Database Health Team

The Database Health team is the result of a split of the Database Frameworks Team.

Mission

Maintain operational runway for GitLab’s databases by proactively identifying and mitigating saturation points before they impact customers. We provide the visibility, tooling, and frameworks that keep databases healthy across both GitLab.com and self-managed deployments.

Scope

The Database Health team is responsible for:

• Database health monitoring & observability — Building and maintaining the dashboards, metrics, and monitoring systems that provide visibility into database health across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.
• Shift-left saturation identification — Developing tooling and processes that detect potential saturation points earlier in the development cycle, before they reach production. Identifying and mitigating active saturation points is a shared responsibility across all three Database Excellence teams.
• Self-managed health frameworks — Building frameworks that give self-managed customers insight into the health and operability of their GitLab database, bringing the same visibility available on GitLab.com to customer-managed environments.

Team

The team is composed primarily of backend engineers, with reliability engineers to help achieve its infrastructure and operational goals. Regardless of role, all team members share stage-level responsibilities including database reviews, oncall rotations, and operational needs alongside the other Database Excellence teams.

Name	Role
Alex Ives	Backend Engineering Manager, Database
Allison Browne	Senior Backend Engineer, Database
Backend Engineer	Backend Engineer, Database
Mei Yang	Site Reliability Engineer
Rafael Henchen	Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Simon Tomlinson	Staff Backend Engineer, Database

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