GitLab Legal Team READMEs

Emily Plotkin, Senior Director, Legal - Employment

This page is intended to help others understand what it might be like to work with me, especially people who haven’t worked with me before.

It’s also a well-intentioned effort at building some trust by being intentionally vulnerable, and to share my ideas of a good working relationship to reduce the anxiety of people who might be on my team.

About Me

I am a lawyer, wife, boy-mom, cat-mom, horse-mom, daughter, former and wannabe-again endurance athlete, just trying to keep all the balls up in the air and every once in a while having to make the choice of which one to drop. In my professional life, I want to help build a company where team members trust each other, trust business decisions, and all work together toward a common goal.

About Me

Born in Pleasanton, CA, I am the fifth of five boys. In high school and college I swam and played water polo. I attended UC Santa Cruz for undergrad and The University of Texas for my masters in business. I love to surf, swim, ski and go for long hikes in nature and around cities. Reading is such a joy to me, and I try and mix fiction and non-fiction in equal parts across all subjects and genres. If I had all the money in the world I would be a perpetual student, attending universities all over the world and taking classes on everything from architecture to zoology.

My name is Miguel Silva and I am a Contract Manager for GitLab.

My main focus is providing legal support to all functions that bring revenue to GitLab; namely, by drafting and negotiating agreements, and answering legal-related questions.

My Strengths

1. I do my very best to solve problems and find alternatives to overcome obstacles in order to achieve the expected result;
2. I am always ready (and love) to discuss any issues that may arise – I love to learn and listen to other points of view, understand rationales and the goals behind the matters at hand;
3. I always keep my promises – if I commit to a certain deadline, I will deliver within it;
4. I can (and love to) take direct feedback and don’t get discouraged easily;
5. I take the well-being of my team seriously – if I see that a colleague is struggling or needs support, I will do my very best to help.

Areas of Improvement

1. I struggle to be empathic when someone (i) is not willing to do their job and does not take ownership on matters that they should be responsible for; and (ii) asks the same question over and over again when it was already properly explained and acknowledged by the requester;
2. As I come from a non-technical background sometimes I struggle with more technical issues – please be patient and assume I don’t know the basics, I will definitely not get offended;
3. As a non-English speaking native sometimes my pronunciation, choice of words, and grammar are not the best - I welcome corrections!

Communication

I can be contacted through Slack, email or any other communication channel you feel more comfortable with (as long as I have it and know how to work with). However, please keep in mind that, for record purposes and in accordance with our GitLab internal process, legal revenue related questions should be asked by opening a Legal Request in SFDC. The Legal slack channel is also available so that other GitLab colleagues can also have access to the question and respective answer (if not project related and/or confidential).

This page, like me, is a WIP. I’m practicing our value of 👣 iteration. I welcome all feedback! Click here to see my LinkedIn.

Rashmi Pronunciation Hint

A pronunciation hint for Rashmi: It’s like when I try to hurry you along and you say: Rush me don't rush me. Easier than it looks, right?

My Job

My job is to work with teams across the GitLab landscape on corporate and securities topics. That means I work on, among other matters: (a) acquisitions the company may desire to make; (b) matters related to the company’s stock; (c) external and internal communications; and (d) strategic projects. I also work on corporate governance matters which means that I work with GitLab’s Board of Directors and matters related to GitLab’s direct and indirect subsidiaries.

This page is intended to help others understand what it might be like to work with me, especially people who haven’t worked with me before.

What I do at GitLab

Hi! I’m Stacy and I’m GitLab’s Senior Director of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG). Here are a few things I do:

• Build GitLab’s corporate sustainability strategy to ensure we’re creating long-term impact for our stakeholders
• Identify gaps where GitLab could be making a bigger impact whether that’s through NGO partnerships, emissions reduction, donations to non-profits or connecting team members to causes
• Report to our stakeholders such as investors, customers and team members on our progress and plans as it relates to ESG
• Collaborate and work cross-functionally with just about every GitLab team

About me

I grew up in Minnesota and at 18 I moved to Arizona because as my husband likes to say, “you don’t have to shovel sunshine.”