Dev Sub-department

Vision

Enable engineers across the world by having top notch planning and issue tools for managing their work, awesome tools to organize their code and evolve their codebase through the best code review and online editing experience. Support organizations to have an easy entrance level to use GitLab by having great import capabilities, a great documentation experience and administration tools.

We thrive for ownership of the things that we built by having a clear view on its performance and stability in production. We constantly challenge ourselves to build a better, faster and more robust application.

Mission

The Dev sub-department is taking care of the first part of the DevSecOps Lifecycle with the following stages and the specific groups:

1. Foundations
   • Foundations:Design System
   • Foundations:Import and Integrate
   • Foundations:Personal Productivity
2. Plan
   • Plan:Project Management
   • Plan:Product Planning
   • Plan:Optimize
   • Plan:Editor
3. Create
   • Create: Source Code BE
   • Create: Source Code FE
   • Create: Code Review BE
   • Create: Code Review FE
   • Create: Remote Development
   • Create: Code Creation
   • Create: Editor Extensions
   • Create Frontend

Who we are

Foundations

Foundations:Design System

Name	Role
Sam Beckham	Engineering Manager, Foundations:Design System, Foundations:Personal Productivity
James Rushford	Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Design System
Staff Frontend Engineer	Staff Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Design System
Scott de Jonge	Senior Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Design System
Vanessa Otto	Senior Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Design System

Foundations:Import and Integrate

Name	Role
Martin Wortschack	Engineering Manager, Manage:Import and Integrate
Carla Drago	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Senior Backend Engineer	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
James Nutt	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Justin Ho	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Keeyan Nejad	Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Luke Duncalfe	Staff Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Oiza Baiye	Frontend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Rodrigo Tomonari	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Sam Word	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate

Foundations:Personal Productivity

Name	Role
Sam Beckham	Engineering Manager, Foundations:Design System, Foundations:Personal Productivity
Lukas Eipert	Staff Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Personal Productivity
Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt	Senior Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Personal Productivity
Thomas Hutterer	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Foundations:Personal Productivity

Plan

Plan:Project Management

Name	Role
Donald Cook	Engineering Manager, Plan:Project Management
Alexandru Croitor	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Senior Frontend Engineer	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Deepika Guliani	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Fernanda Toledo	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Heinrich Lee Yu	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Mario Celi	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Marc Saleiko	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Simon Knox	Staff Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Stefanos Xanthopoulos	Backend Engineer

Plan:Product Planning

Name	Role
Kushal Pandya	Fullstack Engineering Manager, Plan:Product Planning
Anastasia Khomchenko	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Abhilash Kotte	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Eugenia Grieff	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Florie Guibert	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Jack Chapman	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Kassio Borges	Staff Backend Engineer , Plan:Product Planning
Nicolas Dular	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Backend Engineer	Backend Engineer
Rajan Mistry	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning

Plan:Optimize

Name	Role
Brandon Labuschagne	Fullstack Engineering Manager, Plan:Optimize
Alex Pennells	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Ezekiel Kigbo	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Felipe Artur	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Pavel Shutsin	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Rudy Crespo	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize

Plan:Knowledge

Name	Role
John Hope	Senior Manager, Engineering, Plan
Vladimir Shushlin	Engineering Manager, Plan:Knowledge

Create

Create:Code Review

Name	Role
André Luís	Senior Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review
François Rosé	Engineering Manager, Create:Code Review
Phil Hughes	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Code Review
Stanislav Lashmanov	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Code Review
Thomas Randolph	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Code Review

Create:Code Creation

Name	Role
Matt Nohr	Backend Engineering Manager, Create:Code Creation
Allen Cook	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Backend Engineer	Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Jan Provaznik	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Leaminn Ma	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Mikołaj Wawrzyniak	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Missy Davies	Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Pam Artiaga	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Shola Quadri	Associate Backend Engineer
Sri Rangan	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Tian Gao	Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Vitali Tatarintev	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation

Create:Editor Extensions

Name	Role
Kisha Mavryck Richardson	Engineering Manager
Andrei Zubov	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Anna Springfield	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Bohdan Parkhomchuk	Backend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Dylan Bernardi	Associate Backend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Elwyn Benson	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Erran Carey	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Jean-Gabriel Doyon	Backend Engineer
John Slaughter	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Juhee Lee	Fullstack Engineer
Karl Jamoralin	Backend Engineer
Laura Ionel	Senior Backend Engineer
Marvin Gay	Backend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Michael Angelo Rivera	Fullstack Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Olena HK.	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Tomas Vik	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Tristan Read	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions

Create:Remote Development

Name	Role
Adebayo Adesanya	Engineering Manager
Chad Woolley	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Cindy Halim	Fullstack Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Daniyal Arshad	Backend Engineer
Enrique Alcántara	Staff Frontend Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Joseph Fletcher	Associate Frontend Engineer
Paul Slaughter	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Safwan Ahmed	Backend Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Vishal Tak	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Zhaochen Li	Backend Engineer, Create:Remote Development

Create:Source Code

Name	Role
André Luís	Senior Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review
Devi Poosarla	Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code Backend
Jacques Erasmus	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Chaoyue Zhao	Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code

Stable Counterparts

The following members of other functional teams are our stable counterparts:

Name	Role
Désirée Chevalier	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Plan
Emilio Salvador	VP, Dev Relations and Community
Jay McCure	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Create
John Coghlan	Director, Developer Advocacy
Kalyani Yerraguntla	Learning & Development Program Manager
Nivetha Prabakaran	Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Manage

How we work

Error Budgets

Error budgets are one of the Dev sub-department/section’s performance indicators. They’re vital in determining how reliable services within Dev are over any given timeframe. The budget is spent any time user-facing services experience a percentage of errors or latency breaching their defined thresholds. We track our error budgets using Grafana dashboards.

Engineering Managers in Dev focus on the 7-day timeframe of their error budget. An example dashboard can be found here.

Reporting your groups error budget, reliability, and security status

Every week, engineering leaders meet to discuss topics including the error budgets across the entire Engineering Division.

Dev engineering leaders use this Google document to track our error budget status week-over-week, which are then reported on in these meetings by senior leadership.

Engineering Managers are advised to report up to their managers, or self-report the status of their group on Monday’s using the above document to ensure we have an accurate weekly snapshot of the sub-department’s error budget status, outstanding reliability issue status, and past due security issues.

Automating a weekly check-in on your error budget

One way that groups can keep error budgets in mind is by automating a weekly reminder in Slack to check on their error budget.

A Slack workflow can be created that allows any member of the team to provide a quick update on the current error budget status.

Common Links

• Issue Tracker
• Slack Channels
  • #sd_dev_engineering
  • #s_manage
  • #s_plan
  • #s_create

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