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.

Aasim is a sales and people leader based in Chicago, IL by way of Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA. His interests are travel, bulldogs, and watches.

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.

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.

Twenty+ years of helping customers solve their software development problems with people, process, and tools. My passion is delivering real business value with measurable results, not just generating software revenue. Focused on spending as much time as possible with family (4 kids) and friends.

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 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.

Joining August 19th.

Adeola is passionate about saving cost, getting value for money, and management of stakeholders & Suppliers. Outside of work, I love travelling, reading & spending time with families & friends. I am so excited to be part of the Gitlab team.

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.

Adrian is passionate about enabling quality across the full software lifecycle. Outside of work he enjoys family life (including dog!), sport, and is involved in a children's educational charity.

Adriano has been working in several IT roles since his seventeen's, having passed through support, system administration, software development, technical training and more recently DevOps. Working as a DevOps Engineer, he could to observe how technics like infrastructure and pipeline as code, continuous integration, continuous deployment can increase productivity and helping teams to deliver software in a more agile way. Adriano is someone who believes that human interactions are the key to achieve ambitious goals.

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 opportuity to work in early distributed database technologies as well as next-gen orchestration platforms. In his spare time he loves being a dad and husband as well as improving the house.

Starts May 18th

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.

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.

Akeela joined GitLab with a strong background in corporate billing and accounting. She is a problem solver with a record of managing customer concerns quickly and effectively.

Joined June 3rd, 2019

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

Throughout my career I have focused on business and channel development at software and technology companies. The partner ecosystem has played a critical role in accelerating the adoption of technologies like Virtualization, Big Data and Containers. I have been a part of those journeys through technology leaders over the part decade while at VMware, MapR and Docker. These companies doubled revenue year over year with the partnerships playing a significant role in the adoption of Cloud, Hadoop, and Kubernetes respectively.

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 Chile, 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.

Aleshia has a procurement leadership background from the public sector with a passion for the top and bottom line value purchasing can bring to empower the business. Outside of work her two children keep her busy, her home renovation list never ends, and she enjoys snowboarding in the winter, and lake life in the summer.

Joined in October 2019 \(^o^)/

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 is a UK based software engineer who has worked on both front and back end code in fields ranging from bioinformatics, to ed-tech and banking. This gives him an insight into the common challenges facing developers in small start-ups, scientific collaborations and large corporate enterprises. Alex cares about writing tools that solve problems, perform well and are simple to use, but above all ones that make the world a better place. He is an advocate of simplicity in software, which is something he credits to his work with functional programming and its emphasis on data-driven design. Outside the office, you are most likely to find him on a bike, or sniffing out a new café.

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.

Alexander 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.

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

Alex is an Manager, FP&A originally from the UK, and currently living in Paraguay. Before GitLab she worked in a variety of Finance roles for a leading UK Financial Institution and is a qualified CIMA accountant. In her spare time she enjoys horse riding, wine tasting and walking.

Alex Buijs has 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) music, watching movies in his home theater and flying paragliders.

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.

Alexis has over 20yrs of experience in Enterprise Software sales and has worked with Federal Government customers for over a decade. He is a Northern VA transplant living in South Florida who has embraced the South Florida lifestyle and is living the "Salt Life".

Alexis thinks people are fascinating - evidenced by her background in Advertising and Cultural Anthropology. She is a problem solver at heart and loves being able to leverage her interest in psychology and business strategy when designing solutions for users. Collaborating with teammates and employing a human-centered approach in order to build products and experiences that have a positive and meaningful impact on the lives of others is what drives her to get up for work each morning. In her free time she can be found crafting something weird (ie a “Austin, TX” themed perfume), going to concerts and events, or at a coffee shop trying to drink the city of Chicago out of coffee. If you don’t see her out and about then she is most likely in bed napping while half watching The Golden Girls.

After advocating a move to GitLab CI at one job, and Auto DevOps at another, Alex realized his passion advocating for CI/CD could be put to better use at GitLab. In his spare time Alex likes building custom keyboards (for typing), spending time with his numerous pets, and judging beer as a certified homebrew judge.

Alex is a California girl, living in New York City. She started her career in Finance, but quickly realized that her real interest was in the systems she was using and turned it into her career. Outside of work, you can find her at a fitness class or exploring the city with her dog, Cooper!

Alin is a support engineer with previous experience in the advertising tech space. Prior to GitLab, Alin spent the last few years developing an advertising fraud detection platform. Passionate about computer security and games, he usually spends his free time in front of his PC, hacking together some PoCs for new vulnerabilities or playing online games.

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. She has a passion for crocheting.

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.

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 is an enthusiastic collaborator and ambitious self-starter. Her professional passion is listening to customers to provide value and amazing results. Her personal passion is to learn about different cultures through travel abroad, staying active and being a great doggy mom.

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.

Joined 10-FEB-2020

Ammar is a frontend engineer, who enjoys wrangling frontend and backend. He give a lot of attention to details and code styles. Usually he can be found at his desk working, practicing calligraphy or playing video games. He also like petting pets, specially birds and cats.

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.

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.

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

Experienced problem-solver with a strong background in customer relations and support.

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.

Andreas is a passionate software engineer with a DevOps mindset and focus on database related topics. He has worked in various engineering positions in software development, data engineering and infrastructure teams. In his free time he enjoys sailing, maintaining boats, kayaking and diving. He works as an ordinary seaman on a traditional German tall ship and loves to spend time in the kitchen and outdoors.

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.

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.

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.

Angelo is passionate about code. He started working in web when Internet Explorer 6 was still a thing. He strongly believes education and technology are great enablers so he's 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.

A Silicon Valley native, Annie comes to GitLab with a 20+ year career in Channel sales. She helped create and implement programs for partners at Red Hat, CA Technologies, Symantec and various DevOps and Security start-ups. She enjoys a good challenge and thrives on building long-term partner relationships. In her free time, Annie enjoys the beautiful weather of Capitola Village, spending time with family and friends, swimming daily and doting on her ridiculously spoiled English Bulldog, Lola (check out our pets page for her cameo.)

Based in Australia, Anthony is an executive with +30 years global experience in Technology 23yrs at HP and SAP and Airlines-Logistics 8 yrs at Ansett and TNT. Proven track record of growing technology businesses, recognized in Asia for his customer focus, able to balance results and develop people. Known for cultivating relationships with C-level customers and partners, Public Sector, Industry influencers, media and analysts. Anthony enjoys most sports, especially Rugby and Snow Skiing. He still enjoys playing touch football weekly and watching his 4 kids sporting events.

"Anthony is passionate about innovation and sales. He will be supporting the French speaking regions in EMEA. His hobbies are: music production, sports, new technology and travel."

Agnes's experience spans over 9 years of B2B marketing in the Technology Space Agnes is a Food Enthusiast/Traveler who is passionate about Marketing, Marketing Technology, Marketing Operations and Analytics.

Joined May 21st

Based out of New York City, always searching for new adventures.

Aric is a support engineer 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.

Aricka comes to GitLab with more than 15 years of journalism, content strategy & marketing experience. While running a political news site for close to seven years, she was bitten by the tech bug and has been doubling down into that world ever since. Hailing from a town known for its fantastical culinary offerings, Aricka is a big time foodie that's always on the prowl for a new restaurant or recipe.

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.

Arina is an experienced software customer advocate with a demonstrated experience history and results in the recruitment solutions industry, and is now specializing in devops tools. She is a competitive debater and had the honor to represent Greece at Worlds Championship. Is a mother of a cat (Yuna), goldfish (Scarlett), snail (Turbo), and a couple of dying cherry tomatoes and peppers. In her scarce free time she loves to eat sushi and play virtual reality games on her PS4.

Arran enjoys building tools that solve problems for people, especially other engineers.

Software is my craft. I help businesses to define and implement their products by keeping a holistic approach. I strive for excellence and share my passion, ideas and practices with those around me.

Amanda is a mom, a fixer and a helper who loves to learn and to make things easier wherever possible.