
GitLab names Bill Staples as new CEO
Co-founder Sid Sijbrandij transitions to Executive Chair of the Board.

Disagree, commit, and disagree: How a lazy solution became a category
Find out the origin story of the DevSecOps category.

GitLab details AI-assisted features in the DevSecOps platform
In a fireside chat, CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij shared demos of AI-assisted features available today in gitlab.com.

Cadence is everything: 10x engineering organizations for 10x engineers
GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij on the importance of cadence in engineering organizations.

Everything we learned about IPOs in taking GitLab public - Part 4
GitLab co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij shares insights about the process of going public.

Open core is worse than plugins... and that’s why it’s better
Learn why GitLab's decision to opt for the "worse" choice has been a great success.

Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails
GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij makes the case for Ruby on Rails.
Sid Sijbrandij (pronounced see-brandy) is the Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Board Chair of GitLab Inc., the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform. GitLab's single application helps organizations deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening their security and compliance.
Sid's career path has been anything but traditional. He spent four years building recreational submarines for U-Boat Worx and while at Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid he worked on the Legis project, which developed several innovative web applications to aid lawmaking. He first saw Ruby code in 2007 and loved it so much that he taught himself how to program. In 2012, as a Ruby programmer, he encountered GitLab and discovered his passion for open source. Soon after, Sid commercialized GitLab, and by 2015 he led the company through Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch. Under his leadership, the company has grown with an estimated 30 million+ registered users from startups to global enterprises.
Sid studied at the University of Twente in the Netherlands where he received an M.S. in Management Science. Sid was named one of the greatest minds of the pandemic by Forbes for spreading the gospel of remote work.
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