. After studying electrical engineering at university he went on to become an devops lead at a startup, academia, and then a big company. Eventually deciding to spend time in Europe, he is now living in Slovenia where he continues to travel and enjoy the many wonderful things the city of Ljubljana has to offer. In addition to having fun working at Gitlab, John enjoys hacking on tiny electronics and playing with the latest languages and frameworks. When he isn't working in front of screen he is spending his free time teaching people to dance, learning Slovenian and noodling on his guitar.
Joined March 21st
From Pennsylvania Amish country comes an avid technologist, serial mentor and community evangelist. Jason can be seen attending, boothing, and speaking at as many FOSS conferences and Linux User Groups as he can manage. Previously working as a distribution manager for a thin client company, Jason brings his expertise in packaging for Linux along with a strong desire to produce tools for the community that has changed his life.
Javiera is a software engineer who loves to learn and teach software. She worked in aeronautics previously to fall in love with computer science. Before Gitlab, she worked remotely for a couple of years for industries like cinema, tech education, start-ups, and big corporates. She loves cloud computing, backend engineering, and scalability challenges. She enjoys electronic music, collecting cool mechanical keyboards, and trying new food from other countries in her free time.
Javier is a creative developer with a background in digital design and web development.
Jay is a software engineer focused on test automation with experience across a broad range of industries and application types. He is focused on building reliable test frameworks that allow for a more effective development process. He loves Ruby and strangely enjoys investigating issues. Outside of work Jay loves to spend time with his Finnish wife and three young boys. He enjoys playing basketball, coaching his son's soccer teams, gardening, good coffee, seafood and curating Spotify playlists.
Jay has served as a Software Engineer for SaaS-based startups for over 10 years. Heβs no stranger to the freelance world, and has co-founded a few ideas as well. When not on the keys he enjoys all things outdoors, including but not limited to: Disc Golf, Surfing, Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing and Snowboarding.
Jesse is originally from Tucson, Arizona, and has lived in Phoenix, Arizona since 2010. He is an experienced legal professional in both the law firm and in-house settings. He and his wife are proud parents to two young children.
Jackson possesses a strong passion for exploring and acquiring new skills. When he's not engaged in troubleshooting tasks, he loves traveling and being active outdoors. Indoors, he enjoys playing Rocket League, cooking, and baking. His favorite dessert is key lime pie.
John has been a backend engineer working on SAAS for over 10 years. He enjoys tackling tough technical challenges and scaling distributed systems. Outside of work, John is involved with mentoring and leading college students as a volunteer at his church. He also loves to cook and eat Chinese food.
Jeff enjoys automating and managing infrastructure in AWS and GCP using Terraform and Ansible. He also develops full stack applications and internal tools to automate the provisioning of user accounts and related infrastructure to provide a seamless user experience for complex or customized workflows. When not spending time in the lab, you will find him spending time with family and friends, camping, cooking, gardening, and doing home improvement projects.
Jennifer is a career assistant who is passionate about helping executives operate at their best and partnering with their teams to be a multiplier to overall efficiency and impact. She lives in Lincoln, CA (north of Sacramento), with her daughter Sofia and partner Justin. She enjoys cooking, exercise (run, spin, yoga),hiking and reading.
Passionate in problem solving and tooling development . Enjoys the occasional bubble tea.
Jenny is passionate about all things infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD. Although she started her career as a fullstack developer, she kept grativating towards infrastructure topics, so she changed roles to a site reliability engineer. Jenny spends her spare time hiking, reading, playing video games, and attending fitness classes in the area.
Jenny grew up in Maryland and moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 2012 learning and growing within the tech industry. When Jenny is not working, you will find her at the gym, with her dog, traveling and spending time with friends in the city.
Jacques enjoys engaging in projects that require him to work outside of his comfort zone. Outside of work he enjoys the outdoors and spending time with his wife and daughters.
Jeremy is a Solutions Architect with a background in Software Engineering and DevOps. He has experience in fast-burn startups as well as compliance-heavy enterprise companies. He enjoys solving complex customer challenges and delivering solutions with empirical results. Jeremy is a lifelong learner and passionate about all things technology, automation, and innovation. While he's not contributing to GitLab, you can find him spending time with his wife and 3 kids, tinkering with ideas, golfing, gardening, or learning something new that has peaked his interest.
Jerez is a Solutions Architect passionate about helping customers succeed in their DevOps journey. He loves learning new technologies and mobile app development. In his spare time, he likes to sing and play the guitar.
Jerome is passionate about leading teams, making big bets, and growing new ideas. His curiosity for both business and technology has developed into a career interweaving engineering, finance, and entrepreneurship. Currently, Jerome is a Director of Engineering and Strategy Lead at GitLab.
Jess has worked in the SaSS field for over a decade. Previously at GoTo (Formerly Citrix Online and LogMeIn) for over a decade supporting enterprise customers with their remote solution tools such as GoToMeeting and enabling global employees to work anywhere remotely. Enabling remote work has been her life's blood and she not only talks the talk but walks the walk. Working remotely herself for 15 some odd years she has helped to cultivate a remote friendly culture at GoTo as well as Ping Identity, both companies sharing a hybrid model. Coming fresh out of Ping Identity, an identity and access management company, she has worked in the DevOps realm for the past year and a half and is looking forward to diving further into the DevOps world and everything GitLab!
Jessie comes from a background of a decade of IT and sysadmin experience at non-profits. She loves to help folks solve tough problems and dig into weird bugs. Outside of work she enjoys baking, hiking, and exploring her home of NYC.
Jessie has built software for early stage start-ups, the United States Federal Government, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between. She is famous for her creative use of emojis in code review comments.
Originally from the Bay Area, but now residing in Austin, I love to swim, surf (Encinitas is the best) and ski (learned at Stevens Pass). I attended UC Santa Cruz (Go Slugs!) and University of Texas at Austin (Hook'em!), two very different, yet fulfilling experiences. You can find me Saturday morning at my local coffee shop reading the WSJ front to back. Ask me anything you'd like about investing and the markets, I'd love to turn your two minute question into an hour long discussion.
Julia is driven by her passion for technology, automation, and learning. With a background as a software developer, CI/CD engineer, and solutions consultant, she has honed her expertise in DevOps. Prior to discovering her calling in IT, she worked as a simultaneous interpreter, providing translations at high-level diplomatic meetings, international conferences, and on television. In her free time, she likes cooking, playing chess, travelling and learning new things.
John has a background in Rails development and customer-facing roles. He loves helping people solve practical problems, and gaining broader insights into the tech stack and best practices in the process. Outside of work, he enjoys taking long walks with his wife, biking, reading, and discussing technology, science, and movies.
Jon became a technical writer after going through a career change process. He realised that he liked explaining things, technical things, and talking to people. Technical writing seemed like a natural fit. Jon loves martial arts, cooking, baking, reading and gaming.
James has a broad background in system, network and software engineering, as well as product security and security testing, tooling and research. When not wrangling vulnerabilities and writing security automation tooling, James loves to contribute to open source software, design and build electronics, and make things out of wood and metal.
Julia is a Bay Area native who traded the Pacific Ocean for the Rocky Mountains. Prior to GitLab, Julia worked for 10+ years in education, where she discovered her passion for helping people solve problems and exceed their goals. Julia uses her background in education to help people understand how GitLab can change their workflow β and thusly, their lives. When sheβs not GitLabbing, Julia bakes a mean chocolate chip cookie and can be found chasing kids anywhere the sun shines.
Jiaan has a background in fullstack and game development. He is passionate about building automated solutions and great user experiences. In his spare time he likes to play strategy games, photograph wildlife and explore the world in search of great food and wine.
Jim has worked with technology since his first Commodore 64 and enjoys learning new things every day. He spends his free time playing games with his kids and two dogs, Nova and Besnik. He also enjoys hiking, camping, and spending time in nature.
Jan is a Solutions Architect with a Devops background. He likes everything about science and technology, but has also a focus on security and privacy topics as well as their social impact.
Joe is a Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance professional who has worked for startups and high-growth technology companies across various industries. Outside of work, Joe enjoys spending time with his family, exercising, and working outdoors.
Jay enjoys problem solving which drove him to get a degree in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. Post graduation Jay worked as a Software Developer for Cisco where he found his love for fullstack development. Outside of work Jay is a rock climbing instructor for the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG) and enjoys other hobbies such as Snowboarding, Photography, and Video Games.
Chatty chap who very much loves devops mindsets, continual awesomeness and talking tech!
James is a software engineer who loves Ruby, reading, and being sent pictures of your pets.
Jo is DevOps engineer with an extensive background in Linux. Located in Marysville Washignton USA. He has worked at many interesting places throughout his career such as AT&T (prior to becoming AT&T Wireless), Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Samsung Android Development department, Expedia, and Disney. Jo enjoys being a team player by helping with doing the needful, and just being a friend. Outside of the office Jo enjoys working on his garden, playing with his dogs, and working on his 1970 Chevy K20 pick up.
Joanna is a Recruiter who joined GitLab in January 2020. She resides in the city of GdaΕsk with her two fluffs - Dakota and Baloo. When she is not attracting the best talent worldwide, you can probably find her biking to the seaside, hiking in the woods, doing yoga, reading books or playing board games with her nerdy friends. GitLab gives her the flexibility she always dreamed of in order to perform her work the best way she can while traveling the world.
Over a decade's experience in GTM recruiting across key markets in EMEA and beyond. Passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging, Joanna also enjoys iterating and optimising hiring processes and strategies to ensure scalability across business areas. Outside of work, Joanna loves to cook, learn about wine and travel with her husband and little dog, Baguette.
JoΓ£o is a Backend Engineer who has discovered his love for DevOps. After a long relationship with Ruby, now Docker and Gitlab CI have become his professional passions. Outside the work environment, JoΓ£o is a family guy who loves his wife, family and friends. Favourite activities include: watching movies/series, playing FIFA, playing guitar, supporting C. R. Flamengo, kitesurfing and snowboarding.
JoΓ£o is a software engineer specializing in containers and software distribution technologies. Enjoys working on large-scale impactful products that empower developers across the world. When he's not writing code, he enjoys spending time with his family, driving, walking on the beach and watching movies and TV shows.
Johannes growth up in a small City in Bavaria, Germany.. After completing his training as an IT specialist for application development, he continued his academic journey, earning a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and a Master of Business Administration in General Management. With over six years of experience as a developer, Johannes has built a solid foundation in the IT industry. His career took an exciting turn when he transitioned into Customer Success, spending four years contributing to the growth of a small startup in Germany. In his free time, Johannes is an avid sports enthusiast. As a certified ski instructor, he enjoys the winter months on the slopes. When there's no snow, you can find him hiking in the mountains, on long road bike tours, or running.
Jocelyn is engiener-turned-product manager who has worked in a variety of industries, both tech and non-tech. When she is away from the keyboard, Jocelyn enjoys spending time with her family (including three cats and two dogs!), puzzles, snow sports (when it is cold enough), and always enjoys a good game of Scrabble.
Joe is an accomplished sales professional with experience in advertising, infrastructure and cloud platform technologies and has spent enough time on the command line to know how to break just about everything. Joe grew up in Chicago-land and has lived in Atlanta Georgia and Phoenix Arizona before moving to San Francisco California. In his free time Joe is avid snowboarder, yogi and non-fiction reader. command line to know how to break just about everything. We found Joe at a Docker meetup in San Francisco in 2016 and he joined the team two months later as our 5th sales hire in North America. Joe grew up in Chicago-land and has lived in Tucson, Atlanta, Scottsdale, San Francisco and now resides in Las Vegas. In his free time Joe is avid snowboarder, yogi, non-fiction reader and working on a Master's degree in Management Information Systems (MIS).
Joe is a pragmatic fullstack engineer and DevOps enthusiast with a passion for clean code, automation and observability. He particularly enjoys building cloud native applications on Kubernetes. When he isn't spending quality time with family, his interests include history, particularly in podcast form; travel, to various locales but especially European cities (for the history, architecture and food!); bike rides and walks, around the countryside and coast; and reading science fiction. Time permitting, he also enjoys video games (short ones, that can be finished!) and watching films.
Joe grew up on a horse farm as a kid and when he wasn't working on chores, he tinkered with code to build websites. He has a background in Software Engineering and Solutions Architecture with a specialization in mobile, infrastructure automation, and cloud. Joe has a passion for solving customer challenges and building solutions so customers can focus on what matters the most. In his spare time, he enjoys studying residential architecture along with spending time with his family.
John is an experienced sales enablement professional that is passionate about empowering salespeople with the right information, tools, processes, and methodology to close deals and advance their career. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoys spending time at Lake Lanier riding his SeaDoo and traveling all over the world. John studied Sociology and International Business at Georgia State University and has visited over 20 countries.
John leads the Developer Advocacy team. He learned the secrets to helping people tell their stories and building great communities as founder of a coworking space in Brooklyn and as tech evangelist for Gilt and Grubhub. He stays busy by spending time with his family, going to concerts, and surfing - yes, you can surf in New York.
John loves building Infrastructure and herding servers. It's a passion that started when he was playing with computers at a young age. In his free times he's playing a few board games and video games, dabbling in Astronomy, cycling, and learning other technologies in a wide variety of realms.
John is an experienced software engineer having worked in multiple domains throughout his career. He has extensive experience in designing and delivering scalable and maintainable software, promoting innovation and engineering excellence, and mentoring engineers in their careers. When he is not writing code, you can find him spending time with his family, playing music, or building video games.
John is passionate about quality and efficiency, to deliver an optimal experience to the customer. While not working, John enjoys hiking, running and photography.
Jon has a passion for technology. He has been programming anything he can get his hands on from an early age, including a Commodore 64 and a 486DX-powered PC. These days, he is a member of the GitLab Database team, brought there by an interest in dev ops tooling and enablement. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, cooking, studying languages, playing various instruments, and reading high fantasy literature.
Jonathan helps enterprises drive their business-oriented outcomes through the realization of new capabilities and efficiencies within their operating model, technology strategy, and software delivery and management processes. Jonathan is passionate about building strong technical teams that thrive by continuously striving to be a world-class learning organization. When not focused on professional work, Jonathan loves to spend time with his family, snowboard, read, and garden.
Jonathan loves the finance world and has been an international tax manager over the past few years for different industries, living and working in different countries. He enjoys the challenges the finance and tax areas give. What Jonathan loves the most though is to spend quality time with his family, and he considers the smile of his two little boys the most precious thing in the world. He enjoys meeting new people, specially with different cultures and backgrounds, loving to travel, specially to unknown countries.
Jon started life as a full stack Web Developer working in Ruby, then transitioned to Backend Engineer and recently found himself in DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineering. What little free time he has is spent raising his children, practicing martial arts and trying to learn Japanese by binge watching anime.
Jordan is a DevOps Engineer with a long history working with CI/CD. Located in the Pacific Northwest, USA. He has worked at several well known companies such as Wizards of the Coast, Microsoft, and Disney. Jordan is a team player who tends lose track of time and works past normal work hours. Outside of the workspace he enjoys spending time with his family, spoiling his son, then sneaking off to play board games and video games with his friends.
Jordan is an enthusiastic member of the Renewals team. In her free time, she enjoys working on art, making puns, gardening and playing with her dog-child, Roxy.
Jose Ivan is a software developer with a passion for all things technology and programming. With a thirst to improve his own skills and knowledge, either coding or reading he won't stop looking for ways to create software. In his free time he likes to play videogames, drive around on his car, cooking barbeques and reading about new tech.
Joseph is passionate about enabling others to take control of their work through common sense applications that align business needs with individual creativity. He is a Systems Engineer by trade and an Agile project management nerd through formal/informal training. For fun, he loves any outdoor activity with his family.
Joe is a Staff Backend Engineer who loves running, coding in Golang and building Lego. He also loves traveling and building open, inclusive community around software projects. Joe is a former member of Google Cloud, AWS and the United States Marine Corps.
Josephine has a passion for process improvement and system enhancements. Although she has spent most of her career within billing operations, she loves anything quote-to-cash and thinking about the "big picture". Outside of work, she's a former ballerina, now avid crossfit amatuer, who loves dessert!
Josh has an extensive background in the design and development of web based applications for Government and non-profit organizations. These expirences allowed Josh to leverage cutting edge technologies and processes to ensure reliable and repeatable successes. When Josh isn't following the latest technology trends you'll likley find him spending time with his family, playing golf or watching his West Virginia University Mountaineers.
Josh has a passion for helping Government Agencies operate more efficiently, and uses his background in Sales to help lead a team of BDRs focused on the Public Sector. In his spare time, Josh is a part-time Masters Student at Johns Hopkins, and loves to run, cycle, read, travel, and write/produce music.
Josianne is a software engineer from New Zealand. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, boardgames, and photography.
Jeff started his professional career as a Licensed Paramedic but transitioned back into IT full-time in 2012. He's been a sales overlay for over 11+ years with a deep passion for Automation and DevOps. Outside of work you'll find Jeff outdoors, gaming and hanging out with his pup(Bullet).
An electrical engineer by education, Jamie has held roles in development, systems engineering, architecture, and sales. Collaborating with customers to solve tough problems, create mutual success, and build strong relationships is his jam. He loves spending time with his family, in the outdoors, good coffee, and craft beer.
After working in advertising sales for 10 years, I built a spreadsheet to optimize my workflow, learnt JavaScript in order to automate it (with the help of Tristan Read), one thing lead to another, now I'm a Frontend Engineer :)
Before joining Gitlab Joern was a Security Consultant for over a decade. He first touched base with GitLab in 2013 and was a happy GitLab user and hacker ever since.
With over 15 years of experience across product, design, and engineering roles, Jeff is passionate about creating lovable tools for developers. When he's not working, you can find him in the shop building his latest woodworking project.
Juan is an experienced engineering manager with a strong technical background. Prior to joining GitLab, he had been leading high performance engineering teams for over 10 years at various start-ups in Canada. Outside of work Juan enjoys all sorts of water sports, in particular scuba diving and open water swimming.
Julian is a system administrator and also enjoys programming. He is a fan of open source software. In his free time, he loves reading manga, manhua, and webtoons.
Julian has a keen interest in security testing. He has a background in the areas of software security, static analysis and compiler engineering. Julian completed his PhD at the University of Luxembourg in the context of static analysis and symbolic execution. In his spare time, Julian loves traveling, hiking and cooking.
Julieβs career began when she was accepted into an apprentice program as a Ruby on Rails engineer. From there, she moved towards a more full-stack repertoire of technologies and has most recently set her sights on developing a deeper focus in the front-end, bringing her back to her visual roots. Prior to a career in technology, Julie was a fashion photographer with a passionate eye for storytelling through fashion editorial. When sheβs not working, Julie likes to make time for travel, yoga and spending time with friends and family.
Julie lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she was born and raised. She comes to GitLab after several years in the WooCommerce space, during which time she helped merchants of all kinds with their technical issues as well as their general requests for guidance and advice. In her spare time, Julie is an avid reader, writer, gamer, and puzzler. She can even be found occasionally coding her own text-based trivia game. Julie's most unique skill is carving sweet Jack O'Lanterns, while her most useless one is the truly encyclopedic amount of knowledge about Star Trek: The Next Generation she keeps in her brain.
Proudly joined GitLab in November 2021! I am a proactive professional with a deep background in Project Management, Marketing & Communication across Europe, for both international corporations & start-ups/scale-ups. For almost 8 years now, I have been thriving on working with culturally diverse and curious-minded people on complex business challenges. I have been living in France, Italy and the Netherlands and speak fluently French, English and Italian - Dutch is next on the list!
Justin grew up in Spokane Washington where he began his career in product (after a short stint working in the film industry). From there he moved to Seattle working on various startups and consumer technology companies. Outside of work Justin loves spending time outdoors with his family and their Golden Retriever, Copper.
Before joining GitLab, Justin was a full stack software engineer working on everything from front end and back end web development, to software architecture and cloud migration. He likes to use technology to bring excellent products to life that delight users and contribute to the success of the company.
Outside of work, he likes to plan his next travels, binge-watch TV shows, and read books.
Justin is a user experience, interaction, visual design leader with a passion for product creation and user-centered design. He''s worked on products with screens no bigger than a typical thumbnail image all the way up to a flat screen TV and everything in between. He believes in the power of team collaboration and the design process that helps create cool, interesting, useful things. He has a wife, a step-son, 2 cats and a dog. He''s a bit of a Star Wars fan, loves movies, reading, video games and looks forward to the day he can set up a muaythai heavy bag in his garage again.
Justin is a software engineer with experience building scalable backend applications and a passion for peeking under the hood to figure out how things work. Outside of work, he likes to spend time with family, tinker with his home lab, and play games with friends.
I began my career right after University, delving into web development & video content management. As I explored the field further, I shifted my focus to CMS platforms and open-source technologies, immersing myself in coding and development. After gaining several years of experience as a developer, I made a pivotal transition into sales development. My journey in sales initially specialized in the Data space of business development, leveraging my expertise in data visualization. Over time, I expanded my focus to encompass Cloud technologies, Application Development, and DevOps. As a sales leader, I have achieved remarkable success both professionally and personally over the past decade. Throughout my career, I have cultivated a strong work ethic and a relentless passion for continuous growth. With an unwavering commitment to excellence, I approach each professional endeavor with dedication and an insatiable hunger for learning.
Joe began his web development journey when Rails was on version 2, since then he has worked with multiple languages on a wide range of applications. In his spare time he loves to walk, modify cars, build home automation tools, woodworking, video games, and much more. Joe has lived in England, Spain, Romania, and Thailand.
Before GitLab I spent time working in a number of roles spanning the Software Development Lifecycle. I've worked in automotive, biotech, enterprise storage, high performance computing and IoT as a Software Engineer in Test, Software Engineer, "DevOps Engineer", DevOps Lead, Platform Architect and Head of Platform for Arm, Biorelate, Jaguar Land Rover, Virgin Media O2 and IBM
Kai kicked off his career in Product Management as the first hire of a Managed WordPress Hosting startup. From there he continued to work on products that helped developers manage workflows and deliver web projects to clients easier and faster. Outside of work, Kai enjoys getting traveling with his wife and two children. He can also be found playing video games or enjoying some offline time playing boardgames and TCGs with friends.
Born and raised in Atlanta, Kaley began her career in cybersecurity which eventually led her to GitLab sales in 2019. Kaley has almost 4 years of experience at GitLab. Outside of work, you can find Kaley working on her fitness goals or on her yoga mat, hanging out with her product engineer husband or taking her 2 goldendoodles to the park.
Kamil is a low-level programming enthusiast with years of experience in building apps for all platforms. He is also a security, virtualization and graphics expert with a variety of programming languages in his toolkit together with deep operating systems architecture knowledge. He's focusing lately on security principles of mobile platforms and the "container revolution". In his spare time he likes to run, cycle and play good games, although not all at the same time.
Karen currently serves on the boards of Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) where she serves on the Audit Committee, Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS)- chairing the Audit Committee and serving on the Compensation Committee and GitLab β serving as Audit Committee Chairman. She previously served on the board of Ellie Mae (NYSE: Elli) β chairing the Merger & Acquisition Committee and served on the Audit Committee. She also served on the boards of 2 private companies LogRhythm (acquired by Thoma Bravo) and MetricStream. Blasing served as Chief Financial Officer for Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GDWR) from July 2009 through March 2015, where she led the companyβs successful initial public offering in January 2012 and two subsequent follow-on offerings. Ms. Blasing has also served as Chief Financial Officer for Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell), Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), and Counterpane Internet Security (acquired by BT). She has held senior finance roles at salesforce.com, Informix Corporation (acquired by IBM), Oracle Corporation and Syntex Pharmaceuticals (now Roche). She holds B.A.βs in both Economics and Business Administration from the University of Montana and an MBA from the University of Washington.
Kassio is a passionate software engineer who enjoys communication and solve the right problem. In his spare time, Kassio likes to travel, watch movies and experiencing new food.
Katie is originally from San Jose, California and currently resides in New York, New York. After graduating from Fordham University with a degree in marketing, Katie started her career in tech sales where she loves meeting new people, and learning something new every day. In her free time, Katie enjoys running around the city, discovering new restaurants, and listening to early 2000s hip-hop.
Katie is a designer who enjoys shipping useful products. She started her career as a developer which helps her understand the technical parts of her job. Katie enjoys works closely with engineers and product managers to frame the problem and come up with simple solutions. Outside of work, Katie is an avid cook and enjoys keeping fit.
Throughout her career, Katie has always been passionate about client and vendor relationship building and has developed that experience with her background in sales, the hospitality industry, government contracting, and now field marketing. Outside of work, Katie enjoys spending time with friends and family and staying active with hiking, spin and yoga. She has also been a foster for local animal rescues for many years and especially enjoys caring for young kittens. Katie loves to travel and hopes to live internationally in the future.
Kayla has a love of storytelling, language, and learning - and sheβs grateful that each of those show up her work in communications every day. When sheβs not working, you can find her traveling, trying new restaurants, taking in the arts, and spending time with her husky, Hazel.
Kent loves helping others understand and solve technical problems. Prior to joining GitLab he worked in the Hardware Engineering industry before switching to the IT/Software Engineering industry, building up skills to be a jack of all trades. When he is not chasing any rabbitholes, he likes to spend time playing video games, or honing his mediocre piano skills, or slicing up a lot of garlic and cooking different dishes.
Based in Pune-India, trained and experienced with knowledge on System and Tools (CRM like SalesForce.com (SFDC), Oracle R11i & R12, Quoting Tools such as BMI (Big Machines), Zuora), ECMS (Enterprise Contract Management System) and Business Intelligence Tools & Applications with understanding of the database of Software and Cloud Licenses details in Oracle for global customers (License Management).
Keelan comes to GitLab with a passion for technology, diversity and inclusion, and leadership. When away from his keyboard, you can find him traveling around the globe or in his kitchen baking weekly sourdough loaves. Vegan since 2017, Keelan is also an advocate for animal wellfare and has never met a goat, goose, or grub he didn't get along with. If you want to strike up a conversation, your best bet is to bring up a favorite vegan recipe, baking tactics, sci-fi media recommendations, or cute animal pics!
Kelley Shirazi is an Enablement professional with over 20 years of experience in various sales roles, including individual contributor and sales leadership. Coming most recently from Puppet, Kelley is looking forward to learning from the team and sharing her best practices to have a positive impact. In her spare time, Kelley loves competitive fitness, holistic nutrition, and the Marvel Comic Universe. A true crime junkie and a music festival fan, Kelley's favorite podcast is My Favorite Murder, favorite local festival is the NW Strings Summit, and Jenny Lawson is her literary Patronus.
Ken graduated from Santa Clara University with a BSEE. He has more than 30 years of experience working as an engineer, first with hardware and chip design, then eventually moving into software, including over 20 years of build automation and CICD work. In his spare time he plays viola in several groups around the Bay Area, including Mission Chamber Orchestra. Connect with Ken at [email protected]!
Kerri Miller is a Software Engineer and Team Lead currently based in the Pacific Northwest. She has worked at companies large and small, mentors and teaches students, and still finds time to work on Open Source projects and organize multiple conferences every year. Having an insatiable curiosity, she has worked as a lighting designer, marionette puppeteer, sous chef, and professional poker player, and enjoys hiking, long-distance motorcycling, yoyos, and working with glass. Asked to describe herself in two words, she thought a bit and replied "lackwit gadabout."
Ket has a passion for understanding customer needs, and providing the support they need to get on with their job. She has spent several years leading tech support for a SaaS provider in the education sector, and thrives on collaboration and learning. Her family is her joy and when (if!) she has a spare minute, she'll be crocheting a baby blanket for the ever-growing extended clan.
Over 30 years experience in Technology and Consulting roles with more recent focus on Strategy & Operations in a High Growth SaaS & Services market leader. Having managed teams from 10 to 100 over the last 20 years I have a wealth of Leadership and Operational Skills that my employers have leveraged to build Product & Consulting businesses generating Revenues in excess of $1B annually. I am passionate about Operational Execution, leading first with automation, building empowered teams of exceptional talent, leveraging Data and Insights and mandating a focus on core business tenants such as Bookings, Backlog, Revenue & Margin. I thrive in High-growth, constantly changing environments. My superpower is to be able to operate in-between the layers of Business and Technology. Translating what customers at the C-Suite level actually mean to architects of technology building solutions. With a broad technical background from LAN/WAN, IP Telephony, DB Administration, Data Center Design, Web Design & Development and Data & Analytics, I have the ability to visualize, design and present end to end complex solutions targeted to specific audiences. My passion is the people, whether that is the team or the customer. And my day is made whole when I hear 'Yes! Thank-you. That's the outcome I needed'.
Kim is passionate about content creation and designing engaging learning experiences as an instructional designer. Kim lives in the Pacific Northwest with their wife and two corgis (along with a growing list of other animals). Outside of work, Kim loves reading nonfiction, traveling, trying new restaurants, and making stuff.
Ian has worked in product for nearly 5 years now, starting when he was working part time at a local Australian tech company while completing his law degree at the University of Melbourne. After a brief stint working as a tax analyst for one of the Big 4, he then worked as a product manager for a number of startups in Australia before working as a product manager at Gitlab. Based in beautiful Melbourne, Australia, some of his favourite things to do include travelling, eating brunch, drinking coffee and playing with his cute 3 year old Cavoodle named Maple.
Kinga is originally from Hungary, however based in Dublin since 2013. Living with her husband, son and their 2 dogs. She has 7 years experience with another software company. Loves to be with family and friend, traveling and learning new things. Favourite season is Summer.
Kira is excited to bring her experience with the public sector to GitLab's Field Marketing team. Outside of work, if she's not soaking up quality time with her husband, son and two dogs you'll likely find her running, paddleboarding or scouting out an amazing new (to her) corner of the world.
Kam is a passionate Site Reliability Engineering leader with a deep interest in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. He thrives on building and leading distributed teams, finding fulfillment in their happiness and effective execution. Outside of work, Kam enjoys watching films, playing video games, and spoiling his cat Jean-Luc with far too many treats.
After a career in software development where he worked in the public and private sectors including extensive work for the Department of Defense, Kevin saw the need for experienced developers to step up to the Cyber Security plate and become warriors in the fight for information security. To that end, Kevin obtained his CISSP and became a security practitioner. Kevin holds a masterβs degree, ITIL, Project+, and CPSSE certifications in addition to the CISSP. In his spare time, Kevin can be found hiking, traveling with his wife Jen, photographing nature, or tinkering with his car. There also seems to always be some sort of house project going on.
Karthik's interest in twinkering and taking things apart. He loves anything tech and how different layers of abstraction work over each other. While not coding, He enjoys spending time with family/friends. He likes going out to nature either via hiking or cycling and also likes playing sports (currently into badminton, squash and table tennis).
I am a Software Engineer with experience in Ruby on Rails, though I also enjoy learning about infrastructure and tinkering with my Linux setup. Before joining GitLab, I worked at a couple small companies, on projects like energy performance systems, developing a courses platform and managing parts of the infrastructure. Outside of coding I enjoy gaming with friends and solo, as well as hiking, exploring and cycling.
I am a member of the Sales Leadership Team covering Enterprise accounts in the Pac NW and Midwest. I love developer productivity and helping companies get value to production faster and with lower risk. GitLab is a great place to pursue those goals. I am married to Linda and have two great teenage girls Caroline and Grace. I love Viking football, playing cards, classic arcade games and enjoying the lakes here in Minnesota.
Kamil has nearly two decades of experience in web software development - first as a developer, then as engineering leader working for online media, e-commerce and SaaS companies. He thrives in challenging environments where he can support his teams and help them achieve success and deliver great software. His many passions include sports (mountain biking, snowboarding), horses, computer games and 3D graphics - in his spare time he works on his own game/engine.
Kati's career as a technical writer probably started at age 12, when she wrote down instructions for her family on how to use the new microwave properly. Since then she's written documentation about many other things, from word processing software to cloud networking. When not writing, she likes to spend time outdoors with her family.
Kos likes webdev technologies and is easily fascinated by the tech in other fields or industries. He enjoys pop science, though rarely understands it. Kos generally finds that people are amazing. And believes that sandwiches and hoods are among humanity's best inventions. In his spare time, Kos can take care of his house plants, meditate while doing pixel or pencil sketches, or enjoy long walks with his friends.
Kras is a software developer interested in all things backend, ops and automation. He loves fishing and spending time outdoors with his family.
Kristen supports the corporate communications team at GitLab, assisting with media relations and storytelling. Prior to joining GitLab, Kristen worked at VMware, where she lead PR for the Tanzu and Cloud Management business group. Outside of work, Kristen loves to travel, bake, watch sports and be anywhere outdoors with her French Bulldog, Jaylen.
German "Vorsprung durch Technik" paired with Russian "soul". I don't sell, I don't market... I help. My passion lies within bringing the right people together for the maximum benefit for all parties. Seeing people succeed, is what really drives me. My other happy places that make me feel alive are dancing, attending live music gigs and travelling to new places.
Kristof loves to laugh, usually with his own (bad) jokes. However, I'm probably not the funniest in the house since I've got a lot of competition from my sons, Cas & Jeff and my wife, Sofie. And sometimes even our cat, Toulouse, is hard to beat at being funny. In my spare time I like to play with the kids (Lego finally!), volunteer at CoderDojo or play World of Warcraft, if theres any time left...
Kassandra enjoys all things Quality Engineering (emphasis on pushing buttons). When not working she enjoys hiking, gaming, and kickboxing.
Konst has worked on a wide range of tech stacks across SaaS companies, consumer electronics and an electricity distribution company. He's interested in applying engineering approaches to solving operational challenges. When not working, Konst loves to spend time with his wife and daughter. He loves going to the beach and on family road trips, long walks and photography.
Kristen is an experienced business analyst and ops leader who's obsessed with improving processes, creating structure, and enabling others to work efficiently and effectively. She has a background in education and loves connecting people to suss out and solve problems. Originally from Southern California, Kristen now lives in North Carolina with her husband and their four-legged children. She enjoys yoga, live music, traveling, and riding her horse, Beau Jack.
Kushal is full-stack JavaScript aficionado. Prior to GitLab, he worked at Saba Software, Inc. for almost 4 years designing enterprise webapps on Learning (LMS), Talent and Certification domains, with extensive experience working with ExtJS at scale and migration of ExtJS apps to React and Angular 2. When not writing code, he loves cooking Indian food, flashing Android custom ROMs, exploring Linux distros, watching gadgets on YouTube, playing acoustic guitar, movies, and a short road trip to a hill nearby.
Kyle Yetter is an experienced software engineer who lives with his husband in the US South in a former luxury department store. Together, they tend to two cats: a tough Hemmingway tabby, and a gentle Maine Coon/hovering cloud of fur. Previously, he's worked in telecom, web hosting/system administration, ed tech, and gig economy marketplace spaces. Most recently, he spent three and a half years as a senior engineer for TaskRabbit, and then another year as a leading engineer for Wonolo. Kyle is a bit of a programming language nerd, as well as a long-time Ruby fanboy. Ruby is his strongest fluency, but he's also very interested in JavaScript, Go, Python, Perl, PHP, Java, Bash/Shell languages, as well as many other more domain-specific technologies. Kyle strives to be well-rounded with a wide variety of interests. Here is a small sampling of things he likes to think about:
Leo is a backend engineer from Brazil with more than six years of experience in web development. Recently, he found passion for software architecture, especially for distributed architecture. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, traveling and playing with his Beagle, Lua.
I am a highly skilled software engineer with 3 years of experience in developing a wide range of software solutions. I am passionate about problem-solving and have a proven track record of delivering efficient and user-friendly solutions with a strong attention to detail, I strive to meet the highest standards in my work. I possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, enjoy tackling challenges head-on, and find innovative solutions. Additionally, I have demonstrated leadership abilities, taking ownership of projects, coordinating with team members, and providing guidance when needed. I am a collaborative team player who values open communication and actively contributes to a positive work environment. I am eager to learn and have a strong desire to stay updated with the latest technologies, making me a fast learner.
Laura is a Backend Engineer. In her spare time, she likes working out, doing yoga, watching films, playing games, reading, cooking, chilling with her friends and kittens, and daydreaming. She likes the beach and often thinks about being a zookeeper or a horror film director.
Lauren is a Fullstack Engineer from Cayucos, California. She has a background in Graphic Communication, Mathematics, and JAMstack development. While not coding, Lauren can be found surfing remote waves on the central coast, competitively racing outrigger canoes, or snowboarding on powder days.
Laurie has worked with numerous organizations in the Communications Service Provider and Enterprise industries providing technical sales in various capacities for several software companies over the past 20 years. He is an avid hockey fan, loves to golf, travel, cook, Formula 1, and a proud parent to his Son and Daughter and a grandfather.
Loryn has a passion for solving product problems in complex spaces. She loves getting to deep dive into customer and user contexts - especially those she has little first hand experience with. In the course of her career (so far) this includes learning a lot about tax compliance and how fiber optic networks get built. Outside of work Loryn is a runner (both of trails and after her two small children) and a coffee nerd.
Lorena has a background in data science, linguistics, and translation. She enjoys combining these skills into writing and translating documentation and educational content that help people achieve their goals. In her free time, you can find her in the kendo dojo, on the yoga mat, or taking photos around the world.
Lee adopted GitLab (2017), started contributing (2019), joined the Core team (2020), then joined the Contributor Success team (2022). He enjoys working with both the frontend and backend and loves learning new tools, techniques and technologies. His vision is to help everyone realize GitLab's potential and that they too can contribute. When not working, you'll find him spending time with his family, or kicking back in his retro home bar.
Lukas comes from a long dynasty of teachers and broke the tradition to study computer science. When he was eleven and started building an online shop with PHP, the path to becoming a Frontend Engineer seemed quite clear. He likes building software for other developers. In his spare time Lukas enjoys cooking, brewing beer and playing "Skat".
Lesley is a software engineer with a backend focus. She is passionate about learning about new technology, and always looking forward to the next challenge. Check here to read her thoughts on various topics.
Liam is an experienced engineering manager with a particular interest in scaling startups, agile ways of working and automation. When not at the keyboard, Liam can be found watching (and sometimes playing) football, riding his bike, or being outnumbered by his wife and two young daughters.
Libor has years of experience designing digital products and services for a variety of company types and sizes. He is always looking for new ways to either reimagine or improve upon any experience. In his free time, he enjoys being outdoors, reading, listing to jazz and spending time with his family.
Jen-Shin is a Taiwanese who is also known as @godfat on the Internet. He learned Ruby from 2006 and has built a ton of stuffs with it including open source libraries. He''s also passionate about functional programming, particularly Haskell. Other than programming, Jen-Shin loves computer games, especially some indie games. At some point he would really like to write one indie game as well, combining two major interests.
From an early age, Lindsey was curious by nature. Eventually - with the combination of medical and engineering degrees - she found a passion for building experiences people desired through Frontend/UI development and UX research. She loves learning new topics constantly and can typically be found outside of work culinary experimentation, foraging, mountain climbing, playing ice hockey, and creating art through competitive cosplay.
Before joining GitLab, Lisa worked several years in a major financial institution. As a Sales professional she's always been passionate about continues improvement and understanding needs of others. In her free time she loves to explore new places, photography and spend time with friends and family.
Leaminn is a clean code enthusiast who loves finding efficient solutions to technical challenges. She is also the proud mom of an extremely handsome cat. Her hobbies include binge watching shows, napping, acting in community theatre and short films, singing opera, vegetable gardening, jigsaw puzzles, playing games, and exploring new activities!
Lorenz has a Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering from Ghent University. He loves spending time on creating beautiful and user-friendly customer experiences or deep-diving in complex frontend issues. In his spare time, he likes playing field hockey, travelling with his girlfriend, and cooking.
Lucas likes building tools to build more tools. He joined GitLab in 2019 after passionately using their products for many years. When not coding, Lucas is living in the Pacific Northwest, brewing his own beer, camping, hiking, practicing his handstands, and making too many jokes.
Lucas has been coding for over 15 years. He started as a hobbyist in high school, where he cracked his parents' laptop exploiting a LPE vulnerability. Since then, he has worked in various roles across multiple domains throughout his career. He is trained as a Open Water Scuba Instructor and worked as one for a while. He enjoys the outdoors, cooking, and reading on the latest tech.
Lukasz's entire career was built upon a childhood dream - he wanted to have a computer since he heard this word for the first time. It took him 10 years from writing his first programs in Atari Basic to creating his first computer network when he was a teenager. Coming from network/security background, he was working in Support roles for over a decade (with some episodes in Sales and Procurement). He hates writing about himself in third person.
I joined GitLab in 2016 as the sole Brand Designer and haven't looked back since! I enjoy creating meaningful and engaging experiences through visuals - 'Making it pop!' since 2009. I am incredibly grateful for GitLab's all-remote culture which enables me to be a work-from-home Dad to my two amazing children (who often frequent GitLab calls as background noise). For fun I enjoy hockey (Go Avs!), getting a (sweaty) hour to myself at Orangetheory Fitness, and spending time with my family.
Luke is a developer who enjoys everything about programming: the problem-solving, the learning curves and the creativity. Besides programming, he enjoys experimental art and music, camping, playing the piano, and playing with his kids.
Lukas started building websites during his high-school years, advanced then to being a full-stack developer, and has since 2016 a dedicated focus on Ruby on Rails. Beyond the realm of coding, he finds fulfillment in the strength and agility honed through calisthenics, the rhythmic precision of ballroom tournament dancing, and the strategic depth of chess matches. When he isn't crafting elegant code or perfecting dance routines, he can be found exploring new horizons, embracing the adventure of travel with an insatiable curiosity. With a deep-seated interest in health and holistic living, he seeks to foster a harmonious balance between mind, body, and spirit.
Originally from northern Iowa, but based in St. Louis, MO nearly all of my adult life (while always pining for the mountains), Iβve been working with software clients and helping to solve their problems for nearly 20 years. My primary goal is always to understand my customersβ critical business issues and make it easy for them to purchase the solution. I live with my fiance Bob and our pup Posie. I love to cook and entertain, see live music, and to travel far and wide which typically involves a deep dive into local food and some sort of sporty adventure like rock climbing, mountain biking or skiing or whatever else the destination may have to offer.
Lyle graduated from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo (otherwise known as Cal Poly) in 2005 with a degree in Computer Engineering. Upon graduation he spent two years serving in Peace Corps, Benin helping local non-profits and other volunteers with technical projects. After a 2 year stay in rural Japan, he spent 9 years in Cambodia as the IT Director of an education-focused non-profit. Lyle now lives with his family in Vancouver, Canada. He enjoys learning languages, playing with his children and eating delicious things in the city's many excellent restaurants.
Lynsey joins Gitlab with over 13 years experience as an attorney specializing in both privacy and product matters. Following 20 years with Adobe, during which she served as both Senior Legal Counsel, Privacy and Data Protection Officer, Lynsey spent 3 years as Director of Privacy, Legal, at Ancestry. Lynsey was previously based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now resides in Scotland where she enjoys hiking and traveling in her time off.
Lysanne is a technical writer with a background in English and Philosophy. When she's not working, Lysanne enjoys reading, hiking, birding, collecting vinyl records, and exploring craft breweries.
Matt is originally from Minnesota (where he attended law school) and has also spent time living in Colorado before spending the last 15+ years residing in Californiaβs Bay Area. He has over 17 years of experience as an attorney specializing in commercial and go-to-market legal matters in both a law firm and in-house setting. He and his wife are the proud parents of three young children and one rescue dog. Together they enjoy staying active via workouts in their garage gym, playing tennis or just generally trying to keep up with their children.
Alan's journey through backend engineering into engineering management has given him a valuable perspective on leadership. With a focus on the servant leadership model, he has been able to support his team's growth, happiness, and productivity. When he's not busy working, Alan enjoys exploring new places with his wife and children, as well as hitting the trails as an avid mountain biker.
Madison is a Seattle Native who loves to spend time with her family, do arts & crafts, and hike mountains in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to GitLab, Madison worked in Augmented Reality and Cloud Computing.
Madeline Lake is a risk professional specializing in IT assurance. Prior to GitLab, Madeline worked at Deloitte as an Advisory Manager serving a number of large public companies with their SOX compliance and SOC 1 and SOC 2 issuance. In her free time Madeline enjoys reading and spending time with her friends and family.
A seasoned software developer and a passionate speaker with a decade of successful experience, Madou is a Solutions Architect helping organizations to understand all beneficial outcomes they will achieve by adopting a right DevOps strategy. Madou enjoys a good movie but can be also found sweating on a football (soccer) field or on a dancefloor.
Magdalena turned to product management after working several years as backend engineer and technology consultant. She believes that software is made by people for people, and that great products are built together. In her spare time she loves hiking, reading, sailing, and pickles.
Gosia is a backend developer who loves constant challenges in programming. In her free time she reads. A fan of colorful socks.
Hailing from Kerala, India, popularly known as "God's Own Country", Manoj is a hardcore Ruby and Rails enthusiast. He loves contributing to open source and is a big fan of boring solutions. When not writing code, he loves to read, take pictures, and play with cats.
Manuel has previously worked as a sysadmin, a fullstack developer and a DevOps team lead. Having been a passionate GitLab fan and user for many years, he decided to join the GitLab Support Team after a particularly delightful support experience as a GitLab customer. When he's not working, you'll most likely find him either out on a run or playing Minecraft.
Loves food & good coffee.
Marcel used to work in support, then took a long hiatus from the tech world to teach English in Japan. He is using his mastery of both English and support to work on his passion: technical documentation. He is kept busy with his two kids, but in his free time he is trying to learn how to paraglide. He loves board gaming with friends, working on puzzles, and playing with his Rubik's cube collection. You can find him lurking in other people's MRs, pointing out arcane grammar issues that no one wanted to hear about.
Marcin has worked for several years as an English teacher. Then he found out he can play around with computers while also explaining complex matters to readers clearly as a technical writer. He used to co-organize PyLight, a Python meetup in Warsaw, and serve as the Risk Manager for the Warsaw chapter of CISV International, a youth peace education non-profit. And he thinks building bridges is better than building walls.
Now living in Berlin, Germany, Marc originates from Wellington, New Zealand. He finds pleasure in improving performance of code, and writing code that is beautifully simple and elegant. In his spare time he enjoys running, bouldering and finding the best curry wurst in Berlin.
Marin loves to develop in Rails but has also grown an interest in operations, release and development workflows. When video conferencing with him you get a cat running across the room as a bonus. He is notorious for starting early in the morning just after breakfast and not having lunch until his workday is over. You would expect him to be hungry and grumpy the last few hours but as long as his internet connection is up he is always friendly and upbeat. He loves travelling and talking about politics. Here's a link to Marin's README.
Marina is a Frontend developer with over 18 years of experience in the field. She is also a technical writer for Frontend and Vue.js content and has created several educational audiovisual courses based on her expertise in Vue.js. In her spare time she is the bass player for Berlin's Poprock band The Mind Mirror
Mario has worked with all kind of technologies during his career, but Ruby on Rails is what he likes the most. He loves building APIs, specially when using GraphQL. Outside of work Mario enjoys traveling and meeting people from all over the world. Never good at sports, but he sure enjoys hiking and climbing mountains.
Mark is a happy Rubyist who likes to make gems and contribute to open source projects. He made a 4chan-like imageboard because he likes anime and manga. Outside of coding, he enjoys art exhibitions, flea markets, badminton and drawing.
Though an astrophysicist by training, Mark decided to pursue a career where he had a bit more agency, and which measured timescales in days rather than billions of years. Frontend development seemed a perfect fit, where Mark enjoys writing correct, pragmatic and simple user interfaces. He loves to ski, travel, eat good food, and generally contemplate just how good dogs are.
Mark uses his knowledge of cognitive psychology and passion for continuous improvement to enhance quality and productivity. Through automation he aims to remove the monotony and drudgery of testing so that everyone can enjoy their work more, as well as being more efficient and effective. When not working he enjoys studying natural language processing and the science of well-being, and practicing meditation and yoga.
Mark Porter is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of MongoDB, where he is responsible for crafting the long-term technology roadmap and vision for the company. Prior to MongoDB, Mark was CTO of Core Technology and Transport at Grab, Southeast Asia's super app that provides everyday services such as ride-hailing, food, package, grocery delivery, mobile payments and financial services to millions of people, from October 2018 to July 2020. Previously, Mark was a General Manager at Amazon Web Services, from May 2013 to October 2018, where he led the Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, the AWS Database Migration Service, and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool. Prior to Amazon, Mark held various roles including CTO of a division of NewsCorp and Vice President of Engineering at Oracle Corporation, as well as working at NASA/JPL and being an early member of the Oracle Database Kernel group. He has been professionally coding since he was 16 years old and founded and ran his own electronics services integration company. Mark previously served on the Board of Directors of MongoDB from February 2020 to July 2020. He also served on the Board of Directors of Splyt, a global mobility company, and as a Board Advisor to MariaDB, a database company. He holds a BS in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech.
Mark is located in Arlington, TX. A security researcher at heart, he enjoys breaking things and putting them back together. In his spare time he enjoys music and woodworking as well as putting together a solar array with batteries for ultimate green living.
Mark spent the first 18 years of his career working in the aerospace industry, where he was responsible for everything from writing real-time operating systems for flight control computers, to assissting with the certification of full fly-by-wire control systems. His goal at GitLab is to leverage his unique background and experience to improve how others develop and integrate software. When not working, Mark likes to backpack with his family, hone his photography skills, and explore new recipes both in the kitchen and on the grill.
Martin is a frontend engineer based in beautiful Vienna, which is besides one of the world's most liveable places, also known as the world's grumpiest city among it's citizens. He discovered his passion for Javascript while interning at a San Francisco based startup after his Computer Science studies. After working in the field of e-tourism, he spent most of his professional career as a software engineer in the banking industry. When not working, he loves to work out at his local Crossfit box. Besides, he enjoys cooking, trying new food and traveling the world with his girlfriend.
Matt is the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind Wordpress. He loves building things that people all over the world use, and considers himself lucky to be able to work for a living at what he loves doing. His specialties are simplifying the complex, patience, and hiring.
Matt is a former investment analyst turned entrepreneur, with a passion for business development and technology. Born in Upstate New York, Matt has spent most of his career in New York City, where he's lived in over 8 different neighborhoods.
Matt joined Gitlab in November 2022 as a Senior Background Check Specialist after spending five years working for The TJX Companies, Inc. where he focused on background screening investigations, compliance, and reporting. Matt earned a degree in Criminal Justice from Worcester State University and also served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves for eight years ultimately as a Team Leader. Outside of work, Matt enjoys staying active by hiking, skiing, running, playing slowpitch softball and pickle ball, and also enjoys traveling and cooking.
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Matthias has been working with computers since he first made ASCII based treasure maps as a kid in the mid-80s. Realizing that there's no career in treasure maps, he started to direct his attention to more promising pursuits, such as mobile application development, backend development, and a personal video game that he is unlikely to ever finish. Outside of work he likes to go on walks, watch Netflix with his wife and cat, and play Xbox.
Joined 10-FEB-2020
Matt started working on open source projects in 2004, and is an advocate for DevOps and software development best practices. Matt spends weekdays working, with a dog named Myka, and on the weekends enjoys making espresso, going to the dog park, hiking, or to the lake, working on house repairs, making furniture, and tinkering with electronics and home automation projects.
Matt is a Linux nerd who most recently has taken a strong fascination with Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies that help scale the web. Outside of work, Matt enjoys cooking, attending live music performances and building things using small electronics.
Matt Genelin is a Senior Solutions Architect with Gitlab. Matt supports Channel Partners with engineering demos and go-to-market materials. Matt is a Certified Professional Services Engineer with GitLab and has experience delivering Implementation and Migration services as a former consultant.
Max is originally from France (where he obtained his Master's Degree in Business Law) and now lives in Brighton (UK). Prior to joining GitLab, Max had 5+ years of contract management experience in the Financial industry and was specialised in Procurement IT, Technology and Marketing contracts over the EMEA region. Aside of his work Max is a seasoned live musician who particularly enjoys playing Brazilian Samba.
Having spent his entire career working with Ruby on Rails projects of varying sizes, Max is a strong advocate of DevOps practices and cloud native development. When he's not sat in front of his computer, he can usually be found hiking with his wife Ciara, his two dogs Winston and Willow, baking or playing the piano.
Mayra is a software engineer that values clean, well-crafted code created through best practices and patterns over anything else. In her spare time, Mayra enjoys traveling, books, neuroscience, linguistic fun, and of course, cats.
Meir is a software engineer. He started software development at a young age, in the epoch of MSDOS and GWBASIC. Joined GitLab as part of the Oxeye Security acquisition, after 15 years of experience in source code analysis and application security in leading companies.
A lifelong tinkerer, likes to take things apart, see how they work and how can be improved or automated.
Mirko has studied computer science a while ago and filled in various roles in his career. The last 10 years were spent with security related topics like app shielding, application security and vulnerability management. Security is exiting for him and likes Gitlab's growing security offering. Beyond work he enjoys being a dad and loves all sports on wheels (like bike riding, inlining, motorbiking etc.)
Martin has a background in data engineering, DevOps and Customer Success. He likes to delve in the minutiae of CI, governance, compliance and automation. Martin is into open science, everything data and baroque music.
Michele has always been interested in infrastructure topics, and he finds it fascinating to watch automation working. He became an engineering manager because he discovered that helping the team make an impact is really fulfilling. Outside of the work sphere, he is seriously in love with coffee and cooking, and you might find him working from warmer locations with sun and waves to practice what he loves the most, surfing.
Martin has over 10 years of experience building web applications and is passionate about clean code and getting things done. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his wife and cat, playing video games and foosball, watching documentaries, doing yoga, playing guitar and enjoys drinking cold beer.
Marie-Christine comes from a video game and interactive attractions development background. Prior to joining Gitlab, she worked for several years on solving complex DevOps problems within the real-time 3D space. She brings a unique blend of creativity and technical expertise to her work. She is driven by a passion for solving hard problems and creating delightful product experiences. Outside of work, she is a theme park and travel enthusiast. She loves to travel with her son and her partner, visit theme parks, spend time with family, play video games and build Lego sets.
Marcel first started working with Unix/Linux around 2008 and has been passionate about Operating Systems ever since. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his family, riding his bicycle, swimming, traveling, trying new food and relax while watching a good movie.
Miguel is a Frontend Engineer with a multidisciplinary background on economics and software engineering. Miguel has worked in several startups based in Colombia and as a freelancer prior to joining the GitLab team. Miguel enjoys videogames, books, bbqs and spending time with his dog Apolo.
Megan began her career working in the music industry and found an interest in web development along the way. As a frontend engineer, she is passionate about accessibility and building great user experiences. In her free time, Megan is usually behind a drum set, playing video or board games, training her dog, Milo, or hanging out with friends and family.
Mehmet started programming in high-school with scripting languages and decided to get degree in Computer Science. Since then he has worked with many languages in many different areas of the discipline but decided to focus only on backend stuff long time ago. Writing software to enable fellow developers is the thing which makes him more than happy therefore he has been contributing to different opensource projects like Rails framework and constantly reading the source of Ruby language to take the relay when it's his turn. Other than writing software, he is also doing scuba diving and trying to get instructor license.
Melia has a background in Business Technology and using data analytics to drive business decisions. She enjoys finding the right answer, solving mysteries, and making the world a cleaner and more organized place. Melia lives with her husband and two young daughters in sunny California, where she loves being outdoors as much as possible.
Melissa has experience in Data Analytics, Business Process Re-engineering & Customer Service. Outside of work you can find cuddled up to her cat or indulging in the arts through painting, pottery or poetry. She also loves music and film & could come up with the perfect Spotify playlist for any occasion.
Michael is a product designer who is passionate about using research, strategy, and design to create simple, effective solutions for highly technical problems. His interests in human behavior and systems thinking help him craft digital experiences that have a meaningful impact on the lives of others. Prior to GitLab, Michael has worked across various industries including marketing technology, cryptocurrency, and cybersecurity. Outside of work, you will find Michael exploring the outdoors with his partner and German Shepherd, checking out local breweries, and renovating his 1900s duplex in Minneapolis.
Max came to GitLab from Salesforce, and fills his time with cooking, golf, Peloton, and woodworking.
Mike is a B2B technology leader with over 20 years of experience. With roots as a software engineer, Mike's passion is solving customer and market problems in product management. Most recently, Mike was VP of Products at Barracuda Networks. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research from Cornell University. In his free time, Mike is an avid skier and a mediocre (but enthusiastic) golfer.
Monica is passionate about using graphic design to create engaging experiences that connect people and improve systems. Monica channels her free time into other creative pursuits, such as portrait photography and drawing quirky comics about her life. You can also find her traveling frequently (and devouring food wherever she goes), skiing in the winter or finding patches of sunshine any other time of the year, and attending art and cultural festivals.
Mohamed loves challenges where he can put effort into gaining knowledge, not just in programming which he loves, but also in life. He is always trying to discover a new country, culture, or learn a new language. He loves getting to know new people, helping others, and spreading that attitude to the world. He likes playing football/soccer, running, hiking, or trying new activities. You can always find him in a city with a minimum of 30Β°C in summer, but in winter, it depends!
Michael is an experienced generalist with a broad range of skills and experience working in different industries and roles coupled with technology. Most recently he was working with a small DC area software company called Coras, Inc., as a professional solutions consultant and solution architect helping them pivot from SharePoint to their own proprietary PaaS/SaaS offering focused on project and program management for Federal/DoD customers.
Mike is a passionate and experienced customer support professional, having served as a support engineer and manager for a couple of decades before joining GitLab as a Support Engineering Manager. He believes in the right of every customer to a great experience, and aims to help his teammates to deliver just that. Mike grew up in Michigan, got his computer science degrees at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, and has called Colorado his home since 1989. He adores his wife, with whom he has a blended family of four adult children. Mike loves food, and is probably happiest when he's cooking, baking, or traveling to new places and sampling local cuisine. He's pretty happy relaxing on a beautiful beach, too. Mike is also an avid puzzler (crossword, jigsaw, cryptoquote, ...), reader and theater patron. And he is a devoted fan and season ticket holder for the (American football) Denver Broncos.
Michael Friedrich is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitLab, focussing on DevSecOps efficiency with AI. His desire to learn how a computer works brought him from Hardware/Software Systems Engineering to DNS to open-source monitoring development to authoring Git/GitLab training and DevOps workflows. Michael loves to educate everyone and regularly speaks at industry events and meetups. He enjoys unexpected challenges and creates best-practice tutorials and live-programming sessions. When not traveling the world and working remotely, he enjoys building LEGO models and dives into embedded hardware adventures.
A lifelong tinkerer, Michael has been writing software since he was a kid when he got his own personal computer loaded with Visual Basic at 11. He has worked the full stack across a myriad of languages and has helped to inspire companies to value DevOps. Outside of work, Michael loves traveling with his fiance, playing guitar in the band The Hawkshaws, spoiling his two cats Morticia Addams and Lily Munster, working on cars, and woodworking.
Michael is a software engineer specializing in frontend architecture and development, CI/CD, testing, and automation. Prior to this role Michael worked as a software engineer specializing in frontend architecture and development, CI/CD, testing, and automation. Outside of work you will find him biking, snowboarding, wakeboarding or spending time with his friends geeking out over coffee, food, and music.
I currently live in Mountain View, CA with my wife Emma and our dog, Nellie. I am originally from Melbourne, Australia, but moved to the SF Bay Area in 2016 with my previous company. I enjoy running to keep fit and love watching Formula 1 Racing. Looking forward to working with everyone here at GitLab
Michael has worked in software development for many years, starting as an engineer and becoming a technical writer. He advocates for clear writing to avoid miscommunication and ensure everyone feels welcome at the party. Outside of work, you'll find Michael playing with his dog, baking something experimental, or planning a holiday somewhere new.
Your friendly neighborhood Ninja Turtle. I usually go by Angelo! Based out of Atlanta, Georgia.
An engineer with 12 years of experience and a special passion for secure coding, threat modeling, OSINT, and building security tools. When not in front of a screen, Michael likes to lift weights and go on hikes.
Born and raised in Canada but now living in Sydney, Australia. My experience so far has been focused at the intersection of code, design, and people. I help teams frame the problem space to deliver product improvements. Outside of work I enjoy mentoring others, cooking, and spending time with family.
Michael lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he started using the web in 2000 by playing, talking and enjoying video games with people around the globe with the same passion. His passion for web development started in 2010 and continues today.
While not programming MichaΕ loves to try his hands at different things including (but not limited to) bartending, skateboarding, quantum cryptography, stock market, machine learning and many other things. Should you meet him somewhere on the streets he will probably be walking and reading at the same time.
Michelle is an engineering manager who became interested in development as a child. Since then, she's continued to stay passionate about creating scalable, useful, and amazing applications - though her passion has evolved to encouraging and motivating others to continue this passion.
MichaΕ is a backend developer who fell in love with Ruby from the very first sight. When not programming, he likes to spend his time on learning languages and language-related theory. He's also been a console gaming and anime fan since his teen years.
John wrote his first bug at a young age in Commodore 64 BASIC and has been producing them consistently since, especially in Ruby. Most recently he managed the engineering department at a journalism technology company. As well as being an enthusiast for open source and functional languages, when not working he's usually travelling, playing guitar or hiking offline in the Mourne mountains.
Miguel is a Senior Legal Counsel who joined GitLab in January 2020. With almost a decade of contracting experience, Miguel has already drafted and negotiated a large number of all sorts of agreements, specially within the IT industry. Miguel lives in Lisbon with his wife and, when not working, he likes to hang out with his wife and friends, never says no to a good soccer match and he also loves to ride some waves with his boogie board.
Mike caught the programming bug, but didnβt know it, as a kid playing with HyperCard at school. Fortunately, he has since switched to Ruby. He strives to leave it better than he found it, whether it is a codebase or the local park. He loves trying new food, going to the beach, and hanging out with family.
Mike has spent his career focused on computer security and building security testing tools. Mike is proud to have been part of the early hacker culture that grew into the diverse professional computer security field we now have. Along the way Mike started a number of well known security focused companies. When not working, Mike enjoys sailing, snowboarding, rock climbing, hiking, and wrenching on motorcycles.
Mike is a devops engineer based in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. He has worked at many interesting organizations through out his career, including Nike, Enron, and the Trailblazers. Mike likes to be a team player by being useful; whether thats through coding, mentoring, doing the needful, or just being a friend. Outside of the 'office', he loves to spend time with his family and friends, play video and board games, ride motorcycles, and hack stuff in his shop.
Mike enjoys integrating computer systems and engaging people by being the trusted ambassador between aloof developers and grumpy sys-admins. He finds novel ways to make people and parts fit together to solve problems for humans.
"I fight for the users"!
Mike likes reading, coding, gaming, walking and nearly all kinds of music. View Mike's Gitlab README for more.
Mike loves the challenge of taking something complex, breaking it down into digestible parts, understanding the variables in play, and working through the solution. He believes the more time you spend examining the problem, the better chance you have of solving it. When not building better experiences, Mike spends most of his time with his 2 daughters, and playing golf.
Mike does not identify with one particular job title. He has tried his hands at different specialisations over his career, and is interested in the learning journey, not the destination.
He believes his experience in development, operations, and testing, make him especially equipped to understand the complexity of modern software systems.
He enjoys nature (especially the beach), good food, travel, and music.
Mikhail enjoys designing systems as well as writing reliable code and doing code reviews. He is passionate about open source and has contributed to a variety of projects. Building platforms to automate infrastructure wrangling has been his focus during the last few years. Kubernetes in particular is something he enjoys working with.
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MikoΕaj is Ruby on Rails enthusiast since 2014, with a passion for solving challenging problems. Personally snowboard freak, traveler and Viking warrior reenactor.
I fell in love with software development from my first co-op experience at a SAAS-based startup. I enjoy solving problems end-to-end which led me to a path as a fullstack engineer. I hold a Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Guelph. When I'm not solving software problems, I like cooking, kayaking, swimming or spending time with my family.
Miranda has been tinkering with web-based projects ever since she gained access to the internet. She loves finding ways to automate monotonous tasks and optimize user workflows. Outside of work, she can be found experimenting with coffee gadgets, playing games with friends, and exploring new cities.
Mireya enjoys learning - whether it's about new tech, new food, or new hobbies. She hopes to contribute to making friendlier and safer online experiences for everyone.
Missy began contributing to GitLab as a wider community member in 2022 and later joined the Code Creation team in 2024 as a Backend Engineer. She loves learning new technologies, embracing the spirit of open source, and solving challenging problems. Outside of work Missy enjoys travelling, playing beach volleyball and tennis, learning foreign languages, and flying small airplanes.
Margareth is a Frontend Engineer with a background in design, multimedia production and software engineering. Margareth has worked with several companies based in the US and Colombia prior to joining the GitLab team. Margareth enjoys videogames, movies, playing the guitar, and spending time training her dogs.
Matt is an engineering manager with a background as a software engineer. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and three kids. In the summer he enjoys camping, hiking, and spending time by one of Minnesotaβs 10,000 (actually 11,842) lakes. In the winter he spends his time snowshoeing and curling.
Mo is a passionate developer with experience across various fields and technologies. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his family, reading and strength training.
Monica is passionate about all things communications and content and has led cross-functional comms programs in diverse technology environments ranging from enterprise cloud companies to rapidly-growing SaaS startups. Outside of work, you can find her expanding her horizons more in the more literal sense. She has an intense love for traveling the world and experiencing different cultures and takes every possible opportunity to embark on a new adventure.
Morgan has a background in Economics and Mathematics that has led her to develop a passion for the analytical, data part of Human Resources. She is excited by continuously learning both within the field of HR and other aspects of life. Outside of work, she can be found outside hiking, running, and kayaking, seeing a concert, trying a new restaurant, and rescuing another animal (she currently has 4: Willy, Henry, Peri, and Nala).
Mateo is a passionate software engineer based in Colombia who has worked in projects ranging from native applications integrated with hardware to full stack applications including designing frontend architectures from the ground up. His hobbies include video games, playing piano and gathering with friends to play board games.
Miguel has over 10 years of experience in web development, both as an individual contributor and team lead. He believes in lifelong education and likes to learn about all sorts of topics. After graduating in Colombia he moved to China, where he met his beautiful wife. Thanks to GitLab, he is working from two opposite sides of the globe. His JavaScript is better than his Chinese.
Marc loves to create great products that people enjoy using every day. Together with his family, he spends his vacations discovering new places all over Europe. He enjoys cycling, playing canoe polo and good food.
My experience is in B2B and SaaS businessses in tech. In my role, I have assisted business leaders and executives across multiple organizations by improving efficiency of product release, collaborating on user experience initiatives, leading private beta programs, and capturing product feedback through many different mediums. One of the areas I love most is working with diverse teams. I am an expert at connecting teams and finding compromise that aligns to business goals and objectives.
Matt loves cats, mysteries, cosmology, and software engineering. By day, he enjoys working on tricky engineering problems, especially around performance, scalability, resilience, security, and failure mode analysis. In off-hours, he enjoys vintage movies, books, snacking, hiking, RPGs, and star gazing.
Passionate about helping customers with their business challenges and visionions and connecting that to our tech
I am joining GitLab with over 7 years experience in Sales Operations. Finding a need for and buildilng out operational efficiencies is my passion. In my free time, I enjoy travelling, both internationally and locally in my travel trailer, and enjoy spending time outdoors with my family. I really enjoy working remotely and am excited and greatful to be here at GitLab!
Mohamed is a full-stack software developer with a focus on building accessible and usable applications. At heart, he loves tinkering and experimenting, and creating something that makes the world a better place. He also likes to play music, cook wholesome things, and dive into the occasional DIY project.
Before joining GitLab, Mher was Backend Engineer in Oxeye Security.
Muhamed joins GitLab with a background in support engineering and system administration. He enjoys understanding complex systems and loves efficient solutions. When not in front of the screen, you may find him swimming, running, hiking or just reading a good book.
Combining research, design, prototyping and coding, Marcel is a UX Designer who is all about building great products. Having already worked for startups, consulting firms, product companies and as a freelancer, he knows how to adapt to different contexts and teams. When he is not busy trying out the latest UX tools, he is planning his next travels, on the soccer pitch or obsessing over his fantasy football lineup.
Nabeel loves resolving customer needs and optimizing business workflows. He lives with his wife, a duaghter and a son. In his free time, Nabeel loves to read, playing gaames, cycling, trying new cuisines and exploring new places.
Nailia has a great passion for QA and its various challenges. She loves to bring order out of chaos, enjoys her work and strives to become better every day. In her free time, she likes skating on a longboard, riding BMX, reading books, and playing videogames.
Nao grew up in Japan and moved to Canada in 2016. She has a passion for learning new technologies and building CI/CD tools and infrastructure that empowers engineers to release software with confidence. Outside of work, she loves plants, pottery making, cooking for friends, and traveling.
My YouTube Channel focusing on Cybersecurity: https://www.youtube.com/@cyseceveryday
Nasser is based out of Rotterdam and the Strategic Account Executive for the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. He has almost 15 years of experience in Software and Technology sales, especially in the area of Open Source solutions. He is passionate about technology innovations and a true supporter of Digital Transformation. In his spare time he enjoys playing soccer, loves to travel & explore new places with his wife & three kids and regularly meets up with friends and family for some good food, drinks and conversations.
I have a background in Enterprise B2B and B2C products, as well as education and coaching. I have enjoyed working on a variety of projects throughout my career, although the highlights have been in areas where I get to work on new and innovative products with strategic partners and customers.
Nate has worked at GitLab since September 2019 as a member of the Public Sector Sales Team. His experience with our government customers is extremely valued and will serve him well in his new role of Account Executive.
Nathan is a developer who's passionate working with others to solve problems, with collaboration comes success.
I am a passionate software developer who enjoys solving complex problems, learning new technologies and contributing to opensource projects. In my spare time you can find me mountain biking, surfing or playing piano.
Niall joined GitLab following a number of years of succesfully developing and delivering strategies for SEO, Content and Consumer Research across a variety of industries. When not catching up on the latest digital trends, Niall enjoys the great outdoors. And when hiding from the unpredictable Irish weather, can be found deeply engrossed in the nearest available book.
Nick is a seasoned compliance professional with expertise across a wide range of compliance frameworks. He enjoys collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to build trust across organizations. In his free time, Nick loves to mountain bike and ski in the Pacific Northwest.
Before joining GitLab, Nick led a team that developed analytics tools for fantasy sports players. At GitLab, prior to his current role, Nick managed the Ecosystem and Geo teams. Outside of work, he likes to read, play violin, and help his wife raise pastured pigs and chickens on their small farm.
Before joining GitLab, Nick was the CTO at a successful Drupal-focussed company in Belgium. He is currently a board member of the Drupal Association and chair of the Drupal Belgium User Group. He loves open source, travelling and Ghent!
Nick has a passion for designing products that solve real problems for everyday people. With 10 years of experience, he's worked on a wide range of products spanning various industries. Having some of his early career crossing into front-end development, he gained some added perspective in making sure his designs are not only providing value, but also feasible from a development perspective. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking with his wife and golden retriever, checking out local breweries, and renovating his home in Colorado.
Orginally from Arkansas, Nick moved to Austin, Texas in 2015 and brings in several years of experience in the overall IT space. Outside of work, you can find Nick playing soccer, running around with his two rescue dogs, finding the next best restaurant with his wife or hanging out with friends and family.
Nick has spent the past 10+ years in UX, focused on optimizing complex workflows while providing the simplest possible experience to each user. He enjoys cooking food his kids refuse to try, agonizing over Blues hockey, and spending hours in Internet wormholes. He dislikes writing about himself in the 3rd person.
Nick is a developer who strives to remove mundane repetitive tasks. With a history in DevOps and test automation, his career has mainly focused on finding solutions to new problems, and he has always aimed to make the development process easier for his co-workers. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling, video and tabletop games, reading, and cooking.
Nicolas is passionate about building products with an excellent user experience. He has been writing and selling his own software since his school days and cares deeply about clean and maintainable code. In recent years, he has been building frontend-heavy web applications with backends written in Elixir and Ruby. When he is not coding, you will find him on his road bike, playing drums or (most likely) eating ice cream.
Nicole has many years of experience building large scale web applications and leading high performing engineering teams. Outside of work she can usually be found reading a book, buying a plant, or spending quality time with her family and friends.
A former Marketing major who instead became obsessed with beautiful visualizations and telling meaningful stories through data and is now pursuing her career as an analyst. When she isn't working, she spends most of her time either outdoors on some adventure with her Australian Shepherd, Daisy, or cooped up in her apartment playing video games - no in between.
Nicolle has worked at the intersection of AI and design since 2018. Her specialty is designing delightful conversational experiences with language models (NLU & LLM). While she spends her days building AI products, she's very much interested in humans. She loves rowdy cribbage games, storytelling, languages, and reading her never-ending pile of books. She's never met a hammock she didn't love.
NicolΓ² Maria Mezzopera (Nico) is a passionate Engineering Manager, he started his career as Fullstack Engineer and then specialized as a Frontend. Nico now fulfilled his dream of transitioning to management, where he can focus on helping people love their job and give their best.
Nikhil is a security enthusiast, who started his career as an application developer and found his passion for application security. His areas of interest include threat modelling, security testing and security automation. He loves to travel and finds his solace in hiking in nature, riding his motorcycle & a good workout. As a novice swimmer, he enjoys sea vacations as well.
Niklas is a passionate problem solver. He loves tech, games and exploring the local nature. While not solving challenges, one can find him wandering in the woods, playing video games or entertaining cats πΈ
Nilanka is an enthusiastic engineer who's equally passionate about computers as he is about interacting with humans. He also loves to write, read, cliff dive, scuba dive, take part in competitive public speaking, and brew coffee in his spare time. With his thoughts geared towards becoming the deity of coffee making, he truly believes nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it!
Nick is a backend engineer who enjoys contributing in all parts of the tech stack. Outside of work, Nick has a daughter and enjoys travelling, gaming and exercising crossfit.
Nwannna is a backend engineer based in Germany. Nwanna likes chatting a lot with friends, helping out and volunteering whenever she can. For fun, she loves playing board games, painting and spending time with her family and friends.
A hands-on, people focused professional who has varied industry experiences viz., consumer durable (OEM & vendor), logistics, & IT startup. He is experienced in compensation & benefits, people operations, building teams, managing grievances and business processes. He cooks the way he loves to eat. He writes short stories and loves exploring non-tourist places.
Niles, nicknamed for Nyalish, is a Manager in Channel Operations contributing to the rapdily growing channel business at Gitlab. He has been part of channel strategy in the technology business for several years helping organizations grow sales and innovate their operational capabilities. He is a die hard Toronto Maple Leafs fan, which is not good for his health. He usually offsets that by playing hockey, golfing, skiing and camping.
Nicholas has stewarded systems transacting billions of dollars and serving tens of millions of users. With over 10 years experience in DevOps and delivering highly scalable web applications, Nicholas loves building great teams, products and services while thriving at the nexus of infrastructure and application development.
Nick's goal is to help everyone contribute in a safe and secure world. Outside of work he loves to spend time with his young family, and/or be hiking and running in beautiful Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Naheil is data fanatic with a passion for building and scaling high-performing teams, and has previously worked in data across Sales, Operations, BI, Finance, and Product functions. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, cooking, and hiking with her dog Guinness.
Neil is a Colorado native and is passionate about building web applications. He, his wife and two sons are huge basketball fans and can be regularly found at Denver Nuggets games. Neil also tries to hit the slopes as often as possible.
Nikola is a passionate software engineer from Serbia. He has been writing software professionally since 2007. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, skiing, video games and crossfit.
Nivetha loves to code and automate workflows. In her free time, she create things to cherish, a DIY enthusiast. She enjoys spending time with her family, also travelling and making memories for lifetime
I am a frontend engineer with 7+ years of experience. I worked in e-commerce, online gaming and banking industries and specialize in Vue.js framework. Apart from the tech I am passionate about sport (biking, surfing, jogging, dancing, bouldering), traveling (mountains, jungles, islands) and specialty coffee.
I began my career as a fullstack developer, before moving into people leadership and enjoying the challenge of solving problems through/with others. My role as an engineering leader is to build engaged and empowered teams that will make great decisions and produce great solutions. Outside of work I spend most of my time with my family, exploring nature or on the slopes skiing and mountain biking
Naoharu is a Solutions Architect based in Tokyo. He is passionate about helping customers embrace the most exciting of technologies. He has spent most of his career helping enterprises adopt modern development process and supporting teams. In his free time, he enjoys rock climing, running, and brewing coffee.
Nelson is a lover of all things data and Tableau. He's passionate about visualizing data, orchestrating Tableau management, and training developers in their own data insights journey. Beyond the digital realm, Nelson embraces the role of a soccer dad and can usually be found cheering on the sidelines. Nelson enjoys, hiking, biking, jogging, rock climbing, and sourdough bread making.
Nyasha is an FP&A Analyst in GitLab's Financial Business Planning team. Prior to joining GitLab, Nyasha worked as a Senior Accountant at KPMG Vancover, where he gathered 3 years of public accounting experience. Nyasha is passionate about using data and logical reasoning to analyze and solve business problems. In his free time, Nyasha likes to draw, build on his coding & data analytics skills, and also catch some nice views through going on hikes.
Nupur is a Solutions Architect with the background in development, architecture and business development roles. She is passionate about closing the gap between business problems and their technology solutions to ensure client satisfaction. Outside of work she enjoys travelling, hiking and doing cross-fit.
Oriol is passionate about any innovation in technology, from Cloud to AI, blockchain, you name it. Expect him to be ready to jump about a conversation on these topics. You'll also find him following hockey as he was a player himself. He brings to GitLab his experience in leading cloud infrastructure projects and teams
Coming from the development field, I became an architect in the mid-2010s. That's also the time when I discovered Docker, the cloud and... Gitlab! And I loved it ;)
Omar loves working with teams to solve problems, and he's excited to do this at GitLab. Before coming to GitLab, he worked as a Consultant at Accenture, as a Product Engagement Manager at Bloomreach, and most recently as a Product Manager at Google. Omar studied Chemical Biological Engineering at MIT. He loves reading books, traveling, drinking tea, and trying to grow tasty tomatoes.
Manging and leading software teams and group for the past several years. I joined GitLab as part of the Oxeye acquisition, bringing with me a vast knowledge in software design, architecture and managing teams of different domains (backend, frontend, data)
Originally from Norway, Ove has lived in the US since 2000. He has spent nearly 20 years working with customers in various capacities. Ove enjoys making others succeed, and has focused a lot on mentoring and enablement while driving large scale enterprise transformation projects. Ove is a self proclaimed beer snob - always looking for that next favorite brew and brewery. In his spare time Ove enjoys traveling the world with his family and experiencing new places and cultures.
Ola loves using software to solve problems and make people's lives easier. When he is not writing code, he loves to take long walks, listen to afrobeats, and take on new hobbies.
Lena is a FE dev that likes clean and intuitive solutions. She worked on creating web, mobile and TV apps. She also teaches at FE Academy and was a tutor for ngGirls. Lena enjoys reading and many different sports - skiing, snowboarding, pole dancing, wake-boarding, working out in the gym and swimming. She wants to travel around the world and meets any initiative with βLetβs create a website for thatβ.
With a full-stack engineer background Olivier likes to work on all the layers of an application. Previously at Gemnasium working on a SaaS to monitor software dependencies. When not in front of his computer Olivier enjoys riding motorcycle, snowboarding and playing video and board games. Born in France but now living in Canada he also enjoys the wonderful winter season.
Olivier spent years doing Technical Support for storage and private cloud appliances. He's very curious and likes to understand how things work. Beside his main job, he enjoys playing music, traveling, cooking, riding two-wheelers, free diving and photography.
Omar is a software engineer since 2009. He is from Jordan. He moved to Germany since 2011. He enjoys running, photography, hiking and drinking coffee.
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Paige is a Senior Product Manager on Gitlabβs Growth team. She is passionate about optimizing and improving customer experiences in the product that lead to positive outcomes for the business. She enjoys building relationships and collaborating with stable counterparts on projects and experiments. Outside of work, Paige enjoys spending time with her family and friends. She loves cooking and hosting dinner parties or discovering new food spots around town.
Paul is a design generalist with professional experience in information architecture, user experience, front-end development, design and design management.
Panos' flair for synergy and collaboration underpins his role as SDR Manager in the EMEA team. When he is not trying to set his team up for success thorugh clear processes; he's trying to feed them the Japanese Ramen and Thai Curry that he cooks. If he could only find a way to mail it to them while its still warm.
Patrick comes to GitLab with over 6 years experience providing technology solutions to the Public sector. Prior to joining GitLab, Patrick was at VMware supporting the US Navy and USMC, as well as Federal Healthcare. In his spare time, Patrick enjoys spending time with his 2.5 year old and 10 month old daughters, gaining an appreciation of Disney Princesses and ballet. When he gets time to himself, he enjoys playing soccer, working out, and reading. He also enjoys rooting for the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavs, and Ohio State Buckeyes.
Patrick enjoys building things that provide great value to users. Started programming with PHP then fell in love with Ruby. He's been creating applications with it for almost 8 years now. In his spare time, he likes to play NBA2K, root for the Houston Rockets, binge watch Netflix, watch Pewdiepie and other youtubers and travel.
Patrick is an Enterprise Architect at Kingland with a passion for DevOps best practices. He started contributing to GitLab via the GitLab Terraform Provider in 2022, and helps as a maintainer on that project. In his spare time you'll find Patrick enjoying nature via camping and hiking, or playing games with his wife.
Paul has been passionate about web development for a while, he likes trying out new languages and libraries whenever he can. In his spare time, Paul likes rock climbing, biking, contributing to open source projects and working on digital-art projects.
Paul is an evangelist for agile principles and functional programming. He is a full stack web developer with a keen interest in building beautiful and maintainable UIs. When heβs not making commits, you will find him spending time with his wife and daughters, training in jiu jitsu, playing music and teaching others how to code.
Paul is passionate about learning new things, Open Source technology and solving(or finding) business problems using data. He has multiple years of experience in similar roles and was a massive fan of GitLab prior to joining. Outside of work he spends as much time as possible in the ocean and loves to travel.
Pavel is a Ruby developer with strong thirst of making fast, stable, secure and flexible software. As a hobby Pavel does snowboarding, plays basketball, drives real and virtual racing cars.
Payton has a passion for clean code and developing feature-rich web applications. Outside of work, he enjoys working out and watching japanese anime.
Pallavi is a passionate about enhancing sales processes through Sales Enablement. In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and son, gardening, home improvement projects, and reading.
Pedro is committed (pun intended) to GitLab users' happiness. He's passionate about transparency, remote work, and open design. Outside of work, it's all about traveling, soccer, movies, and music.
Pedro has always enjoyed making fellow developers' lives easier and more productive, so GitLab is a perfect fit for him. He's worked remotely for the last 2 decades, initially in the industrial sector, and more recently on consumer apps such as Plex as part of fully distributed teams. You can find his professional background on LinkedIn. When not spending time with his family, you can find him playing music (guitar and piano), hiking or skiing in the Swiss mountains.
Pattie joined GitLab after leading People Operations teams at Segment, Workday, Twilio, Palo Alto Networks and Blue Shield. Pattie developed a passion for blending technology with people experiences and hasn't looked back since her early days at PeopleSoft. She is a native Californian but sees herself migrating to experience different locations over time due to the flexibility offered by GitLab. Pattie is married to Patrick and together they have three children, Liam, Molly and Ronan. She enjoys hiking, traveling, reading, and hanging with friends and family.
Peter loves data visualization and building tools to help others use their data. He has a background in chemical engineering and application development. As a data professional he has worked with product teams and departments to develop reporting and insight and consulted with organizations to design and implement stable and reliable data systems. Peter enjoys reading, playing video games, eating pie, and making things.
Passionate coder and open-source enthusiast specialised in backend development using Ruby, Crystal, and Docker. In his spare time he enjoys playing chess and riding race bikes, but not at the same time.
Peter is a frontend engineer who lives equal distance between Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC in the city of Bellingham, WA. Peter previously worked in an agency setting building web apps for the health care industry. He has experience with backend technologies but his primary focus has been working with frontend technologies such as Vue.js and React. He is passionate about writing clean and maintainable code that helps contribute to a better user experience. In his free time you can find Peter out in the woods riding his mountain bike or up at the mountain searching for fresh snow.
Paola comes from a diverse professional and personal background. Born in San Diego, CA and raised in Merida, Yucatan, she is a licensed attorney in Mexico who worked for 7 years as a Court Officer at a Federal Courthouse specializing in Labor Law. Following her passion for literature and technology, Paola then pursued a Library and Information Science Master Degree from San Jose State University, which allowed her to blend those interests and access the tech space. She started negotiating commercial contracts for a startup in 2017, and quickly became the sole Contract Manager for a CLM company in 2019, negotiating both commercial and procurement side contracts. Paola is happy to bring her knowledge and skills to GitLab. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband and their 1-year-old son. They enjoy going on hikes, traveling, reading, and miss going to concerts the most.
Phil has a huge passion for programming, with skills ranging anywhere from JavaScript to C++. Having experienced a variety of roles in industry, he realised that front-end development was more his "cup of tea" and has since been focusing on improving his skills in this area. When not geeking out, he loves to spend time with his wife and his daughter Emilia.
Philip is an experienced software engineer with a background in web, artificial intelligence and music. Outside of work you'll find him skating long distances on his longboard.
Phillip is a technical writer with a background in computer science and mathematics. When he isn't writing, he's reading about language, math, and art.
Piotr has been a computing enthusiast ever since he got to play with a Commodore 64 at the age of 5. He's mostly interested in Linux, web and video game development, and worked as a software engineer for a number of agencies prior to joining GitLab. Outside of work, he's an avid gamer and amateur musician, having played violin and classical guitar most of his life. Recently, he's been trying his best as a home barista and bartender.
Patrick is a software engineer with a love for open source software in general and the Git and Linux ecosystems in particular. He loves tinkering around with components in the low-level userspace and bending operating systems to his will, often until they break. In his free time, he regularly visits fitness and bouldering gyms, plays badminton or goes for a swim.
Pilar is an enthusiastic wanderlust with a passion for channel excellence and learning new things. When she's not focused on creating strong partnerships she chases around her four kiddos, one rescue dog and gaming husband. Outside her two full time gigs she enjoys burn boot camp, yoga, art, live music and all things adventure.
Before joining GitLab, Paul worked for 35 years in the U.S. Department of Defense with an emphasis on cryptology and cybersecurity.
Praba hails from a small town in India and studied Software engineering by luck, but fell in love with programming languages (and general tech) and the logics behind them. Outside of work he likes to run and read about finance, philosophy & biographies. Also he believes remote is the (present and) future!
Priyan loves *nix and started his career as a Linux Server Engineer soon after completing his bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering. He likes to travel, swim, read, watch movies and wander for diverse food in his free time.
Pratik is much into DevOps. His experience makes him able to build an idea to a product. Out of work goes by the name Kitarp29, mostly found having rides on his bike or ranting on Twitter.
Paulina has first studied to be a classical cello player, then she did a BA in applied linguistics. But finally decided to take up programming languages and started a career in IT. When not in front of a computer, she plays the cello, reads a good book or knit.
Donita comes to Gitlab with 15 years of experience of working within Professional Services teams, having a passion for all aspects of the PS backoffice aspects, Time Tracking, Resource Managagement, and Project Coordination. Helping the team and company meet our goals! In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my family, enjoying the great outdoors of Michigan and attending my boys many sporting events. Donita joined Gitlab on March 19, 2020,
Pini Loves to build, and to connect cutting edge technologies with meaningful use cases to deliver great results. In his free time he spends time with family and friends, plays the piano and guitar, ski, and reads books.
Qingyu has diversified experience in software development, testing, management, and research. He enjoyed to solve problems to generate business value. He likes reading and is also a regular badminton player.
Rachel is an Engineering Manager who enjoys helping teams to get things done. Before working with Scalability, she was part of the Geo Team. Prior to GitLab she has worked for Amazon Video and CurrencyCloud. She owns two whippets who joins team calls from time to time.
Rachel has dedicated her career to helping clients of all sizes solve technical problems and overcome business challenges. In addition to a number of years supporting clients, she also has experience in UX Design and software development. When not building web applications for fun, she is either nurturing her veggie garden, cooking, traveling, or spending quality time with her partner and two senior dogs.
Rachel spent her childhood and attended law school in Michigan, followed by several years living in Alaska and Illinois, before returning to Michigan. She has been an attorney for over fourteen years and specializes in compliance. Rachel spends her free time with her husband and two children, and enjoys travel, camping, skiing, and music.
Rad lives in Quezon City, Philippines, with his wife and two sons. He has worked for a Rails agency, a PaaS startup, and two e-commerce startups before joining GitLab. When not coding or playing video games, he spends his time playing chess, growing a garden, and getting some exercise in a bicycle.
"A rambler who lived in 11 cities over the last 5 years and recently settled down in Berlin. Worked for Applause (uTest) and Amazon (Kindle Publishing team) previously, also did internships in business development and sales fields in Germany. Had my first experience with open source while running a small NGO called PCs4KIDs (donating used PCs in rural areas and orphanages working on Linux and free open source education software). In my free time I enjoy playing practicing bass guitar, reading books, listening to podcasts, checking art galleries, going to music festivals & concerts, travelling and volunteering."
Ragnar has been building products for web and mobile since his school days. He's always excited about shipping improvements to the end user, and will sometimes obsess over vanity metrics. While not working he frequents cafΓ©s, which does not help his caffeine addiction.
Raimund has been preaching the DevOps mindset for several years. He also strongly believes that everybody can (and should) be contributing to open source. He loves spending time with his family, pulling a freshly-baked sourdough out of the oven, and putting his feet up with his XBox.
Rajendra is passionate about all things OpenSource. He is a Backend Engineer at GitLab. He also serves on the Core Team at GitLab. When not working you will find him at the gym, or cycling, or reading a book on finance or playing his guitar/keyboard.
Rajan is a Frontend engineer and has worked on different frameworks. He likes to explore new tech and trying them. Other than work, he is mostly cooking or travelling to new destinations.
Rayana enjoys solving technical problems and helping product designers have the mindset, skillset, and toolset needed to deliver better design at GitLab. Away from work, she spends most of her time cooking, studying the Japanese language, listening to true crime podcasts, or obsessing over Wikipedia articles. Here's a link to Rayana's README.
Radovan is a truly passionate data geek and he is very obsessive about acquiring knowledge regarding modern data platforms and other hot tech topics. Mainly, keep a focus on modern data (ETL/ELT) processing approaches, transformation, and data representation. Living, working, and enjoying in Novi Sad, Serbia, a nice and cozy city on the Danube river. The vast majority of free time spend on the mat practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Luta Livre. Very keen and thrilled about traveling, meeting new people, cycling, running, sailing (still on a very beginner level, but really like it), and enjoying outdoor activities despite the weather. Here's a link to Radovan README.
Radu is a full stack developer from Canada. He has been working in the industry since September 2020 and is passionate about user interfaces and secure systems. In his spare time he enjoys exploring dungeons, collecting magic, and getting lost in the woods.
Robert enjoys working cross-functionally between teams to help craft, implement, and evaluate stragetic decisions. He has had most of his experience providing support from the Finance function to Marketing and Sales teams. In his spare time Robert is usually walking his dogs, watching Cleveland sports, or trying a new coffee shop or local brewery.
Ryan joined GitLab with a decade of technical support experience under his belt across various platforms and is overjoyed to be here. In his free time he likes biking, jogging, hiking, and going to local shows. He plays DnD weekly with a couple different groups of friends, and plays decidedly non-pro, friendly Magic the Gathering on the weekends.
Rashmi was born in India but grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio before attending law school in Durham, North Carolina, and spent stints in Washington, D.C., New York City and now has made Los Angeles, California her home since 2009. She has over 15 years of experience as an attorney specializing in corporate and securities matters. She and her husband spend most of their free time trying to entertain their two boys and attending all of the fun activities they are involved in. Outside of spending time with her family, Rashmi likes to read, cook, and travel.
Ryan is a former Linux System Administrator who became interested in the inner workings of Linux and the software that runs on it. He is passionate about Open Source philosophies and all kinds of engineering topics. In his free time, he is usually either reading a book, tinkering with a software or hardware project, or watching educational videos.
Rehab is Linux-obsessed and sometimes Linux-possessed. She believes everything is possible and that's why she survived a lot of update crashes and command line clashes. When she's not spending time with her beloved family, she'll try different headstand variations and yoga poses.
RΓ©my loves the Web, the open-source, Git and Ruby. He enjoys making life simple for his fellow developers. When not thinking about code, RΓ©my likes to read about philosophy, politics or ecology. He also plays volley-ball, loves surfing and backcountry skiing.
Rene became a computer nerd way back in the 70's starting with a KIM-1. Since then he has worked and played with all kinds of software and hardware. He owned a record store specialized in punk and new-wave, and worked at TomTom and Atlassian. Rene lives with his wife and husky in a small coast town in The Netherlands. When Rene is not helping GitLab users achieving great things, he likes to listen to weird music, read SciFi, tinker with Arduino/RasPi, create technical art together with his wife, enjoy seeing his granddaughter grow up, and have long walks on a stormy beach with his husky.
Reshmi is a solution architect with 12+ of software engineering/development experience. Reshmi believes in creating diverse & inclusive teams that can help enterprises deliver better outcomes faster. Outside work, Reshmi loves to travel, spend time with her family, speak at various meetups & conference, karaoke & garden.
Joined 2018-10-15
Rafael is a relational database specialist who loves to discuss and contribute in all things related with database and cloud infrastructure engineering, and brings more than 15 years of experience to the GitLab infrastructure team. When not brushing bits and bytes Rafael loves to make beautiful traditional brazilian churrascos or spend his time outdoors with his family and friends. He is a passionate traveler, mountaineering enthusiast and AFOL (adult fan of LEGO).
Ricardo is an enthusiastic person, a lover of technology, travel, football (soccer), and cycling. He has developed his career as a pre-sales and post-sales technical support for companies of different sizes during the last nine years, including the most important telecommunications companies in Paraguay, and occupied management roles in these fields. This experience has allowed him to acquire a customer-centric approach and excellent interpersonal skills. Since January 2020, he joins GitLab's LATAM Sales team as Customer Success Manager.
Ricardo is an IT enthusiast, passionate about traveling, sports and meeting new people. He graduated from software engineering and has worked in sectors such as banking, payments and security. When not helping customers, you may find Ricardo discovering new cities or cooking for friends and family.
Richard is passionate about building out testing automation and infrastructures. He also enjoys finding new ways to improve processes or create new tools that help with developer productivity. Outside of work, he likes to check out the local food scene, play some video games and board games, and do a bit of traveling.
Rich has over a decade of experience recruiting for some of the worldβs fastest growing companies. Prior to GitLab, he was a top producer and leader in the recruiting agency world. Most recently, he led international executive recruitment for another rapidly scaling tech startup. Outside of work, Rich enjoys traveling, music (plays drums & guitar), hiking and working out.
Ricky's professional technology career started in sales development for a HR SaaS technology company. Since then, he's held a variety of roles in professional services delivery and services sales. He's passionate about change management and long-term custoemr adoption. Outside of work, Ricky enjoys cooking, running and biking, and traveling with his wife and son.
Riley is passionate about creating exceptional customer and user experiences. She spent many years as a traveling consultant helping enterprises implement extreme programming and lean agile methodologies across their application development teams. Riley enjoys spending time with her family of 5 (+1 furry child), keeping up on technology trends, and exercising enough to comfortably keep up with her children.
Jason is a passionate technologist who's committed to helping organizations change the way they build and run software. He has over 20 years experience in tech and has worked for multiple federal agencies including the Department of Defense as well as large telco organizations before moving into the software industry. A published author who's written about cloud native and advised a number of organizations on their DevSecOps journeys, he's eager to help more organizations learn how to move quickly without breaking things. Outside of work Jason spends most of his time with his family but he also makes time to practice storytelling and volunteering to help new people learn to play tabletop roleplaying games.
Russell joined GitLab in March 2021 after working in a number of roles across IT, Software and Professional Services. Experience has been gained working for large enterprise, plus smaller consultancies. Outside of work, Russell enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, including camping (in a campervan), socialising, festivals and live music events.
Raisha joins GitLab as a Senior Benefits Program Manager on the Total Rewards Team. She has a background in several People Team functions, including Immigration, Mobility, Staffing, and Global Benefits. Raisha is passionate about helping people, and loves seeing her work make a positive impact on the lives of team members and their families. She resides in California with her husband and dog and enjoys hiking, camping, traveling, sports, and spending time with family.
Ryan has 10 years experience designing, implementing and managing cyber security risk management programs. He lives in Rowlett, TX with his wife and two sons. Some of his hobbies include tournament bass fishing, online gaming, and gardening.
A love of learning, teaching, and a Computer Science background led Ryan to technical writing, which has been an excellent fit for Ryan for over 15 years. Ryan enjoys spending his free time with his family, traveling, and working on projects around his home.
Rhoda leads the global team of Alliance Partner Sales Managers (ABDM) supporting our Cloud and Platform partners
Randeep joined GitLab in September 2021 as a Sales Development Representative having come from telco B2B sales. He progressed to Business Development Representative and then BDR Team Lead for the Northern Europe Enterprise BDR team. Having supported a number of regions throughout his BDR career, he will now be supporting the EGC territory as an Associate Renewals Manager, supporting customers in their GitLab adoption journey. Randeep is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and is based in Manchester, UK but regularly travels to Brazil.
Robert is a by-the-numbers guy, which is why he loves spending his days looking at, tweaking, and improving marketing numbers and metrics. He finds great joy in seeing a plan or a spreadsheet come together. When the work day is over, Robert finds himself traveling, exploring the outdoors, tinkering in his garage, and pursuing an eclectic grouping of other hobbies.
Robert is passionate about technology and has a keen interest in Linux, automation, orchestration, and data warehousing. He loves teaching others and regularly speaks at open source conferences and gatherings on a wide range of topics. Robert splits his free-time between contributing to the Fedora community, tabletop gaming, writing, music orchestration, and crafting.
Robert is a developer who loves science and technology. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in computer security at Graz University of Technology. His research interests include physical attacks, automated countermeasure design, and efficient hardware designs for computing architectures. In his spare time, he enjoys working on his partner's boat, driving it in Croatia, and DIY projects. When not in front of his computer, Robert can often be found with a glass of good single malt whiskey in his hand discussing sports and open source software.
Rob is a frontend engineer having previously worked as a full-stack for a variety of agencies and companies. He loves researching and developing solutions to every day problems, creating solutions that make people smile. When not coding for fun or work, you'll find Rob gaming, reading or catching up on the latest developments in a variety of sciences including: Physics, Astronomy, Paleontology, Archeology, Cryptozoology and Egyptology.
As GitLabβs Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, I rely on my public company leadership experience to set and manage GitLabβs overall legal and compliance philosophy and strategy; ensuring that we balance GitLabβs practices, policies, business activities, messaging, communications and decisions with our values and culture. Day to day I provide counsel to GitLab and our Board of Directors across the entire spectrum of legal and compliance matters that pertain to GItLab and manage an amazing, fun-loving team of high performing Legal Professionals. I feel fortunate that I get to collaborate with our diverse population of Team Members and across the company with every team at GitLab. Iβm also thrilled to support GitLab's Womenβs TMRG and Pride TMRG as an Executive Sponsor. Prior to joining GitLab, I was the Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Couchbase where I oversaw global legal affairs, public policy and compliance; and, was the General Counsel and Chief Privacy and Compliance Officer at New Relic, where I established, scaled, and managed New Relicβs global legal, compliance, privacy, and corporate governance operations, from the ground up through IPO, to an established, profitable public company. Before that, I led the legal function for a number of Adobeβs Marketing and Creative Cloud products and was an Associate with Fenwick & West. I received my law degree from the Rutgers University School of Law and have taught intellectual property law at Santa Clara Law School. I love a good coffee chat and encourage you to reach out!
Rodrigo is a software engineer that loves to code, solve problems and helping other people. In his spare time, Rodrigo enjoys spending time with friends, playing games, watching TV and doing outside activities.
Roger established the Siemens internal coding platform code.siemens.com and further develops the internal developer ecosystem beside of doing operations together with his team. He is not only using Open Source Software, he's also an active contributor and maintainer on several Open Source projects for many years. Before joining Siemens he did electronic and software engineering in the area of audio-video systems, predictive maintenance, online shops, high availability systems and more. His primary focus at Siemens was on computer system engineering, kernel and user space, web, software and system architecture for multiple product lines. The GitLab journey started in 2013 within his department. Today he's more of a cloud native then an embedded developer.
Prior to joining GitLab Ron worked at DBmaestro and Quest Software where he supported DevOps for Database, change management, application performance monitoring and other systems management products in Solutions Architecture, Consulting and Customer Success roles. In his spare time he likes to travel, bike, hike and follow Formula 1.
Ross loves ruby. He is the organizer of the Kansas City Ruby User Group. Some of his favorite internal Slack channels include #all-caps, #postcrossing, and #gardening.
Loves community, open source, and workplaces that invest in their employees - so feels like a natural fit at GitLab!
Roshni began her career as a design engineer in a renewable energy firm. There, she took interest in writing standard operating procedures for complex telecom equipments. Her technical writing career started with an internship at a German based software company in Bangalore, India. Since then, she has written documentation for a variety of products in cybersecurity and DevOps domains.
Rohan is a Seasoned DevOps Engineer and System AdministratΒor who is passionate about the customer experience. He has a proven track record in building, deploying and supporting infrastructure and applications using DevOps practices over multi-cloud platforms. Outside of work, He loves Hiking trips and involved in working over DIY projects using Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
Rohit loves all things Security and has been helping development teams secure their applications for more than 6 years. He holds a Masterβs degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University. Outside of work, Rohit likes to travel, cook, watch and geek about movies and do a bit of reading. History has been his area of interest lately.
Russell is a data enthusiast with over two decades of experience in analytics and cloud technologies. He's a product, sales and strategy leader who's helped scale hypergrowth companies like Starburst, Alteryx, and Tableau. He's exceedingly curious and asks questions. Lots of them. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Russell likes to read, tinker with tech and occasionally void warranties
Russell changed careers to technical writing after more than 20 years as a sysadmin. He is an advocate for open source software. When not enjoying family time, he enjoys gardening.
I was the co-founder & CTO at Oxeye Security until the company was acquired by GitLab
Ryan lives in Scotland with his wife and son and has worked in the internet industry for over a decade: starting as a fullstack developer before moving into management. He is a an accomplished musical theatre and choral performer, but now spends more time playing golf and doing CrossFit.
Ryan is a software developer who enjoys building things and solving problems. He loves to create, travel and spend time outside.
Prior to joining GitLab in September 2022, Ryan worked in technical, architectural and team lead roles in both global enterprises and small start-ups. He lives near the sea with his wife, son and Brownen, their Springador. When not working, he can usually be found building lego with his son or taking Bronwen for long walks in the vain hope of finally wearing her out.
Roy is a backend engineer from the Netherlands. He enjoys solving problems and learning new things. In his free time he enjoys playing video games, reading books, travelling and learning new skills (such as cooking).
Experienced software sales engineer, servant-leader of pre-sales engineering teams and software engineer with focus on value stream management, agile development, software configuration management, and software delivery process improvement. I like helping clients understand their own software delivery value streams and apply tools to facilitating and automating those processes while making sure that organizational compliance initiatives are being followed. In my free time I enjoy technology, the outdoors and cars.
Sabine is a support engineer with a software development and DevOps background. She loves troubleshooting systems and solving problems. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, hiking, cooking and learning french.
Sarah is a tech enthusiast who's always craving knowledge about new topics, and new exciting problems to investigate and solve. Prior to working at GitLab, she worked in academic IT and explored the world of retrocomputing and software development in her free time. Sarah is also passionate about music, animals, and nature.
Merline is an experienced non-executive director and currently serves on the boards of Lightspeed (NYSE: LSPD), Banner Corporation (NASDAQ: BANR), and ShotSpotter (NASDAQ: SSTI). Merline was the former Chief Operating Officer at Change Healthcare, and previously held leadership roles at iconic companies including Intuit, Yahoo!, PayPal, Adobe, and Sun Microsystems. Merline began her career as a software engineer and was honored as one of the Most Influential Corporate Directors in 2019 by Womenβs Inc. She has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award by Grls in Tech and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). Merline is also certified in Cyber-Risk Oversight by NACD and the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.
Sam is a bearded bloke from the north of England. He likes movies, music, and long walks in Jurassic Park. He's currently learning to play the guitar and is almost not terrible at it.
Samantha is a Frontend Engineer. Her career switch from business to programming has made her a huge advocate for inspiring others to get into tech. She shares her web programming knowledge in her Code Tidbits series.
With a background in AI and Software Engineering, how in the world was I not here before? Oh, that's right, prior to GitLab I was a Security Solutions Architect selling Application Security Software to the US Federal, State and Local governments and Higher Education Institutions. That was fun too. In my free time, I like to read and watch SciFi (the non-scary, more futuristic stuff like CyberPunk stuff), Build model ships, tinker with computers and electronics. All that when my two kids let me have time to myself.
Samer lives in the beatiful Melbourne-Australia where he enjoys great coffee and pairing with customers across the APJ region. Samer is a seasoned Solutions Architect with 20 years of track record of success stories demonstrated throughout the Information Technology value chain starting from solution design and implementation, to technology advisory and enterprise architect, along with hands-on experience in cloud deployments & migration, DevOps lifecycle, and cloud native adoption programs.
Sam is an engineering leader passionate about building great products and high output teams. He played a key role in the development and launch of multiple products at New Relic and Stackery, and has experience scaling and managing in a wide range of production environments, including physical hardware, container orchestration platforms, and serverless managed services. Sam lives in Portland, Oregon, USA with his wife and two kids. He loves biking, cooking, coding, camping, and enjoying the Pacific Northwest.
Originally from Finland, Sami has been moving around and experiencing new places until finally ending up in Berlin. Simplifying complex problems drives him professionally and he firmly believes that there is always a chance to delete some code. Outside of tech, he enjoys expanding his cooking and piano repertoires, playing games with friends (especially stash tetris in Escape from Tarkov) and trying out whether his parachute still works.
Sam has spent his career in security, as an analyst, a software engineer, and most recently as a product manager. With a foundation in Computer Science from Purdue University, Sam is passionate about helping others secure themselves against attacks and develop their apps. Originally from Ohio, Sam is a big fan of Cincinnati-style chili. Give it a shot if you've not tried it! When he's not working Sam enjoys playing video and board games with his wife, walking his long-haired chihuahua, Oreo, and baking.
Sam launched straight into a Product Management career after completing a degree in Business Management and has worked in Product ever since. Outside of work, he can be found spending time with his family, writing code to run on his Raspberry Pi, or out hiking in the Utah mountains.
Sam is a software engineer who has worked in a variety of industries from tax revenue processing to creator marketing. Based in MontrΓ©al, Canada, she loves spending time with her friends, learning French, watching scary movies, going to concerts and festivals, and working on whatever creative project comes to mind.
Sanad enjoys writing all kinds of software and is passionate about automation and testing tools development. Before joining GitLab, Sanad worked as a consultant at ThoughtWorks and Modus Create where he helped multiple teams with their test automation needs. Sanad has also done a startup where he built an e-commerce application with Ruby on Rails and also wrote the accompanying iOS and Android apps. In his free time, Sanad focuses on his physical and spiritual health and well being.
Ever since I can remember, I have loved automation. Thatβs why I am here! Hello there, Iβm Sarah Bailey - happily and energetically passionate about all things automation especially test and DevOps. I have been in leadership and architect roles for the last decade and have worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies doing what I love - making things fast and with quality! I am incredibly proud of my work on building test automation frameworks and driving quality solutions WITH SPEED for Big Data and DevOps. One of my biggest achievements was bringing test automation to a mostly manual organization and enabling developers to successfully migrate their code from Jenkins to GitLab for the whole enterprise. I enjoyed the work so much - it only made sense to land at GitLab.
Sarah is a senior software engineer. Offline, Sarah enjoys playing music, exploring the outdoors, exploring breweries, and reading library books.
Sarah is Irish and joins GitLab with 15 years of experience as a paralegal (working as a legal knowledge and information specialist - across most commercial practice areas). Based in Dublin, beside the sea, when sheβs not in the water or working, Sarah can be found chasing her two small kids, two small dogs and regular sized husband around, taking breaks to do yoga and drink tea.
Sarah began her career as a Chemical Engineer in Oil & Gas, building underwater infrastructure for offshore rigs. Craving more creativity and innovation in her day-to-day work, she made the transition to technology by teaching herself to code. Since changing trajectories, Sarah has spent the last few years building incident management software for DevOps teams. When sheβs not building products or backpacking the world, you can find Sarah bombing new trails on her mountain bike, hosting dinner parties, and reupholstering furniture in her home.
Sarina loves to spend her time, apart from gardening and pets, with creative stuff. So does she in Marketing. Starting with a creative idea and strategic approach, I love to develop marketing initiatives that support sales and help driving revenue. Outside of work you find me in the garden, in my sewing room or walking the dogs in the alpes.
Sashi loves contributing to open source and loves writing code in Ruby. Outside of work, Sashi loves playing and watching football(soccer) games. He is also a big coffee lover.
Savas is a passionate self-taught developer with a degree in Political Science and International Relations. Since age of 12, he is developing web applications - sometimes even for fun. He loves spending his leisure time with his family. Also, he enjoys running, swimming and hanging out with friends.
Stephan has built and maintained infrastructures for various companies over the past years. When not working or tinkering with home automation and too many Raspberry Pis he loves to cook and try out new recipes. Not being much of a morning-person and living the coffee-free way of life, you'll usually meet him with a cup of Matcha. And as a father of a toddler he knows a trick or two how to deal with unpredictable situations or when it's best to just let go.
Scott loves problem-solving and being creative. He enjoys his job at GitLab, because it allows him to do both. Outside of work, he enjoys writing and recording music.
Scott is a senior lab development engineer with experience in software engineer, course development, technical writing, and computer security. In his spare time, Scott likes to play and listen to music, as well as work on programming projects.
Matthew joined GitLab in June 2019 and has career experience across multiple departments including Sales, Marketing, and now Product. In his free time Matthew enjoys running, reading, eating good pizza and thai food, as well as working on challenging problems with the team here at GitLab!
Sean is the Engineering Manager for the AI-powered:Custom Models group and father of an amazing teenage daughter. He enjoys working with Ruby and Golang, co-ran the Geneva Ruby group and has organised several RailsGirls events. When not at work, he runs bookclubs, swims in lakes and hikes up or skis down mountains.
Sean is a backend engineer living in Wellington, New Zealand. He loves writing Ruby, but is comfortable across a variety of languages and platforms. Outside of coding, Sean is an avid sports fan, runner, trainee triathlete and coffee lover.
Sean has spent the last 5 years in IT at Rackspace, LiquidWeb, and a software startup. When not working you can find him seeing his favorite bands, hiking parks, running marathons, meeting new people and sometimes he thinks he can paint.
Sascha has created several award-winning user-centric experiences. He loves to code and contribute to Open Source, where he is a lead designer for the Drupal Admin UI. When he's not working, he enjoys running, hiking & skiing.
Seraphine is a passionate advocate for breaking barriers and fostering a more inclusive workforce, particularly in the tech industry. She firmly believes there is ample space for everyone to succeed. With a background in Solutons Engineering and development, she enjoys automation and understanding how different components come together to create a bigger picture.
Serena is a software engineer from Austin, TX. She began as an intern in May 2020 and transitioned to a full time team member in September 2020. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, playing games, and hanging out with her cat.
I've worked as a technology reporter for the likes of Computerworld, Network World, and InformationWeek, writing about application development, security, A.I., robotics, and quantum computing. Then I was a research writer in the Communications department for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). While there, I also was in Crisis Communications, working with Health Services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shannon is a native Californian and loves to connect and engage people through stories. When sheβs not hanging out with her cat Gatsby, you can find her reading a book (preferably on the beach!), listening to a podcast, exploring new places with friends, watching a hockey game (go Kings go!), taking a new workout class or perfecting her baking/cooking skills. Most recently, sheβs tried her hand at pickleball.
Sheela is 5X Salesforce Certified Lead Administrator based out of Canada & has been in the CRM world for about 9 years. She is so passionate to empower the CRM workforce to align with business changes & innovations every day. Sheela believes in giving back to the community & an active collaborator in the Salesforce Ecosystem. Outside of work, her twins keep her busy with their activities. She enjoys photography, music & spending time with her family & friends!
Sheetal joins GitLab with extensive experience in Internal Audit, SOX Audit and Fraud Investigation. She is very excited to bring her experience to GitLab and do her part in continuing to build a world class internal audit team! She lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband and a beautiful daughter.
Loves solving tough engineering problems.
Sheldon likes to have a beginner's mindset, positive attitude, and curiosity to everything in life! He loves frontend but really likes all things web development. Sheldon also likes to listen to podcasts, watch YouTube/Netflix/etc, cook, run, drink coffee and beer, and swim in the cold Irish Sea whenever the weather allows it (still building resistance). He enjoys spending quality time with his wife, friends, to travel, explore new stuff, and is up for a good chat about pretty much anything. Led stands for Light Emitting Diode, and is part of his name for real!
As a People Connect Lead and as part of the People Group, Sarah is passionate about having an impact on people and to contribute to a great employee experience. Sarah loves to travel and has lived in various countries. For the last 8 years she was located in Dublin, Ireland, which still feels like a second home to her. Being back in Germany now, she enjoys all the outdoor activities Goslar has to offer: hiking with the dogs, skiing, mountain biking, yoga. She also has an interest for mindfulness and psychology in general.
Scott graduated from the University of South Florida in 2011 with a bachelors degree in Management Information Systems. He is a passionate cloud enthusiast, especially when paried with devops automation. He is a Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps Reserve with 4 combat tours. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and losing golf balls.
Shinya is an Inspection System engineer who is good at hardware integration. So far he has bulit up 20+ softwares using external devices such as Stereo Camera, Sound Level Meter, Arduino, etc. He also likes competiting on programming contests. Once he met a tough problem, he won't be satisfied until he has found the solution. In his free time, he enjoys composing original music and covering famous songs.
Shreyas (Shree) has been working in software development for 12 years and has been enjoying it to the core. When not getting his hands dirty with Ruby on Rails he explores Javascript and its inner beauties. When not in front of a computer he loves playing Play-doh with his daughter or cooking unhealthy Indian food. He also believes we are living in the Matrix and is waiting for Morpheus to come and give him the RED pill.
Shubham started his journey as a community contributor in 2021. He was part of Google Summer of Code 2021, Geo Team. He has been contributing to GitLab since 2021 and was MVP for 17.1 release. Outside of work he loves to travel, play piano and computer games.
Sid saw the first ruby code in 2007 and loved it so much he learned to program and made this his profession. Before that he was engaged in various businesses, from selling programmable infrared receivers to starting a recreational submarine company. He is always looking to publicly document an answer or to make a process more efficient. He was never good at sports but tries to make it up in quantity by hiking, sailing, skiing, snowboarding, speed skating, dancing Zouk, squashing, and running. He loves participating in conversations on Hacker News, and reading Marc Andreessen's tweets (now that Marc stopped this greatly increased his productivity). Here's a link to Sid's README.
Siddharth is a Backend Engineer with a passion for problem-solving and who cares about building software that is reliable, readable, and maintainable. He also enjoys making games for fun and has a few apps in the Play Store. After work, you will find him playing chess, swimming, or reading books on finance/philosophy/psychology.
Meet Silvester, a dedicated SRE with a background as a Support Engineer at GitLab. He brings invaluable insights into the platform, a passion for technology, and a commitment to enhancing system reliability. Beyond work, he's an open-source contributor, values family, enjoys swimming, and loves to explore.
Simon is a self-described web worker based in the coffee capital of the world. He enjoys learning languages, and exploring what browsers are capable of. Outside of devtools, he mostly alternates between reading, listening to music, walking his dog, and some light typing.
Simon has a background in software engineering, solutions architecture and now, is a member of a customer success leadership team. He lives in the middle of rural Somerset, having spent nearly 18 years in Wales (despite not being Welsh). When he's not at his desk chatting away to GitLab team members or customers, he can be found clinging onto exposed rockfaces, cycling, playing a board games with friends or, more likely, watching his favourite NFL team lose on TV. Simon has a beautiful wife, a bengal cat and a very active toddler!
Stefan enjoys building stuff to enable self service, tooling/processes/frameworks are all fair game
Nick enjoys automating and learning new things.
Salman is a natural storyteller. He enjoys communicating the value of technology in the context of customer problems. Prior to GitLab, he has held GTM roles at Okta (Auth0), Unbounce, Miovision, and Vidyard. Outside of work, he enjoys reading, working out, and catching the latest Marvel movie.
Stanislav is a web performance and user experience enthusiast, also invested into design and accessibility. He loves to help the Frontend community and truly believes in open source. When offline he's probably riding bicycle or motorcycle, playing piano, drums or running with his dog Lada. He's yet to be seen performing all of these at once.
Sophia has experience with Software Devolopment and a passion for math and computer science. In her free time she enjoys devoloping new recipes, reading, and discovering new bands.
Sarah is an internet law and policy specialist, with a diverse background in data protection, EU legal/policy analysis, and top-level internet domain management (including dispute resolution). Based in Ireland with her husband and two cats, she unwinds by walking on the local beach, reading, watching action movies, and travelling.
Sara enjoys working with teams to build solutions that make software more secure and performant. Prior to Gitlab, Sara helped create and improve XDR, CDN, DevSecOps, and EDR/NGAV products. She holds degrees in Politics from Mt. Holyoke College and Information Management Systems from Harvard Extension School. Outside of work, Sara enjoys outdoor adventures with her family and juggling.
Sam has varied experiences in the technology industry, from working in software development at Amazon Alexa, to software quality assurance in the defense industry. She hopes to use her love of automating business solutions at GitLab. In her spare time, she enjoys working out and attending OrangeTheory fitness classes, riding rollercoasters at Universal Orlando, and mastering the art of craft coffee. She is an oat milk enthusiast and thriller movie lover who is always down for boba tea or carpool karaoke.
Smriti is a software engineer with expertise majorly in Ruby/Ruby on Rails. She likes to stay updated in what is going on in tech world, especially DevOps
Shao enjoys learning new things especially when it's needed to tackle the problem at hand. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming and playing the cello.
Sharmad is passionate about code and has worked with various technologies like Javascript, Typescript, Vue, React, Angular JS, C#, Python, MySQL. He likes to take a data driven approach while building products to deliver maximum value to the end user. He enjoys reading books about building amazing products and entrepreneurial journeys. When not coding or reading he is mostly binge-watching Netflix with a pizza.
Sofia is passionate about automation. An avid traveler, music maker and food experimenter. Currently committed to learn one of the oldest languages in the world - Lithuanian.
Rotanak likes to help people with technology problems since he got his first computer. He got his master degree in Food Science in 2014. He started his first job as an IT Technician at a non-profit organization. There he learned about Linux and CI/CD and realized how amazing it is that we can automate many processes in Linux including software deployment. When Rotanak is not busy helping people with technology issues, he likes to do a lot of different things such as playing computer games, reading, taking long walks, sketching, watching movies, trying different sports, and recharging with solo trip.
Prior to coming to GitLab, Sophia worked for a fast growing startup in Greece and has experience in HR tech and SaaS sales. She believes that kindess is magic. In her free time, Sophia loves to practise yoga, watch history documentaries and travel.
Sophie is a passionate problem solver who never turns down a challenging task. Her love for technology coupled with a team driven mentality results in a fierce Customer Success Manager. When not in front of her computer, you will most likely find Sophie throwing weights around at the gym, cooking or learning something new.
Sampath is passionate about developing products that create enjoyable experiences whilst at the same time solving real-world problems. He has a background in telecommunications and electronic engineering where he focused on peer-to-peer networking. Inspired by his parents, Sampath developed a love for travel from a young age. He seeks out opportunities to see new countries, people and cultures. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, cycling, DIY, gardening and reading.
Stephan is interested in distributed computing and machine learning to name only two. Prior to joining GitLab, Stephan has worked as a Data Scientist, Data Engineer, SRE, and Fullstack Developer across multiple industries. Outside of work Stephan enjoys cooking, snowboarding, learning languages, and woodworking.
Make stuff. Build things.
Steph is responsible for helping grow our Marketing team here at GitLab. She lives in Portland, OR and loves the food scene, the rain, and the fact that she gets to wear flannels and beanies for the majority of the year. When she's not working she's usually trying her best at a dance class, traveling new places, reading books about design, buying a new plant, or adventuring with her cutie of a pup, Freddie Girl.
Stefanos is a passionate software developer with a love for Ruby and problem-solving. In his spare time, he is exploring off-the-beaten-path destinations and sharing his experiences through his photography.
Steffen is an passionate advocate for Open Source projects within the Cloud and has more than a decade of experience helping customers on their own journey through Cloud Native technologies. When not managing containers you'll likely find him getting his hands dirty in the workshop or chasing around his small flock of backyard chickens.
With over two decades doing some variety of reliability work with a multitude of different titles, Stephanie has tried her hand at a lot of different things. Her main love is solving problems and figuring out how to scale for the future, with a side dish of SLO work. When she's not working, she's doing something that involves animals, gardening, or reading.
Stella loves operating at the intersection of strategy and operations for companies that exemplify how to live distinguished values. Naturally, she was thrilled to join GitLab. Some of her favorite things include sunshine, good food, warm cups of coffee, meeting new people, catching up with friends and travel (70+ countries visited). She spends most of her free time chasing her young children.
Stephen has many years expierence across IT infrastructure, pharmaceutical & Utilities industries. He has spent the last 8 years in various Revenue roles before joining Gitlab. Enjoys going to the gym and spending time with family and friends.
Steve is a broad based technologist whose career has spanned Network Engineering, Systems Integration and Engineering, LAMP Architectures, and Programming. Steve has built and maintened both the infrastructure and code bases used for some of the largest and most scalable websites in existence. He decided to join GitLab due to the intense support for custom collaborative workflows, CI/CD, and well developed cloud scaling architectures. GitLab is a thought leader in many well established engineering categories, something that Steve was drawn to. In his spare time, Steve prototypes loudspeakers, speaker wave guides, passive audio crossover networks, plays a little guitar, and loves attending live Jazz performances.
Steve loves driving results and helping teams grow to their full potential. Outside of work you'll find him spending time with his family, being out and about in the mountains, playing piano, reading, and running.
For Steve building software is more than just a job; itβs his passion. Being a big advocate for Open Source Software, GitLab is the perfect place for him to help grow a community around Open Source Software. Tea and cat lover.
Steve grew up in Houston but has lived across both coasts of the United States (from sea to shining sea) learning and growing within the tech industry. When Steve is not working, you will find him swimming, running, hiking, investing, and consuming all types of media like Medium, Hacker News, HoopsHype, Motley fool, etc. Today, Steve resides in Austin, TX with his wife, baby boy, and pug where you will most likely find him out and about with at least one of the family members mentioned above.
Simon is a backend engineer with a passion for the intersection of database scalability and developer experience, especially as it relates to test automation. In his free time, he enjoys cooking and bothering his cat.
I made my parents proud when I officially became a MOM (Marketing Operations Manager). Unfortunately, it does not come with the grand children they were expecting. Based in Canada, love to be active - badminton and biking are my main activities. Co-owner of a dog, but hope to one day become a crazy cat lady.
Subashis was born in Bangladesh and then moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada where he did his Master of Science from the University of Calgary. He has been working as a software engineer for last 9+ years. Apart from writing and reading code, he enjoys spending time with his family, doing and listening to music, playing soccer, reading books.
Fatima is an adventurous software engineer & open source contributor. She's passionate about civic tech and committed to building more inclusive tech communities. She loves coding challenges, storytelling, and simplifying technical concepts. Before joining GitLab, Fatima has been a backend developer, core contribution mentor, and community lead in the Drupal and WordPress spaces. In 2018, she received the Women in Communications & Technology (WCT) Rising Star leadership award for her efforts in teaching and advocacy. When she's not playing board games or beating escape rooms, you can find Fatima reading by the ocean.
Sunjung is a Product Designer who is passionate about finding and solving problems by crafting user experience. She was born and lived in Seoul but was eager to step out of her comfort zone, so she quit her job in Korea and moved to Berlin with her partner for a new challenge. Outside of work, she loves to walk around the park, travel, and take care of furry friends.
Sunny Bedi serves as the Chief Information and Data Officer at Snowflake. Prior to joining Snowflake, Sunny held Corporate IT and Operations leadership roles at Nvidia from 2008-2020 as they scaled from less than 2,000 employees to 15,000. Previously, Sunny has held leadership roles at VMWARE, JDSU, Deloitte Consulting and Andersen Consulting. He holds a BS and MBA from University of San Francisco, and Executive Education in Leadership and Technology from Stanford University.
Suraj is passionate about technology, opensource and building small projects. When not working you will find him catching up on latest breakthroughs in astrophysics, spending time with family, watching a movie, reading a book, or playing chess.
Susannah is a sales professional with over a decade supporting the US Public Sector. She has helped multiple agencies implement software assurance programs and embed application security in their DevOps practices, and she is excited to lead our Civilian team.
Sushma is a Data Evangelist who wants to utilize the power of data within an organization so that everyone in the company has the ability to explore and use the data. Outside of work, Sushma enjoys spending time with her family and friends, watching movies, listening to music, cooking, and travelling.
Suzanne likes chocolate pudding, the New York Mets, and making complex topics simple. When she's not at work, she's reading a memoir, attempting to play tennis, or dreaming of her next vacation in Crete.
30+ years in IT and digital transformation in multiple roles. Passionate about DevOps, CALMS and Value Stream Management, in particular Cultural and Lean Changes
Swetha is a Sales Commissions Manager based out of Union City, California. With more than a decade of sales commission and analysis experience her last stint was at Box Inc where she helped calculate and administer sales incentive plans. In her free time she enjoys hiking and spending time with her family.
Ex software engineer with a passion for devops and all things enablement. Product Management evangelist and keyboard enjoyer. Fair weather cyclist, guitarist & below average Counter Strike player in my spare time
I like ruby and ski
Aboobacker is a software engineer and open source enthusiast.
Taeho is the country leader in Gitlab Korea. Have held several country managers positions in Qlik, HP Software, VMware, Mercury Interactive before, and started his career in IBM. Enjoy playing ice hockey and playing the bass guitar. He lives in Seoul.
Takuya is a software engineer specializing in digital transformation from Tokyo, Japan. He started to use Git in 2005 and GitLab in 2013, but started to contribute to GitLab in 2015. He focuses on keeping GitLab easier to contribute, as well as fixing bugs and adding features. In 2016 he founded GitLab Tokyo and GitLab.JP communities. As of May 2019, they have reached more than 1,500 members. He is also one of the Cloud Native Ambassadors of Cloud Native Computing Foundation to encourage developers to adopt a cloud native computing paradigm for various kinds of applications and systems. Other OSS contributions can be found at GitHub: @tnir.
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Sherrod has been leading teams for the past 20 years and technical customer success teams for the past 13 years. She is passionate about people and a process/frameworks junkie. Sherrod used to have spare time and dabbled in music, but now she just runs around after two very high-energy little girls of 4 and 1.
Tim has over 25 years of sales experience with the US Department of Defense (DoD). He is very excited about being part of the GitLab Public Sector Team in his role as DoD Area Sales Manager. Prior to joining GitLab, he ran DoD sales at Fortify (SAST & DAST Applicaiton Testing), and had similar sales and leadership roles at enterprise companies including Brocade and HP. When he is not working, he enjoys international travel with his family (anywhere with a beach), running (slowly but smiling), and learning to play guitar (a work in progress)
Tanner is a self-proclaimed nerd. He loves to learn and spend as much time outdoors on his bike as stuck in a book.
Niklas first used Git and GitLab in January 2020 and started administering two self-managed instances in February 2021. In September 2021, he started to actively contribute to GitLab and joined the GitLab Heroes in November that year. After some more time he joined the core team in February 2023. His interests are mostly in the area of automation tooling and CI/CD pipelines, but he also thinks that GitLab all around is very interesting.
Taurie is passionate about identifying problems, creating reliable solutions, and crafting intuitive experiences. She enjoys mentoring others through the development process, ensuring that the user experience stays the top priority. When she is not working, Taurie spends most of her time outdoors, enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest, or cuddling up at home with a movie and her cat.
Taylor McCaslin is a multi-disciplinary Investor, Product Manager, and LGBTQ+ Mentor living in Big Sky, Montana. He brings his passion for creating delightful developer experiences and usable security tools to GitLab. Taylor also founded and runs Product Trust Investments, an angel fund focused on impact investing with companies that build ethical products that customers trust. Previously he has worked at hyper growth enterprise technology companies including: New Knowledge, Duo Security, WP Engine, and Indeed.com. Taylor is an advocate and defender of privacy, consent, and inclusion. Learn more about Taylor.
Tyler has a passion for technology and commitment to lifelong learning. This combined with his broad IT background and dedication to customer success allows him to truly be a trusted advisor to our clients. Outside of technology, Tyler enjoys cooking, hiking, cycling, roasting coffee, and playing guitar.
Terri is a backend engineer with a passion for testing. She also enjoys making Android apps for fun and has a few apps in the Play Store! Her motto is 'always keep learning' and she is always up for a challenge. When she's not hanging with her family, she loves to cook/bake, travel, and draw.
Tetiana enjoys using GitLab and building its new features. She spends a lot of her spare time in a park with her dog, listening to audiobooks or doing watercolor sketches.
Tian is a software engineer with an interest in designing robust systems. Before joining GitLab, he gained experience as a backend engineer in various industries, including video gaming, health tech, information security, and IoT. Outside of work, Tian enjoys playing basketball and watching NBA games, particularly as a Mavericks fan. He also finds pleasure in watching movies and constructing Sci-Fi/World War II dioramas.
Thiago was born in Brazil and graduated as a Computer Engineer in Rio de Janeiro, then moved to Sydney, Australia to experience another country and new way of life. Hobbies include brewing, beekeeping, automation projects and Sci-Fi.
Thomas has been doing web development for 16 years with about half of that spent diving as deeply as possible into the front end. He is excited about a lot of JavaScript, web browsers, and web technology standards. Over the last few years, Thomas has been working his way closer and closer "to the metal," which is how he got interested in and so excited by native Web Components. Thomas loves dogs, black coffee, sour beer, and absurdist humor. He's an expert swimmer, an avid motorcyclist, and an aspiring pilot.
Before joining GitLab, Thomas was an engineering manager at Sophos, a cybersecurity product development company. When he isn't working, you can find him spending time with his family, at the gym, and flailing about in video games.
Thong is a software developer, who loves to solve complex problems with neat code. Having broad experience with all aspects of web application development, he really appreciates open source software where he can find the exact line of code that is causing the issue. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he enjoys the local coffee, reading fiction books, and watching Studio Ghibli movies. A cat person.
Tiffany is a passionate software developer and quality assurance engineer. She loves creating small little tools that can help tidious routine tasks a tad faster and enjoyable. Tiffany always enjoy learning new skills, that can be career related or simply to pickup a new hobby. In her free time, she enjoys a cup of tea, caring for the succulents, working out, crochetting cute little animals or playing video games. Before GitLab, Tiffany had successfully developed an automated intergration test system for her team at NCSA. She always looks forward to having more opportunities to create amazing things that can help make a difference.
Tim started building websites professionally many years ago as a full-stack engineer. Through his career, he has built online games, Websites, mobile apps for music festivals, and complete online banking solutions. In the last years he focused on Javascript and Unity3D. Tim enjoys hanging out with his wife and his 2 kids, playing football, supporting his favorite football club "SK Rapid Wien", doing water sports (scuba diving, kayaking, fishing), and playing video games with friends.
Tim has a deep-rooted passion for UX, striving to deliver solutions to complex design conundrums. His expertise in the field is complemented by his love for programmable Lego systems, a hobby that highlights a keen sense for detail and problem-solving. Beyond the screen, Tim's passion extends to the sports realm, with a particular fondness for football and tennis with his family.
Tim is a Solutions Architect with a background in Software Engineering, DevOps, System Administration and Data Warehousing. He loves to help identify ways to shift IT culture to be more focused on automation, metrics-gathering, and sharing measurements and processes in the hopes to accelerate the rate at which business partners realize value from the solutions developed. While he's not out promoting the idea that everyone can contribute, Tim tries to get as much time with his family.
Tim has spent the past ten years working in product management. As a product manager he has helped grow companies from concept to acquistion. Before that, he spent five years as a technical project manager, helping companies like MySpace and Edmunds with big data and infrastructure projects. Prior to that, he spent five years working in operations for a leading market research company. When he is not at work, you can find Tim hiking or mountain biking.
I am a brand master who cares about grid systems, typography, and every little detail. Considering user experience and making the digital world with smart, beautiful, meaningful design is my goal. Interest in coffee, french pastry, and MCM vintage collecting.
Tine is based in Copenhagen, Denmark and has extensive experience working with customers and businesses of any size all over the world, remotely or travelling on-location. She previously lived in Australia for 4 years. Initially she worked as a developer, working at agencies building websites. Since 2011 her area has been Customer Success, which fits her passion for the crossover for working both with tech and people. She truly believes she is successful, when her team is successful.
Tan has always been fascinated with software engineering - a beautiful intersection of art and science. He loves elegant codes, simple systems and the magic of human collaboration. Outside of work, you will probably find him tinkering with mechanical keyboards, reading random comics, exploring the AI/ML universe or growing things in his humble garden.
Torsten started his career at a Fraunhofer research institute in Berlin and earned a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Ghent University. As a product manager at HERE Technologies, he built a SaaS platform to simplify the development of location-based services and applications. At GitLab he started out leading the product management for the Source Code Management Category. Currently, he works as a product manager in the Duo Chat group. He spends his free-time sailing and wing foiling the lakes of Berlin and convincing his family to join him - with little success.
Taliesin is a Software Engineer with an interest in DevOps and Open Source. When he's not working he'll usually be spending time with his young family.
Iβm from a small mountain town in central Europe. I love software design and enjoy the struggle of making it a good one. In my career, Iβve been oscillating between backend and frontend, leadership and individual roles. I consider myself a generalist and enjoy any puzzle that comes my way, be it a DB query optimization, designing a new system, or, more recently, working with editor extensions. When my work laptop is closed, I read, write, or explore the outdoors and the mountains.
Tomasz is a software developer, a devop beginner and a big linux enthusiast. After a few years of working in different corporations he said 'Enough!' and decided to switch to start-up and open source environment. In his work, he appreciates a clean code and clean architecture. After hacking hours, he becomes a family man, who loves to read a good book, watch a nice movie and go for a long walk. If there is a time and opportunity he enjoys hiking and cycling - especially in mountains. Cat lover.
Tom is an experienced Linux administrator. He is a computer nerd from back when he was a teenager in 1990 when his family got their first home PC. He liked sci-fi, fantasy, reading, and comic books. He is the proud father of 2 adult sons.
Toon's interest in electronics and computers started when he was a young boy. He learned how to solder using broken circuit boards his father replaced while repairing televisions. And when his parents got their first computer, he learned MS-DOS and started programming by typing over BASIC programs from magazines. Over the years the interest in computer kept growing. Most of the time Toon lives inside Emacs typing on one of his mechanical ergonomic keyboards, which he might have soldered himself.
Toshi is a Solutions Architect to engage with GitLab customers in APAC. Toshi joined GitLab from a major Enterprise Apps Security vendor with a focus on CI/CD skills. Prior to that, Toshi had worked as a Technical Consultant for a large consultancy for nine years, with hands-on experience in Web Application Framework, Natural Language Processing, and Cloud Technology. Toshi loves playing Splatoon 3, rock climbing, camping, and motorcycle riding.
Tristan is a Frontend Engineer who loves creating new things. He has an Electrical & Electronic Engineering background and has worked as a software engineer in the medical, educational and geospatial domains. He is based in New Zealand. In his spare time, he enjoys board games, spicy food, and thinking about the next snowboarding or surfing trip.
Meet Tania, a former academic turned platform engineer and tabletop nerd. When not working, she's either DMing, painting plastic miniatures, attempting to get a tabletop game going, playing video games or lindy hopping. If there was an award for too many dice, she would be a strong contender with her Bailey-esque hoard. She's still working on her math-click-clack impulse control.
Thomas Scola serves as a Customer Success Manager at GitLab, leveraging over 25 years of experience with Drupal Development and his BFA in UI/UX Design and Information Architecture to provide advanced DevOps solutions. Certified in Drupal, Acquia and GitLab, he specializes in developing technical solutions for enterprise companies and SLED organizations, while also sharing his knowledge on Drupal architecture and UI/UX design. Thomas lives in Maine with his family and enjoys fly fishing and snowboarding across New England, enriching his professional life with outdoor activities.
Tsukasa has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, which includes software development, localization, technical consulting, technical sales, architecting, and partner enablement. They are married and have two children, and enjoys working remotely and traveling. Their hobbies include cooking, dessert hunting, and programming retro computers. MSX, for example. They will be primarily responsible for APAC partners.
Tyler helps retain and expand relationships with GitLab customers through direct engagement. With several years of experience in both sales and account management, he has maintained a client-first focus with the goal of always working in their best interest. Tyler works with clients to identify areas of focus in development efficiency and security. Partnering with our internal stakeholders, he provides insight to ensure our customers are leveraging GitLab to its full potential.
Tyler started web development professionally in 2005 and hasnβt looked back since. He has a focus on backend engineering using Ruby on Rails. Outside of work, you might find him managing two children, playing basketball, or rooting for the Tar Heels!
Uday is Cloud Security Engineer with overall 9+ years of experience combined in Network,Security,CDN and Cloud Industry. Outside of work, he enjoys the multiplayer games on PS and long distance bike rides.
Ulises lives in Chihuahua, Mexico. He found his passion for computer systems at an early age and became a Linux user via the now-defunct Canonical ShipIt program back in 2005. He has worked in various IT roles ranging from field technician to DevOps engineer and has a knack for finding the root cause of problems. His interests include learning new technologies, gaming, cooking, and traveling.
Utkarsh is an energetic data enthusiast who blends techno-managerial expertise with a passion for business dynamics, technology, and the art of data storytelling. Beyond work, he unwinds through cycling, introspective journaling, exploring geopolitics, sporadic blogging, and relishing lively gatherings!
Valerie is a design leader invested in the professional development of others and delivers customer-centric solutions for complex areas in enterprise software. Outside of work, she likes hiking in the beautiful local parks, appreciating the art of letterpress, and obsessing over her favorite college basketball team.
Val started out as a programmer for a UK car manufacturer before moving into the software supplier industry. During her career she has been fortunate enough to work in many roles including pre and post sales support, training, product management and sales. Her technical days were spent working with 4GLs, performance monitoring, change management and workflow management across different platforms. She moved to her first leadership position in 2006 enabling her to pursue her passion for helping global support teams attain and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction through collaboration and continuous improvement. Outside of work Val loves music, puzzles of all kinds, any form of crafts, spending time with husband Jon and travelling with family and friends.
Vanessa is a Senior Frontend Engineer with extensive experience in Engineering Management. She co-hosts the German web development podcast "Working Draft" and hosts the frontend testing podcast "Expect(Exception)". Additionally, she is a conference speaker, blog author, and book reviewer, with a specialization in Vue.js and Tiptap.
Vasilii is a software developer based in Berlin, Germany. He likes building software solutions that can be useful for other people. He started contributing to open-source projects several years ago and realized that is what he wants to do. Apart from being a software developer, he likes traveling and cycling.
Vishwa loves working on complex backend systems. He enjoys reading about Technology and Behavioural Psychology during snack breaks. Outside work, he loves spending time with his family.
Valerie is passionate about championing high quality software throughout the entire SDLC. She joins GitLab with experience as a wearer of many hats with a shift-left mindset, utilizing her talents in test engineering, software engineering, product management and UX. She has empowered teams through developing test automation and tools that have made processes more efficient and discovered issues before ever reaching customers. In her free time, Valerie enjoys cooking, learning new things, arts and crafts, board games, video games and playing D&D with friends.
Vladimir has 10+ years of hands-on experience in IT and Business technology consulting, where he helped organizations to develop new capabilities and drive operational improvements. Prior to joining GitLab, Vladimir worked as a Solutions Architect in the IoT and AutoID domains. Passionate about bridging Business and IT. In his spare time he loves travelling and is slowly working towards the goal of visiting 100 countries on the Planet.
She was born in India, did her undergrad in Philadelphia, and moved to Toronto for further education and experience. Later got married to a southern man and moved to Memphis TN. She has experience in Data Science and DevOps Engineering. In her spare time, she enjoys outdoor activities with her family, cooking and painting.
After almost two years in the SMB EMEA Commercial Team Veronika has now moved to the Mid-Market EMEA Commercial Team at GitLab. She is orginally from Austria but has been living in the UK for quite some time now. In her free time she likes being outdoors walking her dog, trying new vegan recipes and spending time with family and friends.
Vij has been solving problems and playing with Ruby for over 10 years and although heβs been known to venture off the beaten path with other languages over the years, Ruby is where he always returns. He loves hiking, trail running and exploring the world in his camper van with his wife and their dog.
Vijay is a Senior Strategic Account Executive at GitLab covering ASEAN and India. A results-oriented sales leader, Vijay has more than 12 years of technology sales experience across the South East Asian region (ASEAN) and South Asia (Indian subcontinent). His career includes leading companies such as Oracle, MongoDB, Tableau and Talend. He believes GitLab offers a unique competitive advantage to its customers with its single application across the DevSecOps lifecycle and is looking forward to collaborate with the customers and partners in the APAC region.
Prior to joining GitLab, Vincy worked in many start up and enterprise companies primarily focusing on improving Quality in every step of software development for a successful delivery across multiple platforms - Web, Mobile, Backend. She is a strong advocate for quality engineering and has always worked towards implementing new tools and technologies to improve test automation. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to audible, outdoor activities, and spending quality time with her family and friends.
Vishal is passionate about learning new tech and applying his experience and learnings to deliver better products. He likes to build things from scratch and optimize them in the process. Outside of work, he likes to ride a bike, hike, and snowboard in winter.
Vitali loves developing software and playing with different technologies. Sometimes he even blogs about stuff he learns. Besides coding, Vitali likes cycling, cooking, and reading books.
Vitaliy is a software developer from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin, Russia. Before Vitaliy became a full-time software developer, he administrated Linux systems related to science, banking, and software development.
Vitaly is a big fan of pure and solid code. Loves Open Source Software and contributing to it. In the past he was a maintainer of PhantomJS. Believes that browsers (not robots) will rule the world. Enjoys cooking for his family.
Vitor likes to learn new things and continuously work to help securing applications and systems. He's based in Switzerland and enjoys social activities and different sports (martial arts, kite-surfing, biking, ...) when not in front of his computer!
Vlad is a Senior SRE with a passion for automation and previous experience in Object Storage and DevOps. He tries to make the most of the wonderful mountainous settings around Brasov, Romania with his wife and son. Outside of work, when he is not snowboarding, skiing, hiking or mountain-biking he is probably somewhere around beaches and water with his family or travelling somewhere new.
Vladimir has joined GitLab in 2019 and had been GitLab user for few years by then. He loves working with community contributors and having impact on real people, not just code.
Lena is a free soul engineer that runs on coffee and cares deeply about collaboration, clean code, testing and trust. When away from a keyboard you can find Lena reading, watching Friends, cooking or her absolute favourite: talking for hours with her partner about the World as seen through the eyes of their children.
Valentine brings her experience in both red and blue teaming to the table to deal with all kinds of security-related problems. In 2018, she founded WICCA, the educational community for women in cybersecurity based in the Netherlands. Valentine is also a regular speaker at industry conferences on topics ranging from data analytics to offensive security. After working hours, Valentine is a fiction writer, D&D player, and you might sometimes find her in the mountains with her black cat.
Veronica is a curious, open-minded engineer with a passion for automation. She is a New Jersey native living in California with her husband, dog, and cat. Outside of work, she spends a lot of time traveling, reading, and rowing. Her dream is to one day row on the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.
Viktor spends most of his free time learning, reading, doing sports and acting on climate change. He joined GitLab because he always wanted to work on developer tooling, believes in GitLab's vision and does not know about any products that would truly make a difference with the climate.
Vamsi started her programming journey with mainframes in her first job. She then moved into web development and fell in love with it. She is really passionate about learning and is happiest when she's learnt something new. She enjoys travel and is currently exploring New Zealand from the comfort of her tiny home on wheels. She loves food and regularly has dreams where she is eating her favourite dish (idli!).
Wakae McLaurin joined the GitLab team as a Senior PS Project Coordinator, Training and is currently a Program Manager for the PS Operations team focusing on customer training and enablement.Β She has a passion for training administration and operations within tech companies and brings over 13 years of experience. She enjoys spending time with family and watching college football games and marching band performances.Β Her fun fact - She performed as Walt Disney World charactersΒ for one summer while she was a student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.
With a background in Cybersecurity, Managed Services and Cloud Solutions, Warren joined Gitlab as part of a rapidly growing team to help support customers looking for the complete DecOps platform, delivered as a single application. Warren loves travelling and experiencing new customs and cultures. When at home he can be found nurturing his Carolina Reaper chilli plants!
Wendy Nice Barnes is joining GitLab as Chief People Officer, with over 20 years of talent leadership experience in pre-IPO and Fortune 500 companies. She recently served as CHRO at Palo Alto Networks, where she supported the organization's growth from 750 employees globally and $255M in revenue to over 5,000 employees globally and an anual run rate of ~$3B. Other previous roles include VP of human Resources at eHealth and senior HR leadership roles at Netflix and E*Trade. Wendy is a Bay Area Native and enjoys traveling with her family, cooking and the outdoors.
Wei Meng is passionate about helping people and organisations be more effective at what they do. Prior to GitLab, he worked in journalism, web development and software product management. When not chasing random trivia down rabbit holes, you can find Wei Meng tinkering with electronics, playing video games or creating websites... about random trivia.
Joined May 21st
Before joining GitLab, Wiam was a technical consultant at HP, working with the sales organization to provide guidance to their large accounts. She who loves spending free time playing video games with her sisters, doing some yoga & meditation, reading self-development books, trying vegetarian dishes and hanging out with her friends. Her next goal is to visit at least one country per continent.
Will is an advocate for quality and test automation, and in previous roles has introduced an appreciation for quality from the project analysis phase onwards. Prior QA and software engineering roles included Puppet and IBM. Outside of work, he spends time with his family including his two children and has an appreciation for motoring and video gaming.
Will is a user researcher who likes to uncover the root causes of issues that customers are facing and help teams make useful adjustments based on customer data.
Wade's favorite projects involve blending music and technology. Sometimes that's turning data anaylsis techniques into a percussion quartet, other times it's been bringing an ensemble mentality to research support. Wade lives in East Tennessee with his wife and kids. He and his family are always trying to figure out how to spend more times in the mountains and if it's really time to re-watch The West Wing again.
Yu-Chen has spent most of his adult life in California, alternating between the SF Bay Area and Southern California, although at heart he is still the same little kid who grew up romping through the countrysides of Mid-Missouri and North Texas. Yu-Chen currently resides in Rancho Santa Margarita with his beautiful wife Jaymmie and two kids, twins Jayden and Jasmine. While Yu-Chen's educational background comprises of an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and a graduate degree in Business Administration, he has worked in the software industry his entire career and has keen interest in CI/CD, OSS, and application security. When not parked in front of his computer or on his couch, Yu-Chen can be found fishing, snowboarding, gardening, or participating in motorsports. Yu-Chen's son Jayden has a case of high impact choreoathetoid cerebral palsy, and Yu-Chen also spends much of his free time volunteering for a non-profit which seeks to improve the quality of life and future outcomes of children with cerebral palsy.
Yuki Joined GitLab from a major Vistualization software vendor. Prior to that, He worked for a domestic SIer and a global computing company. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his four children on weekends.
Zack is an aspiring Full-Stack Engineer with a heavy focus on Frontend Development. Zack lives in St. Louis with his amazing wife Kelly and their two adorable cats Mikah and Luna. Zack spends the constructive part of his free time creating websites as a hobby and helping individuals get their ideas up and running! Zack's interests include trying and making craft beer, traveling the United States to different NBA basketball stadiums, and playing video games.
Zamir holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Calgary and has been working for over ten years as a software engineer. When he is not coding, he enjoys playing soccer, learning other cultures and training dogs.
Zane enjoys solving problems that have ambguity in them and likes to take up the challenge especially when someone says that it can't be achieved. In his free time, he regularly contributes to Open Source when possible, working on his HomeLab and recently has been figuring out how to grow more varieties of banana plants.
Zach holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to joing to GitLab he was a lead solution engineer at Catchpoint, an end user digital experience observability solution working to improve the digital resiliency of companies worldwide.
Zeineb started her career as a software engineer then decided to become a project manager. She loves building relationships with customers and helping them overcome their challenges while keeping things organized and under control. If she is not working, Zeineb is either traveling, experimenting with baking or spending time with her family.