MEET OUR TEAM

Andrew is a self-taught Linux nerd who loves to find ways to make technology work better for people. Before GitLab, he was working in retail. He uses his newfound flexibility in remote work to play video games (on Linux!) and ride his bicycle all around Chicago.

Aakriti is an Indian expat living in Berlin, who loves Korean food, slipping in several languages in one sentence and photographing absurd things. 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, but she also loves coding in functional programming languages like Elixir.

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.

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.

Prior to working at Gitlab, Adam has worked in technology recruiting and adtech sales. When he is not working, Adam loves stand up comedy and exploring New York City

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.

Adam is a Backend Engineer originally from Toronto, Canada, but now living in Sydney, Australia. He has 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.

For the last 20+ years, Adam has been doing what he loves: improving user experiences. He has also had the privilege to lead and mentor teams in how to to effectively translate research insights into actionable recommendations and innovations. Adam spends his spare time fishing, cooking, and woodworking.

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.

Joining August 19th.

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.

Adrian works in an amazing region of the world, Asia-Pacific & Japan with a variety of different and amazing cultures. He is fortunate to have one of the most diverse teams he could have wished for. Adrian comes from an analytical coder background, having had the opportunity to work in early distributed database technologies as well as next-gen orchestration platforms. Adrian is an open-source technologies advocate and evangalist.

Starts May 18th

Amanda is a tenured instructional design professional with a passion for Diversity & Inclusion. In her free time she enjoys playing Dungeons and Dragons, watching horror movies, and occasionally leaving the house to attend a yoga class. She lives outside of Boston with her two hairless cats, Eevee and Ivy.

Andrew is passionate about educating technology teams on their GitLab journey, and helping them realize the value it can bring to their organization.When not advocating for GitLab, Andrew coaches CrossFit, walks his dogs, and spends quality time with his wife and son.

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/).

Ashley enjoys uncovering user needs and finding ways to improve the user experience. She graduated with a MS in Human Systems Engineering in 2017 and has worked in UX research roles since then. In her free time, Ashley enjoys staying active through working out, snowboarding, kayaking, hiking, and walking her dogs.

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.

I lead the content program within GitLab's Public Relations team. Before joining the team at GitLab, I worked on the agency side, where I helped companies in tech and VC bring their stories to life.

Have been in software industry my entire career. Two daughters in college, love to snow and water ski and the beach!

Albert's experience spans across software engineering and consulting. Having seen how teams benefit from a strong collaborative culture, he is now driven to help others work more effectively. Outside of work, he enjoys bouldering indoor (hope to venture outdoor soon), as well as swimming, cycling and running occassionally.

From Venezuela, now in The Netherlands, 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.

Joined in October 2019 \(^o^)/

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.

Before GitLab I coded, scrum-mastered, and lead several projects at Salesforce, specifically for their Pardot B2B marketing automation platform. On the side and for fun, I am pretty involved with the blockchain and distributed computing landscape, having completed an Ethereum Dapp (Seedom) and the business development for a co-owned co-living project known as Haven. Most of the stress in my life comes from me presiding over my 130 unit condo building in downtown ATL. I chose to work at GitLab to continue to learn how successful open source projects operate with regards to monetization, decentralization, and, of course, security. In my spare time, I love to continue to research state-of-the-art distributed computing techniques, such as Holochain, travel and listen to tons and tons of Bassnectar.

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.

Alex has spent the majority of his career in Support, System Administration working for a variety of employers in size and business function. He has seen how the sysadmin role is changing and working for GitLab will allow him to immerse into these technologies.

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 mesh networks, running Tor relays and boardgaming.

Alexandr is interested in everything related to technical support and likes to share as much knowledge as possible. On his spare time he enjoys playing bass guitar, travelling, and eating doner kebab.

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.

Allie joins GitLab with a background in lifecycle marketing, demand generation, and personalization. Allie enjoys working out, going on long walks, baking cookies, traveling, and trying new restaurants.

Before Gitlab Alex was working as an Account Manager for fews years at Wrike a citrix company. Outside work Alex is spending his time with his family and friends doing outdoor activities and photography.

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.

Alina grew up in country side in the heart of Transylvania, she started to work as a developer at the age of 21 in an outsourcing company. After going to the office for 5 years she decided to take of her own and work remotely. She likes solving problems and helping people. Outside work Alina enjoys spending time with her family and reading.

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.

Alishan has been a technology geek for as long as he can remember. He has been a software engineer since 2014, and has helped build the technological foundation at two startups. A passion for open-source software drew his attention to GitLab, where he now works on improving integration with serverless platforms. In his spare time, Alishan enjoys watching movies, listening to electronic music, and perusing Hacker News.

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.

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. 🫖🇬🇧

Ammar gives a lot of attention to details and code styles since started working in 2010, he has a lot of interest in personal development, he can be found at his desk working, watching TV or playing video games.

Anna Liisa has always loved complex puzzles. For many years she applied that love by working with people one on one and in groups to work through interpersonal issues. Now she brings empathy and people skills, along with her ability to keep the big picture while fousing on the details, to supporting the infrastructure and tools that engineers use to do great things.

Amparo is a developer who got the opportunity to work with Rails in late 2012 and she hasn't looked back ever since. Before joining Gitlab, she worked remotely in a Rails application for student success management. When she's not working, she is probably taking pictures of her cat or playing with him. She also likes to go on walks, watch movies, practice yoga and spend time with her family.

Based in Melbourne Australia, Adam is an experienced sales professional with a background that traverses both both sales and tech. Adam enjoys the challenge and satisfaction of helping to identify and solve his customer's most urgent business needs. In his free time, Adam enjoys tinkering with cars & motorcycles.

Amy is focused on partnering with teams that are responsible for campaigns and events. She has a healthy obsession with process improvements and efficiency. She is an avid Boston sports fan, enjoys playing soccer and softball, and traveling back and forth between California and New England.

Amy loves talking to people and laughing. She's been an Engineering Manager for a number of years and only recently discovered that some people don't find release pipelines fascinating. Amy spends her spare time running, eating chocolate and reading.

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.

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.

Anastasia is passionate about quality and enjoys learning new skills. In her free time she likes travelling, listening to music and playing board games.

Ali has a strong passion for Mid-century modern design and building great products. His background is in business strategy and supply chain management, so he is always curious about the entire process of an experience. His overarching goal as a designer is to leave a footprint of positive social and economic impact. In a nutshell, creating a more kind and conscious world speaks to who he is. He has a wife and one kid so far.

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 brews coffee with an Aeropress, enjoys mountain biking, binge-watches every standup comedy special and is thrilled by landscape and architectural photography, especially when done at night.

Andre joins GitLab with decades of sales and management experience, on the private side he loves to spend time horse back riding and doing some LARP.

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 is CTO at intelliHR. He started contributing to GitLab in 2016, aiming to improve the importing of projects from GitHub. Recently he has been improving areas of GitLab to increase his teams efficiency.

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.

Andrew enjoys building and securing software.

Andrew has a passion for building great software and has spent equal time in his career in both software engineering and technical product management roles. He specializes in creating tools and services that developers love. In his spare time Andrew enjoys cycling, traveling, and watching hockey.

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.

Anna studied linguistics but her career path led her to (finance) operations. She enjoys being a part of the ever-changing tech world.

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.

Annette likes to help customers define, find or rejuvenate their channels to their markets, their value propositions and to overcome their business challenges by applying pragmatic strategies and execution to get the success they deserve. Seeing them go on to achieve high growth and great results is a huge motivator for her.
Her style is consultative - she brings a wealth of experience from a vast range of customers – national and international. She likes to brainstorm, overcome challenges and make suggestions to make things change. Working with a customer is about helping them on the journey to the outcome they want, not just about taking a journey. Her advice is born from experience that gets results, not just theories!
Really enjoy facilitating live sessions, round table discussions and standing in front of people in a workshop – for her it is important to be a practitioner, to be hands on and to help.

Agnes's experience spans over 14 years of B2B marketing in the Technology Space. Agnes is a Food Enthusiast/Hodophile who is passionate about Marketing, Marketing Technology, Marketing Operations and Analytics.

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. He has lived most of his life in Texas. When not working he is spending all of his time with his wife, Kathleen, and their 3 children, Noah, Sophie and Lexie.

Based in Los Angeles, always searching for new adventures.

I love hiking trails that are surrounded by beautiful trees and scenery. Some of my favorite foods are artisan burgers and steamed dumplings. I love to socialize, so selling software is a natural fit for me.

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.

Arihant is passionate about automating the boring parts of work life and likes to write small and useful ruby scripts. He loves interacting with people and solving problems. He also enjoys playing with his kid and likes social outings.

Adrienne is a storyteller and communications professional who is passionate about telling compelling, relatable stories that inspire others. Her career has been dedicated to building thought leadership on behalf of both U.S. Congressmen & C-suite Executives for a range of audiences, including constituents, customers, analysts, & industry peers. At GitLab, she manages Executive Communications on behalf of the e-group.

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 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.