Tenant Scale Group

Mission

Ensure the viability of GitLab’s multi-tenant platforms.

Vision

Build GitLab’s next generation multi-tenant, horizontally scalable SaaS platform, and the logical application container to enable customers to move across GitLab’s platforms as their needs evolve.

Team Members

Group Leads

Name	Role
Gerardo "Gerir" Lopez-Fernandez	Engineering Fellow, Infrastructure
Kamil Trzciński	Senior Distinguished Engineer, Ops and Core Platform
Steve Xuereb	Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Tenant Scale
Thong Kuah	Principal Engineer, Tenant Scale
Rémy Coutable	Principal Engineer, Tenant Scale
Nick Nguyen	Senior Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale

Geo

Name	Role
Lucie Zhao	Manager, Engineering
Brian Legault	Senior Backend Engineer
Chloé Fons	Backend Engineer
Douglas Barbosa Alexandre	Staff Backend Engineer
Ian Baum	Senior Backend Engineer
Michael Kozono	Staff Backend Engineer
Natanael Silva	Backend Engineer
Scott Murray	Backend Engineer
Victor Prêté	Backend Engineer
Zack Cuddy	Staff Frontend Engineer

Organizations

Name	Role
Matt Andrews	Engineering Manager
Aakriti Gupta	Senior Backend Engineer, Organizations
Abdul Wadood	Senior Backend Engineer, Organizations
Alex Pooley	Staff Backend Engineer, Organizations
Backend Engineer	Backend Engineer, Organizations
Drew Blessing	Senior Backend Engineer, Organizations
Peter Hegman	Senior Frontend Engineer, Organizations
Rutger Wessels	Senior Backend Engineer, Organizations
Shubham Kumar	Backend Engineer, Organizations
Shane Maglangit	Fullstack Engineer, Organizations
Tim McCarthy	Backend Engineer, Organizations

Cells Infrastructure

Name	Role
David Leach	Site Reliability Engineer, Cells Infrastructure
Bojan Marjanović	Senior Backend Engineer, Cells Infrastructure
Gregorius Marco	Backend Engineer, Durability
Sami Hiltunen	Staff Backend Engineer, Cells Infrastructure
Sangwoo Han	Backend Engineer, Cells Infrastructure
Tarun Khandelwal	Site Reliability Engineer, Cells Infrastructure
Tomasz Skorupa	Senior Backend Engineer, Cells Infrastructure

Tenant Services

Name	Role
John 'Jarv' Jarvis	Engineering Manager, Tenant Services
Aaron Richter	Site Reliability Engineer, Cells Infrastructure
Ahmad Sherif	Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Furhan Shabir	Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Gabriel Mazetto	Senior Backend Engineer
Matt Smiley	Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Scalability
Pravar Gauba	Site Reliability Engineer
Raynard Omongbale	Site Reliability Engineer
Vladimir Glafirov	Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cells Infrastructure

Gitaly

Name	Role
Divya Rani	Backend Engineer, Gitaly
Emily Chui	Senior Backend Engineer, Gitaly
Eric Ju	Senior Backend Engineer, Gitaly
James Liu	Senior Backend Engineer, Gitaly
John Cai	Engineering Manager, Gitaly
Mustafa Bayar	Backend Engineer, Gitaly
Olivier Campeau	Backend Engineer, Gitaly
Sohan Dhanak	Backend Engineer, Gitaly

Git

Name	Role
Patrick Steinhardt	Acting Engineering Manager, Git
Christian Couder	Staff Backend Engineer, Git
Justin Tobler	Senior Backend Engineer, Git
Karthik Nayak	Senior Backend Engineer, Git
Toon Claes	Senior Backend Engineer, Git

Resources

• Slack (internal only): #s_tenant_scale

Projects

1. Cells design documents
2. Organizations design documents

Requests for Help

We have a process for Requesting For Help from the Tenant Scale Group, please see process

Operating System

The Group Tenant Scale Operating System serves as our team’s central framework for consistent, effective, low-friction engineering management practices.

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