Merge Request Coach Lifecycle

Applying to become a Merge Request Coach

• Create a new issue using the mr_coach_onboarding template (see screenshot below).
• Fill in the placeholders in the issue template with your information.
• Assign the issue to yourself.
• Work through the steps in that new issue.

Stepping down gracefully

If you are no longer able to serve as a Merge Request Coach, you should identify another GitLab team member to take your place so that the capacity of the remaining coaches remains the same. When you are ready to step down, you need to:

1. Make an announcement on the #mr-coaching Slack channel.
2. Update the team.yml file to remove “Merge Request Coach”.
3. Remove yourself from the @gitlab-org/coaches group.

References/resources

1. Merge Request Coach responsibilities
2. Merge Request Coach collaboration guidelines
3. Community Discord channel: please join if you haven’t already!

Current Merge Request Coaches

GitLab currently has 38 merge request coaches:

Name	Group	Departments
Allen Cook	None	AI Engineering Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach
Arianna Haradon	None	Strategy Developer Relations Merge Request Coach
Anastasia Khomchenko	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach
Alexander Turinske	Security Risk Management:Security Policies	Sec Engineering Development Department Sec Section Security Risk Management Stage Security Risk Management frontend capability Security Risk Management:Security Policies Team Frontend Merge Request Coach
Alper Akgun	None	AI Engineering Development Department AI Section Merge Request Coach
Bob Van Landuyt	None	Platforms Engineering Infrastructure Platforms Sub-department Merge Request Coach
Cindy Halim	None	AI Engineering Merge Request Coach
Deepika Guliani	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Frontend Merge Request Coach
Denys Mishunov	None	AI Engineering Development Department AI Section Frontend Merge Request Coach
Dmitry Gruzd	None	AI Engineering Merge Request Coach
Drew Blessing	Tenant Scale	Platforms Engineering Infrastructure Platforms Department Tenant Scale Group Merge Request Coach
Ezekiel Kigbo	None	Data Engineering Analytics Section Frontend Merge Request Coach
Illya Klymov	Software Supply Chain Security:Compliance	Sec Engineering Development Department Sec Section Software Supply Chain Security Sub-department Software Supply Chain Security:Compliance Team Frontend Merge Request Coach
Jack Chapman	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach
Jannik Lehmann	None	AI Engineering Development Department Frontend Merge Request Coach
Justin Ho	None	AI Engineering Frontend Development Department AI Section Merge Request Coach
Kerri Miller	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach
Kushal Pandya	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Frontend Merge Request Coach
Missy Davies	None	Strategy Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach Developer Relations
Chaoyue Zhao	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Frontend Merge Request Coach
Narendran Kannan	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Ops Sub-department Verify Stage Verify:CI Platform Merge Request Coach
Patrick Bajao	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach
Pedro Pombeiro	Verify:CI Platform	DevOps Engineering Development Department Ops Sub-department Verify Stage Verify:CI Platform Group Merge Request Coach
Peter Leitzen	Development Tooling	Platforms Engineering Developer Experience Stage Development Tooling Group Merge Request Coach
Peter Hegman	Tenant Scale	Platforms Engineering Infrastructure Platforms Department Tenant Scale Group Frontend Merge Request Coach
Raimund Hook	None	Strategy Developer Relations Merge Request Coach
Rajan Mistry	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach
Rémy Coutable	Tenant Scale	Platforms Engineering Infrastructure Platforms Department Tenant Scale Group Merge Request Coach Core Team
Reuben Pereira	None	Platforms Engineering Software Delivery Sub-department Backend Merge Request Coach
Ravi Kumar	None	AI Engineering Merge Request Coach
Shubham Kumar	Tenant Scale	Platforms Engineering Infrastructure Platforms Department Tenant Scale Group Merge Request Coach
Siddharth Dungarwal	None	AI Engineering Merge Request Coach
Terri Chu	None	AI Engineering Merge Request Coach Parental Leave Reentry Buddy
Timo Furrer	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Ops Section Verify Stage Runner Runner:Runner Core Merge Request Coach
Tomáš Bulva	None	AI Engineering Merge Request Coach
Toon Claes	None	Platforms Engineering Data Access Sub-department Merge Request Coach
Vasilii Iakliushin	None	DevOps Engineering Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach
Vitali Tatarintev	None	AI Engineering Development Department Dev Section Merge Request Coach