More than 3,000 people have contributed to GitLab. The GitLab Inc. team consists of the following 2,315 team members and their 374+ pets. We believe we're the world's largest all-remote organization and we currently have team members in more than 65 countries and regions. This page lists who people report to, and on a separate page we detail the organizational structure. You can get a sense of the team culture and our inclusion by visiting our culture page and our Identity Data page.
'Before joining GitLab Aaron was leading Cloud Center of Excellence teams, bringing a wealth of experience in DevSecOps, SRE and Event Driven Automation practices. His background in these fields has shaped his expertise in creating resilient, secure, and automated infrastructures. Outside of work, Aaron is a foster parent, dedicated to making a meaningful impact on children's lives.'
Aakriti is an Indian expat living in south Germany, who loves Korean food, slipping in several languages in one sentence and photographing absurd things. She enjoys weight lifting. She is an open source enthusiast, who has been building and using open source software for several years. Most of her recent work is in Ruby.
Anthony Baer enjoys helping customers throughout their DevOps journey to optimize processes using automation. With 20+ years of experience within the software development lifecycle, Anthony has experienced the changes and innovation that has occurred in this realm. Going forward, every day brings a new opportunity to improve. In his spare time, Anthony enjoys urban hiking, motorcycling, travel, and learning. Anthony lives with his wife, two children, and two cats.
Very passionate about sales, tech, sports and travel. Artem is living Berlin for about 30 years, was born in the Ukrain and has a sales background with over 7 years experience.
Alana enjoys creating products for developers, devops teams and security analysts. She is always learning about something new, from ethical hacking, to container orchestration, to cryptocurrency, to personal finance, to mountain bike maintenance. When Alana's not trying to figure out what to build next, she is looking for the best powder line to ski or the next best trail to run.
Ayush has over 7 years of experience building web apps with Ruby and Go. He enjoys tackling challenges that help him learn and grow. Plus, he loves sharing his thoughts on software development on LinkedIn!
As a software engineer, Andreas has been straddling the line between development and infrastructure roles in startup environments. Before joining the Scalability group, he focused on database engineering and worked from GitLab's database group in development and as a Database Reliability Engineer for GitLab.com. Away from the keyboard, you'll find him in a dockyard refitting a steel cruising ketch (a sailboat), welding in his workshop or cooking in the kitchen. He enjoys being around water on a sailboat, as part of the deck crew on a German tall ship, in a kayak or when diving.
Before joining the GitLab team, Abubakar has worked in the academic environment providing support and maintaining IT infrastructure. He also actively participates in several training programs targeted at youths and students. In his spare time, Abubakar reads and also participate in the local developer community events.
Alexander is passionate about machine learning and distributed computing. Prior to joining GitLab, Alexander worked on UnReview, a code reviewer recommendation system, as an engineer and co-founder. Alexander is excited to join GitLab and help the team integrate UnReview capabilities into the GitLab platform. Outside of work, Alexander enjoys reading, hiking, and skiing.
Allen has worked in software for several years, enjoys making stuff, telling stories and learning new things.
Alexandru's passion for software development started in high school, where he was introduced to Borland Pascal. That continued with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and a career in Software Development. In spare time he loves to spend time outdoors with his wife and two boys, fishing, playing sports or just taking walks.
Andrejs enjoys crafting all kinds of tools around testing and development productivity. He is also keen on contributing to open source projects. In his free time he enjoys adrenaline packed activities like racing motorcycles or freeride skiing.
Adam works as a software engineer since 2010. Adam is passionate about the Ruby language and solving performance problems. In his spare time, Adam loves traveling and spending time with his family.
Adam has spent the majority of his career history in high-demand healthcare environments and has built a strong set of skills in Support, Systems Administration and DevOps. It is his passion to work on the frontline of large scale distributed web applications and to reduce workload through automation, documentation and process improvement. Adam feels most at home inside a bash terminal surrounded by open source software.
Adam is an experienced backend web developer with many years of experience in customer success and technical account management. Prior to joining GitLab, he provided technical advisory service to enterprise customers as they used Drupal and other open source technologies to build their digital experiences, all while maintaining a steady stream of development work by building internal tools to help improve his team's efficiency. All of this combined led to a love of DevOps, which in turn led to GitLab. Outside of work, Adam enjoys woodworking and jazz trombone.
Before joining Gitlab, Adam spent many years working on payment gateway systems, product ingestion tools for retailer integration and identity management platforms. When he's not coding, he enjoys playing beach volleyball, riding his motorcycle, cooking and reading.
After starting her career as a software developer for the DoD, Aleesha decided to get back to her passion of teaching and become customer-facing, acting as a trusted advisor for her clients. In her free time, Aleesha likes to spend time traveling with her husband or staying home with her four pets.
She loves seeing people succeeding at solving complex technical problems. Self motivated, curious and relentless until a problem is addressed with an optimal solution. She loves working with diverse, multicultural teams.
Amir is originally from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. After graduating from Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Amir started his career in accounting & finance. Shortly after that, he realised that he would love to venture into the world of business specifically tech sales. Amir is now an SDR at GitLab covering APAC. During his free time, Amir mostly spent his time playing touch rugby, futsal and listening to music
Raised in Toronto, Canada and now living in Whistler. The last decade of my life has been in the sales world in different capacities. From my point of view it's all about being Client-Centric. Getting a 360-Degree understanding of an organizations needs & challenges and providing solutions to enable efficiency, growth & innovation. When I am not working I am spending time with the loves of my life, my hubby Jon and my daughter Arielle. We love to snowboard, surf, being in nature, and in the company of our family & great friends.
I am a customer-centric, data and quality-driven professional who strives for optimal customer experience. Over the last two decades, I have accumulated expertise in system administration, software engineering, and DevOps practices. I help organizations leverage DevOps practices increasing their efficiency in achieving their business goals. I believe technology is essential, but we can't achieve ambitious goals without fostering respectful and inclusive human interactions.
Starts May 18th
Arthur is a Professional Services Manager based in France. Before joining GitLab, he has worked in the video game industry and in the enterprise automation space. In his daily work, Arthur tries to keep the bigger picture in mind at all time. When not working, he enjoy sports, practicing a new skill, or playing games of all kind.
Agnes is a dual qualified attorney in both civil law and common law legal systems with substantial international experience in both private practice and in-house. She grew up in Hungary where she became a bar qualified lawyer before moving to Dublin, Ireland in 2010. She is a practicing solicitor in Ireland, and an SRA admitted solicitor in the United Kingdom, and she also studied law in Italy. Agnes has a passion for languages - she's bilingual English/Hungarian and she's a qualified translator and interpreter in Italian. She has over 15 years of experience negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, having worked for the last nearly 10 years as in-house counsel in the software and technology sector. Agnes is mother to three young daughters and she loves spending time with her family, staying active together and occasionally carve out some time for crafts and drawing or listening to audibooks. Agnes is a remote-work advocate and she's an avid supporter of empowering women in tech roles.
Ahmad has been passionate about web development since he laid his eyes on web forums back in 2003, hasn't stopped coding ever since. He's interested in diving deep down the technology stack, figuring out how everything works and how to make it work better. He contributes to the Rubinius project on some occasions, and when he's not working, he can be fiddling around with 3D modelling or learning new languages.
Ahmed started tinkering with computers at a young age, and he hasn't stopped since. He has 7+ years of experience building and delivering software at scale, and working in agile and fast paced environments. He spent most of that time focusing on backend, infrastructure and data topics. In his spare time, you can find him explaining a technical concept to a friend, reading an article about politics/economics, savouring some tasty plate, or riding an e-moped around Berlin. He also likes reading comics, cooking lasagne (whenever possible), and playing video games.
Aaron strives to leverage his 20+ years of software development experience to make other developers' lives a little easier. He enjoys programming as a hobby, as well as writing, speaking, singing and woodworking.
Aishwarya is a homegrown backend engineer, mediocre chef and a self-appointed food plating designer. She is deeply invested in contributing to open source software and has been involved with multiple Rails Girls chapters in the past. She loves to travel, write travelogue, play outdoor sports and grow veggies in her backyard. When she has the time, she volunteers at [Embracing the world](https://www.embracingtheworld.org/about-us/).
Anastasia is a frontend software engineer. Prior to GitLab she worked at Xanadu Quantum Technologies, bringing quantum educational platforms to life. If she is not coding, she is probably gaming, reading, crocheting, having a cuddle with her cat Cleo or going out with some friends.
Joined June 3rd, 2019
Ashley approaches everything with a customer-first mindset and has a passion for solving tough challenges by taking a data-driven approach. Prior to GitLab, she held various marketing, product and engineering leadership roles at Alteryx, Tableau, Amazon and NASA. Ashley has a passion for scaling companies by creating new categories and positioning/messaging cool, innovative technology to customers across the globe. She lives in Tahoe with her husband, Bobby, and two yellow labs, Bruce and Betty - you can find them on the GitLab Pet page! For fun she enjoys skiing, surfing, traveling and attempting to golf.
In my current role, I specialize in designing and executing full-funnel lifecycle marketing programs that enhance the customer experience and maximize lifetime value. I am passionate about leveraging data-driven insights to optimize campaigns and achieve measurable results. I enjoy learning new recipies, traveling, hiking, and exploring the outdoors. You can find my dog, Kira, on the GitLab Pets Page!
From Venezuela, Alejandro has been passionate about computers from the moment he once actually deleted System32 and tried to fix it. Since then he has developed Web applications for a variety of clients with a wide range of technologies. He believes in Torvalds' concept of "good taste" in code and strives to achieve it. Outside of programming he enjoys trading card games and discovering new music.
Technology enthusiast, Alejandro started his career as a networking and systems support engineer. Always striving towards finding and solving the next problem. On his free time he enjoys reading on philosophy, psichology, sci-fi or anything Tolkien-related; learning new things, gaming and feeding his always-hungry cat.
Alex is a product designer with over ten years of experience crafting consumer and enterprise products for leading brands. With a deeply rooted belief that human experiences drive business transformation, Alex helps co-create exceptional product experiences that transform brands at scale by making a meaningful impact on businesses and their customers.
Alex first became interested in Open Source when he discovered Linux in 2003. After trying most distros, he realized the true way of Gentoo and has used it ever since. In his free time he enjoys playing video games, reading, swimming, and of course hanging out with his 2 cats.
Alex taught himself to code instead of doing homework. Fortunately that "Internet" thing worked out and a couple of decades later he is still able to build innovative web applications for a living. When AFK Alex enjoys spending time with his family, exercise, bouldering, and nerding out on business and finance.
Prior to joining GitLab, Alex has spent most of her career focusing on developing her skill as a customer/team specialist. She enjoys helping people and has a huge passion for ensuring everyone has the best experience. After hours she enjoys building puzzles, spending time with friends and family and exploring all the beauty that Cape Town has to offer.
Alexander loves securing software at every step of the process and making security frictionless for other engineers. In his free time, he enjoys building wireless community networks, running Tor relays, and working on obscure personal projects.
Alexander grew up in Wisconsin and has lived in Atlanta, San Francisco, and now Denver. He is classically trained as a physicist, but has dumped all that knowledge in favor of building cool things on the web. He loves contributing to communities to help others and currently lives in an apartment building with seven of his friends where they take turns cooking dinner. In his spare time he reads, runs, rock climbs, plays with his cat and tries to build his tolerance to spice.
Alex Buijs has over 15 years of experience creating web applications. He enjoys using the latest techniques and a diversity of frameworks. He takes pride in creating beautiful and minimal code. He has a master's degree in AI. Besides programming, he is father of an adolescent daughter, practices zen meditation on a daily basis, loves making electronic music, watching movies, skying and paragliding.
Alex is a hands-on, data-driven business professional interested in problem solving across Go-To-Market, Finance, and Product organizations in the technology industry. He's passionate about data analytics and using it to drive company strategy, scale operations, and inform financial results. Prior experience at Salesforce and in Management Consulting. Outside of work, Alex enjoys music (playing bass with local bands and attending concerts), as well as traveling, cooking, learning new languages, and spending as much time as possible outside.
Alex specializes in Technology Risk Management with a background in project management and performing external/internal IT audit services. Prior to joining Gitlab, Alex worked for KPMG where he focused on performing SOX Consulting Services as well as IT Audit and SOC 1 & 2 engagements. In his free time he enjoys playing golf, skiing, and cooking BBQ on his deck.
With his strong passion for devops, Alex found his way to GitLab after 2 years of sporadic community contributions. In his spare time Alex likes building custom keyboards (for typing), spending time with his kid and numerous pets, and judging beer as a certified homebrew judge.
Alex has worked at multiple startup companies within different roles of operations and marketing. Focusing on the improvement of the Community Program Members' experience and providing more opportunities for others to contribute. I enjoy skiing, cycling, and creative business pursuits.
Aleksei started his career in bioinformatics and was always searching for challenging problems to solve and new areas to explore. He values self-explanatory, modular code and likes helping others to learn and improve. In his spare time, he enjoys black coffee, books, traveling, and narrative video games.
Alessio received his first computer when he was 8yrs old, nobody in his family knew how to use it but Alessio looked so happy with his new toy. Time passed and Alessio's room started to look more like a lab than a proper child room. Lots of his adolescence nights were spent coding and playing online games. After the university he worked as a software engineer but he always had production engineering tasks also. If not on a computer you may find him with his family, playing some board games or trying to fix gardening problems in his backyard.
Allison lives and breathes Project Management and comes with over 10 years of experience in Professional Services. Outside of work, Allison travels with her family as much as possible (which includes lots of eating), loves to cook and bake, workout, and ride her scooter. She can also knit a pretty mean scarf.
Allison is a backend engineer who enjoys making nice experiences for users. Outside of work, Allison has a dog and enjoys outdoor activities like hiking and snowboarding as well as indoor climbing, reading and cooking.
Allison is a creative and passionate sales professional with over a decade of experience. For the six years prior to joining GitLab Allison was specifically focused on the DoD and US Army, introducing them to innovative technologies to enhance their productivity and mission readiness. In her spare time, Allison enjoys cooking, doing yoga, traveling, trying new restaurants and spending time with friends and family.
Alper has a passion for open source software, and startups. He''s worked for enterprise software companies and cofounded several startups where he worked in engineering, growth and product teams. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, and Physics as well as an MBA. He enjoys swimming, running, hanging out on HN with an interest on AI/ML.
Aman has worked across the tech-stack in a variety of domains and is passionate about problem solving, and coffee. When he is not trying to brew his own coffee or talking about Star Wars, Aman loves traveling, especially out to the ocean/sea/discernibly large water bodies.
Alvin enjoys solving problems and helping people. In his spare time, he likes reading and hiking. He also volunteers with the STEM Wana Trust in Tauranga to help engage young people in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
Alyssa spent her career as a technical support specialist. She has a passion for helping others and sharing her knowledge as much as possible. She is naturally inquisitive and she enjoys learning new things. Outside of work, she loves cooking, traveling and exploring new places & cuisines. She’s also into travel and food photography.
Amanda is a native Californian, born and raised in the LA Area and currently resides in Half Moon Bay, CA. She’s passionate about all things events especially swag, menus, working with vendors, and finding interesting speakers. Prior to GitLab, Amanda was in the wealth management industry working on client and internal training events. In her free time, Amanda can be found walking on the beach with her pup, trying new restaurants, working out, and playing board games with her boyfriend.
In her UX practice, Amelia aims to prioritize collaboration and to amplify otherwise unheard voices. She aims for simplicity in her designs and is committed to continually growing and improving as a designer. In her free time, she wanders through the beautiful Pacific Northwest forests and listens to all the live music she can.
Amie Bright has dedicated her professional career to advancing the data capabilities of organizations. She believes that decisions and strategies should be based on data. Ensuring the integrity and quality of data by developing effective data management aligned to appropriate data usage is essential for confident and decisive decision-making.
Adam has learned that the best ideas, and the best work, come from accepting challenges that every initiative holds. He strives to continually harness and embrace the ambiguity of the creative process in order to achieve the most effective and efficient outcomes, all while finding the common goal that unites others from different disciplines and talents to work together. When Adam isn't working on the latest and greatest brand initiative you will find him spending time with his family at the beach or completing his next DIY project.
Andy has spent years working remotely in all sorts of places across the country before landing in Baltimore, MD He lives in a 140+ year old rowhome with his wife and son. He has no formal engineering training but does have a Masters degree in Anthropology. He started out in backend engineering after school but when he got involved in operations work the philosophy of SRE ignited his passion for automating operations (and everything else!). When not building out automation in the cloud Andy enjoys brewing craft beer, cooking, video games, building/painting miniatures, and drinking copious amounts of tea. 🫖🇬🇧
Outside work I enjoy coffee, sourdough baking, video games, and personal development pursuits. I value continuous learning and strive for excellence in my work.
Trained as a graphic / digital designer, my UX career started in the Silicon Valley where I worked in different UX roles for various startups and larger technology and financial organizations. My leadership track started at Amazon where I led the Kindle Store UX team (shortly after my stint at AWS where I enjoyed being the first designer). Thereafter, I applied my leadership in different cultural contexts across yet mmore varied industries, maturing the function of UX while driving product excellence. With my last few roles, I've returned to focus on the joy of delivering awesome developer software experiences.
Amr Zaher is a professional with a strong background in SaaS customer success. Passionate about building lasting relationships and helping clients achieve their goals and business objectives, Amr leverages his expertise to drive customer satisfaction and retention.Amr enjoys exploring diverse cuisines, staying active with Taekwondo, and experimenting with new fitness routines
Amy lives in London and spends most of her spare time running. She's usually training for a marathon that she'll happily tell you all about. '
Amy converts cups of tea to polished writing. While a technical writer by day, she makes math quilts and math art by night. She shares a tiny condo (crammed full of books) with her husband, their astonishingly terrible house panther, and a murderous tuxie catbeast. She reads constantly and voraciously, and adores everything from literary fiction to comic books. She's watched every existing film that won an Oscar for Best Picture or any of the Best Screenplay awards.
Analissa (Ana for short) is a 3X Salesforce Certified Administrator & Developer based in Austin, TX. She started her Salesforce journey as an 'accidental admin' and eventually had an opportunity to learn Apex as a method of supporting her team. Ana eats, breathes and lives Salesforce, going so far as making educational (but mostly funny) Salesforce videos. When not 'forcing around, Ana can be found running around Town Lake, reading lots of books (like...a lot), walking her dog Rollei or playing video games. In a past life, she was a Photography Historian and knows a whole boatload about photographs.
Aysegul likes to help people with her knowledge and experiences both in normal and work life. She graduated from Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2018 and started her career as a Support Engineer in 2019. She learned about face recognition technologies, cameras, Linux and so on. Outside of work, she likes sports, painting, photography, watching movies, travelling and many other things.
Prior to GitLab, Aathira has worked with marketing teams at Cloud Automation, RPA and HealthTech companies. She enjoys building well-researched, succinct messaging for campaigns and marketing assets. She is a planner, and to-do lists are her buddies. Come weekend, she loves trying out different food joints, catching up on her reading and spending time with family.
Andras is interested in devops and machine learning. He loves challenging problems and creative solutions. In his spare time, Andras loves making music, hiking, and gardening.
Andras is passionate about reliability and scalability, with a pragmatic approach to computer architectures and a 20-year history in systems administration and SRE. He is driven by the success and happiness of human beings. When not working, Andras learns and teaches karate, enjoys riding his motorcycle and cooking for his family.
André is a self-described web nerd who grew up with the web. He has a twin brother but (he says) he's not the evil one. Loves bridging the world of Design and Engineering with accessibility in mind. While on breaks from that, he enjoys snowboarding, mountain biking and is thrilled by landscape and architectural photography, especially when done at night.
Andrei has been working in the software development industry for over a decade and is still passionate and excited about it. He believes great software is built only when people work together, share their ideas and insights and push the whole community forward. He enjoys working with people and pushing the limits of what they think is possible for them. Outside of work, he is a big mountain sports fan, does scuba diving, plays guitar, and makes cocktails occasionally.
Andrew fell into working on websites by joining and running hackathons in his undergrad, and can't seem to stop building. He also loves (making) cocktails, (baking) bread, and (playing) video games.
Andrew spent 17 years living in London before returning home to Cape Town in South Africa. Before joining GitLab, Andrew cofounded Gitter where he was the CTO. Married with two kids, he spends what little spare time he has tinkering with machine-learning, building contraptions of questionable usefulness. Away from technology, his passions are travel, photography, motorcycling and the great outdoors.
Andrew has experience working in a fully managed hosting company that allows him to build his Sysadmin and DevOps prowess. He loves anything tech related, naturally curious and enjoys learning new things. Outside of work, you can probably find him eating at a new ramen shop in town, playing boardgames, listening/reading some books/tech news.
Originally trained as in industrial designer, Andy has been designing interfaces and experiences since the touchscreen revolution. His attention to detail allows him to design effectively and efficiently with the ultimate goal of letting design dissolve into behavior. Andy is a history nerd and random fact sponge who can be found at most trivia nights. He also enjoys playing hockey, golfing, traveling the world with his wife and aspires to get his pilot's license one day.
As a Backend Engineer Andy is building software for more than 8 years and is passionate about clean code and test driven development. He shares an office with his two cats and likes cooking, biking and improv theater.
Andy has been championing DevOps practices since before the term was coined. In particular, he has been finding ways to improve people's work through using test automation. Outside work, Andy is kept away from hobbies by chasing his kids around. When Andy does have time he enjoys building things, gaming, gardening, and reading.
Angelo is passionate about code. He started working when Internet Explorer 6 was still a thing. He strongly believes education and technology are great enablers, so he's spent time teaching programming to refugees as a volunteer. He loves philosophy, music, series, cycling, playing Nintendo Switch, cooking, photography, and making lists. But most of all, he loves his daughter.
Anjela is a Travel and Expense professional at GitLab, aiming to create a seamless travel experience for the diverse needs of its global remote workforce. Outside of work, her passion for travel thrives. An aviation enthusiast, she might have been a flight attendant in another life. She loves solo trips, mastering credit card points and hunting for award flight deals.
Anna is a self-motivated developer who is always eager to know the product in depth. She is driven by new challenges and likes to learn constantly. In her free time, Anna plays classical piano and performs in a rock band on drums.
Annabel is a product designer (former frontend engineer) with a passion for creating beautiful and functional applications. She has learned bits and pieces of various languages during her career, but is most excited about JavaScript, SASS, and Rails. In her free time she enjoys curling up with a good book, inventing cookie recipes, and spending time with her wonderful family.
Anne is a passionate UX Researcher and has been serving user needs and solving human centered design problems since 2008. She has a background in Psychology and Human Factors. Moreso she is a certified yoga teacher with over 700 hours of training, which she mainly accumulated while traveling the world for two years. It's fair to say that Anne absolutely loves to travel and learn about people and cultures across all continents. Anne enjoys the outdoors and her favorite element is water. Any activity related to it, be it surfing, scuba diving, swimming or beach walks, bring her tremendous joy.
Annie changed careers from occupational therapy and nannying to become a data analyst in 2022. She has developed a love for Tableau and data analytics - as well as remote work. When she's not at work you can find her travelling the world, rock climbing, or sharing about data with others on social media.
Adrian joined GitLab to work in the People Analytics function, using his background in Statistics and Data Analysis to help the company make data informed People decisions. Adrian has held various data analytics roles throughout his career, but has really found his passion for using statistical analysis to help improve lives in the field of People Analytics. When not working he is spending all of his time with his wife and their 3 children.
Artur has been passionate about web development for a while, he also has been passionate about design. In his spare time, Artur does track and field and sometimes competes in 5k/10k races.
Aric is a support engineering manager with a background in linux system administration. He loves to learn and is always looking to expand his knowledge base. When not working, Aric can be found traveling, exploring the outdoors, cooking, woodworking, or watching football with his wife and son.
I have always been more interested in what happens backstage that creates and supports what everyone sees up front. Always seeking to understand how things work, I enjoy modifying and repurposing hardware and software in order to create interesting and fully customized products and experiences. My background as a system implementation and network engineer allow me to do this in a myriad of environments. Outside of work I enjoy exploring the outdoors with my wife, playing music, and learning new things from new people.
Arran enjoys building tools that solve problems for people, especially other engineers.
Software is my craft. During my career I have had the opportunity to work with remarkable people building systems at scale and leading technical teams.
Amanda is a mom, a fixer and a helper who loves to learn and to make things easier for people wherever possible.
Arun is interested in low-level details, systems programming and distributed data systems. In his spare time, he enjoys playing drums, listening to alternative and rock music, and reading Hacker News.
Artur is passionate about helping people to resolve technical difficulties. He started his first job as a technical support engineer at Grammarly. There he learned more about different automation tools and realized how technilogies can make everyday tasks much simpler. When Artur has free time, he likes to do a lot of different things such as weight training, reading, watching movies, playing computer games, and travelling.
Loves to travel, cook and learn about other cultures. Enjoys funfair and karaoke!
Ash loves making peoples lives easier and more fun by writing & deploying simple software solutions. In his spare time he loves tinkering with electronics and pouring countless hours (and dollars) into the ultimate open source based home automation system.
Amy is based in the Wexford countryside of South East Ireland. She comes from a career of back-end engineering and API development. She has been an Engineering Manager for the past couple of years and loves the challenge. In her spare time she enjoys being outdoors, hanging out with her dog and trying new things.
Asmaa is a Senior Support Engineer with an experience in Linux, DevOps, and automation. She is curious, loves to know how things work, and loves working on projects that make things easier. Aside from work, she loves to read, go on long in new cities, and spend time with her family.
Anton is one of our southernmost GitLabbers and is based in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has a Bachelor of Information Technology from Otago Polytechnic and has spent the majority of his career as a full stack web developer. Anton is all about enhancing the cyber world and loves IOT automation in the workplace, at home and beyond. His utmost passion is finding solutions for issues that clients face, and getting them back on track. Outside of work, you will find Anton doing cardio or weights at the gym, playing the latest video games or bringing his trivia brain to a pub quiz with friends.
Anna has worked on software projects for a number of companies, including several gov tech providers as well as an on-demand staffing platform. She is enjoys building tools alleviate users' pain points so they can focus on what's really important. Outside of work, she enjoys biking, canoeing, watching women's basketball, learning to DJ, and hanging out with her cat.
Anton has more than a decade of expertise working in IT field, and is always working to develop and contribute new skills. In his spare time you can find him kitesurfing on a sunny day or enjoying bush tracks with his family.
I am a naturally curious individual who is passionate about people and technology. I believe that technology is foundational to any organisations success and I have been fortunate enough to land in a position that allows me to help organisations scale whilst coaching and developing individuals to reach their potential.
Andrew has taken on many roles across the web-engineering field, from full-stack software engineering to DevOps and full-spectrum software security
Avielle is a backend engineer who loves clean, well tested code. She also loves video games, lying in the sun, and her two little house panthers.
Joined June 2022. Into Linux, (Neo)Vim, cycling, drumming, van-camping, traveling and eating food.
Achilleas has been using GitLab since version 2, back when the default username and password were not documented. He started actively contributing to GitLab in 2013, in 2014 he became a member of the core team, and ultimately joined GitLab in 2015. He was introduced to Linux in 2006 and since then he tried many distributions until finding Arch Linux which won his heart and has been using it daily since 2009. As an open source enthusiast he is contributing to many projects, and is mostly into System Administration. He likes traveling and attending conferences that promote the free software movement.
Alec has always liked to work on challenging problems with a broad solution space. This has led him to the Gitlab distribution team, where he is incredibly excited to work on some of the biggest problems in developer tools right now. He also likes code side-projects in his spare time to try out different languages and frameworks.
Customer Assurance is at the heart of the modern enterprise. In my previous roles at Salesforce, Immersive Labs and EY, my goal has always been to ensure Security Assurance drives revenue, growth and increased trust across the value chain. Love working with Engineering, Sales, Product, Marketing and customers. Outside of that I love reading, walking and enjoying London.
Adam is a Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience architecting modern cloud-based applications and platforms, including 10 years in a technical leadership role within sales consulting organizations. He has a unique ability to communicate business value and platform vision to business stakeholders, build CxO relationships, and conduct deep technical discussions with architects and engineers. Outside of work, Adam loves traveling to far away places, listening to and playing music, and spending time with his dogs (Boxers).
Bala is a passionate programmer who likes Ruby for its simplicity and can also fiddle with other popular programming languages. Over the years he has been a product developer, platform engineer and an SRE. He has expertise in building integration platforms, improving application/platform observability, and solving scalability related bottlenecks from the application to the infrastructure. Away from work he usually spends time with his daughter and family, follows cricket and likes reading science fiction books on space and the universe.
Balu is from Kerala, southern most part of India and is passionate about anything related to Freedom and Privacy. He has been contributing to different Free Software and language computing communities for quite some time, especially in Packaging (he is currently a Debian Developer), Software Development, Localization, and Evangelism. Other than a computer geek, he is mainly a procaffinator and a bibliophile. He enjoys reading (and sometimes even writing) poetry too.
Barbara is an IT Program Manager who is passionate about finding solutions to problems and implementing applications that support business processes within GitLab.
Basti is an engineering manager who has previously worked across the whole web stack with different frameworks and languages. He is passionate about helping team members grow and building teams that can deliver impact. Outside work he likes to spend time with his family, read or go bouldering in a nearby gym.
Dominic is a software developer with a preference for simplicity. Away from keyboard, he enjoys sports, hiking and traveling to remote places.
Brandon’s past experience includes working on customer success teams and data analytics. Here at GitLab he ties those two things together to generate key insights for the Customer Success Operations team. In his free time he enjoys playing and watching sports such as soccer, baseball, and golf as well as taking hikes and finding any excuse to spend time outside.
Brazilian Software Engineer with a keen interest in algorithms and machine learning. Being an avid learner, I have worked mostly on R&D, touching a variety of technologies and following my curiosity. When not at work, I enjoy spending time with friends, playing guitar and travelling.
Becka grew up in California and earned her BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia, not knowing what would come next. Fast forward a few years (and career categories), and she was ever so lucky to land in UX, at the intersection of Psychology and Design. When she's not designing you can find her doing other art and craft-related activities, watching tons of movies, hiking with her dog, watching live music, traveling, practicing mindfulness, and doing yoga.
I join Gitlab having been in Technology Sales and Alliances for over 20 years working for companies like Sysdig, Docker, Red Hat, ATT, Century Link and a few others. I’ve been a part of the Container/Cloud Native/Kubernetes/Docker ecosystem for the last 7 years as part of the Global Alliances teams at Red Hat, Docker and most recently Sysdig before joining Gitlab. Each time building successful and award winning Partnerships supporting large scale, programmatic GTM plans for companies including IBM, Red Hat, HPE, Rancher/Suse along with Federal Systems Integrators and Global Systems Integrators.
Ben was previously a Unix Infrastructure Engineer at an insurer, university, and a bank before joining GitLab to provide support for customers' installations. Outside work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, getting tasty things to grow in the garden, cycling, reading, and photography. Ben's been in front of a computer keyboard since his childhood, when it had a cassette recorder built into it, and is still learning with Linux, and an installation of GitLab, at home.
Betsy is part of the All-Remote Marketing team at GitLab. She has a background in journalism, and is passionate about storytelling and connecting people. She spent her first two years at GitLab as Talent Brand Manager, telling the story of life at GitLab. Betsy loves to paint, garden, visit the beach, and spend time outdoors with her husband and their Golden Retriever.
I started my career as electrical engineer specialised in telecommunications. Experience on Unix S5R4 and Oracle shifted my interests to infrastructure, technical support and software development. Exposure to technical sales generated some interest along the jouney, becoming a full time role in 2014.
Brandon has a wealth of experience throughout all stages of the sales process and enjoys the challenge and satisfaction of helping to identify and solve his customers most urgent business needs. Brandon is married and has two beautiful little girls, Lily and Lucy. He spends the majority of his free time boating, camping and playing guitar.
Bhavya is a Senior Security Consultant with a total experience of 6+ years in the Security IT industry She started her career as an Android developer and then branched out to the market offering of Application Security where she has developed extensive expertise in conducting comprehensive Threat Modelling sessions and meticulous Manual Penetration Tests, in addition to performing Code Reviews and carrying out vulnerability assessment tasks such as automated scans (SAST and DAST) for numerous large-scale web applications. She is also proficient at building and managing client relationships, providing quality deliverables at scheduled timelines, leading teams, training and / or working with developers on vulnerability remediations.
Bishwa is a passionate software engineer who likes to decompose complex problems into simple iterables. When not punching keyboard, Bishwa likes going out for gastronomy night, or hosting it. Additionally, he likes lifting weights and putting it down, as a pastime.
Bruce has a history of serving and leading teams that US Government customers with Cyber Security solutions. He has worked with both Civilian and Department of Defense customers. Bruce is based in Haymarket, Virginia whith his lovely wife and 3 children. When he steps away from his GitLab work you are likely to find him riding his bike with his family or involved in some type of maker project.
Bojan is an agnostic software engineer passionate about technology, who never gets tired of learning and accepting new challenges. He lives his life traveling from place to place, exploring the world and its hidden gems. If he stays in one place for too long, he feels restless. Routine is a big no for Bojan; to avoid it, he creates his own problems, and then solves them as a true engineer.
Brendan has worked in the digital space for over 20 years as a video & motion graphics editor, fullstack developer, technical director, engineering manager and DevOps / SRE engineer. He lives near London with his partner, a very spoiled dog, and two mischevious cats. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, travelling, hiking, swimming, playing flight simulation games in VR, starting new technical projects and abandoning new technical projects. Brendan moved to the UK in 2004 from his native Australia and kinda forgot to go back home.
Bernard enjoys working with people and tackling complex challenges that can be either technical or non-technical. He loves brain teasers and jokes, so share some when you meet him. He is recently working on furnishing his new home and building the perfect home office setup.
Bob has a keen eye for the good stuff. He's always on the lookout for software that looks nice and gets out of the way. He started tinkering on his SE/30 and never stopped. Since 2009 he has been developing web apps and backends in Ruby on Rails that match his own expectations. Preferably on a mech keyboard that sounds as beautiful as it looks. He listens only to the best of books and reads the greatest music (or vice versa) while roaming between Belgium and Poland. Firm believer in the standing desk, having a beard and learning by living.
Bo is a jack of all trades with skills ranging from sketch artist, musician, and martial artist to network engineering and most trades in construction. Bo thinks it is important to know he is not a master at most of his skills, but loves learning them. When he is not learning new things, Bo loves to be away from technology and populace to join nature in the wondrous outdoors where he loves to do as much of nothing as possible. Preferably, with family whom he considers top priority.
Born and raised in Hong Kong but now living in Australia, Bonnie is a Product Designer who is passionate about solving complex problems and crafting quality user experiences for software. In her spare time, she enjoys going to live shows, exploring new restaurants, and hanging out with her kitties.
Boughty has been working to enable innovation and digital transformation for 20 years primarily through the channel and loves finding ways to help channel partners exceeed customer expectations while building profitable businesses. Engaging with people about almost anything is a happy place for Boughty and he is always looking for new places, cultures, and flavors to explore with his family.
Brad has a passion for facilitating genuine human connection and meaningful innovation through technology. When not studying for his cloud computing bachelor's degree, Brad enjoys spending time with his family, reading, listening to music, and exercising outside.
Brady is excited to join GitLab and the Commercial Sales team, hoping to build relationships and impact the company. In Brady's spare time, he enjoys playing hockey, traveling, hiking, and finding the best food spots.
Brandon has a background in fullstack engineering. He joined GitLab as a frontend engineer and has since transitioned into engineering management. He moved to The Netherlands in 2021 from his origional home Cape Town, South Africa. He believes in the vision that everyone can contribute and is excited to be part of GitLab's amazing, global team of creative people.
Brendan has a background in Accounting, English teaching, and Technical Writing. He has written documentation for a variety of product areas, from API references to Fintech software, and now DevOps. He's passionate about learning, understanding complex content, and enabling people through clear writing. When he's not working, Brendan enjoys reading, traveling, cooking, and hiking.
Brett has been programming for many years - from writing a version of Centipede for the TRS-80 to Ruby on Rails and macOS applications. He's always working on something, so you can usually find him in front of the keyboard.
Brian is passionately committed to helping companies make the transition to DevOps / Agile / Lean processes and increased team productivity. He has written two books about agile transformations and has been a long-time proponent of DevOps automation. Outside of work Brian enjoys exercise, audio books, riding his motorcycle, travel, and spending time with friends and family.
Ben is a DevOps fanatic who loves technology and using it to make life easier. Ben started his career as an accountant, but a love of computer science turned him into a DevOps engineer before too long. Now he works as a Solutions Architect, bringing his knowledge of DevOps and GitLab that he gained over his years as an engineer to help solve his customers problems.
Results-driven senior executive with over 20 years experience building, leading and advising multi-billion dollar technology companies through complex restructurings, hyper growth and capital markets transactions. Public and private company strategic CFO, extensive IPO experience, relationships with buy/sell side with comprehensive background in mergers and acquisitions. Multiple successful exits. Excellent leader with a track record of documented contributions leading to improved financial performance, heightened productivity and shareholder value creation. Strengths include leadership, creativity, adaptability, teamwork and communication. Brian received his Bachelor of Science in Finance from Lipscomb University and a Masters of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.
Bronwyn has a deep passion for data privacy both personally and professionally. A naturally curious and analytic individual with motivation to solve for "x," she enjoys the iterations, growth opportunities and challenges for GitLab as data privacy laws evolve around the world. Even outside of work, you will still find her reading about privacy enhancing technologies and staying on top of what is happening in block chain and smart contracts. Bronwyn is a woodworker and loves crafting in general to unplug and calm the mind.
Hi I am Bruno. I am a support engineer (EMEA) at Gitlab. Previously I worked as Linux Systems Administrator for 6 years in the telecommunications industry. I also have a software development background. I am a cryptocurrency miner/enthusiast, and when I am not working I like to travel, play video games and research tech related stuff.
Bryan spent his career in software development, systems engineering, and technical product management and has seen- and now advocates for- the benefits of investing in devops automation. Outside of work, he spends most of his spare time with his family and pets (harper and pebbles)
After a successful career as senior IT leader, Bryan is part of the Strategic Field Org, helping organizations demonstrate value from IT. His time is spent with executives and engineers alike, helping them understand how DevSecOps practices accelerate business growth and help harmonize engineer and developer culture. Bryan can often be found presenting at conferences, participating on podcasts, or writing articles for popular technology news outlets and his own newsletter. Outside of his professional work, he thrives in a non-digital world, enjoying the shores of Scotland and beyond through his love of sailing. He lives with his bonnie wife and three rambunctious boys on a smallholding on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Briley is an engineer from Alabama. She works at GitLab on the Verify team. Outside of work she can be found taking her dogs to the park, skiing, hiking, or playing music with her friends.
Buck’s passion for software development is rooted in his deep love of puzzles + problem solving and helping people. Buck lives in live in Brooklyn, NY in the US. Prior to joining GitLab, he worked for NYSE, EverFi and Surfwatch Labs in software engineering roles. Outside of working hours you can him binge watching prestige tv + bad action movies, reading, running, playing / watching basketball (also baseball / football / tennis - really any / all sports and inane competitions of any kind) or at a concert or comedy show.
Bryce is a man who wears many hats. Primarily he is a diversified marketing operations professional but comes from a background in sales, customer success and retention. Outside of work, he enjoys flyfishing, camping, skiing, mountain biking traveling and spending time with his wife and 3 kids.
Brittany has been a software engineer for 12+ years, and is passionate about finding ways to make the work experience better for everyone. She enjoys spending time with her pets, Aiko and Decima, preparing for the next session of Dungeons & Dragons (forever DM and proud!), and gaming with her partner. She has also recently gotten into gardening, hiking, and kayaking!
Brian started his career as Cyber Security professional and spent 5 years doing Application Security before becoming a Software Engineer. Brian is deaf, but grew up without sign language and prefers to communicate using spoken English. In his free time he enjoys yoga, learning American Sign Language, gaming, and spending time with friends and family.
Byron specializes in security compliance work with degrees in Management Information Systems and International Business. Prior to GitLab, he worked for KPMG mainly focused on external IT audits for SOX, SOC1 and SOC2 compliance in addition to internal IT compliance work. When he's not working, he enjoys running, golf, tennis, soccer and any other outdoor activity he can find along with spending time with his partner and their dog, Lucy.
Caleb is passionate about technology, problem solving, and helping others. Before joining GitLab in 2019, he provided technical support in a number of roles within the Web Hosting industry. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time outdoors or being with friends.
Born and raised in Germany, Christopher has 2 years of sales experience and business development. Prior to joining GitLab, Christopher acquired most of his experience working for a global language learning provider, where he dedicated his time to expanding and improving the business. His studies in Industrial Engineering and Management helped him understand business aspects across multiple departments. In his exchange semester which sent him abroad to Finland he found himself digging deeper into Sales. Outside of work, you can find Christopher working on his photography skills (profile picture excluded), programming(still a work in progress), expanding his music library or hanging out with friends and family.
Cameron works cross-functionally to help empower strategic decision making on the Corporate Finance team. Prior to joining GitLab, Cameron spent his career in the valuation consulting world. Cameron is a baseball fanatic with a love for homemade pizza, hiking, and spending time with his wife and daughter.
Camellia is a design generalist: She is curious about human behaviours and the human mind. She creates stuff when it is necessary; when she creates them, they must be easy to use; after all, she makes them beautiful ;)
Cameron loves solving problems. He enjoys RPGs, board games, computer games, Hurricanes hockey, and spending time with his family.
Caroline is interested in helping to improve the lives of developers, whether through building great DevOps tooling or through empathetic leadership. Outside of work, she enjoys creating stuff, studying psychology, spending time with friends, and playing with cats.
Carolyn loves to understand how people dynamics can help solve problems within a business. She is passionate about organizational design, leadership development and team effectiveness. She is also interested in learning more about scaling culture in an all remote environment. In her free time, she loves to spend time with her family and practice yoga.
Before moving to GitLab, Carrie worked at a small mapping tech company as a Client Success Manager and Training Coordinator. In her free time, Carrie enjoys trying new reatuarants, traveling, movies and being outdoors with her Malamute/Akita mix, Scooter.
Cassiana is passionate about working on the People team because it perfectly aligns with her love of helping all team members feel heard, understood, and supported. Cassiana loves seeking out new vegetarian food adventures, listening to comedy podcasts, re-watching all the rom-coms, pet rescue videos, and traveling the world. She also believes that laughter is healing. Her People Operations responsibilities at GitLab have ranged from supporting team members in the complete onboarding/offboarding lifecycle, to converting team members due to international expansion, and now with strategizing and implementing all People Compliance initiatives and projects. Read more in her README.
Cathy joins GitLab as a Senior Contract Manager on the legal team. With over 20 years of experience negotiating contracts in the technology market, she is a seasoned professional with a multitude of skills to draw from. Cathy was with Cisco Systems, Inc. for six years in procurement and with Red Hat, Inc. for ten years supporting the sales team on the revenue side. Since she has negotiated both sides of the table; she brings a 360 perspective to her contribution to GitLab’s success. Cathy especially enjoys cross functional collaboration; working with the finance, security, procurement and revenue teams in order to mitigate risks to GitLab, customers, partners, resellers and employees. She is very excited to be on the GitLab journey with you and to ensure success for GitLab and the ecosystem it creates.
Carolyn is a data analyst and senior manager on the Product Data Insights team. She is passionate about leveraging data and visualizations to tell a story, crafting creative solutions to complex problems, and collaborating across teams. Carolyn lives in Portland, OR with her husband and rambunctious Wheaten Terrier, Gus. In her spare time, you can find her hiking, exploring the National Park system, eating delicious food, or enjoying a cocktail with friends.
A Philosophy major with a passion for helping customers and supporting people’s growth, Cristian Enache is a Sales Enablement professional with over 10 years of experience in various customer facing roles, including customer support, account management, business development, as well as sales leadership roles. Coming most recently from Acronis Cyber Protection, where he was a Sales Enablement Manager, Cristian is looking forward to helping support the Sales team and having a positive impact on our Gitlab community. He lives in Bucharest, Romania, and in his spare time he likes swimming, reading, taking long walks, cooking and meeting with friends. His favorite authors are Umberto Eco, Stieg Larsson, Frank Herbert and Igor Bergler.
Born and raised in Southern California, Chris is an experienced developer, technical account manager and consultant with an education in Computer Engineering and Communication Management. In his formative years, Chris built his experience as a web developer within higher education using numerous open source content management systems such as Drupal, Wordpress, OpenJournal, Expression Engine, and Movable Type. After discovering a passion for Drupal, he transitioned to technical consultancy focused on buiilding complex web applications at scale, helping small business, large enterprise, government and education customers plan, develop, launch and maintain secure, performant and reliable websites. Prior to joining GitLab, Chris provided leadership to a technical account management team focused on supporting customers in cyber security and vulnerability management. In his free time outside of work, he enjoys live music, pro sports (Lakers, Dodgers), gaming and spending time with his wife, two kids and dog Code.
Chad has been doing coding, sysadmin, and ops for 30+ years, since the dawn of the web and before - from mainframes to the cloud. He has contributed to and created several open source projects. His hobbies include traveling, volunteering, learning Spanish, listening to and making music. Chad joined GitLab because their values are closely aligned with his own, and he believes in an all-remote culture. He is a happy user of the GitLab product for his own personal projects. A note on areas of "expertise" listed: "I'll never really consider myself an 'expert' in anything, but that's the nature of imposter syndrome and moving right on the Dunning-Kruger curve. I do know a few things about the topics of expertise I've listed, though (as well as many more), and at a minimum I can find someone else to ask ;)"
Ed’s professional passion is to create business value with channel and alliance partners. He has held channel, alliances and marketing leadership positions at technology companies including Cisco Systems, LogRhythm, CareerBuilder and Gigamon. He's helped develop business with partners of all types through partner enablement, automation, programs and marketing. In his spare time, you'll find him on a bike, skis or a hiking trail, ideally with his family and friends.
Charlie is a developer-turned-security engineer who likes to learn, enthusiastically share knowledge, and build (and play with) rule-based systems. When not doing that, her time is split between hanging out with family, playing music, growing things, and making things out of wood.
Charlie is a journalist-turned-Software Engineer. She enjoys sharing her knowledge as a Fullstack Software Engineer by writing blog articles. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling the world, working out (in various forms such as running, strength training, pilates, tennis, and barre), spending time outdoors, and hanging out with friends.
Learn and grow, that is my ninja way #naruto. Love to code and always looking forward to learn something new. Love anime and gaming. This is what keeps me up at night. Skills/Interests: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, ReactNative, Redux, Spring, Docker, Java, Kotlin
Chloe has dedicated her career to providing a fantastic customer experience and is excited to help GitLab grow. Outside of work, she takes a lot of pictures of her cats and watches a lot of television. She attended her first Star Trek convention when she was one-year-old, and it has been a slippery slope ever since. Her favorite is “the one with the whales”, but she loves all space operas equally. She also has a very useful degree in Latin, so she’s available for all of your demon-summoning needs.
Chloé is a Solutions Architect with a background in Business Development and Digital Marketing.
Chloe is passionate about being a quality advocate. Prior to GitLab, she worked as Software Engineer in Test at Oracle and GitHub. She loves building things from scratch, optimizing and simplifying solutions in process. In her spare time, she enjoys playing piano and guitar, and hiking with her dog.
Joined August 9th
Chris has spent most of his career working with the federal government, working on a wide range of problems. Outside of work, he is usually overseeing some kind of insane trouble, his 3 boys have gotten themselves into.
Chris is a technology enthusiast from Cape Town South Africa. He has a bachelors degree from the University of South Africa, and spent most of his career as a Linux Systems Engineer for a web hosting company. There he developed a passion for diagnostics and troubleshooting and a deep love and respect for Linux and all things open-source. He lives with his wife, their 6 cats and a family of tortoises. When he's not tinkering on one of his many computers, he's playing rock music on his Fender guitar or playing games online.
Chris is a UX design leader with 15 years experience building products, defining strategy, and crafting vision. Outside of work he loves travelling, going to the theater, and spending time with his family.
Chris is a hacker with over twenty years of professional experience in information technology. He enjoys breaking the things he loves, like Linux distributions and open-source software, in an effort to make them stronger.
Based near Paris, France, Christian has been developing Git since 2006. He is passionate about open source projects, especially development tools.
Christian is interested in both Security and Automation and combining the two for the best of both worlds. Outside of work he is an avid snowboarder.
Christina joined Gitlab in March 2020. She is enjoying the sun along with her family in Athens, Greece.
Christine is a problem solver who enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve results, and she is excited to do this at GitLab as part of the Chief of Staff to the CEO team. Prior to joining GitLab, she led the Business Consulting and Analytics team at Bloomreach, and before that she was a strategy consultant in Accenture's technology industry group. She has a B.S. in Materials Science from MIT, where she realized she wasn't as good at math as she thought she was. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Christine now lives in San Jose, California with her partner and two pet bunnies, Cinnabun and Teddy. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, listening to podcasts, hiking, traveling, gardening, and trying to find more space for her house plants.
Prior to joining GitLab, Christopher was a pre-sales engineer and part-time developer. He has an interest in systems administration, cyber security, software development and picking up new skills, learning new technologies in the vast field of IT. In his free time, he enjoys trying out new experiences, nature walks and the ocean.
Kaburu is Tech enthusiast with a passion for DevOps, Security, and Customer support. Prior to Gitlab, he worked in the Fintech sector, aligning infrastructure architecture plans and processes with security standards and business goals. He has a keen eye for quality and endeavors to eliminate pain points through automation. He enjoys swimming, hiking, and family time.
Chad is a product designer with over a decade of experience creating delightful and intuitive experiences for users with complex business needs. When he's not at work, some of the things he's learning about these days are how to play the violin, how to make great backyard pizza, growing a pollinator garden, watercolor painting, and keeping an urban sketch notebook.
Changzheng has years of experience in software engineering and has worked on different areas including embedded system, virtualization, networking, web application and blockchain before joining Gitlab. In his spare time, he loves playing soccer, and skiing with his family.
Charl has an empathetic approach to support and loves helping customers through their technical challenges. This is rooted in his passion for learning new technologies and growing through each customer interaction. Prior to joining GitLab he has worked in telecommunication industry for over 14 years in technical support. Majority of this was in a senior role with a focus on improving customer experience. In his personal time he enjoys keeping his mind in shape through taking on new tech projects or tinkering with the latest tech gadgets. To keep his body in shape he enjoys cycling, hiking and swimming.