Product sections, stages, groups, and categories

Principles - Processes - Categories - GitLab the Product - Being a PM - Leadership

Interfaces

We want intuitive interfaces both within the company and with the wider community. This makes it more efficient for everyone to contribute or to get a question answered. Therefore, the following interfaces are based on the product categories defined on this page:

Home page
Product page
Product Features
Pricing page
DevOps Lifecycle
DevOps Tools
Product Direction
Stage visions
Documentation
Engineering Engineering Manager/Developer/Designer titles, their expertise, and department, and team names.
Product manager responsibilities which are detailed on this page
Our pitch deck, the slides that we use to describe the company
Strategic marketing specializations

Hierarchy

The categories form a hierarchy:

Sections: Are a collection of stages. We attempt to align these logically along common workflows like Dev, Sec and Ops. Sections are maintained in data/sections.yml.
Stages: are maintained in data/stages.yml. Each stage has a corresponding devops::<stage> label under the gitlab-org group.
Group: A stage has one or more groups. Groups are maintained in data/stages.yml. Each group has a corresponding group::<group> label under the gitlab-org group.
Categories: A group has one or more categories. Categories are high-level capabilities that may be a standalone product at another company. e.g. Portfolio Management. To the extent possible we should map categories to vendor categories defined by analysts. There are a maximum of 8 high-level categories per stage to ensure we can display this on our website and pitch deck. (Categories that do not show up on marketing pages show up here in italics and do not count toward this limit.) There may need to be fewer categories, or shorter category names, if the aggregate number of lines when rendered would exceed 13 lines, when accounting for category names to word-wrap, which occurs at approximately 15 characters. Categories are maintained in data/categories.yml. Each category has a corresponding Category:<Category> label under the gitlab-org group. Category maturity is managed in the product Category Maturity Change process
Features: Small, discrete functionalities. e.g. Issue weights. Some common features are listed within parentheses to facilitate finding responsible PMs by keyword. Features are maintained in data/features.yml. It’s recommended to associate feature labels to a category or a group with feature_labels in data/categories.yml or data/stages.yml.

Notes:

Groups may have scope as large as all categories in a stage, or as small as a single category within a stage, but most will form part of a stage and have a few categories in them.
Stage, group, category, and feature labels are used by the automated triage operation “Stage and group labels inference from category labels”.
We don’t move categories based on capacity. We put the categories in the stages where they logically fit, from a customer perspective. If something is important and the right group doesn’t have capacity for it, we adjust the hiring plan for that group, or do global optimizations to get there faster.
We don’t have silos. If one group needs something in a category that is owned by another group, go ahead and contribute it.
This hierarchy includes both paid and unpaid features.

Naming

Anytime one hierarchy level’s scope is the same as the one above or below it, they can share the same name.

For groups that have two or more categories, but not all categories in a stage, the group name must be a unique word or a summation of the categories they cover.

If you want to refer to a group in context of their stage you can write that as “Stage:Group”. This can be useful in email signatures, job titles, and other communications. E.g. “Monitor:Health” rather than “Monitor Health” or “Monitor, Health.”

When naming a new stage, group, or category, you should search the handbook and main marketing website to look for other naming conflicts which could confuse customers or employees. Uniqueness is preferred if possible to help drive clarity and reduce confusion. See additional product feature naming guidelines as well.

More Details

Every category listed on this page must have a link to a direction page. Categories may also have documentation and marketing page links. When linking to a category using the category name as the anchor text (e.g. from the chart on the homepage) you should use the URLs in the following hierarchy:

Marketing product page > docs page > direction page

E.g Link the marketing page. If there’s no marketing page, link to the docs. If there’s no docs, link to the direction page.

Solutions

Solutions can consist of multiple categories and are typically used to align to a customer challenge (e.g. the need to reduce security and compliance risk) or to market segments defined by analysts such as Software Composition Analysis (SCA). Solutions are also often used to align to challenges unique to an industry vertical (e.g. financial services), or to a sales segment (e.g. SMB vs Enterprise).

Solutions typically represent a customer challenge, and we define how GitLab capabilities come together to meet that challenge, with business benefits of using our solution.

Market segments defined by analysts don’t always align to GitLab stages and categories and often include multiple categories. Two most frequently encountered are:

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) = Dependency Scanning + License Compliance + Container Scanning
Enterprise Agile Planning (EAP) = Team Planning + Planning Analytics + Portfolio Management + Requirements Management

We are intentional in not defining SCA as containing SAST and Code Quality despite some analysts using the term to also include those categories.

Capabilities

Capabilities can refer to stages, categories, or features, but not solutions.

Layers

Adding more layers to the hierarchy would give it more fidelity but would hurt usability in the following ways:

Harder to keep the interfaces up to date.
Harder to automatically update things.
Harder to train and test people.
Harder to display more levels.
Harder to reason, falsify, and talk about it.
Harder to define what level something should be in.
Harder to keep this page up to date.

We use this hierarchy to express our organizational structure within the Product and Engineering organizations. Doing so serves the goals of:

Making our groups externally recognizable as part of the DevOps lifecycle so that stakeholders can easily understand what teams might perform certain work
Ensuring that internally we keep groups to a reasonable number of stable counterparts

As a result, it is considered an anti-pattern to how we’ve organized for categories to move between groups out of concern for available capacity.

When designing the hierarchy, the number of sections should be kept small and only grow as the company needs to re-organize for span-of-control reasons. i.e. each section corresponds to a Director of Engineering and a Director of Product, so it’s an expensive add. For stages, the DevOps loop stages should not be changed at all, as they’re determined from an external source. At some point we may change to a different established bucketing, or create our own, but that will involve a serious cross-functional conversation. While the additional value stages are our own construct, the loop and value stages combined are the primary stages we talk about in our marketing, sales, etc. and they shouldn’t be changed lightly. The other stages have more flexibility as they’re not currently marketed in any way, however we should still strive to keep them as minimal as possible. Proliferation of a large number of stages makes the product surface area harder to reason about and communicate if/when we decide to market that surface area. As such, they’re tied 1:1 with sections so they’re the minimal number of stages that fit within our organizational structure. e.g. Growth was a single group under Enablement until we decided to add a Director layer for Growth; then it was promoted to a section with specialized groups under it. The various buckets under each of the non-DevOps stages are captured as different groups. Groups are also a non-marketing construct, so we expand the number of groups as needed for organizational purposes. Each group usually corresponds to a backend engineering manager and a product manager, so it’s also an expensive add and we don’t create groups just for a cleaner hierarchy; it has to be justified from a span-of-control perspective or limits to what one product manager can handle.

Category Statuses

Categories can have varying level of investment and development work. There are four main investment statuses:

Accelerated - Top category for product strategy that has received additional investment in the next year
Sustained - Categories where new features will be added in the next year
Reduced - Categories where scope and ambition is decreased although, new features will still be added in the next year
Maintenance - Categories where no new features will added

Typically, product direction pages will transparently state the investment status of the category for the fiscal year based on annual product themes and investment levels.

Changes

The impact of changes to sections, stages and groups is felt across the company.

All new category creation needs to be specifically approved via our Opportunity Canvas review process. This is to avoid scope creep and breadth at the expense of depth and user experience.

Merge requests with changes to sections, stages and groups and significant changes to categories need to be created, approved, and/or merged by each of the below:

Chief Product Officer
PLT Leader relevant to the affected Section(s)
The Director of Product relevant to the affected Section(s)
The Director of Engineering relevant to the affected Section(s)
Director of Product Design

_Note: Chief Product Officer approval should be requested once all other approvals have been completed. To request approval, post the MR link in the #chief-product-officer channel tagging both the Chief Product Offcer and cc’ing the EBA to the Chief Product Officer.

The following people need to be on the merge request so they stay informed:

Chief Technology Officer
Development Leader relevant to the affected Section(s)
VP of Infrastructure & Quality Engineering
VP of UX
Director, Technical Writing
Engineering Productivity (by @ mentioning @gl-quality/eng-prod)
The Product Marketing Manager relevant to the stage group(s)

After approval and prior to merging, ping the Engineering Manager for Quality Engineering in the MR, if there are changes that:

Add a new category, group, stage or section
Move an existing category to a new or existing group
Move an existing group to a new or existing stage
Move an existing stage to a new or existing section
Rename a group, stage or section
Delete a group, stage or section

This is to ensure that GitLab Bot auto-labeling can be updated prior to the change, which can be disruptive if missed.

Upon approval, tag the group Technical Writer in the merge request to ensure documentation metadata is updated after the category change is merged.

Ensure that relevant slack channels are updated following our slack channel naming convention, open an access request to have slack channel names updated as they can no longer be updated by creators.

Examples

Because it helps to be specific about what is a significant change and what should trigger the above approval process, below are non-exhaustive lists of examples that would and would not, respectively, require full approvals as outlined above.

Changes that require the above approvers include:

Changes to a section, stage, group, or category name or marketing attribute
Removal or addition of a section, stage, group, or category

Changes that require approval only from the relevant Product Leadership Team member include:

Changing name or removing a non-marketing category, per the marketing attribute.

Changes that require approval only from the relevant Product Director include:

Changing a category maturity date
Changes to section or group member lists
Changes to a category vision page

Changing group name

When changing the name of a group, create a merge request to change the group name in data/stages.yml using the Group-Stage-Category-Change template, and make sure to complete all the steps in the template.

When changing the team tags, such as be_team_tag, ensure that each team member’s individual data/team_members/person/ YAML has the relevant departments entry updated. Alternatively, if the team tag is missing, add the tag under the list of departments as the second or lower entry. The first departments entry is controlled by the Workday sync and will be overwritten.

When deciding on the naming, ensure that each team tag is unique. For example, sre_team_tag should have a different value compared to be_team_tag. If they are the same, then all team members with the tag with be displayed, duplicating the list for BE and SRE.

Changing category name

When changing an existing category name, there are some considerations to the order of events:

First, create a MR to change the name in data/stages.yml and spec/homepage/category_spec.rb.
Get sign off from all required stakeholders listed in the instructions above.
Merge the name change MR.
Tag the category’s technical writer so that they can update the documentation metadata
Re-name the category direction page with a new MR. Search for the old category name on the category direction page to ensure the name has been updated in all places.
Use the #it-help Slack channel to request an update to Slack channel name for the re-named category

Changing category maturity

We primarily use the Category Maturity Scorecard process to determine category maturity.

Typically, category maturity moves up from planned to minimal to viable to complete to lovable. However, maturity can also be downgraded. For example, in cases where we discover a JTBD is not met (see example), or when we change the definition of maturity, we may choose to move category maturity down.

When downgrading product maturity, we adjust our customer’s current expectations about our product. This is particularly impactful to our go-to-market team members in customer success and product marketing. We need to do the following to enable alignment between all affected and interested parties:

Raise an MR for the downgrade and clearly state the reasons for change in the description (see example)
Inform VP, Product Management by adding them as Reviewer on the MR
Notify the product group counterparts in the MR; Product Marketing, Product Designer, Engineering Manager, and Technical Writer
Post the MR in the #customer-success slack channel prior to merging, to allow the team to assess impact and adjust
Post the MR in the #product slack channel for awareness

DevOps Stages

Dev Ops Diagram

Analytics section

Slack Channel	#analytics-section
Handbook Page
Product	Steve Evangelista
Development	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Taurie Davis
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Eugene McCrann

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    analytics[Analytics section]-->s_monitor[Monitor stage];

    
        s_monitor-->g_analytics_instrumentation["Analytics Instrumentation
        group"];
        click g_analytics_instrumentation "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_monitor-->g_platform_insights["Platform Insights
        group"];
        click g_platform_insights "/handbook/<no value>";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Monitor stage

Slack Channel	#analytics-section
Handbook Page	Development
Development	Tim Zallmann
Software Engineer in Test	Ievgen Chernikov
Product Design	Justin Mandell
UX Research	Nick Hertz

Analytics Instrumentation group

Total Engineers	Backend
7	7

Slack Channel	#g_analyze_analytics_instrumentation
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tanuja Jayarama Raju
Backend Engineering Manager	Jiaan Louw
Backend Engineering	Ankit Panchal Sebastian Rehm Jonas Larsen Michał Wielich Niko Belokolodov Nwanna Isong Sarah Yasonik
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
Internal Customers	Sales Department Marketing Department Product Department Customer Success Data Team

Name	Maturity	Links
Service Ping	Viable	Documentation Page
Application Instrumentation	Minimal	Direction Page

Platform Insights group

Slack Channel	#g_monitor_platform_insights
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Lindsy Farina
Backend Engineering Manager	Nicholas Klick
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
Internal Customers	Sales Department Marketing Department Product Department Customer Success Data Team Infrastructure Department Dave Smith Engineering Department Sam Goldstein Security Operations Department Sean Gillespie

Name	Maturity	Links
Custom Dashboards Foundation	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Observability	Planned 2024	Direction Page
Product Analytics	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Incident Management	Communityled	Documentation Page Direction Page
On-call Schedule Management	Communityled	Documentation Page Direction Page

CD section

Slack Channel	#cd-section
Product	Mike Flouton
Development	Sam Goldstein
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  
    cd[CD section]-->s_deploy[Deploy stage];

    
        s_deploy-->g_environments["Environments
        group"];
        click g_environments "/handbook/product/categories/#environments-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Deploy stage

Slack Channel	#s_deploy
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/deploy-stage/environments-group
Handbook Page	Environments Group
Product	Viktor Nagy
Development	Nicolò Maria Mezzopera
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

Environments group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
6	4	2

Slack Channel	#g_environments
Slack Alias	Environments Group
Handbook Page	Environments Group
Focus	TBD
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Viktor Nagy
Development	Nicolò Maria Mezzopera
Backend Engineering	Staff Backend Engineer Taka Nishida Tiger Watson Timo Furrer
Frontend Engineering	Andrew Fontaine Anna Vovchenko
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Support	Lewis Brown
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Quality Department Delivery Team Reliability Engineering Devin Sylva Distribution Team AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group

Name	Maturity	Links
Auto DevOps	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Continuous Delivery	Competitive	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Deployment Management	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Environment Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Feature Flags	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Infrastructure as Code	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Release Orchestration	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

CI section

Slack Channel	#ci-section
Handbook Page
Product	Jackie Porter
Development	Sam Goldstein
Site Reliability Engineering	Dave Smith Gerardo "Gerir" Lopez-Fernandez
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    ci[CI section]-->s_package[Package stage];

    
        s_package-->g_container_registry["Container Registry
        group"];
        click g_container_registry "/handbook/product/categories/#package-group";
    
        s_package-->g_package_registry["Package Registry
        group"];
        click g_package_registry "/handbook/product/categories/#package-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    ci[CI section]-->s_verify[Verify stage];

    
        s_verify-->g_ci_platform["CI Platform
        group"];
        click g_ci_platform "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_verify-->g_hosted_runners["Hosted Runners
        group"];
        click g_hosted_runners "/handbook/product/categories/#hosted-runners";
    
        s_verify-->g_pipeline_authoring["Pipeline Authoring
        group"];
        click g_pipeline_authoring "/handbook/product/categories/#pipeline-authoring-group";
    
        s_verify-->g_pipeline_execution["Pipeline Execution
        group"];
        click g_pipeline_execution "/handbook/product/product-categories/#pipeline-execution-group";
    
        s_verify-->g_runner["Runner
        group"];
        click g_runner "/handbook/product/categories/#runner-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Package stage

Slack Channel	#s_package
Handbook Page	Package Stage
Product	Tim Rizzi
Development	Crystal Poole
Software Engineer in Test	Tiffany Rea
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

Container Registry group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
7	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_container-registry
Slack Alias	container-registry-group
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/container-registry-group
Handbook Page
Focus	Container Registry GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tim Rizzi
Development	Crystal Poole
Backend Engineering	Backend Engineer Hayley Swimelar Jaime Martínez João Pereira Senior Backend Engineer Senior Backend Engineer
Frontend Engineering	Rahul Chanila
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Support	Kate Grechishkina
Technical Writing	Lysanne Pinto
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
Internal Customers	Distribution Team Infrastructure Department Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Container Registry	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Virtual Registry	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Dependency Firewall	Planned 2025	Direction Page

Package Registry group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
5	4	1

Slack Channel	#g_package-registry
Slack Alias	package-registry-group
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/package-registry-group
Handbook Page
Focus	Package Registry GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tim Rizzi
Development	Crystal Poole
Backend Engineering	David Fernandez Dzmitry Meshcharakou Moaz Khalifa Rad Batnag
Frontend Engineering	Rahul Chanila
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Support	Kate Grechishkina
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers
Internal Customers	Distribution Team Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Package Registry	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Helm Chart Registry	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Verify stage

Slack Channel	#s_verify
Product	Jackie Porter
Development	Cheryl Li
Software Engineer in Test	Tiffany Rea
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

CI Platform group

Total Engineers	Backend
3	3

Slack Channel	#g_ci-platform
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jackie Porter
Development	Cheryl Li
Backend Engineering	Senior Backend Engineer Marius Bobin Tianwen Chen
Support	Manuel Grabowski

Name	Maturity	Links
Continuous Integration (CI) Scaling	Viable	Direction Page

Hosted Runners group

Total Engineers	SRE
1	1

Slack Channel	#g_hosted_runners
Focus	Verify & Hosted runners SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gabriel Engel
Development	Nicole Williams
Site Reliability Engineering	Rehab Hassanein
Software Engineer in Test	Joy Roodnick
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Support	Michael Trainor Justin Farmiloe
Technical Writing	Roshni Sarangadharan
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins
Customer Success	Rachel Fuerst Vladimir Dzalbo
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department Engineering Department Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Hosted Runners	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Pipeline Authoring group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
6	5	1

Slack Channel	#g_pipeline-authoring
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Viktor Nagy
Development	Nicolò Maria Mezzopera
Backend Engineering	Avielle Wolfe Furkan Ayhan Kasia Misirli Laura Montemayor Rajendra Kadam
Frontend Engineering	Briley Sandlin
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Sunjung Park
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Support	Luminus Alabi Segolene Bouly Manuel Grabowski
Technical Writing	Marcel Amirault
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Customer Success	Rachel Fuerst Vladimir Dzalbo
Internal Customers	Quality Department UX Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Pipeline Composition	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Variables	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page
Component Catalog	Minimal	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Pipeline Execution group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
8	6	2

Slack Channel	#g_pipeline-execution
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Rutvik Shah
Development	Caroline Simpson
Backend Engineering	Allison Browne Daniel Prause Hordur Freyr Yngvason Max Fan Panos Kanellidis Vlad Wolanyk
Frontend Engineering	Jose Ivan Vargas Payton Burdette
Software Engineer in Test	Tiffany Rea
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Veethika M
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Support	Paul Murray Charl Marais Manuel Grabowski
Technical Writing	Lysanne Pinto
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Customer Success	Rachel Fuerst Vladimir Dzalbo
Internal Customers	Quality Department UX Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Continuous Integration (CI)	Competitive	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Merge Trains	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Code Testing and Coverage	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Review Apps	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Job Artifacts	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Pipeline Reports	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Runner group

Total Engineers	Backend	SRE
13	12	1

Slack Channel	#g_runner
Focus	Verify & Runner SMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Darren Eastman
Development	Nicole Williams
Backend Engineering	Adrien Kohlbecker Arran Walker Axel von Bertoldi Cam Swords Davis Bickford Georgi Georgiev Hannes Hörl Joe Shaw Joe Burnett Pedro Pombeiro Romuald Atchadé Tomasz Maczukin
Site Reliability Engineering	Rehab Hassanein
Software Engineer in Test	Joy Roodnick
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Gina Doyle
Product Marketing	Dan Hom
Support	Michael Trainor Justin Farmiloe
Technical Writing	Roshni Sarangadharan
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins
Customer Success	Rachel Fuerst Vladimir Dzalbo
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Runner Core	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Fleet Visibility	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Core Platform section

Product	Mike Flouton
Development	Marin Jankovski
Product Design	Taurie Davis
UX Research	Thaina Tavares
Infrastructure Manager	Dave Smith
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    core_platform[Core Platform section]-->s_foundations[Foundations stage];

    
        s_foundations-->g_design_system["Design System
        group"];
        click g_design_system "/handbook/product/categories/#design_system-group";
    
        s_foundations-->g_global_search["Global Search
        group"];
        click g_global_search "/handbook/product/categories/#global-search-group";
    
        s_foundations-->g_import_and_integrate["Import and Integrate
        group"];
        click g_import_and_integrate "/handbook/product/categories/#import_and_integrate-group";
    
        s_foundations-->g_personal_productivity["Personal Productivity
        group"];
        click g_personal_productivity "/handbook/product/categories/#personal_productivity-group";
    
        s_foundations-->g_ux_paper_cuts["UX Paper Cuts
        group"];
        click g_ux_paper_cuts "/handbook/product/categories/#ux_paper_cuts-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    core_platform[Core Platform section]-->s_systems[Systems stage];

    
        s_systems-->g_cloud_connector["Cloud Connector
        group"];
        click g_cloud_connector "/handbook/product/categories/#cloud-connector-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Foundations stage

Slack Channel	#s_manage
Development	Michelle Gill
Software Engineer in Test	Nivetha Prabakaran
Product Design	Chris Micek

Design System group

Total Engineers	Frontend
4	4

Slack Channel	#g_pajamas-design-system
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/manage
Focus	Driving Pajamas adoption
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jeff Tucker
Development	Sam Beckham
Frontend Engineering	James Rushford Staff Frontend Engineer Scott de Jonge Vanessa Otto
Product Design	Chris Micek
Product Designer	Ian Gloude Dan Mizzi-Harris Jeremy Elder
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Internal Customers	Alliances Department Customer Success Quality Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Pajamas Design System		Documentation Page Direction Page

Global Search group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
9	8	1

Slack Channel	#g_global_search
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/search-team
Handbook Page	Global Search Group
Focus	Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Ben Venker
Development	Changzheng Liu
Backend Engineering	Arturo Herrero Changzheng Liu Dmitry Gruzd John Mason Madelein van Niekerk Ravi Kumar Siddharth Dungarwal Terri Chu
Frontend Engineering	Tomáš Bulva
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Brenda Nyaringita Cleveland Bledsoe Jr
Technical Writing	Ashraf Khamis
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Customer Success Infrastructure Department Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Global Search	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Code Search	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Import and Integrate group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
10	8	2

Slack Channel	#g_manage_import_and_integrate
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/manage/import-and-integrate
Focus	Manage Import and Integrate GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Magdalena Frankiewicz
Development	Martin Wortschack
Backend Engineering	Carla Drago Senior Backend Engineer James Nutt Keeyan Nejad Luke Duncalfe Reza Marandi Rodrigo Tomonari Sam Word
Frontend Engineering	Justin Ho Oiza Baiye
Support	Anton Smith
Technical Writing	Ashraf Khamis
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Alliances Department Customer Success Quality Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
API		Documentation Page Direction Page
Integrations	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Webhooks		Documentation Page Direction Page
Importers		Documentation Page Direction Page
Internationalization		Documentation Page Direction Page

Personal Productivity group

Total Engineers	Frontend
3	3

Slack Channel	#g_personal_productivity
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/foundations/personal-productivity
Focus	Driving Pajamas adoption
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jeff Tucker
Development	Sam Beckham
Frontend Engineering	Lukas Eipert Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt Thomas Hutterer
Product Design	Jacki Bauer
UX Research	Thaina Tavares
Product Designer	Amelia Bauerly Austin Regnery
Technical Writing	Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Internal Customers	Alliances Department Customer Success Quality Department Infrastructure Department Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Navigation		Direction Page
Settings		Direction Page
Notifications		Documentation Page Direction Page

UX Paper Cuts group

Slack Channel	#g_ux_paper_cuts
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/foundations/ux-paper-cuts
Handbook Page
Focus	The UX Paper Cuts team is responsible for identifying and fixing small, impactful usability issues in the GitLab product.
Features in this Group	Features
Product Designer	Chad Lavimoniere Julia Miocene Sascha Eggenberger Annabel Dunstone Gray

Systems stage

Slack Channel	#s_core_platform
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/core-platform-section
Handbook Page	Core Platform Sub-department
Product	Roger Woo
Development	Marin Jankovski
Software Engineer in Test	Vishal Patel

Cloud Connector group

Total Engineers	Backend
4	4

Slack Channel	#g_cloud_connector
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/cloud-connector-team
Handbook Page	Cloud Connector Group
Focus	Cloud Connector PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sacha Guyon
Backend Engineering Manager	Paul John Phillips
Backend Engineering	Aleksei Lipniagov Matthias Käppler Nikola Milojevic Roy Zwambag
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Gabriel Yoachum
Technical Writing	Jon Glassman
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Cloud Connector		Direction Page

Data Science section

Product	Hillary Benson
Development	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Jacki Bauer
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  
    data-science[Data Science section]-->s_ai-powered[AI-powered stage];

    
        s_ai-powered-->g_ai_framework["AI Framework
        group"];
        click g_ai_framework "/handbook/product/categories/#ai-framework-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_ai_model_validation["AI Model Validation
        group"];
        click g_ai_model_validation "/handbook/product/categories/#ai-model-validation-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_custom_models["Custom Models
        group"];
        click g_custom_models "/handbook/product/categories/#custom-models-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_duo_chat["Duo Chat
        group"];
        click g_duo_chat "/handbook/product/categories/#duo-chat-group";
    
        s_ai-powered-->g_duo_workflow["Duo Workflow
        group"];
        click g_duo_workflow "/handbook/product/categories/#duo-workflow";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    data-science[Data Science section]-->s_modelops[ModelOps stage];

    
        s_modelops-->g_dataops["DataOps
        group"];
        click g_dataops "/handbook/product/categories/#dataops-group";
    
        s_modelops-->g_mlops["MLOps
        group"];
        click g_mlops "/handbook/product/categories/#mlops-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

AI-powered stage

Slack Channel	#s_ai-powered
Handbook Page	Data Science
Product	Roger Woo
Development	Michelle Gill
Product Design	Jacki Bauer

AI Framework group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
11	10	1

Slack Channel	#g_ai_framework
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Ben Venker
Development	David O'Regan
Backend Engineering	Alexander Chueshev Alejandro Rodríguez Halil Coban Backend Engineer Joey Khabie Małgorzata Ksionek Mark Lapierre Michael Thomas Nathan Weinshenker Surabhi Suman
Frontend Engineering	Andrew Fontaine
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Emily Bauman
Support	John Gaughan
Technical Writing	Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
AI Abstraction Layer	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

AI Model Validation group

Total Engineers	Backend
4	4

Slack Channel	#g_ai_model_validation
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Susie Bitters
Development	Michelle Gill
Backend Engineering	Andras Herczeg Hongtao Yang Stephan Rayner Tan Le
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
AI Evaluation	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
AI Research	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Custom Models group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
7	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_custom_models
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Susie Bitters
Development	Sean Carroll
Backend Engineering	Bruno Cardoso Eduardo Bonet Igor Drozdov Patrick Cyiza Manoj Memana Jayakumar Mohamed Hamda
Frontend Engineering	Julie Huang
Product Designer	Timothy Noah
Support	Vidhya Hariharan
Technical Writing	Jon Glassman
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
Model Personalization	Minimal	Direction Page
Self-Hosted Models	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Duo Chat group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
7	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_duo_chat
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Torsten Linz
Development	Juan Silva
Backend Engineering	Dillon Wheeler Eva Kadlecová Lesley Razzaghian Mark Chao Shinya Maeda Tetiana Chupryna
Frontend Engineering	Jannik Lehmann
Support	Duncan Harris
Technical Writing	Jon Glassman
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
Duo Chat	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Duo Workflow group

Slack Channel	#g_duo_workflow
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Pini Wietchner
Development	Sebastian Rehm
UX Research	Erika Feldman
Product Designer	Pedro Moreira da Silva
Support	John Gaughan
Technical Writing	Suzanne Selhorn
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Paulo Martins

Name	Maturity	Links
Duo Workflow	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

ModelOps stage

Slack Channel	#s_modelops
Handbook Page	Data Science
Product	Taylor McCaslin
Development	Sean Carroll
Product Design	Jacki Bauer

DataOps group

Slack Channel	#s_modelops
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Taylor McCaslin
Development	Sean Carroll
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison

Name	Maturity	Links
DataOps	Planned 2025	Direction Page

MLOps group

Total Engineers	Backend
2	2

Slack Channel	#g_mlops
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Taylor McCaslin
Development	Sean Carroll
Backend Engineering	Alper Akgun Fred de Gier
Product Designer	Graham Bachelder
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison

Name	Maturity	Links
MLOps	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
AI Agents	Planned 2024	Documentation Page Direction Page

Dev section

Product	Steve Evangelista
Development	Tim Zallmann
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden Taurie Davis
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills Danika Teverovsky
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  
    dev[Dev section]-->s_create[Create stage];

    
        s_create-->g_code_creation["Code Creation
        group"];
        click g_code_creation "/handbook/product/categories/#code-suggestions";
    
        s_create-->g_code_review["Code Review
        group"];
        click g_code_review "/handbook/product/categories/#code-review-group";
    
        s_create-->g_editor_extensions["Editor Extensions
        group"];
        click g_editor_extensions "/handbook/product/categories/#editor-extensions";
    
        s_create-->g_remote_development["Remote Development
        group"];
        click g_remote_development "/handbook/product/categories/#remote-development-group";
    
        s_create-->g_source_code["Source Code
        group"];
        click g_source_code "/handbook/product/categories/#source-code-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    dev[Dev section]-->s_plan[Plan stage];

    
        s_plan-->g_knowledge["Knowledge
        group"];
        click g_knowledge "/handbook/product/product-categories/#knowledge-group";
    
        s_plan-->g_optimize["Optimize
        group"];
        click g_optimize "/handbook/product/categories/#value-stream-management-group";
    
        s_plan-->g_product_planning["Product Planning
        group"];
        click g_product_planning "/handbook/product/categories/#product_planning";
    
        s_plan-->g_project_management["Project Management
        group"];
        click g_project_management "/handbook/product/categories/#project-management-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Create stage

Slack Channel	#s_create
Product	Derek Ferguson
Development	Darva Satcher
Software Engineer in Test	Jay McCure
Product Design	Andy Volpe

Code Creation group

Total Engineers	Backend
10	10

Slack Channel	#g_code_creation
Handbook Page	Create:Code Creation Group
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jordan Janes
Backend Engineering Manager	Matt Nohr
Backend Engineering	Allen Cook Backend Engineer Jan Provaznik Leaminn Ma Mikołaj Wawrzyniak Missy Davies Pam Artiaga Shola Quadri Tian Gao Vitali Tatarintev
Support	John Gaughan
Technical Writing	Jon Glassman

Name	Maturity	Links
Code Suggestions	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Code Review group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
9	5	4

Slack Channel	#g_create_code-review
Handbook Page	Create:Code Review Group
Focus	Create Code Review GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Kai Armstrong
Backend Engineering Manager	François Rosé
Backend Engineering	Sincheol (David) Kim Gary Holtz Kinshuk Singh Marc Shaw Patrick Bajao
Frontend Engineering Manager	André Luís
Frontend Engineering	André Luís Phil Hughes Stanislav Lashmanov Thomas Randolph
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Michael Le
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Ben King
Technical Writing	Amy Qualls
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Marketing Department Product Department Product Security Department Ameya Darshan

Name	Maturity	Links
Code Review Workflow	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page
GitLab CLI	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Editor Extensions group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
11	6	5

Slack Channel	#g_editor-extensions
Handbook Page	Create:Editor Extensions Group
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dasha Adushkina
Development	Kisha Mavryck Richardson
Backend Engineering	Anna Springfield Dylan Bernardi Erran Carey John Slaughter Karl Jamoralin Laura Ionel
Frontend Engineering	Andrei Zubov Elwyn Benson Olena HK. Tomas Vik Tristan Read
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Technical Writing	Amy Qualls

Name	Maturity	Links
Editor Extensions	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Remote Development group

Total Engineers	Frontend
2	2

Slack Channel	#g_create_ide
Handbook Page	Create:Remote Development Group
Focus	Create Remote Development GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Michelle Chen
Development	Adebayo Adesanya
Frontend Engineering	Enrique Alcántara Paul Slaughter
Software Engineer in Test	Nivetha Prabakaran
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Taylor Vanderhelm
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Chris Stone
Technical Writing	Brendan Lynch
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Internal Customers	Marketing Department Engineering Department Finance Department People Operations Product Department Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Web IDE	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Workspaces	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Source Code group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
14	10	4

Slack Channel	#g_create_source-code
Handbook Page
Focus	Create Source Code GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Marie-Christine Babin
Backend Engineering Manager	Devi Poosarla
Backend Engineering	Emma Park Fred Reinink Gavin Hinfey Hunter Stewart Jerry Seto Javiera Tapia Joe Woodward Kerri Miller Olaoluwa Oluro Vasilii Iakliushin
Frontend Engineering Manager	André Luís
Frontend Engineering	André Luís Jacques Erasmus Chaoyue Zhao Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska
UX Research	Ben Leduc-Mills
Product Designer	Alyssa Trinh
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Brendan Lynch
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Customer Success	Conley Rogers Simon Mansfield
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Marketing Department Aathira Nair Product Department Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Source Code Management	Complete	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Plan stage

Slack Channel	#s_plan
Product	Gabe Weaver
Development	John Hope
Software Engineer in Test	Désirée Chevalier
Product Design	Caitlin Steele

Knowledge group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
5	4	1

Slack Channel	#g_knowledge
Handbook Page
Focus	Plan Knowledge Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Matthew Macfarlane
Development	Vladimir Shushlin
Backend Engineering	Brett Walker Janis Altherr Naman Jagdish Gala Piotr Skorupa
Frontend Engineering	Himanshu Kapoor
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Alex Fracazo
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Customer Success	Simon Mansfield
Internal Customers	Technical Writing Susan Tacker

Name	Maturity	Links
Wiki	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Pages	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Text Editors	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
Markdown	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page

Optimize group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
5	2	3

Slack Channel	#g_plan_optimize
Focus	Plan Optimize GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Haim Snir
Development	Brandon Labuschagne
Backend Engineering	Felipe Artur Pavel Shutsin
Frontend Engineering	Alex Pennells Ezekiel Kigbo Rudy Crespo
Product Design	Justin Mandell
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Libor Vanc
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Gabriel Yoachum
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Product Department Quality Department Development Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Value Stream Management	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
DORA Metrics	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
DevOps Reports	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Product Planning group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
7	3	4

Slack Channel	#g_product-planning
Focus	Plan Product Planning Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Amanda Rueda
Development	Kushal Pandya
Backend Engineering	Eugenia Grieff Kassio Borges Nicolas Dular
Frontend Engineering	Anastasia Khomchenko Florie Guibert Jack Chapman Rajan Mistry
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Nick Brandt
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Technical Writing	Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Product Department Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Portfolio Management	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
OKR Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Design Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Requirements Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Quality Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Project Management group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
11	6	5

Slack Channel	#g_project-management
Handbook Page	Plan:Project Management
Focus	Plan Project Management Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gabe Weaver
Development	Donald Cook
Backend Engineering	Alexandru Croitor Agnes Slota Heinrich Lee Yu Mario Celi Marc Saleiko Stefanos Xanthopoulos
Frontend Engineering	Senior Frontend Engineer Deepika Guliani Marc Saleiko Natalia Tepluhina Simon Knox
UX Research	Danika Teverovsky
Product Designer	Nick Leonard
Product Marketing	Aathira Nair
Support	Ben Prescott
Technical Writing	Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski
Application Security Engineer	Costel Maxim
Internal Customers	Engineering Department Product Department Security Division

Name	Maturity	Links
Team Planning	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Service Desk	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Fulfillment section

Product	Courtney Meddaugh
Development	Jerome Ng
Product Design	Taurie Davis
UX Research	Anne Lasch Nick Hertz
Infrastructure Manager	Dave Smith
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    fulfillment[Fulfillment section]-->s_fulfillment[Fulfillment stage];

    
        s_fulfillment-->g_fulfillment_platform["Fulfillment Platform
        group"];
        click g_fulfillment_platform "/handbook/product/categories/#fulfillment-platform-group";
    
        s_fulfillment-->g_provision["Provision
        group"];
        click g_provision "/handbook/product/categories/#provision-group";
    
        s_fulfillment-->g_subscription_management["Subscription Management
        group"];
        click g_subscription_management "/handbook/product/categories/#subscription-management-group";
    
        s_fulfillment-->g_utilization["Utilization
        group"];
        click g_utilization "/handbook/product/categories/#utilization-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Fulfillment stage

Slack Channel	#s_fulfillment
Product	Courtney Meddaugh
Development	Jerome Ng
Software Engineer in Test	Valerie Burton Richard Chong
Product Design	Emily Sybrant
UX Research	Anne Lasch Nick Hertz

Fulfillment Platform group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
7	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_fulfillment_platform
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Priyanka Palanikumar
Development	James Lopez
Backend Engineering	Aishwarya Subramanian Etienne Baqué Shreyas Agarwal Tarun Vellishetty Tyler Amos Vladlena Shumilo
Frontend Engineering	Tarun Vellishetty
Product Designer	Lina Fowler Timothy Noah
Support	Tom McAtee
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund

Name	Maturity	Links
Fulfillment Infradev	Viable	Direction Page
CustomersDot and quote to cash integrations	Viable	Direction Page
Fulfillment Internal Admin Tooling	Minimal	Direction Page

Provision group

Total Engineers	Backend
4	4

Slack Channel	#g_provision
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Priyanka Palanikumar
Development	Ragnar Hardarson
Backend Engineering	Bishwa Hang Rai Corinna Gogolok Paulo Barros Qingyu Zhao
Product Designer	Lina Fowler Timothy Noah
Support	Keven Hughes
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni

Name	Maturity	Links
Plan Provisioning	Viable	Direction Page
Add-on Provisioning	Viable	Direction Page
User Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Subscription Management group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
6	3	3

Slack Channel	#g_subscription_management
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Tatyana Golubeva
Development	Diana Zubova
Backend Engineering	Aman Luthra Josianne Hyson Ryan Cobb
Frontend Engineering	Michael Lunøe Sharmad Nachnolkar Vamsi Vempati
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Product Designer	Lina Fowler Timothy Noah
Support	Firdaws Farukh
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund

Name	Maturity	Links
Subscription Management	Viable	Direction Page

Utilization group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
7	3	4

Slack Channel	#g_utilization
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Alexandra Martin
Development	James Lopez
Backend Engineering	Jason Goodman Suraj Tripathi Vijay Hawoldar
Frontend Engineering	Ammar Alakkad Angelo Gulina Kos Palchyk Sheldon Led
UX Research	Nick Hertz
Product Designer	Lina Fowler Timothy Noah
Support	Shem Gyll
Technical Writing	Lorena Ciutacu
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George

Name	Maturity	Links
Consumables Cost Management	Viable	Direction Page
Seat Cost Management	Viable	Direction Page

Growth section

Product	Paige Cordero Gayle Doud
Development	Kamil Niechajewicz Jerome Ng
Infrastructure Manager	Dave Smith
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Tiffany Chen

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    growth[Growth section]-->s_growth[Growth stage];

    
        s_growth-->g_acquisition["Acquisition
        group"];
        click g_acquisition "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_growth-->g_activation["Activation
        group"];
        click g_activation "/handbook/<no value>";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Growth stage

Slack Channel	#s_growth
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/growth
Handbook Page
Development	Kamil Niechajewicz
Internal Customers	Sales Department Marketing Department Product Department Finance Department

Acquisition group

Total Engineers	Backend
6	6

Slack Channel	#g_acquisition
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Gayle Doud
Development	Kamil Niechajewicz
Backend Engineering	Buck O'Leary David Hamp-Gonsalves Doug Stull Jay Montal Roy Liu Serhii Yarynovskyi
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George

Name	Maturity	Links
Acquisition		Direction Page
Onboarding		Direction Page

Activation group

Slack Channel	#g_activation
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Paige Cordero
Development	Kamil Niechajewicz
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George

Name	Maturity	Links
Activation		Direction Page

Infrastructure Platforms section

Product	Fabian Zimmer
Development	Marin Jankovski
Product Design	Marcel van Remmerden
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Infrastructure Manager	Dave Smith
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  

  

  
    infrastructure_platforms[Infrastructure Platforms section]-->s_data_access[Data Access stage];

    
        s_data_access-->g_database_frameworks["Database Frameworks
        group"];
        click g_database_frameworks "/handbook/product/categories/#database-group";
    
        s_data_access-->g_database_operations["Database Operations
        group"];
        click g_database_operations "/handbook/product/categories/#database-group";
    
        s_data_access-->g_durability["Durability
        group"];
        click g_durability "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_data_access-->g_git["Git
        group"];
        click g_git "/handbook/product/categories/#git-group";
    
        s_data_access-->g_gitaly["Gitaly
        group"];
        click g_gitaly "/handbook/product/categories/#gitalycluster-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    infrastructure_platforms[Infrastructure Platforms section]-->s_gitlab_dedicated[GitLab Dedicated stage];

    
        s_gitlab_dedicated-->g_environment_automation["Environment Automation
        group"];
        click g_environment_automation "/handbook/product/categories/#gitlab-dedicated-group";
    
        s_gitlab_dedicated-->g_pubsec_services["US Public Sector Services
        group"];
        click g_pubsec_services "/handbook/product/categories/#us-public-sector-services-group";
    
        s_gitlab_dedicated-->g_switchboard["Switchboard
        group"];
        click g_switchboard "/handbook/product/categories/#switchboard";
    
  

  
    infrastructure_platforms[Infrastructure Platforms section]-->s_gitlab_delivery[GitLab Delivery stage];

    
        s_gitlab_delivery-->g_build["GitLab Build
        group"];
        click g_build "/handbook/product/categories/#distribution-group";
    
        s_gitlab_delivery-->g_deploy["GitLab Deploy
        group"];
        click g_deploy "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_gitlab_delivery-->g_framework["Framework
        group"];
        click g_framework "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_gitlab_delivery-->g_release["GitLab Release
        group"];
        click g_release "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_gitlab_delivery-->g_self_managed["Self Managed
        group"];
        click g_self_managed "/handbook/product/categories/#distribution-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    infrastructure_platforms[Infrastructure Platforms section]-->s_production_engineering[Production Engineering stage];

    
        s_production_engineering-->g_foundations["Foundations
        group"];
        click g_foundations "/handbook/product/categories/";
    
        s_production_engineering-->g_observability["Observability
        group"];
        click g_observability "/handbook/product/categories/";
    
        s_production_engineering-->g_ops["Ops
        group"];
        click g_ops "/handbook/product/categories/";
    
        s_production_engineering-->g_runway["Runway
        group"];
        click g_runway "/handbook/product/categories/";
    
  

  

  

  

  
    infrastructure_platforms[Infrastructure Platforms section]-->s_tenant_scale[Tenant Scale stage];

    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_cells_infrastructure["Cells Infrastructure
        group"];
        click g_cells_infrastructure "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_geo["Geo
        group"];
        click g_geo "/handbook/product/categories/#geo-group";
    
        s_tenant_scale-->g_organizations["Organizations
        group"];
        click g_organizations "/handbook/product/categories/#tenant-scale-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Data Access stage

Slack Channel	#s_data_access
Product	Mark Wood
Development	Andras Horvath
Software Engineer in Test	John McDonnell
Product Design	Chris Micek

Database Frameworks group

Total Engineers	Backend
9	9

Slack Channel	#g_database_frameworks
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/database-team
Handbook Page
Focus	Database PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sampath Ranasinghe
Backend Engineering Manager	Alex Ives
Backend Engineering	Alex Ives Backend Engineer Jon Jenkins Krasimir Angelov Leonardo da Rosa Matt Kasa Maxime Orefice Prabakaran Murugesan Simon Tomlinson
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Ben Prescott
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Database		Direction Page

Database Operations group

Slack Channel	#g_database_operations
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/database-team
Handbook Page	Database Operations Team (formerly known as the Database Reliablity Engineering (DBRE) team)
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sampath Ranasinghe
Backend Engineering Manager	Rick Mar
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Ben Prescott
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Durability group

Slack Channel	#g_durability
Handbook Page	Data Access Durability Team
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sampath Ranasinghe
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Backup/Restore of GitLab instances	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Redis		Direction Page

Git group

Total Engineers	Backend
5	5

Slack Channel	#g_git
Handbook Page	Git Team
Focus	Driving Git adoption
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Mark Wood
Backend Engineering Manager	Patrick Steinhardt
Backend Engineering	Christian Couder Justin Tobler Karthik Nayak Patrick Steinhardt Toon Claes
Support	Gerardo Gutierrez
Technical Writing	Evan Read
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Git		Documentation Page Direction Page

Gitaly group

Total Engineers	Backend
10	10

Slack Channel	#g_gitaly
Handbook Page	Gitaly Team
Focus	Gitaly GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Mark Wood
Backend Engineering Manager	John Cai
Backend Engineering	Divya Rani Emily Chui Eric Ju James Fargher James Liu John Cai Mustafa Bayar Quang-Minh Nguyen Sami Hiltunen Tim Schumacher
Software Engineer in Test	John McDonnell
Support	David Wainaina Gerardo Gutierrez
Technical Writing	Evan Read
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Customer Success	Conley Rogers Simon Mansfield
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Gitaly		Documentation Page Direction Page

GitLab Dedicated stage

Slack Channel	#f_gitlab_dedicated
GitLab Group	@gitlab-com/gl-infra/platform
Handbook Page	Development
Product	Fabian Zimmer
Software Engineer in Test	Brittany Wilkerson
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo

Environment Automation group

Slack Channel	#f_gitlab_dedicated
GitLab Group	@TBD
Handbook Page	GitLab Dedicated Group
Focus	GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Chris Balane
Backend Engineering Manager	Oriol Lluch
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Wei-Meng Lee Wade Jenkins Daphne Kua Brie Carranza Armin Hergenhan
Technical Writing	Emily Sahlani
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Dhruv Jain
Customer Success	Zane J Chua

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Dedicated		Documentation Page Direction Page

US Public Sector Services group

Slack Channel	#TBD
Slack Alias	TBD
GitLab Group	@TBD
Focus	GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Backend Engineering Manager	Amy Phillips
Software Engineer in Test	Jim Baumgardner
Support	Wade Jenkins
Technical Writing	Emily Sahlani
Application Security Engineer	Greg Myers

Name	Maturity	Links
US Public Sector Services		Documentation Page Direction Page

Switchboard group

Slack Channel	#g_dedicated_switchboard
GitLab Group	@TBD
Handbook Page	Switchboard team
Focus	GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Loryn Bortins
Backend Engineering Manager	Amy Shiel
Product Design	Rayana Verissimo
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Product Designer	Jesse Hoek
Support	Armin Hergenhan
Technical Writing	Emily Sahlani
Application Security Engineer	Greg Alfaro
Customer Success	Zane J Chua

Name	Maturity	Links
Switchboard		Documentation Page Direction Page

GitLab Delivery stage

Slack Channel	#s_software_delivery
Product	Sam Wiskow
Development	Michele Bursi
Software Engineer in Test	John McDonnell
Product Design	Chris Micek

GitLab Build group

Total Engineers	Backend
8	8

Slack Channel	#g_distribution
Slack Alias	distributionteam
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/distribution
Handbook Page	Distribution
Focus	Distribution PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dilan Orrino
Backend Engineering Manager	Denis Afonso
Backend Engineering	Andrew Patterson Alec Xu Balasankar 'Balu' C Dmitry Makovey Dustin Collins Pratik Singh Ryan Egesdahl Robert Marshall
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Technical Writing	Evan Read Achilleas Pipinellis
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department Customer Success Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Build	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

GitLab Deploy group

Total Engineers	Backend	SRE
5	2	3

Slack Channel	#g_delivery
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/delivery
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Martin Brümmer
Development	Dave Smith
Backend Engineering	Alessio Caiazza Reuben Pereira
Site Reliability Engineering	Anthony Maina Ng'ang'a John T Skarbek Site Reliability Engineer
UX Research	Will Leidheiser

Name	Maturity	Links
Delivery		Documentation Page Direction Page

Framework group

Slack Channel	#g_software_delivery-framework
Features in this Group	Features
Development	Lekan Sogunle
UX Research	Will Leidheiser

Name	Maturity	Links
Delivery		Documentation Page Direction Page

GitLab Release group

Total Engineers	Backend	SRE
5	2	3

Slack Channel	#g_delivery
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/delivery
Handbook Page
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Martin Brümmer
Development	Michele Bursi
Backend Engineering	Akinyele Cafe-Febrissy Mayra Cabrera
Site Reliability Engineering	Dat Tang Jenny Kim Mawreen Dela Cruz
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan

Name	Maturity	Links
Delivery		Documentation Page Direction Page

Self Managed group

Total Engineers	Backend
6	6

Slack Channel	#g_distribution
Slack Alias	distributionteam
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/distribution
Handbook Page	Distribution
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dilan Orrino
Backend Engineering Manager	Peter Lu
Backend Engineering	Clemens Beck Hossein Pursultani Jason Plum João Alexandre Prado Tavares Cunha Jon Doveston Lucas Li
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Priyan Sureshbabu
Technical Writing	Evan Read Achilleas Pipinellis
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department Customer Success

Name	Maturity	Links
Omnibus Package	Complete	Documentation Page Direction Page
Cloud Native Installation	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page

Production Engineering stage

Slack Channel	#s_production_engineering
Product	Sam Wiskow
Development	Rachel Nienaber
Software Engineer in Test	John McDonnell
Product Design	Chris Micek

Foundations group

Slack Channel	#g_foundations
Handbook Page	Production Engineering Foundations Team
Focus	TBD
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Development	Steve Abrams
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Platforms Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Rate Limiting Framework		Direction Page

Observability group

Slack Channel	#g_observability
Handbook Page
Focus	TBD
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Development	Liam McAndrew
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Platforms Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Error Budgets		Documentation Page Direction Page
Capacity Planning		Documentation Page Direction Page
Scalability		Documentation Page Direction Page

Ops group

Slack Channel	#g_production-engineering_ops
Handbook Page
Focus	TBD
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Development	Kam Kyrala
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Platforms Department

Name	Maturity	Links

Runway group

Slack Channel	#g_runway
Handbook Page
Focus	Service enabblement
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sam Wiskow
Development	Devin Sylva
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links

Tenant Scale stage

Slack Channel	#s_tenant_scale
Product	Mark Wood
Development	Nick Nguyen
Software Engineer in Test	Andy Hohenner
Product Design	Chris Micek

Cells Infrastructure group

Total Engineers	Backend
11	11

Slack Channel	#g_cells_infrastructure
Focus	Cells
Features in this Group	Features
Backend Engineering Manager	Nick Nguyen
Backend Engineering	Aaron Richter Bojan Marjanović David Leach Kamil Trzciński Jen-Shin Lin Nick Nguyen Omar Qunsul Rémy Coutable Sangwoo Han Thong Kuah Vladimir Glafirov
Technical Writing	Emily Sahlani
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Uday Govindia

Name	Maturity	Links
Cell		Direction Page

Geo group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
10	9	1

Slack Channel	#g_geo
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/geo-team
Handbook Page
Focus	Geo Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sampath Ranasinghe
Development	Lucie Zhao
Backend Engineering	Aakriti Gupta Chloé Fons Douglas Barbosa Alexandre Kamil Trzciński Michael Kozono Natanael Silva Rémy Coutable Scott Murray Thong Kuah
Frontend Engineering	Zack Cuddy
Software Engineer in Test	Nick Westbury
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Mario Mora Łukasz Korbasiewicz Daniel Diniz de Noronha Bo Carbonell
Technical Writing	Achilleas Pipinellis
Application Security Engineer	Ameya Darshan
Internal Customers	Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Geo-replication	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page
Disaster Recovery	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page

Organizations group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
9	8	1

Slack Channel	#g_organizations
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/tenant-scale-group
Handbook Page
Focus	Database PPI
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Christina Lohr
Backend Engineering	Abdul Wadood Alex Pooley Kamil Trzciński Rémy Coutable Rutger Wessels Shubham Kumar Shane Maglangit Thong Kuah
Frontend Engineering	Peter Hegman
UX Research	Will Leidheiser
Support	Bruno Freitas Asmaa Hassan Ahmed Ali Ben Prescott
Technical Writing	Emily Sahlani
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Infrastructure Security Engineer	Uday Govindia
Internal Customers	Quality Department Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Groups & Projects	Competitive	Documentation Page Direction Page
User Profile		Documentation Page Direction Page
Organization	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Sec section

Product	Hillary Benson
Product Design	Taurie Davis
Legal & Corporate Affairs	Iris Gorman

graph TD;

  

  
    sec[Sec section]-->s_application_security_testing[Application Security Testing stage];

    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_composition_analysis["Composition Analysis
        group"];
        click g_composition_analysis "/handbook/product/categories/#composition-analysis-group";
    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_dynamic_analysis["Dynamic Analysis
        group"];
        click g_dynamic_analysis "/handbook/product/categories/#dynamic-analysis-group";
    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_secret_detection["Secret Detection
        group"];
        click g_secret_detection "/handbook/product/categories/#secret-detection-group";
    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_static_analysis["Static Analysis
        group"];
        click g_static_analysis "/handbook/product/categories/#static-analysis-group";
    
        s_application_security_testing-->g_vulnerability_research["Vulnerability Research
        group"];
        click g_vulnerability_research "/handbook/product/categories/#vulnerability-research-group";
    
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    sec[Sec section]-->s_security_risk_management[Security Risk Management stage];

    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_infrastructure["Security Infrastructure
        group"];
        click g_security_infrastructure "/handbook/product/categories/#security-infrastructure-group";
    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_insights["Security Insights
        group"];
        click g_security_insights "/handbook/product/categories/#security-insights-group";
    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_platform_management["Security Platform Management
        group"];
        click g_security_platform_management "/handbook/product/categories/#security-platform-management-group";
    
        s_security_risk_management-->g_security_policies["Security Policies
        group"];
        click g_security_policies "/handbook/product/categories/#security-policies-group";
    
  

  
    sec[Sec section]-->s_software_supply_chain_security[Software Supply Chain Security stage];

    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_authentication["Authentication
        group"];
        click g_authentication "/handbook/product/product-categories#authentation-group";
    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_authorization["Authorization
        group"];
        click g_authorization "/handbook/<no value>";
    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_compliance["Compliance
        group"];
        click g_compliance "/handbook/product/product-categories#compliance-group";
    
        s_software_supply_chain_security-->g_pipeline_security["Pipeline Security
        group"];
        click g_pipeline_security "/handbook/product/categories/#pipeline-security-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Application Security Testing stage

Slack Channel	#s_application-security-testing
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure
Handbook Page	Secure Sub-Department
Product	Sarah Waldner
Development	Thomas Woodham
Software Engineer in Test	Will Meek
Product Design	Justin Mandell

Composition Analysis group

Total Engineers	Backend
9	9

Slack Channel	#g_ast-composition-analysis
Slack Alias	secure_composition_analysis_dev
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/composition-analysis-dev
Focus	Composition Analysis Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	John Crowley
Development	Tal Kopel
Backend Engineering	Oscar Tovar Igor Frenkel Nick Ilieskou Olivier Gonzalez Orin Naaman Tal Kopel Thiago Figueiró Yasha Rise Zamir Martins Filho
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Danny Bailey
Technical Writing	Russell Dickenson
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Customer Success	Bryan Miller Brian Wald Sam Morris
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Nikhil George Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Software Composition Analysis	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Container Scanning	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Dynamic Analysis group

Total Engineers	Backend
4	4

Slack Channel	#g_ast-dynamic-analysis
Slack Alias	secure_dynamic_analysis_be
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/dynamic-analysis-be
Focus	Dynamic Analysis Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	John Crowley
Development	Tal Kopel
Backend Engineering	Arpit Gogia David Nelson Hannah Baker Mike Eddington
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Kate Grechishkina
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Customer Success	Bryan Miller Brian Wald Sam Morris
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Nikhil George Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
DAST	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Fuzz Testing	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
API Security	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Attack Emulation

Secret Detection group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
8	7	1

Slack Channel	#g_ast-secret-detection
Slack Alias	ast_secret_detection_team
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/secret-detection
Focus	Secret Detection Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Alana Bellucci
Backend Engineering Manager	Amar Patel
Backend Engineering	Ahmed Hemdan Aditya Tiwari Craig Smith Ethan Urie Radu Birsan Serena Fang Vishwa Bhat
Frontend Engineering	Radu Birsan
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Technical Writing	Phillip Wells
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Customer Success	Bryan Miller Brian Wald Sam Morris
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Nikhil George Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Secret Detection	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Static Analysis group

Total Engineers	Backend
8	8

Slack Channel	#g_ast-static-analysis
Slack Alias	secure_static_analysis_team
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/secure/static-analysis
Focus	SAST Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Connor Gilbert
Backend Engineering Manager	Thiago Figueiró
Backend Engineering	Adam Cohen Hua Yan Jason Leasure Julian Thome Meir Benayoun Mher Tolpin Philip Cunningham Shao Ming Tan
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Christopher Chewa Mutua
Technical Writing	Russell Dickenson
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Customer Success	Bryan Miller Brian Wald Sam Morris
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Nikhil George Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
SAST	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Code Quality	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Vulnerability Research group

Total Engineers	Backend
6	6

Slack Channel	#g_ast-vulnerability-research
Focus	Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sarah Waldner
Backend Engineering Manager	Daniel Abeles
Backend Engineering	Alexander Dietrich Bhavya Kaushal Daniel Abeles Dinesh Bolkensteyn Isaac Dawson Michael Henriksen
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Mario Mora
Application Security Engineer	Nikhil George
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Dennis Appelt Engineering Department

Name	Maturity	Links
GitLab Advisory Database		Direction Page

Security Risk Management stage

Slack Channel	#s_srm
Product	Dean Agron
Software Engineer in Test	Harsha Muralidhar
Product Design	Justin Mandell

Security Infrastructure group

Total Engineers	Backend
8	8

Slack Channel	#g_srm_security_infrastructure
Focus	Threat Insights Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Backend Engineering Manager	Ryan Wells
Backend Engineering	Adrien Narinesingh Bala Kumar Subramani Gregory Havenga Mehmet Emin Inac Michał Zając Ryan Wells Schmil Monderer Rushik Subba

Name	Maturity	Links
Vulnerability Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Dependency Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Security Insights group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
10	5	5

Slack Channel	#g_srm_security_insights
Focus	Threat Insights Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Dean Agron
Backend Engineering	Brian Williams Charlie Kroon Subashis Chakraborty Ugo Nnanna Okeadu Michael Becker
Frontend Engineering	Charlie Kroon Dave Pisek Lorenz van Herwaarden Samantha Ming Savas Vedova
Fullstack Engineering Manager	Neil McCorrison
Product Designer	Becka Lippert
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Gerardo Gutierrez
Technical Writing	Ryan Lehmann
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Greg Myers

Name	Maturity	Links
Vulnerability Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Dependency Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Security Platform Management group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
7	4	3

Slack Channel	#g_srm_security_platform_management
Focus	Sec section GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Sara Meadzinger
Backend Engineering	Gal Katz Miki Amos Ross Fuhrman Senior Backend Engineer
Frontend Engineering	Chen Charnolevsky Dheeraj Joshi Miranda Fluharty
Fullstack Engineering Manager	Or Gal
Product Designer	Michael Fangman
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Gerardo Gutierrez
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Greg Myers

Name	Maturity	Links
Security Testing Configuration	Planned 2024	Direction Page
Security Asset Inventories	Planned 2024	Direction Page
Security Testing Integrations	Planned 2024	Direction Page

Security Policies group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
8	5	3

Slack Channel	#g_srm_security_policies
Focus	Security Policies Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Grant Hickman
Development	Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski
Backend Engineering	Andy Schoenen Dominic Bauer Marcos Rocha Martin Cavoj Sashi Kumar Kumaresan
Frontend Engineering	Alexander Turinske Artur Fedorov Martin Cavoj
Product Designer	Camellia X. Yang
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Ulises Fierro
Technical Writing	Ryan Lehmann
Application Security Engineer	Ottilia Westerlund
Customer Success	Mirko Brandner Yu-Chen Hsueh
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Dominic Couture Security Assurance Department Byron Boots Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Security Policy Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Software Supply Chain Security stage

Slack Channel	#s_govern
GitLab Group	@gitlab-org/govern
Handbook Page
Development	Thomas Woodham Jerome Ng
Software Engineer in Test	Harsha Muralidhar
Product Design	Justin Mandell

Authentication group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
8	6	2

Slack Channel	#g_software_supply_chain_security_authentication
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Authentication Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Hannah Sutor
Development	Adil Farrukh
Backend Engineering	Andrew Evans Bogdan Denkovych Drew Blessing Imre Farkas Smriti Garg Aboobacker MK
Frontend Engineering	Eduardo Sanz-Garcia Fernando Cardenas
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Support	Asmaa Hassan Ahmed Ali Jio Castillo Alvin Gounder
Technical Writing	Isaac Durham
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Internal Customers	Customer Support Department Product Security Department Rohit Shambhuni Corporate Security Department Jeff Martin Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
System Access	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page

Authorization group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
9	8	1

Slack Channel	#g_sscs_authorization
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Authorization Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Joe Randazzo
Development	Jay Swain
Backend Engineering	Ayush Billore Alex Buijs Diane Russel Eugie Limpin Hinam Mehra Ian Anderson Jarka Košanová Mo Khan
Frontend Engineering	Daniel Tian
Product Designer	Ilonah Pelaez
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Technical Writing	Isaac Durham
Application Security Engineer	Rohit Shambhuni
Internal Customers	Product Security Department Rohit Shambhuni Corporate Security Department Jeff Martin Security Operations Department Shawn Sichak

Name	Maturity	Links
Permissions	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Instance Resiliency	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Insider Threat	Minimal	Direction Page

Compliance group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
8	5	3

Slack Channel	#g_sscs_compliance
Focus	Software Supply Chain Security Compliance Paid GMAU
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Ian Khor
Development	Nathan Rosandich
Backend Engineering	Andrew Jung Harsimar Sandhu Hitesh Raghuvanshi Huzaifa Iftikhar Sam Figueroa
Frontend Engineering	Illya Klymov Nataliia Radina Sam Figueroa
Product Marketing	Salman Ladha
Technical Writing	Evan Read
Application Security Engineer	Kevin Morrison
Internal Customers	Customer Support Department Product Security Department Dominic Couture Security Assurance Department Byron Boots Infrastructure Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Audit Events	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Compliance Management	Viable	Documentation Page Direction Page
Release Evidence	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Software Supply Chain Security	Viable	Marketing Page Documentation Page Direction Page

Pipeline Security group

Total Engineers	Backend	Frontend
7	6	1

Slack Channel	#g_sscs_pipeline-security
Focus	Pipeline Security Sum of AMAUs
Features in this Group	Features
Product	Jocelyn Eillis
Development	Scott Hampton
Backend Engineering	Alex Scheel Dmytro Biryukov Erick Bajao Fabien Catteau Jayakrishnan Mallissery Shabini Rajadas
Frontend Engineering	Mireya Andres
Product Designer	Bonnie Tsang
Support	Nilanka De Silva Paul Murray Manuel Grabowski
Technical Writing	Marcel Amirault
Internal Customers	Quality Department UX Department Infrastructure Department AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group Product Security Department

Name	Maturity	Links
Artifact Security	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page
Secrets Management	Minimal	Documentation Page Direction Page

Single-Engineer Groups section

graph TD;

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    seg[Single-Engineer Groups section]-->s_mobile[Mobile stage];

    
        s_mobile-->g_mobile_devops["Mobile DevOps
        group"];
        click g_mobile_devops "/handbook/product/categories/#mobile-devops-group";

Click on a group name to see more details.

Mobile stage

Slack Channel	#s_mobile
Product	Darren Eastman

Mobile DevOps group

Slack Channel	#mobile-devops
Features in this Group	Features

Name	Maturity	Links
Mobile DevOps		Direction Page

Possible future Stages

We have boundless ambition, and we expect GitLab to continue to add new stages to the DevOps lifecycle. Below is a list of future stages we are considering:

Data, maybe leveraging Meltano product
Networking, maybe leveraging some of the open source standards for networking and/or Terraform networking providers
Design, we already have design management today

Stages are different from the application types you can service with GitLab.

Maturity

Not all categories are at the same level of maturity. Some are just minimal and some are lovable. See the category maturity page to see where each category stands.

Other functionality

This list of other functionality so you can easily find the team that owns it. Maybe we should make our features easier to search to replace the section below.

Other functionality in Plan stage

Plan stage

Project Management group

assignees
milestones
due dates
labels
issue weights
quick actions
email notifications
to-do list
Real-time features (excluding real-time collaboration)

Knowledge group

markdown functionality
rich text editor

Other functionality in Create stage

Create stage

Code Review group

Remote Development group

GitLab Workflow extension for Visual Studio Code

Other functionality in Verify

Product Analytics group

Analytics Dashboards - used by many groups to add visualizations or provide pre-configured dashboards to users

Facilitated functionality

Some product areas are have a broad impact across multiple stages. Examples of this include, among others:

Shared project views, like the project overview and settings page.
Functionality specific to the admin area and not tied to a feature belonging to a particular stage.
UI components available through our design system, Pajamas.
Dashboards for displaying analytics, such as Product Analytics, Value Stream Analytics, and others.

While the mental models for these areas are maintained by specific stage groups, everyone is encouraged to contribute within the guidelines that those teams establish. For example, anyone can contribute a new setting following the established guidelines for Settings. When a contribution is submitted that does not conform to those guidelines, we merge it and “fix forward” to encourage innovation.

If you encounter an issue falling into a facilitated area:

For issues that relate to updating the guidelines, apply the group::category label for the facilitating group.
For issues that relate to adding content related to a facilitated area, apply the group::category label for the most closely related group. For example, when adding a new setting related to Merge Requests, apply the group::source code label.

Shared responsibility functionality

There are certain product capabilities that are foundational in nature and affect or refer to horizontal components of the architecture that have an impact across functional groups and stages.

These capabilities may refer to “Facilitated Functionality” (see section above) where the mental models are owned by a particular group, while anyone can contribute. However, there may be others that will not have a clear owner because they don’t fall squarely into any particular group’s purview of product categories. Prime examples of this are issues related to the improvement or evolution of foundational components, frameworks and libraries that are used by several or all groups across the organization. Another example could be components created by special task groups in the past that have been since dissolved and that have not required continued development to justify the funding of a dedicated permanent group to maintain them.

Whatever the source of the functionality, rather than thinking of these components as “not having an owner”, it is important to think of them as being owned by everyone through the lens of shared responsibility. “Shared responsibility” means that every group should be committed and responsible to contribute to their continued maintenance, improvement and innovation.

Contribution, in this context, may manifest in different ways:

Triage by coordinating conversations with stakeholders from different functions and at different levels to find the right owner and/or set the right level of priority.
Product feature scoping and UX design by fleshing out the details of implementation in requirements documents and/or mockups.
Technical scoping and feasibility analysis for possible technical and architectural approaches to implementation
Actual implementation and release activities

It does not mean, however, that a single group should necessarily be solely responsible for all of these activities. Multiple groups could end up collaborating in execution. This coordination however requires a careful triage of the shared responsibility issues in the issue tracker where a single DRI coordinates these activities.

For more information please review this section in the quality department handbook to learn more about a decentralized approach to triaging these types of issues.

Categories A-Z

Category	Group
Acquisition `acquisition`	Acquisition
Activation `activation`	Activation
Add-on Provisioning `add-on_provisioning`	Provision
GitLab Advisory Database `advisory_database`	Vulnerability Research
AI Abstraction Layer `ai_abstraction_layer`	AI Framework
AI Agents `ai_agents`	MLOps
AI Evaluation `ai_evaluation`	AI Model Validation
AI Research `ai_research`	AI Model Validation
API `api`	Import and Integrate
API Security `api_security`	Dynamic Analysis
Application Instrumentation `application_instrumentation`	Analytics Instrumentation
Artifact Security `artifact_security`	Pipeline Security
Attack Emulation `attack_emulation`	Dynamic Analysis
Audit Events `audit_events`	Compliance
Auto DevOps `auto_devops`	Environments
Backup/Restore of GitLab instances `backup_restore`	Durability
Build `build`	GitLab Build
Capacity Planning `capacity_planning`	Observability
Cell `cell`	Cells Infrastructure
Continuous Integration (CI) Scaling `ci_scaling`	CI Platform
Variables `ci_variables`	Pipeline Authoring
Cloud Connector `cloud_connector`	Cloud Connector
Cloud Native Installation `cloud_native_installation`	Self Managed
Code Quality `code_quality`	Static Analysis
Code Review Workflow `code_review_workflow`	Code Review
Code Search `code_search`	Global Search
Code Suggestions `code_suggestions`	Code Creation
Code Testing and Coverage `code_testing`	Pipeline Execution
Compliance Management `compliance_management`	Compliance
Component Catalog `component_catalog`	Pipeline Authoring
Consumables Cost Management `consumables_cost_management`	Utilization
Container Registry `container_registry`	Container Registry
Container Scanning `container_scanning`	Composition Analysis
Continuous Delivery `continuous_delivery`	Environments
Continuous Integration (CI) `continuous_integration`	Pipeline Execution
Custom Dashboards Foundation `custom_dashboards_foundation`	Platform Insights
CustomersDot and quote to cash integrations `customersdot_and_quote_to_cash_integrations`	Fulfillment Platform
Database `database`	Database Frameworks
DataOps `dataops`	DataOps
GitLab Dedicated `dedicated`	Environment Automation
Delivery `delivery`	GitLab Deploy Framework GitLab Release
Dependency Firewall `dependency_firewall`	Container Registry
Dependency Management `dependency_management`	Security Infrastructure Security Insights
Deployment Management `deployment_management`	Environments
Design Management `design_management`	Product Planning
Pajamas Design System `design_system`	Design System
DevOps Reports `devops_reports`	Optimize
Disaster Recovery `disaster_recovery`	Geo
DORA Metrics `dora_metrics`	Optimize
Duo Chat `duo_chat`	Duo Chat
Duo Workflow `duo_workflow`	Duo Workflow
DAST `dynamic_application_security_testing`	Dynamic Analysis
Editor Extensions `editor_extensions`	Editor Extensions
Environment Management `environment_management`	Environments
Error Budgets `error_budgets`	Observability
Feature Flags `feature_flags`	Environments
Fleet Visibility `fleet_visibility`	Runner
Fulfillment Infradev `fulfillment_infradev`	Fulfillment Platform
Fulfillment Internal Admin Tooling `fulfillment_internal_admin_tooling`	Fulfillment Platform
Fuzz Testing `fuzz_testing`	Dynamic Analysis
Geo-replication `geo_replication`	Geo
Git `git`	Git
Gitaly `gitaly`	Gitaly
GitLab CLI `gitlab_cli`	Code Review
GitLab Documentation Site `gitlab_docs`
Global Search `global_search`	Global Search
Groups & Projects `groups_and_projects`	Organizations
Helm Chart Registry `helm_chart_registry`	Package Registry
GitLab Hosted Runners `hosted_runners`	Hosted Runners
Importers `importers`	Import and Integrate
Incident Management `incident_management`	Platform Insights
Infrastructure as Code `infrastructure_as_code`	Environments
Infrastructure Cost Data `infrastructure_cost_data`
Insider Threat `insider_threat`	Authorization
Instance Resiliency `instance_resiliency`	Authorization
Integrations `integrations`	Import and Integrate
Internationalization `internationalization`	Import and Integrate
Job Artifacts `job_artifacts`	Pipeline Execution
Markdown `markdown`	Knowledge
Merge Trains `merge_trains`	Pipeline Execution
MLOps `mlops`	MLOps
Mobile DevOps `mobile_devops`	Mobile DevOps
Model Personalization `model_personalization`	Custom Models
Navigation `navigation`	Personal Productivity
Notifications `notifications`	Personal Productivity
Observability `observability`	Platform Insights
OKR Management `okr_management`	Product Planning
Omnibus Package `omnibus_package`	Self Managed
On-call Schedule Management `on_call_schedule_management`	Platform Insights
Onboarding `onboarding`	Acquisition
Organization `organization`	Organizations
Package Registry `package_registry`	Package Registry
Pages `pages`	Knowledge
Permissions `permissions`	Authorization
Pipeline Composition `pipeline_composition`	Pipeline Authoring
Pipeline Reports `pipeline_reports`	Pipeline Execution
Plan Provisioning `plan_provisioning`	Provision
Portfolio Management `portfolio_management`	Product Planning
Product Analytics `product_analytics`	Platform Insights
US Public Sector Services `pubsec_services`	US Public Sector Services
Quality Management `quality_management`	Product Planning
Rate Limiting Framework `rate_limiting`	Foundations
Redis `redis`	Durability
Release Evidence `release_evidence`	Compliance
Release Orchestration `release_orchestration`	Environments
Requirements Management `requirements_management`	Product Planning
Review Apps `review_apps`	Pipeline Execution
GitLab Runner Core `runner`	Runner
Scalability `scalability`	Observability
Seat Cost Management `seat_cost_management`	Utilization
Secret Detection `secret_detection`	Secret Detection
Secrets Management `secrets_management`	Pipeline Security
Security Asset Inventories `security_asset_inventories`	Security Platform Management
Security Policy Management `security_policy_management`	Security Policies
Security Testing Configuration `security_testing_configuration`	Security Platform Management
Security Testing Integrations `security_testing_integrations`	Security Platform Management
Self-Hosted Models `self-hosted_models`	Custom Models
Service Desk `service_desk`	Project Management
Service Ping `service_ping`	Analytics Instrumentation
Settings `settings`	Personal Productivity
Software Composition Analysis `software_composition_analysis`	Composition Analysis
Source Code Management `source_code_management`	Source Code
Software Supply Chain Security `sscs`	Compliance
SAST `static_application_security_testing`	Static Analysis
Subscription Management `subscription_management`	Subscription Management
Switchboard `switchboard`	Switchboard
System Access `system_access`	Authentication
Team Planning `team_planning`	Project Management
Text Editors `text_editors`	Knowledge
User Management `user_management`	Provision
User Profile `user_profile`	Organizations
Value Stream Management `value_stream_management`	Optimize
Virtual Registry `virtual_registry`	Container Registry
Vulnerability Management `vulnerability_management`	Security Infrastructure Security Insights
Web IDE `web_ide`	Remote Development
Webhooks `webhooks`	Import and Integrate
Wiki `wiki`	Knowledge
Workspaces `workspaces`	Remote Development

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