Developer Experience

Mission

Accelerate GitLab’s engineering velocity while elevating quality standards by connecting teams, tools, and insights into a cohesive development ecosystem that works for everyone.

Team Structure

Infrastructure Platforms Department structure is documented in our handbook. |

Developer Experience group structure

graph TD
    DE[Developer Experience group]
    click DE "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience"

    DE --> DA[Development Analytics]
    click DA "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/development-analytics"
    DE --> DT[Developer Tooling]
    click DT "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/developer-tooling"
    DE --> FR[Feature Readiness]
    click FR "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/feature-readiness"
    DE --> PE[Performance Enablement]
    click PE "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/performance-enablement"
    DE --> TG[Test Governance]
    click TG "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/test-governance"

Team Members

Management team

Individual contributors

The following people are members of the Development Analytics group:

Name	Role
Paul John Phillips	Backend Engineering Manager, Cloud Connector
Alberto Bignotti	Backend Engineer
Andrejs Cunskis	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
David Dieulivol	Senior Backend Engineer, Development Analytics
Ievgen Chernikov	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
Pranshu Sharma	Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Analytics
Richard Chong	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Developer Experience:Feature Readiness
Sofia Vistas	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure
Lohit Peesapati	Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Analytics

The following people are members of the Developer Tooling group:

Name	Role
Mohga Gamea	Manager, Quality Engineering
Backend Engineer	Backend Engineer
Manuel Schönlaub	Backend Engineer
Kev Kloss	Frontend Engineer
Matias Alvarez	Backend Engineer
Nao Hashizume	Backend Engineer
Peter Leitzen	Staff Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity

The following people are members of the Feature Readiness group:

The following people are members of the Performance Enablement group:

The following people are members of the Test Governance group:

Name	Role
Amy Phillips	Senior Engineering Manager, DevEx
Andy Hohenner	Senior Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services
Brittany Wilkerson	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dedicated:Environment Automation
Chance Feick	Staff Backend Engineer
Elliot Forbes	Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience
Harsha Muralidhar	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Govern
John McDonnell	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Systems:Gitaly
Max Woolf	Staff Backend Engineer, Analytics:Platform Insights
Mohga Gamea	Manager, Quality Engineering
Nadya Denisenko	Manager, Engineering
Nivetha Prabakaran	Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Manage
Paul John Phillips	Backend Engineering Manager, Cloud Connector
Sanad Liaquat	Staff Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure
Vishal Patel	Software Engineer in Test, Core Platform:Systems
Vlad Wolanyk	Backend Engineer

Project Management

All work is tracked in epics and issues. We follow the The Infrastructure Platforms Project Management processes

Every project should have a DRI assigned. We aim to have more than one person working on each project to allow for knowledge sharing.

Developer Experience Demos

The DevEx section has internal sync demo calls scheduled for every other week. The goal of the demo calls is to build connections and share knowledge across the entire DevEx grup.

People who want to demo something should add their name to the demo agenda sheet. Demos do not need to be polished or prepared in advance.

Please ping in the DevEx Slack channel if you would like to be added to the invite.

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