Create Stage

Hello

We’re the Create Stage and we are a group of teams within the Dev Sub Department. We’re comprised of five areas within the GitLab product.

Mission

What do we do?

The Create Stage supports software development teams accelerate their delivery and reduce cycle times, by improving efficiency and collaboration. Our stage provides tools that support the beginning of the DevOps Life Cycle.

Whom do we serve?

We build tools for:

• Software Developers
• DevOps Engineers
• Development Team leads
• Product Managers
• Product Designers

How do we serve them?

The Product Vision Handbook Page provides specific examples for how we serve each type of GitLab user.

Vision

The following areas have been defined as our direction for the year:

• Fast, reliable, and easily managed Git storage
• Binary file workflows
• Delightful code review
• Better collaboration in OSS and within large organizations across many teams
• Unifying our editing experiences
• Better integrations

Professional Development

Each team member is encouraged to take positive steps towards improving their skills and knowledge.

Growing your skillset will lead to more insightful contributions to the GitLab Product. As your expertise grows, your impact on the product and the company also grows. Here at GitLab, it is important to us to invest in the Professional Development of our team members.

If there is an area you are interested in learning more about, please reach out to your manager so they can provide an environment that will allow you to grow in your areas of preference. Some recommended resources are below:

Engineering Managers

• Recommended Books
• Training Materials

Individual Contributors

• Professional Development
• Recommended Books
• Training Materials
• Transitioning from an Individual Contributor to a Manager
• Skip-level Meetings
• Iteration

The Learning & Development group has also compiled a list of LinkedIn training for GitLab Recommended Learning Paths.

How we work

Each team work in the manner that best meets the needs of their product and their team.

• Create Engineering Managers
• Remote Development Team
• Code Review Team
• Source Code Team Backend, Frontend

Templates

We use templates in order to make our processes more transparent and efficient. Documenting practices once and reusing them often provides guidance and support throughout the stage.

How we work across teams

The Create Stage teams work together and play together. We are fortunate to be able to rely on each other to support and complement our features. Some examples of Cross Team Collaboration:

• The Source Code and Gitaly Teams often collaborate together on issues
• Gitaly Team Members have mentored Source Code team members on the Go Programming language

Every quarter we participate in a cross team bonding activity, Create Team Day.

How we live our values

Engineering Managers live our values every day.

Read More about how Engineering Managers live GitLab Values

How we measure Results

• OKRs
• Dashboards
• Issue Boards
• Monitoring

How we measure Iteration

• Logs
• MR Rate

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Create Stage: Tech Leads

The objective of this page is to provide a clear documentation of the responsibilities and attributes associated with the role of a tech lead within the Create Stage.

Create:Code Creation Group

The Create:Code Creation Group is responsible for all product categories that fall under the Code Creation group of the Create stage.

Create:Code Review Group

The Create:Code Review Group is responsible for all product categories that fall under the Code Review group of the Create stage.

Create:Editor Extensions Group

The Create:Editor Extensions Group is responsible for all product categories that fall under the Editor Extensions group of the Create stage.

Create:Remote Development Group

The Remote Development Group is part of the Create Stage. We focus on two categories: Workspace and the Web IDE.

Create:Source Code BE Team

The Create:Source Code BE team is responsible for all backend aspects of the product categories that fall under the Source Code group of the Create stage.

Create:Source Code FE Team

The Create:Source Code FE team is responsible for all frontend aspects of the product categories that fall under the Source Code group of the Create stage.

Engineering Managers

Meet the Engineering Managers

Image	Name	Title	Team	LinkedIn
	Darva Satcher	Director of Engineering	Create Stage	LinkedIn
![’’](https://about.gitlab.com/images/team/adebayoadesanya-crop.jpg “Adebayo”	Adebayo Adesanya	Fullstack Engineering Manager	Remote Development	LinkedIn
	André Luís	Senior Engineering Manager	Code Review & Source Code	LinkedIn
	François Rosé	Fullstack Engineering Manager	Code Review	LinkedIn
	Matt Nohr	Backend Engineering Manager	Code Creation	LinkedIn
	Mavryck Richardson	Fullstack Engineering Manager	Editor Extensions	LinkedIn

Engineers

Who we are

Create

Create:Source Code

Name	Role

Create:Code Review

Name	Role

Create:Remote Development

Name	Role

Create:Source Code Frontend

Name	Role

Create:Code Review Frontend

Name	Role

Gitaly

Name	Role
Tim Zallmann	VP of Engineering, Core Development

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