Meet Our Team
More than 3,000 people have contributed to GitLab. The GitLab Inc. team consists of the following 2,288 team members and their 363+ 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.
Andrew Conrad
Story
Andrew is a self-taught Linux nerd who loves to find ways to make technology work better for people. Before GitLab, he was working in retail. He uses his newfound flexibility in remote work to play video games (on Linux!) and ride his bicycle all around Chicago.
Aaron Richter
Andrey Ruzmanov
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Group
- Switchboard Team
GitLab Handle: a_ruzmanov
Projects:
- switchboard
- maintainer backend
Ashley Abbate
Amanda Acosta
Aurelia Akpan
Job Title: Program Manager, People Business Partner
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: aakpan
Aakriti Gupta
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Geo BE Team
GitLab Handle: aakriti.gupta
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Adham Alattar
Anthony Baer
Story
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.
Artem Balitskiy
Job Title: Senior Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market
departments:
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: abalitskiy
Story
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.
Abdul Wadood
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale BE Team
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: abdwdd
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
Alana Bellucci
Job Title: Senior Product Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8IeT4IonwY"> [UH] + [LAN] + [UH] </a>
GitLab Handle: abellucci
Story
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.
AJ Bhaskar
Andreas Brandl
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: AA-n-d-r-eh-aa-s
GitLab Handle: abrandl
Story
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.
Abubakar Siddiq Ango
Story
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.
Alana Castro
Andy Chai-Seong
Al Champagne
Ling Yu Chang
Alexander Chueshev
Job Title: Staff Machine Learning Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:AI Framework BE Team
GitLab Handle: achueshev
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
Story
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 Cook
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: acook.gitlab
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- repository-x-ray
- reviewer
Story
Allen has worked in software for several years, enjoys making stuff, telling stories and learning new things.
Aaron Corona
Alice Cottini
Alexandru Croitor
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Project Management BE Team
GitLab Handle: acroitor
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer database
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
Story
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.
Alice Crosbie
Andrew Torres
Aidan Cuffe
Job Title: Customer Success Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: A-Dan Kuff
GitLab Handle: acuffe
Andrejs Cunskis
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
GitLab Handle: acunskis
Projects:
- engineering-productivity-infrastructure
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer qa
- gitlab-build-images
- maintainer
- gitlab-qa
- maintainer
Story
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.
Alex Dakin
Adam Mulvany
Story
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 Jensen
Job Title: Senior Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: adam.jensen.gitlab
Story
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.
Adam Cohen
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-kics
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-kubesec
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-pmd-apex
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-security-code-scan
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-semgrep
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-sobelow
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-spotbugs
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-tracking-calculator
- reviewer
- secure-common-command
- reviewer
- secure-common-report
- maintainer
- secure-common-ruleset
- reviewer
- secure-container-scanning
- maintainer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
Story
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.
Adam Huss
Aleesha Dawson
Job Title: Senior Customer Success Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Pronunciation: Uh-leash-uh
GitLab Handle: adawson-gitlab
Story
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.
Adebayo Adesanya
Alessia Del Vecchio
Job Title: Manager, Solutions Architects
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: ah-less-ee-ah
GitLab Handle: adelvecchio
Story
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.
Alexander Dess
Adil Farrukh
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern Managers
- Govern:Authentication
Pronunciation: He/Him
GitLab Handle: adil.farrukh
Muhamad Amir Husaini Din Shahrin
Story
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
Adi Wolff
Story
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.
Adriano S. Fonseca
Story
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.
Ashley Dunn
Abhimanyu Dwivedi
Tim Guibert
Story
Starts May 18th
Arthur Foltz
Story
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.
Andrew Forst
Ally Frusciano
Job Title: Director, Customer Success Management
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: afrusciano
Agnes Duffy
Story
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.
Amir Haroun
Armin Hergenhan
Ahmad Sherif
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Cluster Team
GitLab Handle: ahmadsherif
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
- gitlab-exporter
- maintainer
Story
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.
Ahmad Tolba
Projects:
- release-tools
- maintainer
Ahmed Hemdan
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-cli
- maintainer
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
- release-cli
- reviewer
- secure-SD-secrets
- maintainer
Story
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.
Allie Holland
Aaron Huntsman
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Compliance BE Team
- Govern:Compliance Fullstack Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: ahuntsman
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Aileen Lu
Aimee Han
Aishwarya Subramanian
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform Team
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform BE Team
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: a-sh-war-yuh
GitLab Handle: aish.sub
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
A.J. Romaniello
Projects:
- peopleops-compensation-calculator
- maintainer
- peopleops-employment-automation
- maintainer
- peopleops-nominator-bot
- maintainer
- peopleops-splinter-pto
- maintainer
Alex Sweet
A'Jah Watts
Anastasia Khomchenko
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Alexander Knorr
Adrien Kohlbecker
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
GitLab Handle: akohlbecker
Projects:
- autoscaler
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer
- orka
- maintainer
Story
Joined June 3rd, 2019
Abhilash Kotte
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Ashley Kramer
Story
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.
Alex Krusiec
Amruta Kulkarni
Story
I lead the content program within GitLab’s Public Relations team. Before joining the team at GitLab, I worked on the agency side, where I helped companies in tech and VC bring their stories to life.
Anna Lanski
Alejandra Ayala
Job Title: Manager, Candidate Experience
departments:
Pronouns: She/ Her/ Ella
GitLab Handle: aleayala
Alison Lee
Story
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!
Alejandro Rodríguez
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:AI Framework BE Team
GitLab Handle: alejandro
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-shell
- reviewer
Story
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.
Alejandro Guerrero de Alba
Story
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.
Aletha Alfarania
Story
Joined in October 2019 (^o^)/
Alex Fracazo
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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 Hanselka
Story
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 Pooley
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale BE Team
GitLab Handle: alexpooley
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
Story
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.
Alex Strachan
Story
Alex has spent the majority of his career in Support, System Administration working for a variety of employers in size and business function. He has seen how the sysadmin role is changing and working for GitLab will allow him to immerse into these technologies.
Alex Venter
Job Title: Senior People Connect Specialist
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: alex_venter
Story
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.
Alexandra Martin
Job Title: Senior Product Manager
departments:
- Monetization
- Product
- Product Monetization
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment PM Team
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: alex_martin
Alexander Dietrich
Story
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 Sosna
Job Title: Senior Database Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: alexander-sosna
Alexandr Tanayno
Story
Alexandr is interested in everything related to technical support and likes to share as much knowledge as possible. On his spare time he enjoys playing bass guitar, travelling, and eating doner kebab.
Alexander Turinske
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern frontend capability
- Govern:Security Policies Fullstack Team
- Govern:Security Policies FE Team
- Frontend
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: aturinske
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
Story
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.
Allie Klatzkin
Story
Allie joins GitLab with a background in lifecycle marketing, demand generation, and personalization. Allie enjoys working out, going on long walks, baking cookies, traveling, and trying new restaurants.
Alexandre Capdevielle
Story
Before Gitlab Alex was working as an Account Manager for fews years at Wrike a citrix company. Outside work Alex is spending his time with his family and friends doing outdoor activities and photography.
Alex Buijs
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authorization
- Govern:Authorization BE Team
- Govern:Authorization Fullstack Team
GitLab Handle: alexbuijs
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
- pipeline-validation-service
- maintainer
Story
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 Cohen
Job Title: Senior Director, Go-to Market Planning and Operations
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: alex.cohen
Story
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 Frank
Story
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.
Alex Ives
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Database BE Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: alexives
Projects:
- gitlab
Story
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 Kapungu
Alex Picker
Aleksei Lipniagov
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Cloud Connector BE Team
GitLab Handle: alipniagov
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-cloud-connector
- owner
Story
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 Caiazza
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer go
- maintainer workhorse
- gitlab-pages
- maintainer
- release-tools
- maintainer
Story
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.
Allie Marconi
Allison Walker
Story
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 Browne
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Execution BE Team
- Verify:Pipeline Execution Group
Pronouns: she/her?or=they/them
GitLab Handle: allison.browne
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
Story
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 Mueller
Story
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 Akgun
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- MLOps
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: a_akgun
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer database
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer frontend
- maintainer database
- gitlab-experiment
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide
- reviewer
- iglu
- maintainer
- version.gitlab.com
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
Story
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 Luthra
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: aluthra2
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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 Gounder
Story
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.
Alex Mark
Alyssa Villa
Story
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. She’s also into travel and food photography.
Anita Mall
Amanda Shim
Amanda Shen
Story
Amanda is a native Californian, born and raised in the LA Area and currently resides in Half Moon Bay, CA. She’s 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.
Amar Pabla
Amar Patel
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: uh-mur
GitLab Handle: amarpatel
Alex McCluskey
Alissa Meeks
Amelia Bauerly
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer UX
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer UX
Story
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.
![Ameya Darshan](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/ameyadarshan-crop.jpg)
Ameya Darshan
Security Engineer, Deploy:Environments, Systems:Gitaly, Systems:Geo, Delivery, Snippets
Ameya Darshan
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Amie Bright
Story
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.
Amit Blanka
Amit Kaul
Adam Mittner
Story
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 Knight
Job Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Environment Automation
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: an-dee nait (IPA: ˈændi naɪt)
GitLab Handle: amknight
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
Story
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. 🫖🇬🇧
Ammar Alakkad
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
- Fulfillment:Utilization FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: aalakkad
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
Outside work I enjoy coffee, sourdough baking, video games, and personal development pursuits. I value continuous learning and strive for excellence in my work.
Angela Pesta
Story
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
Story
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 Waller
Story
Amy has a healthy obsession with process improvements and efficiency. She is an avid Boston sports fan, enjoys playing soccer and softball, and traveling back and forth between California and New England.
Senior Public Sector Strategic Account Executive
Amy Phillips
Job Title: Senior Manager, Engineering
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Group
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: amyphillips
Story
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 Qualls
Job Title: Senior Technical Writer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: A-mee kwahls, or <a href="http://ipa-reader.xyz/?text=e%C9%AA.mi%20q%CC%9F%CA%89%C3%A4lls">/eɪ.mi q̟ʉälls/ (audio link)</a>
GitLab Handle: aqualls
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-cli
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
- project-templates
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Amy Vujanich
Analissa Moreno
Job Title: IT Enterprise Applications Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Pronunciation: ah-nah-LEE-sah Moh-REH-noh
GitLab Handle: ana-moreno
Story
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 Nagayama
Job Title: Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: i-she-gyul
GitLab Handle: aysegula
Story
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.
Aathira Nair
Story
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.
Anam Shaikh
Adrien Narinesingh
Job Title: Associate Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Threat Insights Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: anarinesingh
Anastasia McDonald
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
GitLab Handle: a_mcdonald
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- maintainer
Story
Anastasia is passionate about quality and enjoys learning new skills. In her free time she likes travelling, listening to music and playing board games.
Anthony Natale
Job Title: Senior Commercial Account Executive - Named
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Na-ta-lay
GitLab Handle: anatale
Andras Herczeg
Story
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 Horvath
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Cluster Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: ANDrash HORvat
GitLab Handle: andrashorvath
Story
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.
André Luís
Job Title: Senior Manager, Engineering
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code FE Team
- Create:Code Review FE Team
- Frontend
- Create:Code Review
GitLab Handle: andr3
Story
André 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.
Andre M. Braun
Story
Andre joins GitLab with decades of sales and management experience, on the private side he loves to spend time horse back riding and doing some LARP.
Andrei Zubov
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: andrei.zubov
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
Story
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.
Andres Garcia
Andrew Fontaine
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Environments FE Team
- Frontend
- Ops Sub-department
- Environments Group
- AI-powered:AI Framework FE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: afontaine
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Newdigate
Job Title: Senior Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Environment Automation
GitLab Handle: andrewn
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
- gitlab-com-runbooks
- maintainer
- labkit
- maintainer
- labkit-ruby
- maintainer
- tamland
- maintainer
Story
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 Smith
Andrew Winata
Story
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 Kelly
Story
Andrew enjoys building and securing software.
Andy Volpe
Story
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.
Andy Schoenen
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Security Policies Fullstack Team
- Govern:Security Policies BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: Andyschoenen
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
Story
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 Hohenner
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
- Core Platform Sub-department
- SaaS Platform Section
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: AndyWH
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
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.
Anesia Chan
Job Title: Senior Director, People Technology & Analytics
departments:
Pronouns: She/her
GitLab Handle: anechan
Anthony Maina Ng'ang'a
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: <a href="https://www.pronouncenames.com/mp3/266969_1386627586188.mp3">Mah like in "Jah" , eee like the letter "e" , na like "nah"</a>
GitLab Handle: anganga
![Angelo Gulina](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/angelogulina-crop.jpg)
Angelo Gulina
Senior Frontend Engineer, Fulfillment:Utilization, Fullstack Engineer (Intern), Fulfillment:Utilization
Angelo Gulina
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
- Fulfillment:Utilization FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: agulina
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Anjali Kaufmann
Job Title: Senior Director, People Business Partners
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: anjali_kaufmann
Ankit Panchal
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Analytics Section
- Analytics Instrumentation Team
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: ankit.panchal
Projects:
- analytics-manager
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer analytics_instrumentation
- gitlab-observability-ui
- maintainer
- iglu
- maintainer
- version.gitlab.com
- reviewer frontend
Ankit Bhatnagar
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Monitor:Observability Group
- Monitor:Observability BE Team
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: ankitbhatnagar
Projects:
- gitlab-observability
- maintainer
Anna Piaseczna
Story
Anna studied linguistics but her career path led her to (finance) operations. She enjoys being a part of the ever-changing tech world.
Anna Vovchenko
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Environments FE Team
- Environments Group
- Frontend
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: anna_vovchenko
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Anna Baur
Annabel Dunstone Gray
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- reviewer UX
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer UX
Story
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.
Anna Camacho
Anna Werner
Anne Lasch
Story
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.
Annelise Denny
Annette Kristensen
Story
Annette likes to help customers define, find or rejuvenate their channels to their markets, their value propositions and to overcome their business challenges by applying pragmatic strategies and execution to get the success they deserve. Seeing them go on to achieve high growth and great results is a huge motivator for her.
Her style is consultative - she brings a wealth of experience from a vast range of customers – national and international. She likes to brainstorm, overcome challenges and make suggestions to make things change. Working with a customer is about helping them on the journey to the outcome they want, not just about taking a journey. Her advice is born from experience that gets results, not just theories!
Really enjoy facilitating live sessions, round table discussions and standing in front of people in a workshop – for her it is important to be a practitioner, to be hands on and to help.
Annie Nelson
Story
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.
Annie Kingston
Anthony Subia
Agnes Oetama
Story
Agnes’s experience spans over 14 years of B2B marketing in the Technology Space. Agnes is a Food Enthusiast/Hodophile who is passionate about Marketing, Marketing Technology, Marketing Operations and Analytics.
Avi Orenstein
Andrew Patterson
Job Title: Senior Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Build BE Team
Pronunciation: An-dru Pat-ur-sun
GitLab Handle: apatterson2
Projects:
- cng
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer
Alex Pennells
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer frontend
Adrian Perez
Story
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.
Anna Petrova
Alex Pham
Alessandra Pianti
Jason Tozzi
Alex Ponce
Archit Garg
Artur Fedorov
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern frontend capability
- Govern:Security Policies Fullstack Team
- Govern:Security Policies FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: arfedoro
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Buerer
Story
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.
Arihant Godha
Story
Arihant is passionate about automating the boring parts of work life and likes to write small and useful ruby scripts. He loves interacting with people and solving problems. He also enjoys playing with his kids and likes social outings.
Arjun Krishna G
Alex Rosencrans
Job Title: Professional Services Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: ˈæləks ˈroʊzənkrænz
GitLab Handle: arosencrans
Story
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.
Arpit Gogia
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- secure-browser-based-dast
- maintainer
- secure-dast
- maintainer
Arran Walker
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
GitLab Handle: ajwalker
Projects:
- autoscaler
- maintainer
- fleeting
- maintainer
- fleeting-plugin-aws
- maintainer
- fleeting-plugin-azure
- maintainer
- fleeting-plugin-googlecompute
- maintainer
- fleeting-plugin-static
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer
- nesting
- maintainer
- orka
- maintainer
- taskscaler
- maintainer
Story
Arran enjoys building tools that solve problems for people, especially other engineers.
Arturo Herrero
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search BE Team
GitLab Handle: arturoherrero
Projects:
- gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- reviewer
Story
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 Rueda
Story
Amanda is a mom, a fixer and a helper who loves to learn and to make things easier for people wherever possible.
Adrienne Ruhaak
Arun Sori
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Monitor:Observability Group
- Monitor:Observability BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: arun.sori
Projects:
- gitlab-observability
- maintainer
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
Story
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 Salii
Story
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.
Adrien Salimi
Story
Adrien is passionate about new technology and science. Data driven and creative, he loves solving problems.
Ariele Scheffel
Story
Loves to travel, cook and learn about other cultures. Enjoys funfair and karaoke!
Alexa Schrauth
Ash McKenzie
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code BE Team
- Create:Source Code
GitLab Handle: ashmckenzie
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer workhorse
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
- gitlab-shell
- maintainer
- topology-service
- maintainer
Story
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.
Ali Shahrazad
Amy Shiel
Job Title: Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Group
- Switchboard Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: ashiel
Story
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.
Ashley Jammers
Story
Ashley is a Senior People Connect Specialist, based out of the Washington, DC area. She enjoys taking her two dogs - Monica + Chandler - for walks and anything that involves wine, true crime, and good company.
Ashraf Khamis
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-operator
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Asmaa Hassan Ahmed Ali
Story
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 walks, and spend time with her family.
Anton Smith
Story
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.
Alessio Spaggiari
Anna Springfield
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
Pronouns: she/they
GitLab Handle: aspringfield
Story
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.
Art Starczewski
Anton Starovoytov
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: star-o-voi-tov
GitLab Handle: astarovoytov
Story
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.
Afraz Suteria
Business Development Representative
Alphonsus Tan
Story
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.
Arsema Teclemariam
Andrew Evans
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authentication
- Govern:Authentication BE Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pronunciation: Anne-droo Eh-vans
GitLab Handle: atevans
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
Andrew has taken on many roles across the web-engineering field, from full-stack software engineering to DevOps and full-spectrum software security
Amy Tisdale
Aditya Tiwari
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- secure-browser-based-dast
- maintainer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-coverage-fuzzing
- maintainer backend
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
Ana Toomer
Ausha Saptouw
Story
I’m lucky enough to be live in the world’s most beautiful city with my husband, two kids and a cat with a whole lot of personality. Outside of work, I enjoy hiking and expirementing with vegan cooking.
Austin Pierce
Story
Austin came to Gitlab after spending 4 years at a wireless retailer. He is a jack of all trades when it comes to tech with an interest in bug bounties, programming, and many more. Outside of work he enjoys playing games, spending time with his wife, and picking up new skills.
Austin Regnery
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- trainee_maintainer UX
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
Austin has spent the last several years designing products for large enterprise needs and growing in-house design talent. He loves to discover creative solutions and teach others how to do the same. You can find him exploring new places, playing sports, or chilling with his wife and Goldendoodle.
Avielle Wolfe
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring Group
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring BE Team
Pronouns: she
GitLab Handle: avielle
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer ci_template
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
Story
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.
Axel von Bertoldi
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: avonbertoldi
Projects:
- fargate
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer
- runner-ubi-offline
- maintainer
- step-runner
- maintainer
Story
Joined June 2022. Into Linux, (Neo)Vim, cycling, drumming, van-camping, traveling and eating food.
Alisha Ward
Job Title: Senior Digital Marketing Programs Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: award4
Andy Waterhouse
Achilleas Pipinellis
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- gitlab_kramdown
- maintainer
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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 Xu
Job Title: Junior Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Build BE Team
GitLab Handle: axugl
Projects:
- cng
- reviewer
- distribution
- reviewer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
Story
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.
Adeline Yeung
Projects:
- config-mgmt
- maintainer
- infra-mgmt
- maintainer
Ayoub Fandi
Story
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.
Amanda Zurmuhle
Adam Zwickey
Story
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).
Anastasiia Bakunovets
Bala Kumar Subramani
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights BE Team
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: bala.kumar
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
Story
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.
Bala Allam
Balasankar 'Balu' C
Job Title: Senior Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Build BE Team
GitLab Handle: balasankarc
Projects:
- cng
- maintainer
- gitlab-build-images
- maintainer
- gitlab-chart
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- maintainer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer
- public-image-archive
- maintainer
Story
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 Dinoff
Barbara Roncato
Job Title: Manager, IT Program Management
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: BAR BA RAH
GitLab Handle: broncato
Story
Barbara is an IT Program Manager who is passionate about finding solutions to problems and implementing applications that support business processes within GitLab.
Barbara Schreuder
Sebastian Rehm
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Analytics Section
- Analytics Instrumentation Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: bastirehm
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer analytics_instrumentation
- iglu
- maintainer
Story
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 Bauer
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Security Policies Fullstack Team
- Govern:Security Policies BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: bauerdominic
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer database
- security-report-schemas
- maintainer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- maintainer
Story
Dominic is a software developer with a preference for simplicity. Away from keyboard, he enjoys sports, hiking and traveling to remote places.
Brandon Butterfield
Story
Brandon’s 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.
Bruno Cardoso
Job Title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:Custom Models BE
GitLab Handle: bcardoso-
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
Story
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.
Ben Cowdry
Bogdan Denkovych
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authentication
- Govern:Authentication BE Team
GitLab Handle: bdenkovych
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- trainee_maintainer database
Becka Lippert
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer UX
Story
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.
Becky Piccone
Brett Egloff
Story
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. I’ve 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 Prescott
Story
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.
Ben Holland
Benjamin Caller
Ben King
Story
Ben has several years of experience working in the Australian tech industry, and is always trying to develop new skills. Outside of work, you can find him playing board games and video games or out on a bush walk in his local area.
Bernard Park
Story
Bernard is passionate about helping customers embrace the most exciting of technologies. He has spent most of his career helping enterprises adopt cloud technologies and modern best practices. In his spare time, he enjoys making music, golf, and cooking.
Bastien Escudé
Beth Morrow
Betsy Bula
Story
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.
Bruno Ferreira
Brandon Greenwell
Story
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.
Bhavna Gupta
Bhavya Kaushal
Projects:
- secure-SAST-rules
- reviewer
Story
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.
Brian Henzelmann
Bishwa Hang Rai
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Provision Team
- Fulfillment:Provision BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: bhrai
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- trainee_maintainer database
Story
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.
Bien Balaba
Billy Downing
Brijen Joshi
Brian Kinanda
Bruce Koop
Bruce Marco
Story
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 Marjanović
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Data Stores:Tenant Scale BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: BOY - un
GitLab Handle: bmarjanovic
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- http-router
- maintainer
Story
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.
Brandi McDonald
Brendan McKitrick
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: Brendan Mah-kit-trick
GitLab Handle: bmckitrick
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Story
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.
Bradley Medford
Bryan Miller
Job Title: Customer Success Engineer
departments:
- CSM
- Customer Success
- Customer Success Engineer
- Static Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Secret Detection Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Dynamic Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Composition Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Fuzz Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
GitLab Handle: bmiller1
Story
Bryan is passionate about all things Open Source. This include helping his customers achieve success through Open Source and, best of all, through using GitLab. Bryan is active in CyberSecurity, AppSec, and enjoys being out-of-doors whenever possible.
Bernard Ng
Job Title: Customer Success Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: He/his
Pronunciation: bɜːnəd
GitLab Handle: bng-gtlb
Story
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.
Brenda Nyaringita
Story
Brenda is a software engineer with Telecommunications engineering background and interest. She enjoys working with hardware occasionally and teaching any tech jargon she’s good at.
Bob Van Landuyt
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: reprazent
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-com-runbooks
- maintainer
- labkit
- trainee_maintainer
- labkit-ruby
- maintainer
- runway-provisioner
- reviewer
- runway-reconciler
- reviewer
Story
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 Carbonell
Story
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.
Brendan O'Connor
Bohdan Parkhomchuk
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: bog-done park-home-chook
GitLab Handle: bohdanpk
Bonnie Tsang
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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 Canton
Story
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.
Brianne Parton
Job Title: Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: bree-ann
GitLab Handle: bparton
Bradley Lee
Story
Bradley has spent his entire career spanning multiple roles in the software industry, with a focus on SCCM and automation solutions. Born and raised in Hawaii, Bradley likes to spend his free time exploring new landscapes with his family and two German Shepherds.
Bradley "Brad" Sevy
Story
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 O'Dowd
Job Title: Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: bradyodowd
Story
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 Labuschagne
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Lynch
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-operator
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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 Walker
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-glfm-markdown
- owner
- tanuki_emoji
- maintainer
Story
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 Wald
Job Title: Senior Director, Solutions Architects
departments:
- SA
- Customer Success
- Static Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Secret Detection Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Dynamic Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Composition Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Fuzz Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
GitLab Handle: brianwald
Story
Brian is a Solutions Architect and Digital Strategist with 12+ years experience in web technology and business consulting. He is passionate about open-source technology and strives to enable businesses to make smart technology choices.
Briana Nguyen
Story
Briana is passionate about all things data, especially when it enables teams to make better decisions. Her background includes a foundation in accounting standards and the auditing of international public companies, as well as experience building and shaping the financial analysis for enterprise SaaS start ups. Outside of work, she loves spending time in nature, reading a book, or going for a run with her boyfriend.
Brian Will
Job Title: Senior Manager, Professional Services Practice
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: brianw11
Story
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 Ridley
Story
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.
Brie Carranza
Brian Robins
Story
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 Barnett
Story
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.
Ben Rudd
Bruno Freitas
Story
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 May
Bryan Ross
Story
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 Sandlin
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Beth Scarff
Biren Shah
Job Title: Senior Database Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: bshah11
Brittney Sinq
Benjamin Skierlak
Billy Stallings
Bob Stevens
Brian Tabbert
Buck O'Leary
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he / him
Pronunciation: BuK
GitLab Handle: bucoleary
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
Buck’s 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.
Brent Van Hoveln
Ben Venker
Bryce Weatherford
Story
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 Wilkerson
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
- SaaS Platform Section
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: BRIH-tuh-nee WIL-ker-son
GitLab Handle: bwilkerson13
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
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 Williams
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights BE Team
Pronouns: he/him/they/them
GitLab Handle: bwill
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer go
- reviewer database
- maintainer ci_template
- gitlab-styles
- maintainer
- sec-danger-bot
- maintainer
- security-report-schemas
- maintainer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- reviewer
Story
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 Boots
Job Title: Senior Security Assurance Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: byronboots
Story
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.
Bartholomew Zhang
Clément Tavernier
Cale Dancho
Caitlin Faughnan
Caitlin Steele
Job Title: Manager, Product Design
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Kate-lynn
GitLab Handle: caitlinsteele
Caleb Cooper
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: KAY-lehb KOO-pr
GitLab Handle: calebcooper
Story
Caleb is a Customer Success Manager in the US Federal team. He came to GitLab from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Caleb enjoys solving hard problems and seeing others succeed. For the last several years, he has been spending his free time writing a game in BASH.
Caleb Williamson
Story
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.
Christopher Allenfort
Story
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 Smith
Story
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 X. Yang
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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 S McFarland
Story
Cameron loves solving problems. He enjoys RPGs, board games, computer games, Hurricanes hockey, and spending time with his family.
Cameron Hines
Camille Dios
Story
Before joining GitLab, Camille was working as a Channel Manager for a VoIP software. She likes human contact and is always happy when she can feel she is helping customers. In her free time, she likes to spend time with her beloved ones, go for horse riding and travel as much as she can.
Carla Drago
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Manage:Import and Integrate BE Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: carlad-gl
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer database
- maintainer backend
Carlie Russell
Job Title: Manager, People Business Partner
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: carlierussell
Carlos Bazan
Story
Carlos has over a decade of experience partnering with customers as an extension to their team. He enjoys helping his customers maximize their investments and achieve their goals. Outside of work, Carlos enjoys playing sand volleyball, watching movies at the Alamo Drafthouse, and traveling.
Caroline Häming
Carolina Marco Bellver
Carolina Brinkmann
Job Title: Sales Development Representative
departments:
Pronouns: she/they
GitLab Handle: carolinabrinkmann
Caroline Simpson
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Verify:Pipeline Execution Group
Pronouns: she/they
GitLab Handle: carolinesimpson
Story
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.
Caroline Swanson
Job Title: Manager, IT Program Management
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: caroline.swanson
Carolyn Bednarz
Story
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.
Carolyn Harding
Caroline Rebello
Story
Caroline is responsible for growing the BDR/SDR teams in the Americas at GitLab. When she’s not connecting with folks across the world, you can find her trying a new craft project, exploring a new restaurant or cuddling with her kitties, Calvin and Hobbes.
Carrie Hipwell
Story
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.
Casey Clark
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Casey Jordan
Cassiana Gudgenov
Job Title: Senior People Compliance Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Ka-see-ah-na Good-jen-ov
GitLab Handle: cgudgenov
Story
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.
Catherine Ballantyne
Job Title: Director, Customer Success Management
departments:
Pronouns: she/her/她
GitLab Handle: catherineballantyne
Cathy Hilling
Story
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 GitLab’s 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.
Chris Balane
Carolyn Braza
Job Title: Senior Manager, Product Data Insights
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: cbraza
Story
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.
Chavit Casabar
Job Title: IT Enterprise Applications Administrator
departments:
Pronouns: He/His
GitLab Handle: ccasabar
Christoph Caspar
Chen Charnolevsky
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Chris Childers
Carli Chiodo
Job Title: Senior Talent Brand Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: cchiodo
Claudia Contreras
Corey Cross
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Environment Automation
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: ccross
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Carlo Curato
Caroline Doyle
Cristian Enache
Job Title: Staff Program Manager, Field Enablement
departments:
Pronouns: He/His
GitLab Handle: cenache
Story
A Philosophy major with a passion for helping customers and supporting people’s 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.
Clarissa Ersoz
Cesar Saavedra
Story
Cesar joins GitLab with a background in operations, development, consulting, technical pre-sales, competitive sales, and technical product marketing. Cesar loves to travel and play and watch good quality soccer.
Chance Feick
Projects:
- runway-provisioner
- maintainer
- runway-reconciler
- maintainer
Chloe Guillemot
Christopher Guitarte
Job Title: Senior Customer Success Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: guitar-tay
GitLab Handle: cguitarte
Story
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 Woolley
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Remote Development BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: cwoolley-gitlab
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
- www-gitlab-com
- maintainer
Story
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 ;)”
Chandler Gibbons
Job Title: Senior Manager, Content Marketing
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: chandlergibb
Ed Cepulis
Story
Ed’s 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.
Honora Duncan
Story
I have been a services enthusiast throughout my career, and I am looking forward to helping GitLab Partners develop and operate thriving services businesses.
Chantal Lawrence
Charlie Ablett
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Optimize BE Team
- Merge Request Buddy
GitLab Handle: cablett
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
- gitlab-mail_room
- maintainer
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- tanuki_emoji
- maintainer
Story
Charlie’s time is split between writing excellent software, spending time with family, growing things, and making things out of wood.
Chase Southard
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
GitLab Handle: csouthard
Story
Chase is an engineering leader who might be described as a biologist seduced by computers. He is passionate about contributing to open source and mentoring others. He found Ruby and the Kentucky Ruby community around 2008 and the rest is history as they say. When not working, Chase is often out and about with his wife and teenage daughter, lifting heavy things, playing a stringed instrument, or trying to build something whimsical.
Chathumina Vimukthi
Projects:
- secure-SAST-rules
- reviewer
Story
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
Camilo Hernandez Murillo
Cherry Han
Cheryl Li
Story
Cheryl is interested in all things related to performance and scaling challenges, DevOps, and agile development. Outside of work, she enjoys getting outdoors, trying out different types of coffee and dabbling in small home/auto DIY projects.
Chloe Whitestone
Story
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 “the one with the whales”, but she loves all space operas equally. She also has a very useful degree in Latin, so she’s available for all of your demon-summoning needs.
Chloé Cartron
Story
Chloé is a Solutions Architect with a background in Business Development and Digital Marketing.
Chloe Liu
Job Title: Staff Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
GitLab Handle: chloeliu
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer qa
- gitlab
- maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- maintainer
Story
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.
Clay Houston
Story
Joined August 9th
Chris Maurer
Story
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 Nightingale
Story
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 Micek
Story
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 Moberly
Story
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.
Chris Sharp
Story
Chris is an experienced data wrangler and enjoys the great outdoors. He has a season ticket for Edinburgh Rugby, plays the touch version of the game when he can and loves cycling.
Christian Couder
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Git Team
GitLab Handle: chriscool
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
Story
Based near Paris, France, Christian has been developing Git since 2006. He is passionate about open source projects, especially development tools.
Christian King
Story
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.
Christian McLellan
Christian Willis
Christina Souleles
Christina Weaver
Story
I have been working in marketing and communications in the technology sector for over 12 years in both agency and corporate environments. I have a passion for helping companies share their story through external communications, media relations, blog content and more.
Christine Lee
Job Title: VP, Marketing Operations and Analytics
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: christinelee
Story
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.
Christopher Chewa Mutua
Story
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.
Christopher Chiappe
Story
Chris is a software professional currently residing in San Francisco, CA. Chris loves to help and socialize with others and has a passion for learning new technologies. When he is not working, he is often found traveling with his girlfriend, working out or BBQing.
Christos Lemos
Chun Du
Story
Chun loves food, cooking, and photography.
Cindy Halim
Projects:
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide-vscode-fork
- maintainer
Cindy Lei
Alex Scheel
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Pipeline Security
- Govern:Pipeline Security BE Team
GitLab Handle: cipherboy-gitlab
Chris Kedski
Kaburu Chris
Story
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 Lavimoniere
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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.
Clemens Beck
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Deploy BE Team
GitLab Handle: clemensbeck
Projects:
- cng
- reviewer
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- maintainer
- gitlab-operator-v2
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
- renovate-gitlab-bot
- maintainer
- topology-service
- reviewer
Clément Leroux
Story
Clément is a Analytics Engineer in the quality department with a focus on delivering clarity and insights on GitLab Cloud spend. Outside of work, Clément likes to spend time with his family and doing home automation things around his house.
Cleveland Bledsoe Jr
Story
Cleveland is passionate about technology and helping customers. In his free time, he is spending time with family, making music, gaming, and enjoy good eats in the Austin metro.
Changzheng Liu
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search BE Team
GitLab Handle: changzhengliu
Story
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.
Corey Lund
Charl Marais
Job Title: Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: Him/His/He
Pronunciation: Sh-ah-r-l
GitLab Handle: cmarais
Story
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.
Cierra Motes
Job Title: People Communications & Engagement Associate
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: cmotes
Story
Cierra’s favorite part about working in communications is connecting people to messages that make sense and make a difference. Outside of work, she’s likely to be found going for a walk, grabbing a cappucino, or crafting with friends.
Chris Stone
Catherine Murphy
Craig Nielsen
Christian Nnachi
Carli Nodari
Chris Novello
Story
Chris has over a decade of Public Sector Channels experience and is eager to implement the best practices of what he has learned to make GitLabs channel the best in the business.
Cody West
Story
Cody is passionate about technology, helping people, and solving interesting problems. Before GitLab, he worked in a variety of technical support roles. He enjoys exploring new cities, spending time with family, eating great food, and watching TV and movies.
Collen Kriel
Story
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.
Constantin Pahl
Conley Rogers
Job Title: Staff Customer Success Architect
departments:
- Customer Success Architecture
- Customer Success
- Customer Success Managers
- Source Code Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Code Review Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Editor Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Gitaly Group CS Stable Counterpart
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: conleyr
Story
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 Gilbert
Story
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 Oas
Job Title: Manager, Security Assurance Engineering
departments:
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: corey oh-iss
GitLab Handle: corey-oas
Story
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.
Corina Patachia
Story
Corina is a Solutions Architect who enjoys teaching customers using her full stack development background.
Corinna Gogolok
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Provision Team
- Fulfillment:Provision BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: cwiesner
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Camryn O'Rourke
![Costel Maxim](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/CMaxim-crop.jpg)
Costel Maxim
Senior Security Engineer, Application Security, Plan (Project Management, Product Planning, Certify), Create:Source Code, Growth, Fulfillment:Purchase, Fulfillment:Provision, Fulfillment:Utilization, Systems:Gitaly
Costel Maxim
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Story
Costel is a security engineer with hands on experience in all phases of an security engagement for web applications, API, mobile or infrastructure.
Courtney Meddaugh
Job Title: Senior Product Manager
departments:
- Monetization
- Product
- Product Monetization
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment PM Team
- Fulfillment:Provision Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: courtmeddaugh
Story
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.
Christie Park
Christoph Parschau
Story
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).
Cailey Pawlowski
Charlotte Platt
Craig Mestel
Story
Craig is passionate about scaling businesses through strong data-driven decision making. Prior to GitLab, Craig built out the FP&A function at Upwork and led the company though its IPO. At Google, he built and led analytics and sales operations teams to help Google sell effectively to SMBs and Enterprise customers. Craig enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, doing logic puzzles, running, traveling, and attending concerts (especially jam bands).
Craig Miskell
Job Title: Principal Engineer, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Environment Automation
GitLab Handle: cmiskell
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Story
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 Smith
Projects:
- secure-SAST-bandit
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-brakeman
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-codequality
- reviewer
- secure-SAST-eslint
- reviewer
- secure-SAST-flawfinder
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-gosec
- reviewer
- secure-SAST-kics
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-kubesec
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-mobsf
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-nodejs-scan
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-phpcs-security-audit
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-pmd-apex
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-security-code-scan
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-semgrep
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-sobelow
- reviewer
- secure-SAST-spotbugs
- reviewer
- secure-SAST-tracking-calculator
- maintainer
- secure-SD-secrets
- maintainer
- secure-browser-based-dast
- maintainer
- secure-common-command
- reviewer
- secure-common-report
- reviewer
- secure-common-ruleset
- maintainer
Story
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.
Cristine Sotomango Marquardt
Story
Cristine has focused most of her career in finance operations, accounts receivable, & billing. Outside of work, Cristine is a dedicated Ashtanga yoga practitioner and she can be found every morning on her mat. Cristine also enjoys indoor sport climbing, hiking, board games & video games.
Ryan Taylor
Story
Ryan is an engineer, developer, and seasoned consultant with a passion for collaboration and creation. Outside of GitLab, he cultivates off-screen hobbies like homebrewing (kombucha, wine, mead, kimchi, tepache, and many more), rucking, and reading (mostly psychology books)
Crystal Poole
Job Title: Senior Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Package Stage
- Package:Container Registry Group
- Package:Package Registry Group
GitLab Handle: crystalpoole
Story
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.
Christine Saah
Story
I am a sales professional with over 20 years spent focused on ensuring my customers’ success, and helping them solve critical business issues live in Virginia just outside of DC. In my spare time, I love being outside!
Clayton Shank
Snehansh Chaturvedi
Story
Snehansh is a Data Engineer from Kolkata, India. He is passionate about data and programming. Outside of work he enjoys swimming, playing football and cooking.
Cedric Stapleton
Job Title: Manager, Customer Success Managers
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: c.stapleton
Story
Cedric is customer obsessed and has worked in Customer Success for over 10 years.
Colin Stevenson
Job Title: Senior Manager, Solutions Architects
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: kAA-lihn
GitLab Handle: cstevenson2
Cam Swords
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: cam_swords
Projects:
- step-runner
- maintainer
Story
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.
Carla Sylva
Corina Vargas
Job Title: Professional Services Project Coordinator
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
Pronunciation: Core - eena
GitLab Handle: cvargas27
Camilo Villanueva Santiago
Story
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 Wang
Job Title: Senior Manager, Sales Development Strategy Programs & Enablement
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: cs.wang
Story
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.
Cathy Lee
Cynthia "Arty" Ng
Story
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.
Cynthia Miller
Dan Ward
Daniel Abeles
Dirk de Vos
Luis Diego D'Ambrosio
Dan Eckhardt
Story
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.
Dan Davison
Job Title: Staff Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
GitLab Handle: ddavison
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer qa
- gitlab
- maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- maintainer
- quality-ssh-tunnel
- maintainer
Story
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 Marquard
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: danielmarquard
Story
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.
Daniel Murphy
Story
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 Prause
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Execution BE Team
- Verify:Pipeline Execution Group
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: daniel-prause
Dan Hom
Daniel Muggli
Daniel Tian
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern frontend capability
- Govern:Authorization
- Govern:Authorization FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: dftian
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Daniyal Arshad
Dan Mizzi-Harris
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer Figma
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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 — 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 Petronio
Story
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 Bailey
Job Title: Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: Da-nee Bay-lee
GitLab Handle: djb
Story
‘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 Rhodes
Story
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 years’ 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 America’s Pacific Northwest.
Daphne Yam
Darby Frey
Story
Darby is enthusiastic about all things related to engineering leadership, DevOps culture, startups, and running.
Darl's Farrah Jalalon
Job Title: Treasury Analyst
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: DARLS HALALON
GitLab Handle: djalalon
Story
Life is short. Saving the time to commute and spending it with your family at home is a great blessing.
Dani Arman
Darren Burr
Darren Chin
Darren Eastman
Story
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.
Darren Moffett
Durukan Artik
Darwin Sanoy
Story
“By dint of building well, you get to be a good architect” - Aristotle
Dasha Adushkina
Story
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.
Dasha Foley
Dasha Yarmusik-Freire
Dat Tang
Projects:
- release-tools
- maintainer
Dave Munchiello
departments:
Dave Pisek
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern frontend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: dpisek
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Smith
Job Title: Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Ops Infra Stable Counterpart
- Reliability Team
GitLab Handle: dawsmith
Story
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.
Dave Peterson
David Leach
Story
David is a nerd about all things infrastructure, especially storage and scalability. He loves spending time cooking and sharing meals with his family.
David Astor
Story
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 Forsch
Sincheol (David) Kim
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Review BE Team
- Create:Code Review
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: sheen-ch-earl kim
GitLab Handle: dskim_gitlab
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
Story
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.
David Mauer
David Fernandez
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Package Stage
- Package:Package Registry Group
- Package:Package Registry BE Team
GitLab Handle: 10io
Projects:
- auto-build-image
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Hamp-Gonsalves
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Growth Section
- Acquisition Team
- Acquisition Fullstack Team
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: David Ham-p Gon-sol-ves
GitLab Handle: davidhampgonsalves
Story
David is a Fullstack Engineer who enjoys tinkering, foraging, cycling and surfing.
David Nelson
Projects:
- secure-api-security
- reviewer
Story
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 O'Regan
Projects:
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
Story
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.
David Wainaina
Story
David is a Support Engineer. Prior to GitLab, he worked in several roles in the telecommunication, database, cloud technologies. In his free time going to gym for crossfit, swimming and playing guitar
Davin Walker
Story
Davin has been interested in technology since his first multiplayer game had networking problems. He enjoys experimenting with different technologies and is always engaged in one project or another.
Dylan Bernardi
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions BE Team
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: dbernardi
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- maintainer
Story
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 Bickford
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: dbickford
Projects:
- fleeting
- maintainer
- fleeting-plugin-aws
- maintainer
- fleeting-plugin-googlecompute
- maintainer
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer
- grit
- maintainer
- nesting
- maintainer
- runner-incept
- maintainer
- taskscaler
- maintainer
Story
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.
Dmytro Biryukov
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Pipeline Security
- Govern:Pipeline Security BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: dbiryukov
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- trainee_maintainer backend
- verify-accessibility
- maintainer
Story
Dima is a backend engineer withing a passion for Ruby, test-driven development, and clean code.
Dinesh Bolkensteyn
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium-db
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-rules
- maintainer
Daniel Brokman
Donatela Cekada
Story
Starts September 28th
Daniel Changkuon
Darnell Coles Jr.
Dejan Cvetkovic
Job Title: Associate Renewals Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Day-yan
GitLab Handle: dcvetkovic
Story
I like cooking, dogs and used to play professional tennis.
Dhiren P Damani
Dani Deng
Story
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 DeSanto
Story
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. David’s career has also included roles at the industry’s 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.
David Dieulivol
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- maintainer pipeline
- maintainer tooling
- gitlab-build-images
- reviewer
- gitlab-dangerfiles
- maintainer
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
- gitlab-rspec-profiling-stats
- reviewer
- gitlab-styles
- maintainer
- gitlab-triage
- reviewer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- maintainer
- quality-pipeline-common
- reviewer
- test_file_finder
- maintainer
- triage-ops
- maintainer
Declan Downey
Dan Dwyer
Debanjan Chaudhuri
Deepesh Gupta
Deepika Guliani
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Project Management FE Team
- Frontend
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: deepika.guliani
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- switchboard
- reviewer frontend
Story
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
Julia Demina
James Demoya
Story
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.
Stephen Denham
Job Title: Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Dedicated Subdepartment
- Environment Automation Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: denhams
Dennis Tang
Story
Dennis is an engineering leader passionate about building the greatest products by delivering the best user experiences that scale. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, motorsports, snowboarding, surfing, and playing guitar.
Dennis Appelt
Projects:
- package-hunter
- owner maintainer reviewer
- package-hunter-cli
- owner maintainer reviewer
Story
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.
Dennis Charukulvanich
Story
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. I’ve helped organizations across different industries set up their web analytics tool in order to improve their digital experience and marketing presence. When I’m 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 Mishunov
Job Title: Principal Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered
- Frontend
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: dmishunov
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-eslint-config
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
- status-page
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 “CSS side”, 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 Ferguson
Story
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.
Désirée Chevalier
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test Engineering team
- Dev Section
GitLab Handle: dchevalier2
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- maintainer
Story
Désirée loves to save time by automating tasks. She is also always on the hunt for bugs whether they be in code or the garden.
Destiny Reyes
David Estko
Dev Choudhry
Job Title: Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: dev_choudhry
Devin Sylva
Story
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.
Donovan Felton
Dana Goodgame
Dmitry Gruzd
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: dgruzd
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- dev-on-call
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer go
- reviewer database
- gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer
- maintainer
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- maintainer
- topology-service
- reviewer
Story
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.
David Hampton
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Engagement Manager
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: dhampton1
Story
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.
Devraj Hazarika
Daniel Helfand
Story
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 Hodes
Job Title: Senior Director, Legal
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Dan Hoe-Dis
GitLab Handle: dhodes
Story
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 Stanley
Story
Before joining GitLab, Diana ran a large GitLab installation. She has a long background in support and Dev Ops, in companies large and small. She loves a good puzzle. In her free time she takes a lot of garment fitting and sewing workshops, and is the slave to two dogs and two cats at home.
Diana Logan
Job Title: Senior Manager, Technical Writing
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: dianalogan
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
Story
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.
Dillon Wheeler
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:Duo Chat BE Team
Pronouns: they/them
GitLab Handle: dillonwheeler
Dinura Seneviratne
Projects:
- secure-SAST-rules
- reviewer
Story
Software Engineer and Technology enthusiast with experience in back end development, project research and team leadership. Interested in Cloud, Blockchain and Machine Learning Technology.
Joshua Lambert
Story
Josh’s passion with computers started in elementary school when his parents brought an IBM PCjr home along with a book on BASIC. In his teenage years he spent time working on a variety of coding projects and assembling his own computers. He developed a love for product management 6 years ago, while working on a solution in the mobile productivity space. When not spending time with his family or working on technology, he tries to get out skiing and playing tennis.
Dirk Dornseiff
Story
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.
Derek Isla
Divya Mahadevan
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Provision Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: div.ya
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer frontend
- reviewer backend
- reviewer documentation
Story
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.
Divya Rani
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Cluster Team
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: divya_gitlab
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
Divya Alagarsamy
Dheeraj Joshi
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Secure:Secret Detection FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: djadmin
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
- secure-SD-secrets
- reviewer
Story
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.
Dhruv Jain
Damian Jennings
Daniel Sullivan
David Kim
Daphne Kua
Drew Lawrence
David Mack
Story
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.
Dmitry Makovey
Job Title: Senior Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Build BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: dmakovey
Projects:
- charts-gitlab-io
- reviewer
- cng
- reviewer
- distribution
- reviewer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
Story
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.
Derrick Marcum
Dylan McKean
Dzmitry Meshcharakou
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Package Stage
- Package:Package Registry Group
- Package:Package Registry BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: dmeshcharakou
Projects:
- auto-build-image
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Djordje Micovic
Story
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 Diniz de Noronha
Story
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 Couture
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Story
Dominic enjoys building and helping others build secure software. When not at his computer, Dominic can be found roaming the Dublin mountains.
Donald Cook
Story
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.
Donique Smit
Story
Donique has a background in performing arts and public relations, but discovered a love for technology and hasn’t looked back. She’s happiest when she’s solving problems and helping people.
Donna Alexandra
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: donnaalexandra
Projects:
- config-mgmt
- maintainer
- infra-mgmt
- maintainer
Story
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 Orrino
Story
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 Barbosa Alexandre
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Geo BE Team
GitLab Handle: dbalexandre
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- version.gitlab.com
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Hershkovitch
Story
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.
Denise Parsonage
Dave O'Neill
Devi Poosarla
Diana Quitevis
Dan Rabinovitz
Story
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.
Andrea Obermeier
Story
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 Blessing
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authentication
- Govern:Authentication BE Team
GitLab Handle: dblessing
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- rouge
- maintainer
Story
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.
Devin Rogozinski
Job Title: Senior Director, People Strategy & Engagement
departments:
Pronouns: He / Him
GitLab Handle: drogozinski
Daniele Rossetti
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Monitor:Observability Group
- Monitor:Observability FE Team
GitLab Handle: drosse
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-observability-ui
- maintainer
Darva Satcher
Story
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.
Denise Scoville-Glackin
Dima Serafin
Devon Speth
Dave Steer
Story
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).
Denis Stete
Diana Stoleru
Doug Stull
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Growth Section
- Acquisition Team
- Acquisition Fullstack Team
GitLab Handle: dstull
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer frontend
- reviewer database
- gitlab-experiment
- maintainer
- gitlab-styles
- maintainer
- iglu
- maintainer
- version.gitlab.com
- maintainer backend
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer database
Story
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.
Dylan Swa
Darci Tadich
Danika Teverovsky
Dave Thompson
Story
Dave has a background in Consulting and Delivery across Australia & the broader APAC region. With experience in industry verticals including Banking, Telco, Insurance and Federal Government clients, he strives to accelerate the customer journey through Professional Services enablement and advisory.
Dylan Tragjasi
Davoud Tu
Job Title: Senior Security Assurance Engineer
departments:
Pronunciation: duh-vood
GitLab Handle: davoudtu
Story
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.
David Tuan
Duncan Harris
Job Title: Senior Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: ˈdʌŋkən ˈhɛrɪs
GitLab Handle: duncan_harris
Story
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 Collins
Job Title: Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Build BE Team
GitLab Handle: dustinmm80
Projects:
- cng
- reviewer
- gitlab-chart
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
Story
Dustin is an experienced software engineer, focusing on cloud-native infrastructure. In his free time, he enjoys reading, hiking, and going to concerts.
Dennis van Rooijen
Story
Dennis is a passionate Data Analytics professional, helping to build and extend Data Enterprise on; Process, People and Platform. He loves to get value out of data; quick, pragmatic on a sustainable foundation.
David Egan
Story
David is a Senior Data Analyst on the Marketing Strategy and Performance Team.
Dan Wehrle
Dylan Griffith
Job Title: Principal Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale BE Team
GitLab Handle: DylanGriffith
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- duo-workflow-executor
- maintainer
- duo-workflow-service
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer
- maintainer
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- reviewer
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- gitlab-vim
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- maintainer
Story
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.
David Zhu
Diana Zubova
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: dzubova
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Munn
Story
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.
Eren Akca
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Technical Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pronunciation: a-ruhn ahk-chuh
GitLab Handle: eakca1
Story
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.
Eamon Keane
Evan Baltman
Ed Bao
Erin Barr
Job Title: Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market
departments:
Pronouns: She/her
GitLab Handle: ebarrgitlab
Story
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!
Liz Burrows
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Product Marketing Manager
departments:
GitLab Handle: eburrowssnyder
Ellis Andrew Coulson
Emily Chui
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Team
- Gitaly Cluster Team
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: echui-gitlab
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
Edmond Chan
Story
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, he’s always on the lookout for his next vacation destination to sample new flavours.
Eduardo Bonet
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- AI-powered:Custom Models BE
- Data Science Section
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: eduardobonet
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- trainee_maintainer frontend
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- maintainer
- rb-ipynbdiff
- owner
Story
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 Sanz-Garcia
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authentication
- Govern:Authentication FE Team
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: eduardosanz
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Eoghan Dunne
Eric Franklin
Job Title: Senior Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: efranklin1
Story
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.
Emilie Froidevaux
Evan Moore
Story
Golfer, lover of travel and amateur foodie
Liz Gulla
Emily Hiett
Edward Hilgendorf IV
Story
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.
Eileen Flynn
Eirini Pan
Story
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 Kelly
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Story
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 Limpin
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Anti-Abuse Team
- Anti-Abuse Fullstack Team
GitLab Handle: eugielimpin
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-styles
- reviewer
- pipeline-validation-service
- maintainer
Story
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.
Eliran Mesika
Story
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.
Elisabeth Posch
Ellen Boyd
Story
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 Smart
Story
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.
Evan Ludaway
Elwyn Benson
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: elwyn-gitlab
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
Erin Mannix
Eugene McCrann
Story
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 Chang
Story
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.
Emelie Rodriguez
Job Title: Staff Program Manager, Field Enablement
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: emelier
Emily Mowry
Story
Emily is a Nashville native currently residing in Boulder, CO with her husband and sweet baby girl. When not providing the best people ops experience for employees, you can find her cheering on the Vols, working out, shopping, and of course enjoying everything Colorado has to offer.
Emily Bauman
Job Title: Senior Product Designer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Eh-mih-lee Bow-man
GitLab Handle: emilybauman
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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 Plotkin
Story
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.
Emily Sybrant
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer UX
Story
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 Park
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code BE Team
- Create:Source Code
GitLab Handle: emmaspark
Story
Emma is a Backend Engineer based in Melbourne, Australia. She’s originally from Korea and loves playing tennis and traveling.
Emma Neuberger
Story
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 Feldman
Story
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 Alcántara
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Remote Development FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: ealcantara
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide-vscode-fork
- maintainer
- www-gitlab-com
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Eddy Popat
![Evan Read](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/evanread-crop.jpg)
Evan Read
Senior Technical Writer, Govern:Compliance, Manage:Import and Integrate, Systems:Distribution, Systems:Gitaly
Evan Read
Projects:
- gitaly
- maintainer docs
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
Evan is passionate about language and knowledge sharing. His interests include politics, history, and Australian Rules football.
Erwan Régnaud
Eric Ju
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Team
- Gitaly Git Team
GitLab Handle: eric.p.ju
Eric Geving
Story
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 Bajao
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Pipeline Security
- Govern:Pipeline Security BE Team
GitLab Handle: iamricecake
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- trainee_maintainer ci_template
- verify-accessibility
- maintainer
Story
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 Rubin
Story
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.
Erika Miklós
Erik Lentz
Story
Erik has a broad background in IT systems administration, automation, security configuration, infrastructure, and networking. When not orchestrating access controls, Erik can be found reading literature, tinkering with hobby electronics, or cycling.
Ermia Qasemi
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Story
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 Carey
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: The same as Erin.
GitLab Handle: erran
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- maintainer
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-vim
- maintainer
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
Story
Erran is passionate about security and automation to make things easier for everyone.
Evgeny Rudinsky
Story
IT consultant, DevOps and application security enthusiast.
Emilio Salvador
Erica Sivak
Job Title: Senior Manager, Customer Success Engineers
departments:
Pronouns: she/they
GitLab Handle: esivak
Essence Miller
Esther Kim
Erin Talanda
Ethan Strike
Story
Ethan enjoys building and securing applications and their infrastructure. Originally from the USA, he followed his heart to Chile where he is found exploring the country and eating empanadas.
Ethan Urie
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- trainee_maintainer database
- gitlab-cli
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-shell
- trainee_maintainer
Story
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 Baqué
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform Team
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: ebaque
Projects:
- cloud-deploy
- maintainer
- customers-app
- reviewer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Grieff
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Kadlecová
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:Duo Chat BE Team
Pronouns: She/her
GitLab Handle: evakadlecova
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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 Mathis
Story
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 fiancé, Katie, and their cat, Nugget. On Saturdays in the Fall you will find Evan cheering on the University of Georgia Bulldogs!
Elisha Vicary
Elizabeth Weaver
Erica Wilson
Eddie Yoffe
Ezekiel Kigbo
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Optimize FE Team
- Frontend
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: ekigbo
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Filipe Santos
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Git Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: f_santos
Fabien Catteau
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer go
- reviewer database
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- maintainer
- secure-common-command
- maintainer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-schema
- maintainer
- semver_dialects
- maintainer
Story
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 Pitino
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
- project-templates
- maintainer
Story
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.
Filip Aleksic
Francesco Bologna
Fernando Cardenas
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Secure:Composition Analysis FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: fernando-c
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer frontend
Story
A web developer who loves contributing to open source projects.
Fred de Gier
Felipe Artur
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Fernanda Toledo
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Fernando Diaz
Story
Hello, I’m Fern, a Developer Advocate here at Gitlab. I focus on showing developers the value of using the GitLab DevSecOps platform to deliver more secure software faster than ever! I live in Austin, TX and love keeping it secure and weird. Feed me cold-brew!
Firdaws Farukh
Story
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.
Florian Forster
Job Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: fforster
Projects:
- runway-provisioner
- maintainer
- runway-reconciler
- maintainer
Francesca Gianfiglio
Job Title: Senior Business Development Representative
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: fgianfiglio
Fintan Harrington
Syeda Firdaus
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: sfirdaus
Story
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.
Florian Giner
Florie Guibert
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Product Planning FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: fguibert
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Francesca McWilliams
Fiona Neill
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Francis Potter
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: fpotter
Story
Helping teams adopt transformational practices and technology for over 20 years
Filza Qureshi
François Rosé
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
Pronunciation: france-wah
GitLab Handle: francoisrose
Story
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.
Frank McGowan
Franz Rivera
Job Title: Senior Compensation Analyst
departments:
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: frawnz rih-veh-ruh
GitLab Handle: franzrivera
Story
Franz is a rewards professional who leverages his background in public policy and data analytics to optimize compensation programs. His organizational acumen and belief in business as a force for good led him to the world of human resources. Franz resides in California and has lived in the Philippines, Palau, and Germany. A self-proclaimed foodie, he enjoys cooking, unique dining experiences, dancing hip-hop, PC gaming, and spending time on the beach.
Frederic Arneodo
Frédéric Caplette
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Frontend
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:AI Framework
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: f_caplette
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-lsp
- reviewer
Story
Frédéric 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 Loudet
Story
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 Reinink
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code BE Team
- Create:Source Code
GitLab Handle: freinink
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Furhan Shabir
Falko Sieverding
Job Title: Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Phonetic Spelling:[ f ae l qu oh ] or FAHLKow
GitLab Handle: fsieverding
General Ledger Accountant
Furkan Ayhan
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring Group
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: furkanayhan
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
Story
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.
Félix Veillette-Potvin
Story
Félix is passionate about software security during the day and enjoys outdoors sports during off hours.
Fabian Zimmer
Story
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.
Grant Hickman
Story
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 Weaver
Story
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 Mazetto
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Geo BE Team
GitLab Handle: brodock
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-development-kit
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-markup
- maintainer
- gitlab_kramdown
- maintainer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
- tanuki_emoji
- maintainer
Story
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 Engel
Story
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.
Greg Alfaro
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Gary Holtz
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Review BE Team
- Create:Code Review
GitLab Handle: garyh
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-cli
- maintainer
- gitlab-development-kit
- trainee_maintainer
Story
Gary’s love for computers started at 6 years old when he first played “Cookie Monster Count Up” on his parents’ 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.
Gavin Peltz
Gayle Doud
Story
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.
Grayson Belling
Job Title: Associate Professional Services Engagement Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: gbelling
Gabby Chorny
Giorgio Croci
Gina Doyle
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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.
Eugenia Urdaneta
George Hoyem
departments:
George Tsiolis
Story
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.
Georgi Georgiev
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
GitLab Handle: ggeorgiev_gitlab
Projects:
- autoscaler
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer
- orka
- maintainer
- releaser
- maintainer
- releases
- maintainer
- runner-helm
- maintainer
- runner-operator-k8s
- maintainer
- runner-ubi-offline
- maintainer
Story
A firm believer in the saying “Do what you love, and you’ll 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.
Gerardo Gutierrez
Job Title: Senior Support Engineer
departments:
Pronunciation: gerardo, gerry, jerry
GitLab Handle: gerardo
Story
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.
Gerardo "Gerir" Lopez-Fernandez
Gricelda Gonzalez Quinones
Story
Prior to Gitlab Gris was working as a GL accountant supervisor for 3 years on Technicolor French Media company. Gris loves having time with her family and dog. Loves cooking and traveling to take pictures of all amazing places around the world!! Joined in 2020
Gregory Havenga
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: ghavenga
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
- maintainer database
- security-report-schemas
- reviewer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- reviewer
Story
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.
Gabriela Herrera
Story
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 Hinfey
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer workhorse
- project-templates
- maintainer
Story
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.
Abhinaba Ghosh
Job Title: Manager, Quality Engineering
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: ghosh-abhinaba
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
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.
Gillian Murphy
Story
Irish, based in London. As a lover of technology, tools, and logic, a Marketing Ops career path made perfect sense and I haven’t looked back! Massive animal lover, traveling and sewing are mostly how I like to spend my time.
Ginny Reib
Story
Ginny focuses on Gitlab’s field marketing efforts in the East. Ginny lives on Long Island with her husband of 25 years, 3 children and 3 dogs. Her happy place is in the kitchen.
Dominique Top
Job Title: Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Pronunciation: dɔ.mi.nik / do-mee-neeque
GitLab Handle: gitlab_dlectronique
Story
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
Story
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!
Spencer Hopkins
Giuliana Lucchesi
Job Title: Senior Manager, People Business Partner
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: glucchesi
Story
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.
Gerald Kalifa
Gal Katz
George Kichukov
Glen Miller
Job Title: Senior Manager, Professional Services Engineering
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: glen_miller
Story
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 Lin
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Group
- Switchboard Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: glin5
Projects:
- switchboard
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Greg Long
Grace Madlinger
Gautham Nagaraj
Story
Gautham works to enable Developer Experience (DevEx) around the META region. Before joining GitLab, Gautham worked with organizations that assisted in enabling Operations & Security teams to adopt Cloud-native technologies.
Godfrey Sullivan
departments:
Story
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 Gillies
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Dedicated Subdepartment
- Switchboard Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: ggillies
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Story
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 Young
Job Title: Staff Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
GitLab Handle: grantyoung
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-environment-toolkit
- maintainer
- gitlab-performance-tool
- maintainer
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
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).
![Greg Myers](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/gregmyers-crop.jpg)
Greg Myers
Security Engineer, Application Security, Package (Package Registry, Container Registry), US Public Sector Services, Gitaly Cluster, Analytics (Analytics Instrumentation, Product Analytics), AI Working Group
Greg Myers
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Story
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 Bachelder
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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 Bizon
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Gena Schwam
Gonzalo Servat
Projects:
- runway-provisioner
- maintainer
- runway-reconciler
- maintainer
Story
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.
Grigoriy Shlyapinkov
Job Title: Customer Success Manager
departments:
- CSM
- Customer Success
- Customer Success Managers
- Progressive Delivery Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Release Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
GitLab Handle: gshlyapinkov
Story
Loves Asian food & good coffee
Gurmee Sodhi
Job Title: Senior Analyst, Online Sales & Self Service Product GTM
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him/His
GitLab Handle: Gsodhi
Eduardo Guillen
Story
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School MBA Student and expert air frying chef.
Gabriel Yoachum
Story
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.
Gábor Zaparkanszky
Story
Joined May 6th
Hakeem Abdul-Razak
Job Title: Associate Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authentication
GitLab Handle: habdul-razak
Oscar Tovar
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer go
- gitlab-cli
- maintainer
- gitlab-shell
- trainee_maintainer
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- maintainer
- secure-container-scanning
- maintainer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
Story
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 Coban
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- AI-powered:AI Framework BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: halilcoban
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- release-cli
- reviewer
Story
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 Han
Story
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 Smith-Watson
Story
Hanif is originally from Jamaica and currently lives in Manchester, UK. He’s 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.
Hannah Stewart
Harpratap Singh
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: huh-ri
GitLab Handle: hariharpratap
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Harinakshi Poojary
Job Title: Staff Internal Audit & SOX Compliance Analyst
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: hpoojary
Story
Harinakshi joins GitLab with extensive experience in Internal Audit, SOX/IFC testing and Investigation. She is very excited to bring her experience to GitLab! She lives in Thane, India. When not working, she enjoys travelling, photography and learning music instruments.
Harish Ramachandran
Story
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!
Harjeet Sharma
Harley Devlin
Story
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.
Ryan Harrington
Harsimar Sandhu
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Compliance BE Team
- Govern:Compliance Fullstack Team
GitLab Handle: harsimarsandhu
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
Harsimar is a software/technology enthusiast. He loves drawing portraits, working out and spending time with family and friends.
Hiroki Asaeda
Hayley Swimelar
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Package Stage
- Package:Container Registry Group
- Package:Container Registry BE Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: hswimelar
Projects:
- container-registry
- maintainer
- reviewer database
- gitlab
- reviewer go
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
Story
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 Benson
Job Title: VP of Product Management
departments:
- Product Leadership
- Product
- Sec Section
- Sec PM Team
- Secure PM Team
- Govern PM Team
- Data Science Section
- Data Science PM Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: hbenson
Story
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.
Luis Calixto
Story
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 Caspi
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Project Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: hcaspi
Story
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.
Heather Griffith
Heinrich Lee Yu
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Project Management BE Team
GitLab Handle: engwan
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
Story
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.
Helena Dixon
Story
Joins on November 25th
Hiroyuki Fujiwara
Heiko Gross
Carl Hicks
Himanshu Kapoor
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Hiru Fernando
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer, Technical Writing
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: HiruFernando12
Hannes Lange
Job Title: Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: As if you abbreviate Han Solo's surname and say it quickly - Han S.
GitLab Handle: hlange4
Story
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.
Hubert Maraszek
Story
I’m a huge techie, with a passion for learning new things and then helping others with them! In free time I play videogames, and listen to music. So much music.
Hayden Matthews
Hinam Mehra
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authorization
- Govern:Authorization BE Team
- Govern:Authorization Fullstack Team
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: he-num
GitLab Handle: hmehra
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- pipeline-validation-service
- maintainer
Story
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.
Hercules Lemke Merscher
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
Story
Coding for a living and for fun. Once in a while, writes on Bit Maybe Wise.
Harsha Muralidhar
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test Engineering team
- Sec section
- Govern stage
GitLab Handle: hmuralidhar
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
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
Holly Nesselroad
Haley Nolan
Hannes Hörl
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: hoegaarden
Projects:
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer backend
Hongtao Yang
Story
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 Freyr Yngvason
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Verify:Pipeline Execution Group
- Verify:Pipeline Execution BE Team
GitLab Handle: hfyngvason
Projects:
- auto-build-image
- maintainer
- auto-deploy-image
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer ci_template
- renovate-gitlab-bot
- maintainer
Story
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.
Hossam Hamdy
Story
I am over 15 years IT experience caliber who had worked in different IT areas & I’m always curious to learn new things and apply them in real life.
Hossein Pursultani
Job Title: Senior Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Deploy BE Team
GitLab Handle: pursultani
Projects:
- cng
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- maintainer
- gitlab-operator-v2
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
Story
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 Raghuvanshi
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Compliance BE Team
- Govern:Compliance Fullstack Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: hraghuvanshi
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Haseen Selim
Haim Snir
Story
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 Suezawa
Story
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 Sutor
Story
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.
Heather Tarver
Hua Yan
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: hua yan
GitLab Handle: hyan3
Hunter Stewart
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Huzaifa Iftikhar
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Compliance BE Team
- Govern:Compliance Fullstack Team
GitLab Handle: huzaifaiftikhar1
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
Hope Van Bronkhorst
Ian Baum
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Geo BE Team
GitLab Handle: ibaum
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- maintainer
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer
Story
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.
Ievgen Chernikov
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
- Analytics section
GitLab Handle: ichernikov
Projects:
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Igor Drozdov
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- AI-powered:Custom Models BE
- Data Science Section
- Backend
GitLab Handle: igor.drozdov
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer workhorse
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- reviewer cli
- gitlab-shell
- maintainer
- project-templates
- maintainer
Story
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 Dawson
Job Title: Principal Vulnerability Research Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: idawson
Projects:
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- reviewer
- secure-DS-gemnasium-db
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-rules
- maintainer
- secure-browser-based-dast
- maintainer
- secure-dast
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-schema
- maintainer
Story
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 Frenkel
Projects:
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- maintainer backend
- secure-container-scanning
- maintainer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
- security-report-schemas
- maintainer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- maintainer
- semver_dialects
- maintainer
Story
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.
Iris Gorman
Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel
departments:
- Legal
- Legal & Corporate Affairs
- Dev Section Legal & Corporate Affairs Stable Counterpart
- SaaS Platforms Section Legal & Corporate Affairs Stable Counterpart
- Sec Section Legal & Corporate Affairs Stable Counterpart
- Core Platform Section Legal & Corporate Affairs Stable Counterpart
- Fulfillment Section Legal & Corporate Affairs Stable Counterpart
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: igorman
Ilaria Pazienza
Ilia Kosenko
Story
Ilia found early on in his career that support and leadership are in his DNA. He was born in Russia, spent most of his youth in Israel and moved to the Netherlands in 2012. When not online - a rare occurrence - he is likely travelling or practising his photography and cooking skills.
Illya Klymov
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Compliance FE Team
- Govern:Compliance Fullstack Team
- Frontend
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: xanf
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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
Ian Anderson
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Anti-Abuse Team
- Anti-Abuse BE Team
GitLab Handle: imand3r
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
Imre Farkas
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authentication
- Govern:Authentication BE Team
GitLab Handle: ifarkas
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
Story
Imre is an open source enthusiast, an avid learner, loves cloud computing and containers, and frequently tinkers with the latest DevOps tools.
Indre Kryzeviciene
Story
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 Pedowitz
Story
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 Pelaez
Job Title: Product Designer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: uh-law-nuh
GitLab Handle: ipelaez1
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer UX
Story
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.
Iris Blackburn
Job Title: Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
Pronunciation: ai-ruhs
GitLab Handle: irisb
Story
Iris is not the best at describing herself. Chaotic good
Ishan Padgotra
Story
Joined July 8th
Ilit Shpigel
Ioan Snep
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Engagement Manager
departments:
Pronunciation: Yo-wan
GitLab Handle: isnep
Israel Weeks
Story
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 Gan-Baruch
Story
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 Wiedler
Job Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
Pronouns: they/them
GitLab Handle: igorwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Projects:
- gitlab-com-runbooks
- maintainer
- labkit
- maintainer
- runway-provisioner
- reviewer
- runway-reconciler
- reviewer
Story
Igor has been building and operating software systems for a while.
Jio Castillo
Jerry Seto
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: jerry see-toe
GitLab Handle: j.seto
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- project-templates
- maintainer
Jackson Irwin
Jonas Larsen
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer analytics_instrumentation
- snowplow-micro-configuration
- maintainer
- version.gitlab.com
- reviewer backend
Jessie Abbate
Jack Chapman
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
Jack is a software engineer that specializes in frontend development. His obsession for code is matched only by his obsession for coffee.
Jacki Bauer
Story
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 Porter
Story
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.
Jacob Waters
Jacob Jernigan
Jacopo Beschi
Story
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.
Jerome Ahye
Jaime Martínez
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Package Stage
- Package:Container Registry Group
- Package:Container Registry BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: HI-meh mar-TEE-nez
GitLab Handle: jaime
Projects:
- container-registry
- maintainer
- gitlab
- reviewer go
- reviewer workhorse
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-pages
- maintainer
- gitlab-shell
- reviewer
- go-mimedb
- reviewer
- labkit
- reviewer
- release-cli
- maintainer
Story
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 Bielecki
Story
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 Foster
Jake Grothjan
Story
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.
Jamie Allen
Job Title: Senior Learning & Development Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: jallen16
Story
With a background in Digital Learning, Jamie is putting his experience of various Learning Experience Platforms to use working on GitLab Learn as part of the L&D team. Outside of work he enjoys books, coffee, and trying to be competitive in ultramarathons.
Jade Allum
Story
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 Fargher
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Git Team
GitLab Handle: proglottis
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer go
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
- gitlab-shell
- reviewer
James Lopez
Job Title: Senior Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform Team
- Backend
GitLab Handle: jameslopez
Projects:
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
Story
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.
James Ritchey
Story
Raising the security bar day by day.
James Harrison
Story
James enjoys finding puzzles in the form of operations problems and solving them in the simplest way possible. When not at work James enjoys anything outdoors, anything with four wheels and most anything to eat.
James Liu
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Cluster Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: jamesliu-gitlab
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
Story
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 Lopes
Story
James is driven to find creative solutions for complex issues in order to help everyone achieve their goals. He currently resides in Newark, Delaware and in the time away from the keyboard enjoys working on his car, motorcycle and house.
James McGrew
Story
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.
Jameson Burton
Story
Jameson has taken the leap into Marketing Operations after several years in sales. He is a casual climber, a Nintendo fanboy and an animal lover.
James Reed
James Sandlin
Story
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. :(
James Shen
Story
Passionate about using finance to empower smart decision-making and thoughtful strategic planning. Outside of GitLab, enjoys road biking, reading, and spending time with his wife, daughter, and adopted greyhound.
Jan Provaznik
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
GitLab Handle: jprovaznik
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-rspec-profiling-stats
- maintainer
- repository-x-ray
- reviewer
Story
Jan loves Linux and software development. When he is not working, he likes skiing and reading Terry Pratchett’s books.
Jana Sena
Job Title: Senior Developer Relations Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: john-uh
GitLab Handle: janasenap
Jane Gianoutsos
Job Title: Manager, Support Engineering
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: jane gee-a-NOOT-sos
GitLab Handle: jgianoutsos
Story
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!
Janice Parker
Janis Altherr
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: yannis ult-hurr
GitLab Handle: janis
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer backend
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
Jannik Lehmann
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Frontend
- AI-powered:Duo Chat FE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/De-Jannik.ogg">Jannik (audio link)</a>
GitLab Handle: jannik_lehmann
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
Story
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.
John Arias
Story
John is a Fullstack Engineer from Bogotá, Colombia. He has background designing fullstack systems for streaming services companies. He’s passionate about music and videogames, when he’s not playing the guitar or the keyboard he is playing an awesome videogame or sharing with his family.
Jarka Košanová
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authorization
- Govern:Authorization BE Team
GitLab Handle: jarka
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
Story
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 'Jarv' Jarvis
Projects:
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-com-runbooks
- maintainer
- k8s-workloads-gitlab-com
- maintainer
Story
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.
Jasmin Taj Shaik
Jason Colyer
Story
Jason is a dedicated Linux user with a passion for helping and teaching others. Prior to GitLab, he worked in several roles ranging from front-line support to DevOps engineering. In his free time, he likes to make chain mail, code/develop (primarily in ruby), do woodworking, and play video games.
Jason Goodman
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
- Fulfillment:Utilization BE Team
- Backend
GitLab Handle: jagood
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
Joined March 21st
Jason Plum
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Deploy BE Team
GitLab Handle: WarheadsSE
Projects:
- charts-gitlab-io
- maintainer
- cng
- maintainer
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- maintainer
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt
- maintainer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
Story
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 Tapia
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code BE Team
- Create:Source Code
- Gente TMRG
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: jtapiab
Projects:
- dev-on-call
- reviewer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- gitlab-shell
- reviewer
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
Story
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 Garcia
Story
Javier is a creative developer with a background in digital design and web development.
Jay McCure
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test Engineering team
- Dev Section
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: jay_mccure
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-cli
- maintainer
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- reviewer
Story
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.
Joseph Joshua
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
- reviewer backend
Story
Joseph has a software development and DevOps background. He loves working on open source software and exploring new tech. When not working, he enjoys traveling and playing retro video games.
Jay Swain
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern Managers
- Anti-Abuse Team
- Govern:Authorization
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: jayswain
Projects:
- pipeline-validation-service
- maintainer
Story
Jay has served as a Software Engineer for SaaS-based startups for over 10 years. He’s 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 Backerman
Job Title: Senior Managing Legal Counsel
departments:
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: jbackerman
Story
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.
Jay Bahar
J. B. Crawford
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: They/Them
GitLab Handle: jbcrawford
Jonathan Bennett
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Professional Services Engineer
departments:
GitLab Handle: jbennett11
Jackson Bigelow
Job Title: Support Engineer (Shift)
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Jack-sin Big-uh-low
GitLab Handle: jbigelow
Story
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.
Justin Bisutti
Jean-Baptiste Boulay
Julie Braughler
Story
Julie joins GitLab as a Contracts Manager in the Legal Department. With over 25+ years of contracting experience with start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, Julie has drafted and negotiated pretty much every type of contract out there but is still refusing to review any contract on a cocktail napkin. With her previous employer, Wombat Security Technologies, Julie was the team lead for the Contracts Department and the co-chair for the company’s compliance with the EU’s GDPR initiative. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and children. In the event she has some “me” time she enjoys biking, kayaking, meeting up with friends for dinner or a game night, and reading.
Jack Brethauer
John Budreski
Joseph Burnitz
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
John Cai
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Git Team
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: jcaigitlab
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
Story
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.
Jack Caine
Justin Cameron
John Cappello
Jason Caylor
Jordan Chivell
Jeff Cho
Jack Connors
Justin Conrad
Jack Stephenson
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: they/he
Pronunciation: Jack Stee-fen-son
GitLab Handle: jcstephenson
Projects:
- config-mgmt
- maintainer
- infra-mgmt
- maintainer
Jessica Dallmar
Job Title: Senior Director, Talent Acquisition
departments:
Pronouns: she/her/hers
GitLab Handle: jdallmar
Jeff Dunnett
Jean Peguero
Story
Jean is a very curious person, always looking for something new to learn. Has a deep passion for analytics, programming and stats topics. Also loves nature, sports and animals.
John Edge
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Jeff Martin
Story
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.
Jefferson Jones
Story
With over 10 years experience in the IT industry ranging from Cyber Security, Networking, Devops and System Engineering, Jefferson is an open source aficionado and expert in identifying and resolving complex technical issues toward the attainment of productivity growth and process improvement.
Jeff Ford
Jess Ford
Jocelyn Hernandez Vazquez
Joel Reimer-Eiglmeier
Jennifer Garcia
Job Title: Executive Business Administrator
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: jennifergarcia20
Story
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.
Jennifer Li
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer pipeline
- maintainer tooling
- gitlab-dangerfiles
- reviewer
- gitlab-rspec-profiling-stats
- maintainer
- gitlab-styles
- reviewer
- gitlab-triage
- reviewer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- reviewer
- quality-pipeline-common
- reviewer
- test_file_finder
- reviewer
- triage-ops
- maintainer
Story
Passionate in problem solving and tooling development . Enjoys the occasional bubble tea.
Jenny Wei
Jenny Burns
Jenny Kim
Projects:
- release-tools
- maintainer
Story
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 Kline
Story
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.
Jenny Tiemann
Story
Jenny brings her passion for driving marketing results to the GitLab Team. Her experience spans several areas of marketing with a focus in demand generation, marketing automation, and analytics. In her free time, Jenny volunteers with local animal rescue groups, reads, and cooks.
Jacques Erasmus
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: jerasmus
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- www-gitlab-com
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 Elder
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer Figma
- maintainer UX
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer UX
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer UX
Story
Jeremy thinks in systems and designs in moments. He is passionate about distilling concepts into engaging, usable, responsible and honest work. He believes in learning with grace and creating with a deeper purpose. When not working, you’ll find Jeremy biking in the woods or camping with his family.
Jeremy Wagner
Job Title: Manager, Solutions Architects
departments:
Pronouns: He / Him
GitLab Handle: jeremywagner
Story
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.
Jerome Ng
Job Title: Director, Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Office of the CEO
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: jeromezng
Story
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 Perry
Story
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!
Jess Durbin
Jessica Hurwitz
Jessie Lee
Job Title: Senior Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: JES-SEE
GitLab Handle: jessie
Story
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 Young
Job Title: Principal Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: jeh-see yuhng
GitLab Handle: jessieay
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Jess Wang
Josh Feehs
Story
Josh is a hacker who enjoys finding bugs, developing red team tools, and writing about security.
Joel Fluss
Job Title: Senior Corporate Development Manager
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: One Syllable
GitLab Handle: jfluss
Story
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.
Juan Francisco Ruiz Fernandez
Jun Fujita
Job Title: Senior Strategic Account Executive
departments:
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: jfuji
Julia Gätjens
Story
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.
Jimmy Gam
John Gaughan
Job Title: Senior Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he / him
Pronunciation: john gay-gan
GitLab Handle: jgaughan
Story
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.
Jean-Gabriel Doyon
Projects:
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- maintainer
Story
From Québec, Canada.
Jon Glassman
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Jonathan Gleason
Janice Gonsalves
Jonathan Snow
Joshua Gupta
Jon Hackamack
Johannes Handojo
Jason Hawkins
James Hebden
Job Title: Staff Security Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: they/them
Pronunciation: jaymz hebb-duhn
GitLab Handle: jhebden
Projects:
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
Story
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 Hill-Wright
Job Title: Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: jhillwright
Story
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 — and thusly, their lives. When she’s not GitLabbing, Julia bakes a mean chocolate chip cookie and can be found chasing kids anywhere the sun shines.
Jiaan Louw
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Monitor:Product Analytics FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Yee-ahn Low
GitLab Handle: jiaan
Projects:
- analytics-helm-charts
- reviewer
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Baumgardner
Job Title: Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
- SaaS Platform Section
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: jimbaumgardner
Story
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.
Jennifer Schmidt
Jon Sisson
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: John Sih-sohn
GitLab Handle: jjsisson
Joe Kempton
Jan Kunzmann
Job Title: Senior Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: yann
GitLab Handle: jkunzmann
Story
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.
Jake Kusz
Jean-Baptiste Larramendy
Jordan LaTendresse
Jason Leasure
Projects:
- secure-SAST-kics
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-kubesec
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-pmd-apex
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-security-code-scan
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-semgrep
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-sobelow
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-spotbugs
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-tracking-calculator
- reviewer
- secure-common-command
- reviewer
- secure-common-report
- reviewer
- secure-common-ruleset
- reviewer
Joseph Longo
Story
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.
Jim Lyon
Jennifer Malleo
James Marcham
Matthew Jordan
Jo-Ming Huang
Julia Miocene
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer UX
Jay Montal
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Growth Section
- Acquisition Team
- Acquisition Fullstack Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: jmontal
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Jordan Monyhan
James Moverley
Story
Chatty chap who very much loves devops mindsets, continual awesomeness and talking tech!
Jamie Music
Julia Nishioki
James Nutt
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Manage:Import and Integrate BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: jnutt
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
James is a software engineer who loves Ruby, reading, and being sent pictures of your pets.
Jo Marquez
Story
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 Michniewicz
Story
Joanna is a Recruiter who joined GitLab in January 2020. She resides in the city of Gdańsk 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.
Joanna Muttiah
Story
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.
João Alexandre Prado Tavares Cunha
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Deploy BE Team
GitLab Handle: Alexand
Projects:
- auto-deploy-image
- maintainer
- cluster-applications
- maintainer
- cng
- reviewer
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator-v2
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- helm-install-image
- maintainer
- omnibus-gitlab
- trainee_maintainer
- renovate-gitlab-bot
- maintainer
Story
João 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, João 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.
João Pereira
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Package Stage
- Package:Container Registry Group
- Package:Container Registry BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: <a href="http://ipa-reader.xyz/?text=%CB%88%CA%92w.%C9%90%CC%83w%CC%83&voice=Cristiano">/ˈʒw.ɐ̃w̃/ (audio link)</a>
GitLab Handle: jdrpereira
Projects:
- container-registry
- maintainer
- reviewer database
- gitlab
- reviewer go
- reviewer database
- labkit
- maintainer
Story
João 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 Bauer
Story
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 Eillis
Story
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.
Jodi Thomas
Story
Joining September 16th
Jody Fuller
Joe Drumtra
Story
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 Shaw
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: joe-shaw
Projects:
- gitlab-observability
- maintainer
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
Story
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.
Joseph Hudson
Joel Krooswyk
Story
Joel is an experienced, enterprise-level thought leader passionate about seeing agencies succeed with software initiatives. When he’s not at a computer, he enjoys hiking, rehabbing homes, and investing.
Joe Randazzo
Story
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.
Joey Khabie
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- reviewer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- reviewer
Joseph Fletcher
Johannes Stadler
Story
Selling of complex solutions with high-added value - Focus on DevOps and OpenSource solutions
Johan Rosendahl
Story
Johan is passionate about building strong and lasting relationships. Half Bahamian/Swedish, and living in Switzerland. I enjoy immersing myself in new languages and cultures. Endlessly curious/addicted to all things travel, music & food related.
John Blevins
Job Title: Senior Program Manager, Field Enablement
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: jblevins608
Story
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 Coghlan
Story
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 Mason
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search BE Team
GitLab Handle: johnmason
Projects:
- dev-on-call
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- maintainer
John T Skarbek
Projects:
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- k8s-workloads-gitlab-com
- maintainer
- release-tools
- maintainer
Story
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 Slaughter
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions BE Team
GitLab Handle: john-slaughter
Projects:
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- maintainer
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-visual-studio-extension
- maintainer
Story
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 McDonnell
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
- Core Platform Sub-department
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: john.mcdonnell
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- reviewer
Story
John is passionate about quality and efficiency, to deliver an optimal experience to the customer. While not working, John enjoys hiking, running and photography.
John Bush
John Crowley
John Lyttle
Story
Finding bugs since 2001. John enjoy’s collaborating, iterating and helping Gitlab customer’s receive the best support possible.
Jon Jenkins
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Database BE Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: jon_jenkins
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer database
- reviewer backend
Story
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 Fullam
Story
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 Venezia
Story
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 Doveston
Job Title: Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Deploy BE Team
GitLab Handle: jondoveston
Projects:
- cng
- reviewer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator-v2
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
Story
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.
Jong Lee
Story
Jong is passionate about delivering actionable insights to various stakeholders and fostering data-driven cultures.
Jon Malmgren
Jon Schuster
Story
I am excited to be at GitLab
Jon Vincent
Job Title: Staff People Operations Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: jonvincent
Jordan Janes
Jordan NG
Story
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 Thomas
Jordan Van Hoy
Job Title: Senior Business Development Representative
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: jorvanhoy
Story
Jordan is an enthusiastic member of the Sales Development team. In her free time, she enjoys working on art, making puns, gardening and playing with her dog-child, Roxy.
Jose Ivan Vargas
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Verify:Pipeline Execution FE Team
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Execution Group
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: jivanvl
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
- switchboard
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 Valeriano
Story
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 Burnett
Job Title: Principal Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: josephburnett
Projects:
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer
- grit
- maintainer
- step-runner
- maintainer
- topology-service
- maintainer
Story
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 Tran Hararah
Story
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!
Joseph Rosado
Josh Swann
Story
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 De Leon
Josh Downey
Story
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.
Joshua Carroll
Josianne Hyson
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management BE Team
- Backend
GitLab Handle: jhyson
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
Josianne is a software engineer from New Zealand. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, boardgames, and photography.
Patrick Cyiza
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- AI-powered:Custom Models BE
- Data Science Section
- Backend
Pronouns: He/His
Pronunciation: khi-iza
GitLab Handle: jpcyiza
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- project-templates
- maintainer
Jeff Petersen
Story
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).
Jan Talar
Joe Quick
Jesse Rabbits
Story
Jesse lives in New York City with his rescue cat Zoey.
Jonathan Rivat
Joy Roodnick
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Janina Roppelt
Jeanne Rotenberry
Jamie Reid
Story
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.
Jillian Rubenoff
Joanna Rubi
James Rushford
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Frontend
- Merge Request Coach
- Foundations:Design System Team
- Foundations:Design System FE Team
Pronouns: Any
GitLab Handle: jrushford
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 :)
Johnny Scarborough
Joon Shin
Jason Shippee
Story
Jason grew up in Virginia where he continues to raise his own family. He enjoys the challenges that come along with selling software within the public sector. When not working, Jason enjoys being a father and a husband as well as traveling and exploring the world with his family.
Jagpreet Singh Bhatia
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Jug-preet
GitLab Handle: jagzz07
Jacob Solomon
Justin Stark
Projects:
- data_chatops
- maintainer
- gitlab-data-utils
- maintainer
- gitlab_data
- maintainer
- snowflake_spend
- maintainer
Story
a simple person who revels in complexity
Jeff Tucker
Story
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 Silva
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: youtube.com/watch?v=t3HkMNw6idA
GitLab Handle: juan-silva
Story
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.
Juhee Lee
Julie Brady
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Julian Paul Dasmariñas
Story
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 Thome
Job Title: Staff Vulnerability Research Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: julianthome
Projects:
- secure-SAST-brakeman
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-kics
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-kubesec
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-pmd-apex
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-rules
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-security-code-scan
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-semgrep
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-sobelow
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-spotbugs
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-tracking-calculator
- maintainer
- secure-common-command
- reviewer
- secure-common-report
- reviewer
- secure-common-ruleset
- reviewer
- semver_dialects
- maintainer
Story
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.
Julie Wyatt
Job Title: Senior Field Marketing Manager
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
Pronunciation: Julie Y-it
GitLab Handle: Jwyatt2
Julie Huang
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:Custom Models FE
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Frontend
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: julie_huang
Story
Julie’s 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 she’s not working, Julie likes to make time for travel, yoga and spending time with friends and family.
Julie Davila
Job Title: VP, Product Security
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: joo-lee
GitLab Handle: juliedavila
Julie Malloy
Julie Martin
Story
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.
Juliet Wanjohi
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
Story
Prior to joining GitLab, Juliet studied Cyber Security at Queen’s University Belfast. She had the chance to intern at GitLab over summer 2020 and transitioned into a full time role in October 2020. She has a passion for coding and securing applications. In her free time, Juliet enjoys dancing, reading, taking roadtrips and spending time with her family and pups.
Juliette Francon
Story
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!
Julius Kvedaras
Story
Julius is very pasionate about IT and likes to learn new technologies all the time. When he is not learning he is creating.
Justin Ames
Justin Farmiloe
Justin Farris
Story
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.
Justin Ho
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Frontend
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Manage:Import and Integrate FE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: justin_ho
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- trainee_maintainer frontend
- switchboard
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Mandell
Story
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 Tobler
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Team
- Gitaly Cluster Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: justintobler
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
Story
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.
Justin Wong
Jenna VanZutphen
Job Title: Senior Recruiter
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Jen-uh Van-Zut-Fen
GitLab Handle: jvanzutphen
Javier Villanueva
Jacob Potter
Story
Joined May 6th
Jonathon Ware
Job Title: Senior Strategic Account Executive
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him/His
GitLab Handle: jware2
Story
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.
Jenny Wong
Story
Jenny has seven years of IT experience in the software and video game development industry. Outside of work, Jenny enjoys playing softball, collecting vinyls, and playing her acoustic guitar.
Joe Woodward
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- project-templates
- maintainer
Story
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.
James Wormwell
Story
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
Justin Smith
Jason Yanelli Jr
Kai Armstrong
Story
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.
Kaitlyn Chappell
Story
Kaitlyn is a Support Engineer who loves helping others work through tough problems. They see each new challenge as an opportunity to learn something new, and delight in finding the best solution. After work they enjoy gardening, baking bread, and homebrewing cider.
Kaley Johnson
Story
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.
Kalyan Nathadwarawala
Kamil Trzciński
Job Title: Senior Distinguished Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: ayufan
Projects:
- charts-gitlab-io
- maintainer
- container-registry
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- labkit-ruby
- maintainer
- topology-service
- maintainer
Story
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 Blasing
departments:
Story
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 – serving as Audit Committee Chairman. She previously served on the board of Ellie Mae (NYSE: Elli) – 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 company’s 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.’s in both Economics and Business Administration from the University of Montana and an MBA from the University of Washington.
Karen Kwentus
Job Title: Senior Solutions Architect
departments:
- SA
- Customer Success
- Progressive Delivery Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Release Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
GitLab Handle: kkwentus1
Story
Karen has been automating build and deploy for a long time, happy to try and continue to use these powers for good.
Karen McKinney
Story
Soon to come!
Karen Li
Karthik Easwaramurthy
Karuna Singh
Story
someone who loves what she does and up for any role or work, as long as it compels me push my logical and analytical boundries.
Kasia Misirli
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring Group
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring BE Team
Pronouns: She/her
Pronunciation: <a href="https://www.howtopronounce.com/kasia">kash-ya</a>
GitLab Handle: Kasia_Misirli
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- project-templates
- maintainer
Kassio Borges
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-styles
- reviewer
Story
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.
Kate Grechishkina
Katheline Do
Kathryn Steffenson
Story
Kathryn is a CPA with great fondness for spreadsheets and analysis. When not crunching numbers, Kathryn enjoys spending time with family and exploring the great outdoors.
Katie Wilkinson
Story
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 Macoy
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer Figma
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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.
Katie Rogel
Story
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.
Kato Faylor
Katrin Leinweber
Kayla Golden
Job Title: Manager, People Communications & Engagement
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: kaylagolden
Story
Kayla has a love of storytelling, language, and learning - and she’s grateful that each of those show up her work in communications every day. When she’s not working, you can find her traveling, trying new restaurants, taking in the arts, and spending time with her husky, Hazel.
Kayla "Yun Ji" Ko
Kate Baker
Kent Japhet Q. Ballon
Story
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.
Katrina Isabel Bechayda
Kathleen Rintelman-Betances
Katie Bilsborough
Story
Katie is a continuous learner who has embraced the opportunity to spend her career so far in a variety of roles for Technology companies. When not at GitLab, you can find Katie experimenting in the kitchen, walking her dog, or watching reality TV!
Kristina Bullock
Kim Buncle
Kate Demarest
Kevin Dietz
Story
Kevin is a seasoned data nerd with a background in statistics and cognitive science. He’s always up for tackling new and challenging machine learning problems. Lover of wine, travel, and cat memes.
Kriti D'Souza
Story
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 Lang
Job Title: Senior Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: KEE-lin LANG
GitLab Handle: klang
Story
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
Story
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.
Kelley Garrett
Ken McKnight
Story
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 kmcknight@gitlab.com!
Keneth Granados
Kerri Miller
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Review BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
- Create:Code Review
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: kerrizor
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- tanuki_emoji
- maintainer
Story
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 Slaats
Story
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.
Kevin Chasse
Story
Kevin has been working in technology for nearly 20 years in various roles and his passion for working with people and technology drew him to a role in Customer Success. When not working, Kevin likes playing Magic the Gathering, chess, and coaching youth baseball.
Kevin Vogt
Job Title: Senior Manager, Professional Services Technical Architects
departments:
GitLab Handle: kvogt1
Story
Kevin is an Infrastructure Engineer with a background in Cloud Technologies. He came to GitLab from the healthcare space where hes worked for hospitals and EMR companies. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with family.
Kevin Chu
Story
Kevin started his career as a software developer before launching his own company and becoming a product manager. He cares about environmental issues and would like to do more to help. He lives in Portland, OR with his wife, 3 adorable kids, and a cockapoo named Chopito.
Karen Fang
Kevin Fosse
Kent Georgeson
Story
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 Hokanson
Job Title: Senior Technical Instructional Designer
departments:
Pronouns: they/them
GitLab Handle: khokanson
Story
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.
Sang Hoon Kim
Ian Khor
Story
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.
Keven Hughes
Story
Joined Aug 12th, 2019
Kim Waters
Kinga Erika Polgardi
Job Title: Senior Billing Operations Analyst
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: KingaPolgardi
Story
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 Aubrey
Story
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.
Kiran B
Kisha Mavryck Richardson
Karl Jamoralin
Kosuke Kamiya
Kev Kloss
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
- maintainer pipeline
- maintainer tooling
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- triage-ops
- reviewer
Kristina Koceban
Ksenia Kolpakova
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Kazem Kutob
Kam Kyrala
Story
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.
Kevin Lake
Klara Audren
Katharine Linebaugh
Klaudia Magda
Story
Klaudia is a data scientist with a computer science and consulting background. She is excited to bring her data skills to help GitLab improve their analytical capbilities. Klaudia enjoys mountain climbing, despite the lack of WiFi and coffee.
Kelly Matrazzo
Story
Kelly is a project coordinator professional who loves to support team members in successfully running their projects from start to completion. She loves to spend time with her husband and children. She loves the beach and playing cards and boating with friends and family on the weekends.
Keith Mattes
Kennedy McKern
Kevin Morrison
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Story
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 master’s 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 Nayak
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Git Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: knayakgl
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
Story
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).
Keeyan Nejad
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Kris Nelson
Story
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 Niechajewicz
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Growth Section
- Growth:Acquisition and Activation Team
GitLab Handle: kniechajewicz
Projects:
- dev-on-call
- maintainer
Story
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.
Kylie Norquist
Job Title: Senior Support Engineer (Shift)
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: kai-lee
GitLab Handle: knorquist
Story
Before GitLab, Kylie spent time working in the education sector supporting thousands of users maintaining infrastructure as code and building out CI/CD pipelines. She loves finding clever solutions to automate things and tinkering with her home lab. When she’s not working, she’s usually catching up on cool movies and shows with her partner and trying out new recipes, or out enjoying the nice weather in San Diego.
Calliope Gardner
Kati Paizee
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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 Palchyk
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
- Fulfillment:Utilization FE Team
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: [kɔs]
GitLab Handle: kpalchyk
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Kacie Rahimi
Krasimir Angelov
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Database BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: krasio
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer database
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- maintainer database
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- release-cli
- reviewer
Story
Kras is a software developer interested in all things backend, ops and automation. He loves fishing and spending time outdoors with his family.
Kristen Butler
Job Title: Senior Corporate Communications Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: kristenbutler
Story
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.
Kristina Weis
Kristine Setschin
Story
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 Goossens
Job Title: Staff Solutions Architect
departments:
- SA
- Customer Success
- Source Code Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Code Review Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Editor Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Gitaly Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Pipeline Execution Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Pipeline Authoring Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Runner Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
Pronunciation: kristɔff ɣɔːssens
GitLab Handle: kgoossens
Story
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…
Kenia Rodriguez
Kaitlyn Sarmento
Kassandra Svoboda
Job Title: Manager, Quality Engineering
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
- Core Platform Section
- SaaS Platform Section
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: ksvoboda
Story
Kassandra enjoys all things Quality Engineering (emphasis on pushing buttons). When not working she enjoys hiking, gaming, and kickboxing.
Konst Tchernov
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Environment Automation
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: ktchernov
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Story
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 Tesh
Story
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.
Kelsey Turcotte
Kushal Pandya
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- status-page
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Krishna Priya Vasireddy
Kelly Walker
Kennedy Wanyangu
Job Title: Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- SaaS Platforms Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: kwanyangu
Story
Kenn is an an engineer with a personality. He is passionate about engineering leadership and how great work culture contributes to effective workflows. He loves partying and hikes. He believes that indeed, to whom much has been given, much is required.
Kalyani Yerraguntla
Kyle Yetter
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Geo BE Team
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: Kyle like "While", Yetter like "Better"
GitLab Handle: kyetter
Story
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:
- podcasts
- audiobooks
- the color vermilion
- square toed shoes
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- thoughtful artistic horror movies
- trashy indefensible horror movies
- feminism
- pears
- katamaris
- foxes
- orchestral harps
- bandanas
- Soulsborne games
- bright colors and bold patterns
- stick figure drawings
- improv comedy
- mathematics
- ginger
- gingerbread
Kyla Gradin Dahl
Story
Hailing from the Great Plains of North Dakota, where winters are colder than Antarctica (it feels like) and accents are less noticeable than the movie Fargo. Kyla has seven years of experience in software technology sales, before joining the GitLab team, she acquired most of her experience working at a global technology organization, where she dedicated much of her time to the cloud platform and infrastructure. Outside of GitLab she enjoys traveling, playing tennis, and spending summers on the water with family and friends. GitLab’s slice of North Dakota nice.
Kyle Doherty
departments:
Kyle Smith
Story
Kyle has spent most of his career as an IT auditor and has a passion for risk management/enabling better decision making. He likes a good laugh and makes the same jokes over and over again. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with family and friends, trying new food/recipes, and reading.
Leonardo da Rosa
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Database BE Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: l.rosa
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer database
Story
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.
Luminus Alabi
Lanka De Alwis
Projects:
- secure-SAST-rules
- reviewer
Story
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.
Leslie Anzures
Larry Biegel
Story
I have been in software sales for more than 20 years. My responsibility here at GitLab is to generate revenue and help fuel our growth. I do so by helping enterprises to enhance how they respond to change. I have 3 kids and < 5 years, we will be empty nesters.
Laura Duggan
Story
Laura is a frontend engineer originally educated in UX and product design. She attended a coding bootcamp and fell in love with CSS, and loves accessible design and execution.
Laura Ionel
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions BE Team
GitLab Handle: lauraionel
Projects:
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- maintainer
Laura Montemayor
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring BE Team
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring Group
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: lauraXD
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer ci_template
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
Story
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.
Laurena Quinteiro Alves
Lauren Barker
Projects:
- www-gitlab-com
- maintainer backend
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Lauren Lopez
Lauren Roberts
Laurie Howitt
Story
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.
Lindsey Beyl
Lars Blockken
Loryn Bortins
Job Title: Senior Product Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: lor-rhen (sounds just like "lauren")
GitLab Handle: lbortins
Story
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.
Lisa Boughner
Luiza Manueli de Camargo
Likhit Chilamakuru
![Lorena Ciutacu](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/lorenaciutacu-crop.jpg)
Lorena Ciutacu
Technical Writer - Data Stores:Tenant Scale, Monitor:Product Analytics, Plan:Optimize
Lorena Ciutacu
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Ben Leduc-Mills
Story
Ben is a Sr. UX Researhcer currently living near LA. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, as well as a background in interaction design. In his free time he can found in the woodshop, playing music, and spending time with his family.
Lee Matos
Story
Lee is passionate about the intersection of Leadership and Technology. If he’s not on the Internet, he’s probably playing Magic: The Gathering, riding a bike, or in the Techno club.
Lee Tickett
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- gitlab-triage
- reviewer
- triage-ops
- maintainer
Story
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 Eipert
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Frontend
- Dev Section
- Foundations:Personal Productivity Team
- Foundations:Personal Productivity FE Team
GitLab Handle: leipert
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-build-images
- maintainer
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
- renovate-gitlab-bot
- maintainer
- switchboard
- reviewer frontend
Story
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”.
Josh Lemos
Lena Nguyen
Lena Baedorf
Leo Vieira dos Santos
Lerato Thipe
Job Title: Candidate Experience Specialist
departments:
Pronouns: She\ Her
Pronunciation: Lee-ra-too
GitLab Handle: Leratot
Lesley Razzaghian
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:Duo Chat BE Team
Pronouns: She/her
GitLab Handle: lesley-r
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Lewis Brown
Lindsy Farina
Lee Faus
Louise Fellows
Liam McAndrew
Job Title: Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
GitLab Handle: lmcandrew
Story
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.
Liam McNally
Story
Originally from the UK and now living in Australia for quite some time, I have been in the People and HR for nearly 10 years now and continue to learn and grow in the field.
Libor Vanc
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer Figma
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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.
Lily Mai
Story
Lily holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and has been working as a data analyst since she graduated from college. Outside of work, she enjoys spending quality time with family and friends, spending hours in the kitchen, and traveling.
Jen-Shin Lin
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Quality Department
- Engineering Productivity Team
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: godfat-gitlab
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer pipeline
- maintainer tooling
- gitlab-dangerfiles
- maintainer
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
- gitlab-rspec-profiling-stats
- reviewer
- gitlab-styles
- maintainer
- gitlab-triage
- maintainer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- reviewer
- quality-pipeline-common
- maintainer
- test_file_finder
- maintainer
- triage-ops
- maintainer
Story
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.
Lina Fowler
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer UX
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
Started out as a Software Engineer working on internal tooling and from there made my way into Product Design.
Linc Williams
Story
I am an accomplished Project Manager, Architect, Analyst, Strategist and solution-oriented person who thrives in challenging, fast paced environments where my performance directly impacts the bottom line. I have a love of photography and specialize in Cosplay photography
Lindsey Shelton
Story
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.
Lisa van de Kooij
Story
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.
Lis Vinueza
Story
Lis is passionate about data and improving the efficiency of business workflows. In her free time, Lis enjoys trying new food, visiting new places and playing with her dogs Celeste, Dulce, Isa and Bonnie.
Lauren Kaible
Leaminn Ma
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: leemin
GitLab Handle: lma-git
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- maintainer ci_template
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
Story
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!
Leslie Mendonca
Lukas Mertensmeyer
Christina Lohr
Pedro Lopez
Lorenz van Herwaarden
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern frontend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: lorenzvanherwaarden
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Louise Choi
Story
Fond of Sailor Moon, confused dogs and most (not licorice) snacks.
Lucy Paul
Lisa Puzar
Story
Lisa has been in Sales Operations functions for the past 20+ years and was at Xactly for nine years prior to joining GitLab. Outside of work, her three teenagers keep her busy with their activities. She also enjoys photography, spending time with family and friends and the San Francisco Giants!
Lisa Rom
Lindsay Schoenfeld
Story
Prior to joining GitLab, Lindsay ran Sales Ops at Namely. With an ability to think & work horizontally across BUs, she views Sales Ops as the “Connective Tissue” in the GTM org. Outside of work, her love for family, yoga & running keeps her grounded.
Lekan Sogunle
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Group
- Switchboard Team
GitLab Handle: lsogunle
Projects:
- switchboard
- maintainer backend
Luke Stahlman
Lauren Tepper
Lucas Charles
Job Title: Principal Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: <a href="http://ipa-reader.xyz/?text=%CB%88lu.k%C9%90s%20t%CA%83%C9%91%C9%B9lz">/ˈlu.kɐs tʃɑɹlz/ (audio link)</a>
GitLab Handle: theoretick
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer ci_template
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- sec-danger-bot
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-codequality
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-kics
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-kubesec
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-pmd-apex
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-semgrep
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-sobelow
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-spotbugs
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-tracking-calculator
- maintainer
- secure-SD-secrets
- maintainer
- secure-analyzers
- reviewer go
- secure-common-command
- maintainer
- secure-common-report
- maintainer
- secure-common-ruleset
- maintainer
- security-report-schemas
- maintainer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- maintainer
Story
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.
Lucie Zhao
Lucas Li
Job Title: Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Deploy BE Team
GitLab Handle: lucus.li
Projects:
- cng
- reviewer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator-v2
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer
Story
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.
Łukasz Korbasiewicz
Story
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.
Luke Babb
Story
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 Duncalfe
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Manage:Import and Integrate BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: .luke
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-gollum-lib
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Luke McNeil
Lukas Wanko
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Provision Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: lwanko
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer frontend
- reviewer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Lee Work
Lydia Pollitt
Story
Originally from northern Iowa, but based in St. Louis, MO nearly all of my adult life (while always pining for the mountains), I’ve been working with software clients and helping to solve their problems for nearly 20 years. My primary goal is always to understand my customers’ 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 Kozloff
Story
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.
Lynde Meiers
Job Title: Staff Team Member Relations Partner
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Lynd-E
GitLab Handle: lyndemeiers
Lynsey Sayers
Story
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 is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys hiking and traveling in her time off.
Lysanne Pinto
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Laurens van Dijk
Matthew Taylor
Story
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 California’s 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.
Lauren Macalalad
Story
Lauren has a background education in communications and front-end web dev, and also used to work as a technical SEO consultant. She is passionate about self-help and self-improvement books and is always curious about the how/why of things.
Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern Managers
- Govern:Security Policies Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: alan
Projects:
- dev-on-call
- maintainer
Story
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.
Michelle Kemp
Madelein van Niekerk
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search BE Team
GitLab Handle: maddievn
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- reviewer
Mawreen Dela Cruz
Job Title: Associate Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: madelacruz
Madison Owens
Job Title: Public Sector Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: madi-owens
Madison Kerr
Story
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
Story
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.
Madou Coulibaly
Job Title: Staff Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: ma-doo coo-lee-ba-lee
GitLab Handle: madou
Story
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 Frankiewicz
Story
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.
Maggie Mitchell
Małgorzata Ksionek
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:AI Framework BE Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: mksionek
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
Gosia is a backend developer who loves constant challenges in programming. In her free time she reads. A fan of colorful socks.
Michelle Almendarez
Story
Michelle has worked in web design, database management, and Linux Server Administration. When not working on projects she loves to travel, read, and stay caffeinated.
Malthe Winther
Matt Angell
Manoj Memana Jayakumar
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale BE Team
- Merge Request Buddy
GitLab Handle: manojmj
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- http-router
- maintainer
- topology-service
- reviewer
Story
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 Grabowski
Story
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.
Manuel Kraft
Job Title: Staff Customer Success Manager
departments:
- CSM
- Customer Success
- Customer Success Managers
- Progressive Delivery Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Release Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
GitLab Handle: manuel.kraft
Story
Loves food & good coffee.
Marc DiSabatino
Story
Marc has about 7 years of corporate IT experience, with an emphasis on providing a friendly and quality experience. In his free time he enjoys the great outdoors, spending time with his 4 cats, cooking, music, and learning about new technologies.
Marcel Amirault
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- maintainer ci_template
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
- project-templates
- maintainer
Story
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.
Marcel Dias
Marci Geisler
![Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/msedlakjakubowski-crop.jpg)
Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Senior Technical Writer, Plan (Project Management, Product Planning, Knowledge), Create (Source Code)
Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Job Title: Senior Technical Writer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: MAR-chin SEND-whack ya-koo-BOV-ski
GitLab Handle: msedlakjakubowski
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Marco Zille
Story
Marco is a Software, DevOps and Full Stack Engineer at MEDIASTUDIO srl. He started contributing to GitLab in 2022, initially working on time tracking features but then moved on to cover various areas of GitLab.
Marco Caronna
Gregorius Marco
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
GitLab Handle: marcogreg
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
Marc Shaw
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Review BE Team
- Create:Code Review
GitLab Handle: marc_shaw
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Jankovski
Story
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 Mosti
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Group
- Switchboard Team
Pronouns: she/they
GitLab Handle: marina.mosti
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- switchboard
- maintainer frontend
Story
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
Marina Conrad
Mario Celi
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Project Management BE Team
- Gente TMRG
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mcelicalderonG
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Mario Mora
Story
Mario lives in San Jose, Costa Rica. He enjoys learning new technologies and automate workflows. During his free time he enjoys to do bike riding, photography, cooking and reading.
Marion Daire
Marisa Carlson
Marissa Ferber
Mark Chao
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:Duo Chat BE Team
GitLab Handle: lulalala
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Mark Lapierre
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
GitLab Handle: mlapierre
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- maintainer
- quality-pipeline-common
- maintainer
Story
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
departments:
Story
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 Dastmalchi-Round
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Technical Architect
departments:
GitLab Handle: markdastmalchi-round
Mark Foster
Mark Loveless
Story
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 Nuzzo
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring Group
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: marknuzzo
Story
Mark is interested in all things related to CICD, Serverless, performance and scrum/agile development. Outside of work, he loves to run, shopping, playing with his kids and playing fantasy football.
Mark Wilson
Mark Wood
Story
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.
Michael Arntz
Martin Wortschack
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- status-page
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Marty Fischer
Story
Marty Fischer has lead many channel Organizations and has spent 12 years in direct sales with Federal System integrators as well as program business. Marty spends his time with his two children and sports are his passion.
Marvin Gay
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: marvingay
MaryGrace Wajda
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
Pronunciation: Why-da
GitLab Handle: marygracewajda
Mat Appelman
Projects:
- gitlab-observability
- maintainer
Mathilde Riou
Matt Mullenweg
departments:
Story
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 Petrovick
Story
Matt has been working with SDLC and DevOps for the last decade. He has two cats who have traveld the US living in Boulder, CO, Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh, NC, and now Austin, TX.
Matt Walsh
Story
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 Boston
Matt D'Agostino
Job Title: Senior Background Check Specialist
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: dag-oh-stee-no
GitLab Handle: mattdagostino
Story
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.
Matthew Ramirez
Matthew Badeau
Story
Matthew has been tinkering with computers since he was a child. His interests include just about everything to do with a computer from programming to mechanical keyboards. His current deep interest is in 3D printing and everything related.
Matthew Jacobson
departments:
Matthew Petersen
Matthias Käppler
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Cloud Connector BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mkaeppler
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-cloud-connector
- owner
- gitlab-compose-kit
- maintainer
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- labkit-ruby
- maintainer
Story
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.
Matt Jamison
Story
Joined 10-FEB-2020
Matt Kasa
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Section
- Database BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mattkasa
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer database
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-development-kit
- trainee_maintainer
- terraform-images
- maintainer
Story
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 Malcolm
Story
Matt is passionate about technology, efficiency, and building teams that get results. As an Austinite and Texan, Matt is big on live music, barbecue brisket, breakfast tacos, Willie, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Matt Miller
Story
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
Story
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.
Amaury "Mau" Yacksmith
Job Title: Senior Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: A-moh-REE
GitLab Handle: myacksmith
Max Bucquet dal Molin
Story
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.
Maxime Orefice
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Pipeline Security
- Govern:Pipeline Security BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: morefice
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer database
- gitlab-styles
- reviewer
Max Woolf
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Monitor:Product Analytics BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mwoolf
Projects:
- analytics-helm-charts
- maintainer
- analytics-stack
- maintainer
- devkit
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- tanuki_emoji
- maintainer
Story
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 Cabrera
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Delivery Team
- Merge Request Buddy
GitLab Handle: mayra-cabrera
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
- release-tools
- maintainer
Story
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.
Miguel Brown
Max Belinga
Meir Benayoun
Projects:
- gitlab-advanced-sast
- owner
Story
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.
Martin Berka
Melissa Blackmore
Marius Bobin
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:CI Platform Group
- Verify:CI Platform BE Team
GitLab Handle: mbobin
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
Story
A lifelong tinkerer, likes to take things apart, see how they work and how can be improved or automated.
Mirko Brandner
Job Title: Senior Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: meerko
GitLab Handle: mbrandner1
Story
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.)
Maala Breusch
Martin Brümmer
Story
Martin has a background in data engineering and programming. He likes to delve in the minutiae of CI, governance, compliance and automation. Martin is into open science, everything data and baroque music.
Michele Bursi
Job Title: Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: mee-ke-le
GitLab Handle: mbursi
Story
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.
Marcos Rocha
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Security Policies Fullstack Team
- Govern:Security Policies BE Team
- Gente TMRG
GitLab Handle: mc_rocha
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- secure-browser-based-dast
- maintainer
Martin Cavoj
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Security Policies BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mcavoj
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Babin
Story
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.
Shane McCormack
Job Title: Staff Analyst, People Analytics
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: mccormack514
Marcel Chacon
Projects:
- config-mgmt
- maintainer
- infra-mgmt
- maintainer
Story
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.
Matt Charnitski
Matt Conley
Matt Coons
Mariana da Costa Melo
Mark Dineley
Miles Russell
Story
Loves data, golf, chess, and the outdoors.
Miguel Duque
Story
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 Filo
Story
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 Emin Inac
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights BE Team
GitLab Handle: minac
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer database
- maintainer backend
- security-report-schemas
- trainee_maintainer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- maintainer
Story
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.
Elaine Hu-amar
Mek Stittri
Story
Before joining GitLab, Mek led and grew the test automation infrastructure team at Airware. Prior to Airware he has spent the last decade in Quality Engineering for both enterprise companies and startups in the Bay Area. You can also find him at Test Automation meetups and conferences. He has a passion in baking quality in from the start, championing testability and developer productivity. In his spare time he enjoys coffee, running and yoga.
Mel Clark
Melia Vilain
Story
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 Magoma
Story
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.
Melissa Sheridan
Melissa Ushakov
Story
Melissa fell in love with software development in highschool and sees it as a way to bring delightful experiences to everyone. She went to school for Computer Science and eventually found her way to Product Management. Originally from Mexico, she now lives in Austin with her husband, two kids and two dogs. She loves spending time outside despite the Texas heat.
Mathias Ewald
Max Fan
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Michael Fangman
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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 Fleisher
Job Title: Senior Manager, Online Sales & Self Service Growth
departments:
Pronouns: He, His
GitLab Handle: mfleisher
Story
Max came to GitLab from Salesforce, and fills his time with cooking, golf, Peloton, and woodworking.
Mike Flouton
Story
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.
Maurizio Gallerani
Monica Galletto
Story
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.
Michael Gibson
Story
Michael has been helping users of technology for over 10 years now. As well as working at GitLab, Michael is currently a student at UC Berkeley. When he’s not working or studying, Michael loves to hike, explore the city, listen to music, read, travel, and try new beers.
Meritxell 'Meri' Gil Galindo
Story
Meri is Spanish but she is based in Switzerland. In her spare time she loves learning new languages and cooking.
Morgan Griffin James Lillie
Mohamed Hamda
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- AI-powered:Custom Models BE
- Data Science Section
- Backend
GitLab Handle: mhamda
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer database
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer database
- maintainer backend
- labkit-ruby
- trainee_maintainer
Story
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 30°C in summer, but in winter, it depends!
Mitchell Hanks
Micaila Gardiner-Bocchini
Michael Bradley
Story
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.
Michael Dunninger
Story
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
Projects:
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
Story
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.
Michael Leopard
Story
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 Lunøe
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management FE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mlunoe
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Michael Nevolo
Story
Joined Sept 30th
Michael Scarnato
Story
I’ve been selling to the federal market for about 20 years and in channel sales for the past 14 years. I live outside of the Washington, DC area with my wife, son and our dog, Sparky. In my free time I enjoy traveling and spending time with my family.
Michael Scott
Story
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 Angelo Rivera
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- reviewer
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
Story
Your friendly neighborhood Ninja Turtle. I usually go by Angelo! Based out of Atlanta, Georgia.
Michael Henriksen
Job Title: Senior Vulnerability Research Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mhenriksen
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium-db
- maintainer
- secure-SAST-rules
- maintainer
Story
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.
Michael Le
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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 Lussier
Story
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.
Michał Zając
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights BE Team
- Backend
GitLab Handle: Quintasan
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer database
- reviewer backend
- security-report-schemas
- trainee_maintainer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- trainee_maintainer
Story
While not programming Michał 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 Chen
Michelle Cooper
Story
Michelle is an analytics engineer with a passion for exploration, always looking to answer the big (and small) questions. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, reading, and hanging out with her dog.
Michelle Gill
Job Title: Director, Engineering
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: mih-SHELL gih-l
GitLab Handle: m_gill
Story
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.
Michelle Harris
Job Title: Senior Program Manager, Customer Success Strategy & Operations
departments:
GitLab Handle: mharris3
Story
Michelle is passionate about creating consistent, repeatable, and scalable methods to increase customer adoption and product stickiness. In her spare time, you’ll find her on a mountain snowboarding, traveling or spending time with family & friends.
Michelle Nelson
Michelle Novosel
Michał Wielich
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Analytics Section
- Analytics Instrumentation Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: me-how
GitLab Handle: michold
Projects:
- analytics-helm-charts
- maintainer
- analytics-stack
- maintainer
- devkit
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer analytics_instrumentation
- snowplow-micro-configuration
- maintainer
- version.gitlab.com
- maintainer backend
Story
Michał 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.
Michael Thomas
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
John Hope
Story
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 Silva
Story
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.
Mihai Conteanu
Story
Mihai is passionate about anything-automation. Eager to always learn about new tools and technologies. He enjoys going for motorbike rides and hopes to get skydiver certified and travel around Europe.
Michael Kozono
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Geo BE Team
GitLab Handle: mkozono
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
Mike caught the programming bug, but didn’t 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 Eddington
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-visual-studio-extension
- maintainer
- secure-api-security
- maintainer
Story
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 Hanna
Story
B2B marketing leader with experience in leading teams across Japan, Korea and Asia Pacific. Fluent in digital and physical channels. Originally from Australia I have been based in Tokyo the majority of my career. In my free time I like playing tennis and spending time with my wife and two children.
Mike Lindsay
Story
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 Lockhart
Story
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 Nichols
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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 Smith
Job Title: Senior Analyst, Online Sales & Self Service Operations
departments:
GitLab Handle: mikesmith1
Michael Trainor
Story
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.
Miki Amos
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- reviewer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
Story
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Mikołaj Wawrzyniak
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
GitLab Handle: mikolaj_wawrzyniak
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- duo-workflow-executor
- reviewer
- duo-workflow-service
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- repository-x-ray
- maintainer
Story
Mikołaj is Ruby on Rails enthusiast since 2014, with a passion for solving challenging problems. Personally snowboard freak, traveler and Viking warrior reenactor.
Milad Irannejad
Projects:
- config-mgmt
- maintainer
- infra-mgmt
- maintainer
Story
Milad is an ally for neurodiversity, intersectionality, inclusion, and belonging. Milad is passionate about building distributed systems and making computer software work like human communities by making them decentralized, democratized, autonomous, and trustworthy. Milad enjoys reading and learning about math, physics, cosmology, evolution, anthropology, philosophy, and psychology and seeing life through various lenses!
Minahil Nichols
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Min-aah-hil
GitLab Handle: minahilnichols
Projects:
- customers-app
- trainee_maintainer backend
- reviewer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Miracle Banks
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
Pronunciation: Meer-uh-kowl
GitLab Handle: mirbanks
Miranda Fluharty
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Pipeline Security
- Govern:Pipeline Security FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: mfluharty
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 Andres
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Pipeline Security
- Govern:Pipeline Security FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: mgandres
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
Story
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.
Michel Isnard
Missy Davies
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: miss-ee day-vees
GitLab Handle: missy-gitlab
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Sunny Mittal
Miwa Ikemoto
Mam Joof
Morgan Joscelyn
Mitra JozeNazemian
Michelle Jubrey
Moaz Khalifa
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Package Stage
- Package:Package Registry Group
- Package:Package Registry BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: mo-aaz
GitLab Handle: mkhalifa3
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Maya Kuswaya
Michael Lerner
Matt MacZura
Margareth Mañunga
Story
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.
Martin McVay
Matt Nohr
Story
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 Minnesota’s 10,000 (actually 11,842) lakes. In the winter he spends his time snowshoeing and curling.
Miguel Nunes
Story
Miguel is a Sales Development Manager that has a passion for people development and creating engaged teams. Outside work he is also a social person, you can find him either reading his Psychology books or spending time nurturing friendships.
L'moatasim Billah Oumezdi
Megan O'Dowd
Story
Megan loves to run, travel, hike, ski, kayak, and bake!
Mohamed Hussain
Mohammed Al Kobaisy
Story
Mohammed has good experience in the IT industry with B.Sc. in Computer Science and several years working as an IT. A bilingual that loves reading history and enjoy traveling.
Mo Khan
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern frontend capability
- Govern:Authorization
- Govern:Authorization BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mokhax
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
Story
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.
Monali Bhide
Monica Gomez
Story
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 Wilkins
Story
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).
Morgan Fuller
Martin Oskarsen
Story
Responsible for building and developing the Nordic Sales within the Public Sector
Mounir Ben Saad
Melody Patel
Mateo Penagos
Story
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.
Marco Percolla
Maximilian Hirata
Miguel Rincon
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Runner FE Team
- Frontend
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
GitLab Handle: mrincon
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Mic Rohr
Job Title: IT Global Logistics Analyst
departments:
Pronouns: She/They
Pronunciation: Mick - Like Mick Jagger
GitLab Handle: mic_rohr
Chaoyue Zhao
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code FE Team
- Create:Source Code
- Frontend
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: ms.mondrian
Marc Saleiko
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Project Management BE Team
- Plan:Project Management FE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: msaleiko
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Maëlys Savy
Michaela Seferian-Jenkins
Job Title: Technical Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she / her
GitLab Handle: mseferian-jenkins
Manjeet Singh
Matt Smiley
Story
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.
Mattias Soderberg
Job Title: Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: ma-tee-as
GitLab Handle: msoderberg69
Story
Passionate about helping customers with their business challenges and visionions and connecting that to our tech
Maria Spada Rojas
Marcella Summers
Job Title: Senior Manager, Global Partner Specialists
departments:
Pronunciation: maar-seh-luh
GitLab Handle: msummers11
Story
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 Moustafa
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Provision Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mtimoustafa
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- trainee_maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
Story
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.
Mher Tolpin
Projects:
- gitlab-advanced-sast
- maintainer
Story
Before joining GitLab, Mher was Backend Engineer in Oxeye Security.
Masa Ueda
Story
Joined on 2021-03-01
Muhamed Huseinbašić
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Environment Automation
GitLab Handle: mhuseinbasic
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Story
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.
Mustafa Bayar
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Git Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: mustafabayar
Marcel van Remmerden
Story
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.
Marcus Whitaker
Story
I have been in the professional IT space for 6+ years and enjoy working with fast growing, progressive company’s IT departments in automating their processes, masterfully administrating applications, and creating a positive customer experience for end users. All with the end goal of creating a more zero trust security posture that enables everyone to be more safe, successful and efficient. I live in Atlanta, GA and love cycling, rock climbing, backpacking, and travel.
Matthew Wyman Jr
May Yang
Nabeel Bilgrami
Story
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.
Nabitha Rao
Nick Adams
Nailia Iskhakova
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: niskhakova
Projects:
- cng
- reviewer qa
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-environment-toolkit
- maintainer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-performance-tool
- maintainer
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer qa
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer qa
Story
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.
Nakisa Rezakhani
Nao Hashizume
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Quality Department
- Engineering Productivity Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: nao.hashizume
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer pipeline
- maintainer tooling
- gitlab-dangerfiles
- reviewer
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer
- gitlab-rspec-profiling-stats
- reviewer
- gitlab-styles
- reviewer
- gitlab-triage
- reviewer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- reviewer
- quality-pipeline-common
- reviewer
- test_file_finder
- reviewer
- triage-ops
- maintainer
Story
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.
Nasir Devlani
Projects:
- secure-SAST-rules
- reviewer
Story
My YouTube Channel focusing on Cybersecurity: https://www.youtube.com/@cyseceveryday
Nasser Mohunlol
Story
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.
Natalie Pinto
Job Title: Staff Technical Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her/hers
GitLab Handle: natalie.pinto
Story
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.
Natalie Piccinini
Job Title: Field Marketing Coordinator
departments:
Pronouns: she/her/hers
GitLab Handle: nataliepicci
Nate Houston
Story
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.
Nate Spong
Nathan Weinshenker
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab
- reviewer
Story
Nathan is a developer who’s passionate working with others to solve problems, with collaboration comes success.
Nathan Black
Story
Nathan has worked in a variety of Systems Engineering and Devops roles for 25 years. He enjoys working outside on the homestead, attending live music concerts and best of all being a dad.
Nathan Brown
Nathan Dubord
Story
Based out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nathan is a Senior Frontend Engineer with extensive experience in design systems. Outside of work, Nathan can be found traveling, at the soccer field, or on the ski hill.
Natalie Wingfield
Pranav Jain
Nadia Bassiti
Niko Belokolodov
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Analytics Section
- Analytics Instrumentation Team
GitLab Handle: nbelokolodov
Projects:
- analytics-manager
- maintainer
- analytics-stack
- maintainer
- devkit
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer analytics_instrumentation
- iglu
- maintainer
- version.gitlab.com
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Nichola Cassar
Nick Cayou
Nathalia Lopes Suzano Cerveira
Nirmal Devarajan
Story
Risk management, basketball, fitness, cycling, NFL/NBA (Pats/Cs)
Nathan Johnson
Nick Duff
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Reliability Team
- Reliability:Observability
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: nduff
Neha Sharma
Nicole Esplin
Naman Jagdish Gala
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Naman Jag-deesh Gaalaa
GitLab Handle: ngala
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- maintainer
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
Niall Cregan
Story
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 Bennett
Story
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.
Nick Nguyen
Job Title: Senior Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: nhxnguyen
Story
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.
Nick Veenhof
Job Title: Director, Contributor Success
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Nick + The "fa" of fader with the n added to it. Then listen to https://forvo.com/word/hof/#nl for hof. All of this makes Nick Veenhof!
GitLab Handle: nick_vh
Story
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 Brandt
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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.
Nick Kalina
Story
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 Leonard
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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 Westbury
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Quality Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
GitLab Handle: nwestbury
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-environment-toolkit
- maintainer
- gitlab-performance-tool
- maintainer
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
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.
Nico Ochoa
Story
Nico has over 20 years of software and technology sales experience working with Fortune 1000 clients. He was drawn to GitLab the technology due to its ability to help clients deliver faster with one integrated platform. He was drawn to GitLab the company for its culture and values.
Nicolas Dular
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Williams
Job Title: Senior Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
GitLab Handle: nicolewilliams
Story
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.
Nicole Ann Precilla
Story
Before joining GitLab, Nikki has experienced working on Accounts Payable function for six years. She loves spending time with her family and enjoys going to the beach to explore.
Nicole Smith
Nicole Galang
Story
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.
Nicolò Maria Mezzopera
Story
Nicolò 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.
Nico Sandoval
Nigel D'Souza
![Nikhil George](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/ngeorge-crop.jpg)
Nikhil George
Senior Security Engineer, Application Security, Secure (Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Composition Analysis, Vulnerability Research), Growth (Acquisition, Activation).
Nikhil George
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Story
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.
Nikki Silverberg
Job Title: Staff Marketing Operations Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: nikkiroth
Story
Nikki is a well-rounded marketing operations professional with experience across a variety of sectors and industries. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, playing ultimate frisbee, rock climbing, snowboarding, and hiking and camping with her dog, Piper, and her husband, AJ.
Niklas Janz
Job Title: Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: nɪklas
GitLab Handle: niklasjanz
Story
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 😸
Nilanka De Silva
Story
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 Ilieskou
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- reviewer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-schema
- maintainer
- secure-trivy-k8s-wrapper
- maintainer
Story
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.
Nwanna Isong
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Analytics Section
- Analytics Instrumentation Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: nisong
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer analytics_instrumentation
Story
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.
Nitin Upadhyay
Story
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.
Nyalish Jamshaid
Job Title: Senior Manager, Partner Operations
departments:
Pronunciation: Naya-Lish
GitLab Handle: njamshaid
Story
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 Klick
Projects:
- gitlab-observability-ui
- maintainer
Story
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 Malcolm
Story
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.
Nick Marsh
Naheil McAvinue
Job Title: Director, Data and Analytics
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: nuh-heel ("Shaquille Naheil")
GitLab Handle: nmcavinue
Story
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 McCorrison
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern Managers
- Govern:Threat Insights Team
GitLab Handle: nmccorrison
Story
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.
Neil McDonald
Nikola Milojevic
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Cloud Connector BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: nmilojevic1
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- gitlab-cloud-connector
- owner
Story
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.
Nourdin el Bacha
Story
Nourdin enjoys to solve problems and develop new things. In his spare time you can find him staring at a chess position or playing guitar.
Nicki Peric
Story
Joining July 15th
Nikola Pertl
Nivetha Prabakaran
Job Title: Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test Engineering team
- Dev Section
Pronouns: She/Her
Pronunciation: Ni-vee-tha
GitLab Handle: nprabakaran
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
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
Nataliia Radina
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Compliance FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: nradina
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Nilesh (Neil) Raisinghani
Nikki Rockhold
Nathan Rosandich
Story
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 Sasaki
Story
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.
Nick Scala
Nelson Scoville
Story
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.
Niyati Shah
Natanael Silva
Nicholas Slaughter
Niko Sokolik
Projects:
- gitlab-advanced-sast
- maintainer
Nyasha Tarinda
Story
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.
Nieko Decker
Natalia Tepluhina
Job Title: Principal Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Project Management FE Team
- Frontend
- Core Team
GitLab Handle: ntepluhina
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- status-page
- maintainer frontend
- switchboard
- reviewer frontend
Story
Natalia Tepluhina is a Vue.js core team member. She is also a conference speaker and an author of articles on different topics related to Vue.js and GraphQL. Thanks to these activities Natalia has got a title of Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies.
Nupur Sharma
Story
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 Lluch
Story
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
Olivia Alexander
Oiza Baiye
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Frontend
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Manage:Import and Integrate FE Team
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: oy_zah
GitLab Handle: obaiye
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Omar Bickell
Job Title: Customer Success Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: him/his
Pronunciation: My last name rhymes with all the other words in English that end in "ell", e.g. bell, tell, sell, etc.
GitLab Handle: obicke
Olivia Cotroneo
Olivier Dupré
Story
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 ;)
Oliver Falk
Job Title: Manager, Customer Success Engineers
departments:
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: ofalk
Olga Falkenhof
Omar Fernandez
Story
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.
Or Gal
Story
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)
Ove Heigre
Story
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.
Oksana Kohuch
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer
Olaoluwa Oluro
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Olena HK.
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: ohoral
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- reviewer
Story
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 “Let’s create a website for that”.
Olga Kwiatek
Olivier Gonzalez
Projects:
- dev-on-call
- maintainer
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- secure-container-scanning
- trainee_maintainer
Story
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 Némoz Saint-Dizier
Story
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 Qunsul
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: OmarQunsulGitlab
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- maintainer database
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- http-router
- reviewer
- topology-service
- reviewer
Story
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.
Oana Migeon
Ornella Miles
Olivia Mora
Olivier Ndriamalaza
Oleksandr Pysaryuk
Omnia Radwan
Orin Naaman
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- reviewer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
Story
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Oliver Seldman
Job Title: Professional Services Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: oseldman
![Ottilia Westerlund](https://about.gitlab.com/images/gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png)
Ottilia Westerlund
Security Engineer, Fulfillment (Fulfillment Platform, Subscription Management), Govern (Security Policies, Threat Insights), Monitor (Observability), Plan (Product Planning), AI-powered (Duo Chat, AI Framework, AI model validation, Custom models)
Ottilia Westerlund
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Paige Cordero
Story
Paige is a Senior Product Manager on Gitlab’s 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.
Senior Strategic Account Executive
Paige Diertl
Peeyush Anand
Panos Kanellidis
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Verify:Pipeline Execution Group
- Verify:Pipeline Execution BE Team
GitLab Handle: panoskanell
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
Panos Rodopoulos
Story
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 Gerhold
Story
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 Bajao
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Review BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
- Create:Code Review
GitLab Handle: patrickbajao
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer workhorse
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-shell
- maintainer
Story
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 Byrne
Patrick Rice
Projects:
- terraform-provider-gitlab
- maintainer
Story
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.
Patricia Topacio
Paul E. Duffy
Story
Paul has spent the last 17 years helping clients implement and adopt new technology solutions that help drive business value. In his spare time he loves playing with his two young children, excercising and cheering on The Patriots!
Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Foundations:Personal Productivity Team
- Foundations:Personal Productivity FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: pgascouvaillancourt
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
- renovate-gitlab-bot
- maintainer
Story
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 Slaughter
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Remote Development FE Team
- Frontend
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: pslaughter
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer backend
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
- status-page
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 he’s 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 Armstrong
Story
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.
Paulo Barros
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Provision Team
- Fulfillment:Provision BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: paulobarros
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Pavel Shutsin
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Optimize BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: pshutsin
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer database
Story
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 Burdette
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Verify:Pipeline Execution FE Team
- Frontend
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Execution Group
GitLab Handle: pburdette
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
Story
Payton has a passion for clean code and developing feature-rich web applications. Outside of work, he enjoys working out and watching japanese anime.
Phil Calder
Job Title: Director, Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Expansion Development
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern Managers
- Data Science Section
- Merge Request Buddy
GitLab Handle: pcalder
Story
I started out as a full stack developer spending many years developing Ruby on Rails applications. Moving into team leadership roles, I quickly learned that through the servant leadership model I am best able to help development teams be happy, productive, and ready to deliver. I live in New Zealand with my wife and children and love to get out on the trails to run.
Pam Artiaga
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Pam Archaga
GitLab Handle: partiaga
Projects:
- cloud-deploy
- reviewer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- release-cli
- reviewer
Pam Corpus
Pallavi Daliparthi
Story
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.
Paul Dumaitre
Pedric Kng
Pedro Moreira da Silva
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer UX
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer UX
Story
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 Pombeiro
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: pedropombeiro
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- release-cli
- reviewer
Story
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 Egan
Story
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 Empey
Story
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.
Petar Prokic
Story
Versatile software engineer and DevOps enthusiast. Enjoys exploring new landscapes with his family (by bike, car, ski, etc.), practising Brasilian jiu-jitsu, playing basketball and improving his guitar skills.
Peter Leitzen
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Quality Department
- Engineering Productivity Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: splattael
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer pipeline
- maintainer tooling
- gitlab-dangerfiles
- maintainer
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer
- gitlab-observability
- maintainer
- gitlab-observability-ui
- maintainer
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
- gitlab-rspec-profiling-stats
- maintainer
- gitlab-styles
- maintainer
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- reviewer
- release-tools
- reviewer
- tanuki_emoji
- maintainer
- test_file_finder
- maintainer
- triage-ops
- maintainer
Story
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 Mills
Peter Davies
Peter Hegman
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale FE Team
- Frontend
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: peterhegman
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- reviewer
Story
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.
Peter Taylor
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Technical Architect
departments:
GitLab Handle: petersjtaylor
Petra Foget
Pierre Guinoiseau
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: pguinoiseau
Projects:
- config-mgmt
- maintainer
- infra-mgmt
- maintainer
Paola Hernandez
Job Title: Senior Contract Manager
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
Pronunciation: Pow-Lah
GitLab Handle: phernandez1
Story
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 Hughes
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Review FE Team
- Frontend
- Create:Code Review
GitLab Handle: iamphill
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-eslint-config
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
- status-page
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 Cunningham
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- reviewer
- secure-browser-based-dast
- maintainer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- maintainer
- secure-license-db-schema
- maintainer
- secure-trivy-k8s-wrapper
- reviewer
- semver_dialects
- reviewer
Story
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.
Philippe Lafoucrière
Story
Before joining GitLab, Philippe was the founder and CEO of Gemnasium, a SaaS to monitor software dependencies. In his free time, he enjoys traveling and camping, especially when it comes to large and open spaces in the wild.
Phillip Wells
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-operator
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Pierre Phelippeau
Ping Hsu
Piotr Skorupa
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- version.gitlab.com
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Peter (PJ) Jones
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Strategic Account Executive
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: pjones3
Paul John Phillips
Patrick Steinhardt
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Git Team
- Gitaly Cluster Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: pks-gitlab
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
- renovate-gitlab-bot
- maintainer
Story
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.
Prathyusha Lakshmipuram
Pauline Lamon
Peter Li
Peter Lu
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Deploy BE Team
GitLab Handle: plu8
Paulo Martins
Pilar Mejia
Story
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.
Paul Murray
Priya Pabla
Priyanka Palanikumar
Paul Pickhardt
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: PICK-heart
GitLab Handle: ppickhardt
Story
Before joining GitLab, Paul worked for 35 years in the U.S. Department of Defense with an emphasis on cryptology and cybersecurity.
Patrick Poddig
Prabakaran Murugesan
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Database BE Team
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: pra-bah
GitLab Handle: praba.m7n
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer database
- reviewer backend
Story
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!
Pranav Polisetty
Job Title: Staff Internal Audit & SOX Compliance Analyst
departments:
GitLab Handle: pranavpolisetty
Story
Pranav is excited to join GitLab. Prior to GitLab, he supported Security compliance and SOX roles in finance and IT compliance. Pranav is an Indian Chartered Accountant and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He enjoys long distance running and cooking.
Priyan Sureshbabu
Story
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.
Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: pow-LEEna
GitLab Handle: psjakubowska
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 Farnsworth
Story
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,
Pranoti Thote
Pini Wietchner
Story
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.
Philipp Zapf
Qingyu Zhao
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Provision Team
- Fulfillment:Provision BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: qzhaogitlab
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Quang-Minh Nguyen
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Cluster Team
GitLab Handle: qmnguyen0711
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
- tamland
- maintainer
Nga Nguyen
Albert Rabassa
Story
Albert lives in Barcelona. He is lover of technology, travel, music and sports. His career started in networking and infrastructure domains, he has worked as a pre-sales and post-sales for different companies in the last 15 years, including industry leaders and also start-ups.
Rachel Nienaber
Job Title: Senior Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
GitLab Handle: rnienaber
Story
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 Lurie
Rachel Fuerst
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Customer Success Manager
departments:
- CSM
- Customer Success
- Pipeline Execution Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Pipeline Authoring Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Continuous Integration Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Runner Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: rachel_fuerst
Story
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 Pack
Story
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 Batnag
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Package Stage
- Package:Package Registry Group
- Package:Package Registry BE Team
Pronouns: He/him
GitLab Handle: radbatnag
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Rahim Abdullayev
Story
“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 Hardarson
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
GitLab Handle: rhardarson
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 cafés, which does not help his caffeine addiction.
Raimund Hook
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
- gitlab-triage
- reviewer
- triage-ops
- maintainer
Story
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 Kadam
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Core Team
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring Group
- Verify:Pipeline Authoring BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: rkadam3
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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.
Rakhi Reddy
Job Title: Associate Analytics Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
Pronunciation: Raa-khi
GitLab Handle: rakhireddy
Robert Allen
Ragheb Almuhtaseb
Rajan Mistry
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Product Planning FE Team
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: ramistry
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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.
Ramona Elliott
Job Title: Senior Director, Global Sales Development Operations
departments:
GitLab Handle: monaelliott
Story
Ramona, aka Mona, has been in business/sales development for almost ten years, passionately managing teams remotely for the past 4. For “chill time”, she’s either screaming loudly at her kids sporting events (soccer,basketball and wrestling) or catching a happy hour with her husband.
Randy Gottfried
departments:
Rasam Hossain
Rayana Verissimo
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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 Baćović
Story
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.
Rodolphe Barnault
Radu Birsan
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Secure:Secret Detection FE Team
- Secure:Secret Detection BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: rah-doo
GitLab Handle: rbirsan
Story
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.
Ricardo Chapa
Ross Cain
Robert Callam
Story
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 Castro
Story
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.
Rio Carlo Garcia
Rahul Chanila
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Ops Sub-department
- Package Stage
- Package:Container Registry Group
- Package:Package Registry FE Team
- Package:Container Registry FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: rchanila
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Rebecca Clayman
Rudy Crespo
Job Title: Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Optimize FE Team
- Frontend
- Gente TMRG
GitLab Handle: rcrespo3
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer frontend
Story
Rudy Crespo is a New York–based frontend engineer dedicated to crafting elegant, accessible and performant web experiences. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his family, reading, watching baseball and basketball, working out and frequenting New York City’s amazing museums.
Robbie Dickson
Rebecca Spainhower
Story
Building teams with strength and heart. I am also a Certified Zentangle Teacher(TM).
Ryan Egesdahl
Job Title: Senior Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Build BE Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pronunciation: RYE-uhn EGG-is-doll
GitLab Handle: deriamis
Projects:
- charts-gitlab-io
- reviewer
- cng
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-build-images
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-chart
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- trainee_maintainer
- public-image-archive
- trainee_maintainer
Story
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 Hassanein
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Reliability Team
- Runner Group Reliability Stable Counterpart
GitLab Handle: rehab
Story
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.
Remi Lacaze
Rémy Coutable
Job Title: Principal Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Quality Department
- Engineering Productivity Team
- Merge Request Coach
- Core Team
GitLab Handle: rymai
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer pipeline
- maintainer tooling
- gitlab-build-images
- maintainer
- gitlab-dangerfiles
- maintainer
- gitlab-qa
- maintainer
- gitlab-rspec-profiling-stats
- maintainer
- gitlab-styles
- maintainer
- gitlab-triage
- maintainer
- quality-pipeline-common
- maintainer
- release-tools
- maintainer
- renovate-gitlab-bot
- maintainer
- test_file_finder
- maintainer
- triage-ops
- maintainer
Story
Rémy loves the Web, the open-source, Git and Ruby. He enjoys making life simple for his fellow developers. When not thinking about code, Rémy likes to read about philosophy, politics or ecology. He also plays volley-ball, loves surfing and backcountry skiing.
Rendi Miller
Rene Verschoor
Story
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.
René Hoferichter
Story
Once a developer himself René is interested in what customers do and achieve by using GitLab. He is also keen to understand the strategy and challenges of the individual customer but also the trands and requirements specific in the ALPS region.
Ryan Erwin
Reshmi Krishna
Job Title: Senior Director, Solutions Architects
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: reshmikrishna
Story
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.
Reuben Pereira
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Delivery Team
- Backend
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: rpereira2
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
- release-tools
- maintainer
Story
Joined 2018-10-15
Andrew Murray
Story
Andrew is a Chartered Accountant with 15 years of experience and has held revenue roles with a number of large publicly traded software companies. He enjoys spending time with family, reading, travelling and sampling the occasional whiskey.
Rebeca Fenoy- Anthony
Rafael Henchen
Job Title: Senior Database Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Database Reliability
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: rhenchen.gitlab
Story
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 Amarilla
Story
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 Leite
Story
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 Chong
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test Engineering team
- Fulfillment Section
GitLab Handle: richard.chong
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer qa
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- maintainer
Story
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.
Richendel Inecia
Rich Kahn
Story
Rich has over a decade of experience recruiting for some of the world’s 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.
Rich Song
Ricky Quach
Job Title: Professional Services Engagement Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: ricky kwatch
GitLab Handle: rickyquach
Story
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.
Rigerta Demiri
Story
Rigerta is passionate about learning and personal development. She loves reading, spending time in nature, having a good time with friends and trying new things.
Riley Smith
Story
Riley is a Technical Recruiter who thrives on scaling tech businesses and creating inclusive environments where everyone feels welcome. He lives on the Sunshine Coast with his wife and dog, and loves being out on or in the water, cooking and games. Also appreciates a good joke!
Riley Longo
Story
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.
Rob Jackson
Jason Morgan
Job Title: Staff Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: jay-son
GitLab Handle: rjmo
Story
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 Knight
Job Title: Manager, Professional Services Engagement Management
departments:
GitLab Handle: rknight2
Story
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 Kole
Job Title: Senior Benefits Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Ray-Sha
GitLab Handle: Rkole
Story
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.
Ravi Kumar
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search BE Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: rkumar555
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer
- reviewer
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- reviewer
- topology-service
- reviewer
Ryan Lawson
Story
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.
Ryan Lehmann
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer docs
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer docs
- gitlab-docs
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer docs
- gitlab-runner
- reviewer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer docs
Story
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.
Roy Liu
Job Title: Associate Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Growth Section
- Acquisition Team
- Acquisition Fullstack Team
Pronouns: He/His/Him
GitLab Handle: rliu-gl
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
JanRey Manlangit
Rick Mar
Job Title: Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Database Reliability
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: rmar1
Rhoda Bernstein
Job Title: Director, Ecosystem Sales Manager
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: rmbernstein
Story
Rhoda leads the global team of Alliance Partner Sales Managers (ABDM) supporting our Cloud and Platform partners
Rasheed Power
Rakhman Musoyev
Randeep Nag
Story
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 Kohnke
Projects:
- www-gitlab-com
- trainee_maintainer backend
Story
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 Marshall
Job Title: Senior Distribution Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Distribution Build BE Team
GitLab Handle: rmarshall
Projects:
- charts-gitlab-io
- reviewer
- cng
- maintainer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer
- gitlab-omnibus-builder
- maintainer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer
- public-image-archive
- maintainer
Story
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 Schilling
Story
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.
Roberta Tran
Job Title: Associate Strategic Account Executive
departments:
Pronunciation: Ho-bear-ta
GitLab Handle: robertacosti
Robert Clark
Job Title: Senior Manager, Public Sector Customer Success Managers
departments:
GitLab Handle: robclark14
Story
Robert is a longtime member of customer success teams through a variety of emerging software companies focused on Cloud Native technologies. In his spare time, Robert plays guitar and tennis.
Rob Coston
Robert Hunt
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Monitor:Product Analytics FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: rob.hunt
Projects:
- analytics-helm-charts
- maintainer
- analytics-stack
- maintainer
- devkit
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Robert Williams
Story
Rob is a Solutions Architect based in Sydney, Australia and has worked previously driving business transformation through the replacement of manual processes with digital applications. When he isn’t at his computer, Rob enjoys anything active, from baseball to yoga.
Robin Schulman
Story
As GitLab’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, I rely on my public company leadership experience to set and manage GitLab’s overall legal and compliance philosophy and strategy; ensuring that we balance GitLab’s 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. I’m also thrilled to support GitLab’s Women’s 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 Relic’s 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 Adobe’s 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!
Robin Oskar Falkowski
Job Title: Senior Manager, Sales Development
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: robinfalkowski
Rob Rosu
Rocky Mongare
Story
Rocky is always interested in learning new things and helping others.
Rodney Bowles
Job Title: Senior Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/his
GitLab Handle: rodneybowles
Story
Rodney has been a part of technology customer facing teams for 12+ years. He is a basketball fan, and also enjoys meditation, nature, baking sourdough bread & pizza, salsa dancing, and piano. He enjoys being with family and friends, going to the cinema and constantly learning something new.
Rodrigo Tomonari
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Manage:Import and Integrate BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: rodrigo.tomonari
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Meier
Story
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.
Roger Lim
Roger Woo
Riley OHara
Romer Gonzalez
Story
Romer has been in Technology and Software Sales for 10+ years with special focus on Open Source Software and the Latin America region. He is a baseball fan. He enjoys being with family and friends, going to the cinema and constantly learning something new.
Romuald Atchadé
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Runner BE Team
- Verify:Runner Group
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: ratchade
Projects:
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer
- runner-helm
- maintainer
- runner-incept
- maintainer
- runner-operator-k8s
- maintainer
Ronald van Zon
Story
Ronald started off as an developer and soon discovered that tracking down bugs for customers is something he enjoys. In his spare time he will either be working on a cool project or relaxing by playing games.
Ron Koster
Story
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.
Ronnie Alfaro
Story
Ronnie lives in San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica. He is passionate with new challenges ,helping people succeed, technology and science. In his free time he enjoys travelling with his family, learning new cooking recipes , being outside taking pictures and scuba diving whenever possible.
Rose Sow
Ross Fuhrman
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer ci_template
- trainee_maintainer ci_template
- secure-SD-secrets
- maintainer
- secure-common-command
- reviewer
- secure-common-report
- reviewer
- secure-common-ruleset
- reviewer
Story
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.
Rich Phillips
Rubiel Herico Powell
Regnard Raquedan
Tom McAtee
Job Title: Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: Tom ma-ka-tee
GitLab Handle: rrelax
Story
Loves community, open source, and workplaces that invest in their employees - so feels like a natural fit at GitLab!
Rachel Richburg
Rodrigo Rios
Rostyslav Safonov
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer
Romain Santos
Roshni Sarangadharan
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer docs
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer docs
- gitlab-docs
- reviewer
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer docs
- gitlab-runner
- reviewer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer docs
Story
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 Shah
Story
Rohan is a Seasoned DevOps Engineer and System Administrator 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 Shambhuni](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/rshambhuni-crop.jpg)
Rohit Shambhuni
Senior Security Engineer, Application Security, Manage (Authentication and Authorization), SaaS Platforms (Scalability) and Data Stores (Tenant Scale).
Rohit Shambhuni
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer security
Story
Rohit loves all things Security and has been helping development teams secure their applications for more than 6 years. He holds a Master’s 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.
Rachel Stahlke
Roger Tang
Rohit Tomar
Riccardo Trivellato
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Ryan Tucker
Ruby Nealon
Russell Dickenson
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Rutger Wessels
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale BE Team
GitLab Handle: rutgerwessels
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
Rutvik Shah
Ryan Wells
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern Managers
- Govern:Threat Insights Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: ryaanwells
Story
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 Cobb
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
- Fulfillment:InfraDev Team
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management BE Team
- Backend
GitLab Handle: rcobb
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
Ryan is a software developer who enjoys building things and solving problems. He loves to create, travel and spend time outside.
Ryan Coffin
Ryan Kelly
Story
A Pittsburgh native, Ryan is passionate about troubleshooting technical issues. When he is not working, Ryan enjoys Ice Hockey, Music, Traveling, and Skateboarding.
Ryan Appleby
Story
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 Zwambag
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Cloud Connector BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: rzwambag
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-cloud-connector
- owner
Story
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).
Sébastien Zins
Scott Murray
Samantha Tang
Steve Grossman
Story
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.
Safwan Ahmed
Sabine Carpenter
Story
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.
Sabrina Farmer
Sarah Crowle
Job Title: Associate Support Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: sehr-ah kroll
GitLab Handle: sacrowle
Story
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 Saintil
departments:
Story
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 Women’s 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.
Seun Akinniranye
Sam Beckham
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Foundations:Personal Productivity Team
- Foundations:Design System Team
GitLab Handle: samdbeckham
Story
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.
Sam Figueroa
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Compliance BE Team
- Govern:Compliance Fullstack Team
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: s-Ah-m f-ih-g-uh-R-OH-Uh
GitLab Handle: sam.figueroa
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Samantha Ming
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern frontend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: sming-gitlab
Story
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.
Samantha Morley
Samara Souza
Sam Bernal-Damasco
Sameer Kamani
Story
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.
Sameer Shaik
Story
Sameer is passionate about computer science and loves to learn new things. He has been fascinated with technology and the way it shapes the future. During his free time he loves to watch Cricket.
Samer Akkoub
Story
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 Goldstein
Story
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.
Sami Hiltunen
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Cluster Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: samihiltunen
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
Story
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.
Samir Hafez
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Sam Kerr
Story
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 White
Story
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 Word
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Manage:Import and Integrate BE Team
Pronouns: She/They
GitLab Handle: SamWord
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
Sam is a software engineer who has worked in a variety of industries from tax revenue processing to creator marketing. Based in Montréal, 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 Liaquat
Job Title: Staff Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
GitLab Handle: sliaquat
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- maintainer
- quality-pipeline-common
- maintainer
Story
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.
Sandeep Ramani
Sander Brienen
Story
Sander has over 10 years of experience in development tooling. He is passionate about Agile and DevOps and likes to help customers become better at it. In his spare time, Sander likes to be outdoors doing activities like running, walking, biking, sailing.
Sarah Yasonik
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Analytics Section
- Analytics Instrumentation Team
GitLab Handle: syasonik
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
- reviewer analytics_instrumentation
Sarah Bailey
Story
Ever since I can remember, I have loved automation. That’s why I am here! Hello there, I’m 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 German
Projects:
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer backend frontend
Story
Sarah is a senior software engineer. Offline, Sarah enjoys playing music, exploring the outdoors, exploring breweries, and reading library books.
Sarah Pang
Story
Sarah is a Senior IT Compliance Engineer based in Southern California. Her experience includes providing compliance audit and advisory services to address IT, financial, and operational risks. Her hobbies include traveling, hiking, and gardening.
Sarah Rank
Sarah Rogers
Job Title: Senior Paralegal
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: sayr-a
GitLab Handle: sarahrogers
Story
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 she’s 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 Waldner
Story
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 she’s 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 Kraft
Story
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 Kumar Kumaresan
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Security Policies Fullstack Team
- Govern:Security Policies BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: sashi_kumar
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-styles
- reviewer
Story
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.
Saurav Issar
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Technical Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: sauraavv
GitLab Handle: sauravissar
Savas Vedova
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern frontend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: svedova
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Shaik Azhar
Story
Azhar is a Support Engineer based out of Adilabad, India. He has a passion for helping others, sharing his knowledge and solving problems. In his free time he likes travelling, listening to music and spend time with his family.
Santhosh Baranidharan
Susie Bitters
Stephan Breitrainer
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: steh-fahn br-i-trainer
GitLab Handle: sbreitrainer
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Story
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 Brightwell
Sylvester Chin
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: schin1
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer workhorse
- runway-provisioner
- maintainer
- runway-reconciler
- maintainer
Sophia Christos
Scott Hampton
Job Title: Manager, Software Engineering
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern Managers
- Govern:Pipeline Security
GitLab Handle: shampton
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Cosentino
Story
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.
Sara Currie
Story
Sara is a Texas native and has grown up in the DFW Metroplex. Currently residing in Arlington, she has spent most of her career in Recruiting and HR for various industries. On her off time, you can find her curled up with a good book when not chasing her toddler around.
Scott de Jonge
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Foundations:Design System Team
- Foundations:Design System FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: sdejonge
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
Sachin Dhage
Matthew Macfarlane
Story
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 Carroll
Job Title: Senior Manager, Engineering
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- AI-powered:Custom Models Team
- Data Science Section
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: sean kah-rul
GitLab Handle: sean_carroll
Projects:
- project-templates
- maintainer
Story
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.
Seema Anand
Sean Arnold
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Group
- Switchboard Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: seanarnold
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer ci_template
- switchboard
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Hall
Sean Hoyle
Story
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.
Sean Sandoval
Job Title: Senior Manager, Professional Education Services
departments:
GitLab Handle: seanjsandoval
Alyson Sebby Turner
Sarah Eckley
Sarah Cole
Sascha Eggenberger
Job Title: Staff Product Designer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Sascha Egg-N-Burger
GitLab Handle: seggenberger
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer Figma
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
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.
Segolene Bouly
Story
Segolene is a support engineer with a database background. She loves solving complex questions and helping people. Outside of work she will mostly spend time with her family.
Selin Peker
Seraphine Young
Story
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 Fang
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- sec-danger-bot
- reviewer
- secure-SD-secrets
- reviewer
- secure-analyzers
- reviewer go
- secure-common-command
- reviewer
- secure-common-report
- reviewer
- secure-common-ruleset
- reviewer
- security-report-schemas
- reviewer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- reviewer
Story
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.
Salvatore Finocchiaro
Shay Fleming
Story
Shay originally hails from Dublin Ireland but has lived in numerous countries in the past few years. He is currently based in Berlin, Germany. Shay is passionate about business development and technology. In his free time, Shay loves to play soccer, travel and go to music festivals.
Scott Rissmiller
Sharon Gaudin
Job Title: Senior Content Marketing Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: gaw-din
GitLab Handle: sgaudin
Story
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.
Sean Gillespie
Sandra Gittlen
Story
Experienced networking and security journalist now happily indulging in DevOps.
Sara Gladchun
Sandra Mendes
Sonia Guillory
Sacha Guyon
Shameel Khan
Shannon Williams
Story
Enjoys watching son play basketball. Enjoys crossfit.
Shannon Thompson
Job Title: Senior Field Communications Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: shannonthompson
Story
Shannon is a native Californian and loves to connect and engage people through stories. When she’s 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, she’s tried her hand at pickleball.
Shaun McCann
Story
Shaun loves solving problems while supporting a team of passionate people. When not accidentally breaking things with rusting skills, he can be found at his local CrossFit box (it’s not a cult! Maybe it’s a cult…), reading, travelling, being indecisive about what game to play on which console and experiencing all the joys that Australia has to offer. Especially the coffee, beaches and food, not necessarily in that order.
Shawn Sichak
Story
Shawn is passionate about making awesome products and services while helping to make security and compliance as frictionless as possible. When not at work, he enjoys all things outdoors, Pittsburgh sports teams, and spending time with his family.
Shane Cashman
Sheela Viswanathan
Job Title: Senior Manager, Business Systems Administrator
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: sheelaviswanathan
Story
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 Jain
Story
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.
Shekhar Patnaik
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- duo-workflow-executor
- maintainer
- duo-workflow-service
- maintainer
- gitlab-cli
- maintainer
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- reviewer
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
- gitlab-workspaces-proxy
- maintainer
Story
Loves solving tough engineering problems.
Sheldon Led
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
- Fulfillment:Utilization FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him/his
GitLab Handle: sheldonled
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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!
Shem Gyll
Story
Shem’s entire career has been built on providing world-class customer success within tech industries. Always open and personable, he’s a fan of walking in the countryside, cooking and carving wooden spoons.
Sarah Hensiek
Story
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 Henson
Job Title: Senior Public Sector Professional Services Technical Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: shenson
Story
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.
Sherida McMullan
SJ Lim
Story
Shijie (SJ) is passionate about creating value for the partner ecosystem, and takes great pride in his channel marketing work with partners. During his free time, he will attempt to learn and play guitar solo from songs he heard at that moment.
Ryuichiro Shinoki
Shinya Maeda
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:AI Framework BE Team
GitLab Handle: shinya.maeda
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Agarwal
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Platform Team
- Fulfillment:Platform BE Team
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: shreyasagarwal
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Shrishti Choudhary
Shubham Kumar
Story
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 Sijbrandij
Story
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 Asthana
Story
Siddharth is a GSoC 2022 Student Developer, Gitaly at GitLab. He started contributing to GitLab in 2021. Most of the time working on bug fixes and new features mostly related to Backend part of GitLab, Git and Gitaly. Also a GitLab Heroes Team member.
Siddharth Dungarwal
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: sdungarwal
Projects:
- dev-on-call
- reviewer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- reviewer
Story
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.
Silvester Wainaina
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Reliability Team
- Fulfillment Platform Group Reliability Stable Counterpart
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: swainaina
Story
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 Knox
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Plan:Project Management FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: psimyn
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 Mansfield
Job Title: Senior Manager, Solutions Architects
departments:
- SA
- Customer Success
- Source Code Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Knowledge Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Editor Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Gitaly Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Gitter Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Ecosystem Group CS Stable Counterpart
Pronouns: he/his
Pronunciation: Sigh-mun
GitLab Handle: simon_mansfield
Story
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!
Simon Street
Stefanie Inthachack
Sissi Yao
Stacy Johnson
Stefan Kahn
Story
Stefan enjoys building stuff to enable self service, tooling/processes/frameworks are all fair game
Shuhei Kawaguchi
Story
Shu is a BtoB marketer who is motivated to collaborate with customer, partner, vender, and team. His hobbies are fishing, playing drums, and workout.
Nick Skoretz
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: nick score-ettes
GitLab Handle: skoretzGL
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Story
Nick enjoys automating and learning new things.
Steve Ladgrove
Story
Steve is an experienced IT professional who is passionate about helping others and automation. When Steve isn’t at his desk you’ll find him wrangling his 2 dogs and 2 cats, playing with his daughter Emily and drumming quietly to not wake up the neighbors
Salman Ladha
Story
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 Lashmanov
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Frontend
- Create:Code Review FE Team
- Create:Code Review
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: slashmanov
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Stacy Cline
Samantha Lee
Story
After working on the Community Advocacy team, Samantha is excited to bridge her education experience and passion for GitLab and remote work on the Learning and Development team. She brings a background in education and a passion for learning.
Sophia Manicor
Siddharth Mathur
Sarah Matthies
Sarah McCauley
Job Title: Senior Director, Billing & Collections
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: s_mccauley
Story
Currently lives in Phoenix, AZ., by way of Chicago, IL. Sarah is a Financial operations professional with over 18 years of experience in industries such as; construction/distribution, private wealth management, manufacturing and technology.
Sarah McCreesh
Story
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 Meadzinger
Story
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.
Schmil Monderer
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Sam Morris
Job Title: Senior Solutions Architect
departments:
- SA
- Customer Success
- Customer Success Managers
- Static Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Secret Detection Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Dynamic Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Composition Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Fuzz Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: sam
Story
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 Garg
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authentication
- Govern:Authentication BE Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: sgarg_gitlab
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Ming Tan
Projects:
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
- secure-trivy-k8s-wrapper
- maintainer
- semver_dialects
- reviewer
Story
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 Nachnolkar
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: snachnolkar
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Vistas
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test and Tools Infrastructure team
GitLab Handle: svistas
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- reviewer
Story
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.
Sokunrotanak Srey (Rotanak)
Story
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.
Sophia Langer
Job Title: Professional Services Project Manager
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Sofia
GitLab Handle: sophia_langer
Sophia Bach
Sophia Simunec
Job Title: Senior Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market
departments:
GitLab Handle: sophia_simunec
Story
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 Pouliquen
Job Title: Senior Manager, Customer Success Managers
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: pole-luh-kin
GitLab Handle: sophie
Story
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.
Shoji Ozawa
Samuel Pitcher
Simone Polverini
Shannon Powell
Shola Quadri
Shabini Rajadas
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Pipeline Security
- Govern:Pipeline Security BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: srajadas
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- trainee_maintainer backend
Sampath Ranasinghe
Story
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.
Shari Rances
Stephan Rayner
Job Title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:AI Model Validation
Pronouns: He/Him
GitLab Handle: srayner
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
Story
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.
Steve Renton
Sri Rangan
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
GitLab Handle: sri19
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- trainee_maintainer
Story
Make stuff. Build things.
Rushik Subba
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: srushik
Sruthy Menon
Job Title: Senior Candidate Experience Specialist
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: Sruthymenon
Steph Sarff
Story
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.
Sharlene Seemungal
Sharath Shanker
Susan Sonza II
Story
Susan is an experienced accountant focused in Accounts Payable for six years. She loves to spend time with friends and family. She loves going to beaches and watch the sunset, the moon and stars. She loves to cook. She’s an old soul (someone who preferred old music, vintage outfits, etc..).
Suli Stuelpnagel
Surabhi Suman
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- AI-powered:AI Framework BE Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: ssuman3
Projects:
- analytics-helm-charts
- reviewer
- duo-workflow-executor
- reviewer
- duo-workflow-service
- reviewer
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
Sylwia Szepietowska
Shahrukh Talat
Stan Hu
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-build-images
- maintainer
- grape-path-helpers
- maintainer
- prometheus-client-mmap
- maintainer
Story
Before joining full-time, Stan was a 4-time GitLab MVP who just wanted to make GitLab better for his team. Over the last two decades, he has worked at all levels of the software stack.
Steve Taylor
Story
Steve joined GitLab following 9 years helping customers reduce risk and increase efficiency. When not helping organizations build secure software faster, Steve can be found walking with his wife, daughter, and black lab, or biking outside.
Steffen Heininger
Story
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.
Stephanie Jackson
Job Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: stejacks-gitlab
Story
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 Treas
Story
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 Duggan
Job Title: Senior Manager, Revenue Accounting
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: StephenDuggan
Story
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.
Stephen Graham
Story
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.
Stephen van Stek
Steve Abrams
Job Title: Manager, Infrastructure
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Production Engineering Group
- Foundations Team
GitLab Handle: sabrams
Story
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.
Steve Evangelista
Job Title: Senior Director, Product Management
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: steve-evangelista
Steve Xuereb
Projects:
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- http-router
- maintainer
- labkit
- maintainer
- release-cli
- maintainer
Story
For Steve building software is more than just a job; it’s 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 Manzuik
Story
Steve Manzuik has 30 years experience in Information Security ranging from security administration, penetration testing, red teaming, compliance and vulnerability research. Steve is a published author and has spoken at multiple security conferences.
Steven Terhar
Job Title: Senior Manager, Public Sector Customer Success Managers
departments:
GitLab Handle: SteveTerhar
Story
Steve is an experienced account manager and consultant who has worked with a wide range of public sector, private sector, and nonprofit organizations. Outside of work, Steve enjoys traveling and spending time with his wife and son.
Steven Tseng
Steve Xu
Story
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 Tomlinson
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Database BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: stomlinson
Projects:
- container-registry
- maintainer database
- gitlab
- maintainer database
Story
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.
Stuart Hall
Steve Wilson
Subashis Chakraborty
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: subashis
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- security-report-schemas
- trainee_maintainer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- trainee_maintainer
Story
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.
Sud Seshadri
Sue Bostrom
departments:
Fatima Sarah Khalid
Story
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 Park
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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
departments:
Story
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.
Sunshine Javier
Suraj Tripathi
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
- Fulfillment:Utilization BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: suraj_tripathy
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- trainee_maintainer database
Story
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.
Susan Tacker
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
Story
Words matter. Susan is passionate about language, writing, and designing technical content to meet people’s needs. She and her husband Chuck enjoy hiking, camping, and paddle boarding with their short-legged dog, Tucker.
Susana de Jong
Susan Madden
Susannah Reed
Story
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.
![Suzanne Selhorn](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/suzanneselhorn-crop.jpg)
Suzanne Selhorn
Staff Technical Writer, AI-powered (Duo Chat, AI Framework, AI model validation, Custom models)
Suzanne Selhorn
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-chart
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer docs
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer docs
- omnibus-gitlab
- maintainer docs
Story
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.
Suzy Verdin
Story
Suzy is a Arizona Native who loves to spend time with her family, travel, and hike.
Sujeevan Vijayakumaran
Story
Sujeevan has a background as a Consultant, as an Software Engineer and in Operations. Additionally he is also an author of a German Git book. When he’s not sitting in front of a computer he’s probably running and sometimes riding a bike.
Svitlana Balitska
Stephen Walters
Swami
Swetha Kashyap
Story
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.
Sam Wiskow
Job Title: Senior Product Manager
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Sam Whisk-O
GitLab Handle: swiskow
Story
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
Serhii Yarynovskyi
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Growth Section
- Acquisition Team
- Acquisition Fullstack Team
GitLab Handle: syarynovskyi
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-experiment
- maintainer
Story
I like ruby and ski
Sylvain Tachoires
Aboobacker MK
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern:Authentication
- Govern:Authentication BE Team
GitLab Handle: tachyons-gitlab
Projects:
- declarative-policy
- maintainer
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
Aboobacker is a software engineer and open source enthusiast.
Taka Nishida
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Environments BE Team
- Environments Group
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: takax
Projects:
- auto-build-image
- trainee_maintainer
- auto-deploy-image
- maintainer
- gitlab-agent
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-agent-chart
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-agent-ci-image
- maintainer
- helm-install-image
- maintainer
Takuya Noguchi
Story
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.
Tal Kopel
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- reviewer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
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Tearyne Almendariz
Sherrod Patching
Story
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.
Michael Leutz
Story
Michael has a consulting and technology background. He is passionate about growing teams and helping customers achieve their goals with digital technologies. Michael enjoys good food and travelling to the mountains.
Tim Angelos
Story
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 Jones Wride
Job Title: Senior Professional Services Technical Instructor
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: tanwride
Story
Tanner is a self-proclaimed nerd. He loves to learn and spend as much time outdoors on his bike as stuck in a book.
Thushara Aravind K
Tatiana Fernandez
Story
Tatiana is a Brazilian native who loves travelling and exploring new places, currently based in Berlin. People-centred and solution-oriented Tatiana is experienced in B2B sales and innovation projects. Passionate about sustainability and positive impact initiatives!
Tatyana Golubeva
Job Title: Principal Product Manager
departments:
- Monetization
- Product
- Product Monetization
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment PM Team
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
GitLab Handle: tgolubeva
Niklas van Schrick
Story
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 Davis
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
- gitlab-svgs
- maintainer UX
- gitlab-ui
- reviewer UX
Story
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.
Tav Scott
Story
Tav is passionate about enabling technology Sales & Marketing teams, and finding new ways to leverage data to drive improved decision making. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, he enjoys spending time outside of work fly fishing and exploring the outdoors!
Taylor Lund
Taylor McCaslin
Story
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.
Taylor Medlin Carr
Story
Taylor is a teacher and consultant who is passionate about enabling her customers.
Tomke Costello
Tyler DeCaire
Job Title: Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: Tyler Dee-care
GitLab Handle: tdecaire
Story
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.
Ty Dilbeck
Story
Ty has over 10 years experience in IT Security Risk and Compliance. He lives and works in Nashville, TN with his wife and two sons. When not focused on Security he enjoys spending time exploring Middle Tennessee public lands.
Makesh S.
Story
Joining September 2nd
Tom Elliott
Tre Ely
Terri Chu
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
- Parental Leave Reentry buddy
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: TAIR-ree CHOO
GitLab Handle: terrichu
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- trainee_maintainer database
- gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer
- maintainer
- gitlab-zoekt-indexer
- reviewer
Story
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.
Tess Dutton
Job Title: Program Manager, Field Enablement
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: tessdutton
Tetiana Chupryna
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:Duo Chat BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: brytannia
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- tanuki_emoji
- maintainer
Story
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 Gao
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: tgao3701908
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- repository-x-ray
- reviewer
Story
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.
Ted Gieschen
Thaina Tavares
Théo Deschamps-Peugeot
Thiago Figueiró
Projects:
- security-report-schemas
- maintainer
- security-report-schemas-ruby
- maintainer
Story
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.
Shreya Shah
Job Title: Associate Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: thisisshreya
Thomas Randolph
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Review FE Team
- Frontend
- Create:Code Review
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: thomasrandolph
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer frontend
Story
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.
Thomas Woodham
Story
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 Kuah
Job Title: Principal Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Tenant Scale BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
GitLab Handle: tkuah
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-styles
- maintainer
- gitlab-technical-interviews-backend
- maintainer
- http-router
- maintainer
Story
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.
Thomas Hutterer
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Foundations:Personal Productivity Team
- Foundations:Personal Productivity FE Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: thutterer
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
Tianwen Chen
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Verify:CI Platform Group
- Verify:CI Platform BE Team
GitLab Handle: tianwenchen
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
Tiffany Chen
Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel
departments:
- Legal
- Legal & Corporate Affairs
- Ops Section Legal & Corporate Affairs Stable Counterpart
- Data Science Section Legal & Corporate Affairs Stable Counterpart
- Growth Section Legal & Corporate Affairs Stable Counterpart
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: tichen
Tiffany McAtee
Tiffany Rea
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test Engineering team
- CI section
GitLab Handle: treagitlab
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- maintainer
- gitlab_quality-test_tooling
- reviewer
- quality-ssh-tunnel
- maintainer
Story
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.
Tiger Watson
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Environments BE Team
- Environments Group
GitLab Handle: tigerwnz
Projects:
- auto-build-image
- maintainer
- auto-deploy-image
- maintainer
- cluster-applications
- maintainer
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
- maintainer ci_template
- maintainer database
- gitlab-agent
- trainee_maintainer
- gitlab-agent-chart
- maintainer
- gitlab-agent-ci-image
- maintainer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer
- helm-install-image
- maintainer
- terraform-images
- maintainer
- terraform-provider-gitlab
- trainee_maintainer
- version.gitlab.com
- maintainer database
Tim Zallmann
Story
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, playing football, supporting his favorite football club “SK Rapid Wien”, doing water sports (scuba diving, kayaking, fishing except swimming), and playing video games with friends.
Tim Döring
Tim Mercer
Tim Montoya
Timothy Noah
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer UX
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
Story
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.
Timo Furrer
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Section
- Environments BE Team
- Environments Group
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: ti-mo
GitLab Handle: timofurrer
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- reviewer
- auto-build-image
- maintainer
- auto-deploy-image
- maintainer
- gitlab
- reviewer ci_template
- gitlab-agent
- maintainer
- gitlab-agent-chart
- maintainer
- gitlab-agent-ci-image
- maintainer
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer kas
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-components
- maintainer
- helm-install-image
- maintainer
- renovate-gitlab-bot
- maintainer
- terraform-images
- maintainer
- terraform-provider-gitlab
- maintainer
Tim Poffenbarger
Story
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 Rizzi
Story
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.
Tina Ng
Story
I’m a critical thinker, a creative problem-solver, and above all, I’m a believer in simplicity. My approach to design is a balancing act between thought and intuition, usability and elegance.
Tina Hsu
Story
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 Sørensen
Story
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.
Tanuja Jayarama Raju
Taimur Khan
Job Title: Staff Customer Success Manager
departments:
Pronunciation: t-more
GitLab Handle: tkhan.gitlab
Tarun Khandelwal
Projects:
- config-mgmt
- maintainer
- infra-mgmt
- maintainer
Tan Le
Job Title: Staff Machine Learning Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Data Science Section
- AI-powered:AI Model Validation
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: tah-n leh
GitLab Handle: tle_gitlab
Projects:
- ai-gateway
- maintainer
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer backend
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Linz
Story
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.
Tony Marsh
Taliesin Millhouse
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
Pronouns: he/him/his
Pronunciation: Tal-ee-sin
GitLab Handle: tmillhouse
Story
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.
Todd Lauver
Story
Joined July 8th
Tomáš Bulva
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Global Search FE Team
Pronunciation: Tomaash Bulva
GitLab Handle: tbulva
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Tomas Vik
Job Title: Staff Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions FE Team
- Frontend
- Backend
GitLab Handle: viktomas
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
- gitlab-cli
- maintainer
- gitlab-jetbrains-plugin
- reviewer
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
- gitlab-web-ide
- maintainer
Story
I’m 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, I’ve 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 Maczukin
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify Stage
- Verify:Runner Group
- Runner BE Team
GitLab Handle: tmaczukin
Projects:
- autoscaler
- maintainer
- gitlab-runner
- maintainer
- orka
- maintainer
Story
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 Houston
Story
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.
Tony Ganga
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Scalability Team
GitLab Handle: tonyganga
Toon Claes
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Gitaly Git Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: toon
Projects:
- gitaly
- reviewer
- maintainer
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- gitlab-development-kit
- maintainer
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
Story
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.
Toshitaka Ito
Story
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.
Tracy Lu
Trent Kusar
Tricia Tumibay
Job Title: Business Development Representative
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: trish-UH
GitLab Handle: triciatumibay
Trish Moreira
Tristan Williams
Story
A Los Angeles native, Tristan is passionate about all things tech and documentation. Outside of GitLab, he enjoys music, muscle cars, Sapporo, and way too much Japanese BBQ.
Tristan Ouin
Tristan Read
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Editor Extensions
- Create:Editor Extensions FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: tristan.read
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-lsp
- maintainer
- gitlab-vscode-extension
- maintainer
Story
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.
Tania Roblot
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Environment Automation
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: troblot
Projects:
- environment-automation
- maintainer
Story
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.
Tyler Savage
Tim Schraeder Rodriguez
Tai Schuller
Thomas Scola
Story
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.
Tomasz Skora
Story
Tomasz is a Solutions Architect based in Melbourne, Australia. He is passionate about DevOps, modern IT infrastructure and digital transformation. In his spare time, he enjoys socialising, learning new things and spending time outdoors, including rollerblading, camping and playing tennis.
Trevor Storey
Tsukasa Komatsubara
Job Title: Senior Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: They/Them
Pronunciation: tsu-ka-sa
GitLab Handle: tkomatsubara
Story
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.
Timothy Tran
Story
Tim is a Campaigns Manager for APAC. He has experience in demand and lead generation with a close alignment to sales. In his spare time, Tim enjoys building and racing cars, playing and watching basketball, and enjoys trying out food from all over the world.
Taylor Vanderhelm
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Tarun Vellishetty
Job Title: Fullstack Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform Team
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform BE Team
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform FE Team
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: tvellishetty
Projects:
- customers-app
- reviewer backend
- reviewer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Tyler Thompson
Story
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 Smith
Tyler Amos
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform Team
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: tyleramos
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
Tyler started web development professionally in 2005 and hasn’t 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 Govindia
Story
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 Fierro
Story
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 Singhal
Job Title: Associate Analytics Engineer
departments:
Pronunciation: Uu-t-k-uh-r-sh
GitLab Handle: utkarsh060
Story
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!
Vikas Agrawal
Valerie Karnes
Story
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 Parsons
Story
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.
Vamsi Ponnapalli
Vanessa Crisostomo
Vanessa Otto
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Frontend
- Dev Section
- Foundations:Design System Team
- Foundations:Design System FE Team
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: vanessaotto
Projects:
- design.gitlab.com
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer frontend
- gitlab-ui
- maintainer frontend
- switchboard
- reviewer frontend
Story
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 Iakliushin
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Source Code BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
- Create:Source Code
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: vyaklushin
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- maintainer workhorse
- gitlab-docs
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-shell
- maintainer
- project-templates
- maintainer
- www-gitlab-com
- maintainer backend
Story
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 Bhat
Projects:
- secure-SAST-tracking-calculator
- reviewer
- secure-SD-secrets
- maintainer
- secure-common-command
- reviewer
- secure-common-report
- reviewer
- secure-common-ruleset
- maintainer
Story
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 Burton
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Test Engineering team
- Fulfillment Section
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: vburton
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer qa
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
Story
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.
Vianney Chacon Madriz
Vladimir Dzalbo
Job Title: Senior Manager, Solutions Architects
departments:
- SA
- Pipeline Execution Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Pipeline Authoring Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Runner Group CS Stable Counterpart
- Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
GitLab Handle: dzalbo
Story
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.
Ved Prakash
Story
Senior Data Engineer from a remote town Gaya in India. Interested in ancient history and traveling. Really passionate about exploring data and very much excited to be part of the GitLab family.
Vaidehi(Vee) Purohit
Story
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.
Vladimir Glafirov
Projects:
- release-tools
- maintainer
Vered Goldschmiedt Sasson
Viola Hempel
Veronika Herzberger
Story
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.
Vic Bell
Story
Vic is an illustrator from the North East of England, she hopes to elevate Gitlab by bringing beautiful and informative artwork that will make users smile. When she isn’t creating she enjoys spending time with her son, gaming and cooking.
Victoria Tang
Story
Victoria enjoys helping businesses navigate through challenges, unlocking more business value enabled through tech. Outside work, you can find her exploring new places, spending time with loved ones and soaking up the tropical sun on runs.
Vidhya Hariharan
Vijay Hawoldar
Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Utilization Team
- Fulfillment:Utilization BE Team
- Backend
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: vij
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Story
Vij has been solving problems and playing with Ruby for over 10 years and although he’s 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 Singh
Story
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.
Vincy Wilson
Story
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.
Vange Ingan
Virgie van den Corput
Vishal Patel
Job Title: Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Self-Managed Platform team
- Core Platform Sub-department
Pronunciation: Vi-shaa-l
GitLab Handle: vishal.s.patel
Projects:
- cng
- reviewer qa
- gitlab
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-chart
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-ingress-nginx
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-operator
- reviewer qa
- gitlab-qa
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoekt
- reviewer qa
- omnibus-gitlab
- reviewer qa
Story
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 Tatarintev
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Dev Section
- Create:Code Creation
- Create:Code Creation BE Team
- Merge Request Coach
Pronouns: he/him
GitLab Handle: ck3g
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- reviewer database
- gitlab-cli
- reviewer
- repository-x-ray
- maintainer
Story
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 Klachkov
Story
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 Slobodin
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform Team
- Frontend
GitLab Handle: vitallium
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
- gitlab-development-kit
- reviewer
- gitlab-zoql
- owner
Story
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.
Vitorino Coelho
Story
Vitorino is a Tax Accountant and came to GitLab with over 5 years of accounting experience. He is passionate about digging into numbers and solving problems. When he is not working you can find him watching sports, cooking or walking his dog.
Vitor Meireles De Sousa
Story
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!
Vikas Jha
Vince Kramar
Vlad Stoianovici
Story
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 Shushlin
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
- gitlab-pages
- maintainer
- release-cli
- maintainer
Story
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.
Vladlena Shumilo
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform Team
- Fulfillment:Fulfillment Platform BE Team
- Backend
- Gente TMRG
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: vshumilo
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer backend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
Story
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.
Veethika M
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer UX
- gitlab-design
- maintainer
Story
Veethika has a background in tabletop-game design and interaction design. She enjoys promoting design practices in the open source world and crafting quality user experience for developers. In her free time, she likes to play games, write, learn to code and design game concepts.
Valentine Mairet
Story
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.
Vlad Mihai
Story
Vlad is a support enigineer with previous experience in the HoReCa and banking sectors. Originaly from Romania, he is now based in Zurich together with his wife and son. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his family, swimming, hiking and traveling to new places.
Veronica Mondo
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
departments:
- Core Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Infrastructure Department
- Platform Subdepartment
- Dedicated Environment Automation
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: vmondo
Projects:
- environment-automation
- reviewer
Story
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 Nagy
Story
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.
Vivian Nelson
Victoria Reinhardt
Vishal Tak
Projects:
- gitlab-pages
- reviewer
- gitlab-workspaces-proxy
- maintainer
Vamsi Vempati
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Fulfillment Section
- Fulfillment Sub-department
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management Team
- Fulfillment:Subscription Management FE Team
- Frontend
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: Vum.cee
GitLab Handle: vvempati
Projects:
- customers-app
- maintainer frontend
- reviewer documentation
- gitlab
- reviewer frontend
Story
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!).
Vlad Wolanyk
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
- Core Development
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Ops Sub-department
- Verify:Pipeline Execution BE Team
- Verify:Pipeline Execution Group
Pronouns: he/him/they
Pronunciation: v-lah-d wall-ah-nick
GitLab Handle: vwolanyk
Victor Yue
Story
Victor is an experienced accounting and auditing professional for public companies in Silicon Valley. He enjoys doing SEC reporting work and working in a fast paced environment.
Wakae McLaurin
Story
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. 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. Her fun fact - She performed as Walt Disney World characters for one summer while she was a student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.
Wasan Al-Nahi
Michael Becker
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
departments:
- Expansion
- Engineering Function
- Development Department
- Sec Section
- Govern Sub-department
- Govern backend capability
- Govern:Threat Insights BE Team
GitLab Handle: wandering_person
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer backend
Warren Searle
Story
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!
Watson Lin
Story
Watson enjoys working cross-functionally to empower data-driven decision-making and accurate strategic planning. Prior to joining GitLab, Watson had worked for three enterprise SaaS companies. Outside of work, Watson loves all things basketball, playing video games, and spending time with his girlfriend and a newly-born Goldendoodle.
Wei-Meng Lee
Story
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.
Westley van den Berg
Story
Joined May 21st
Wiam Aissaoui
Job Title: Commercial Account Executive - Mid-Market
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
GitLab Handle: waissaoui
Story
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.
William Arias
Story
Passionate about applied R&D, hackathons, programming, storytelling and marketing.
Will Meek
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Quality Department
- Test Platform sub-department
- Sec Section
- Test Engineering team
GitLab Handle: willmeek
Projects:
- gitlab
- trainee_maintainer qa
- gitlab-qa
- trainee_maintainer
Story
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.
Wendy Lam
Story
Wendy enjoys designing and implementing systems to help finance teams experience efficiencies. In her free time, she enjoys tending to her houseplants, binging true crime documenaries, weightlifting/running, and photograhy. She also hopes to rescue a pit bull in the future!
Will Leidheiser
Story
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.
Will Meehan
Wan Ping Teo
Will Szabo
Wade Jenkins
Story
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.
Winnie Chan
Xander Liwanag
Yasha Rise
Projects:
- secure-DS-gemnasium
- reviewer
- secure-container-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-dependency-scanning
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-advisory-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-deployment
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-exporter
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-feeder
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-interfacer
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-license-processor
- reviewer
- secure-license-db-schema
- reviewer
Yas Priatna
Yelena Sokolov
Yannick Muller
Yusuke Oi
Job Title: Senior Manager, Solutions Architects
departments:
Pronouns: He/Him
Pronunciation: Yuu-skeh
GitLab Handle: yoi_gl
Yu-Chen Hsueh
Story
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 Murakami
Story
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.
Mohammed Yunus Khan
Yin YU
Job Title: Director, Strategy and Operations
departments:
Pronouns: she/her
Pronunciation: in
GitLab Handle: yyugitlab
Zack Cuddy
Job Title: Staff Frontend Engineer
departments:
- Internal Infrastructure
- Engineering Function
- Frontend
- Infrastructure Department
- Core Platform Sub-department
- Geo FE Team
GitLab Handle: zcuddy
Projects:
- gitlab
- maintainer frontend
Story
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 Martins Filho
Projects:
- gitlab
- reviewer backend
- secure-container-scanning
- maintainer
Story
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.
Zachary Choquette
Zane J Chua
Job Title: Senior Customer Success Architect
departments:
Pronouns: He/his
Pronunciation: zeɪn
GitLab Handle: zchua-gtlb
Story
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.
Zhaochen Li
Job Title: Backend Engineer
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: jow-chen
GitLab Handle: zhaochen_li
Zack Hardie
Zach Henderson
Job Title: Senior Solutions Architect
departments:
Pronouns: he/him
Pronunciation: zak
GitLab Handle: zhenderson2
Story
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 Mhiri
Job Title: Professional Services Program Manager
departments:
Pronouns: She/Her
GitLab Handle: zmhiri
Story
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.
Zachary Yates
Story
Zach has been programming since he was 11 and spent most of his professional career coming up with clever solutions… until he realized that clever solutions make horrible messes. When not working he hikes, grills, and drinks beer (sometimes in that order).
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