Dev Sub-department

Maintained by:

Vision

Enable engineers across the world by having top notch planning and issue tools for managing their work, awesome tools to organize their code and evolve their codebase through the best code review and online editing experience. Support organizations to have an easy entrance level to use GitLab by having great import capabilities, a great documentation experience and administration tools.

We thrive for ownership of the things that we built by having a clear view on its performance and stability in production. We constantly challenge ourselves to build a better, faster and more robust application.

Mission

The Dev sub-department is taking care of the first part of the DevSecOps Lifecycle with the following stages and the specific groups:

Who we are

Manage

Manage:Authentication and Authorization

Person	Role

Manage:Foundations

Person	Role
Sam Beckham	Engineering Manager, Manage:Foundations
James Rushford	Frontend Engineer, Manage:Foundations
Lukas Eipert	Staff Frontend Engineer, Manage:Foundations
Staff Frontend Engineer	Staff Frontend Engineer, Manage:Foundations
Olena HK.	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Foundations
Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Foundations
Scott de Jonge	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Foundations
Thomas Hutterer	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Manage:Foundations

Manage:Import and Integrate

Person	Role
Martin Wortschack	Engineering Manager, Manage:Import and Integrate
Bojan Marjanović	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Carla Drago	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Senior Backend Engineer	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
James Nutt	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Justin Ho	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Luke Duncalfe	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Rodrigo Tomonari	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate
Sam Word	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate

Manage:Workspace

Person	Role

Plan

Plan:Project Management

Person	Role
Donald Cook	Engineering Manager, Plan:Project Management
Alexandru Croitor	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Brett Walker	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Senior Frontend Engineer	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Deepika Guliani	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Eulyeon K.	Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Heinrich Lee Yu	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Mario Celi	Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Simon Knox	Staff Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management

Plan:Product Planning

Person	Role
Kushal Pandya	Fullstack Engineering Manager, Plan:Product Planning
Abhilash Kotte	Senior Incubation Engineer, OKR Management
Eugenia Grieff	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Florie Guibert	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Jan Provaznik	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Joseph Joshua	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Nicolas Dular	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Rajan Mistry	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning

Plan:Optimize

Person	Role
Brandon Labuschagne	Fullstack Engineering Manager, Plan:Optimize
Staff Backend Engineer	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Alex Pennells	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Charlie Ablett	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Ezekiel Kigbo	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Felipe Artur	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Pavel Shutsin	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Rudy Crespo	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize

Plan:Knowledge

Person	Role
John Hope	Senior Manager, Engineering, Plan
Himanshu Kapoor	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge
Janis Altherr	Fullstack Engineer, Plan:Knowledge
Kassio Borges	Staff Backend Engineer , Plan:Knowledge
Naman Jagdish Gala	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge

Create

Create:Source Code

Person	Role
Sean Carroll	Backend Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code
Ash McKenzie	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Gavin Hinfey	Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Igor Drozdov	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code, Systems:Gitaly API
Senior Backend Engineer	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Patrick Cyiza	Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Joe Woodward	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Robert May	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Vasilii Iakliushin	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code, Systems:Gitaly API

Create:Code Review

Person	Role
Kisha Mavryck Richardson	Backend Engineering Manager, Create:Code Review
Sincheol (David) Kim	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Review
Gary Holtz	Backend Engineer, Create:Code Review
Kerri Miller	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Code Review
Marc Shaw	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Review
Patrick Bajao	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Review

Create:IDE

Person	Role

Create:Source Code Frontend

Person	Role
André Luís	Frontend Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review, Delivery & Scalability
Jacques Erasmus	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Nataliia Radina	Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska	Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code

Create:Code Review Frontend

Person	Role
André Luís	Frontend Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review, Delivery & Scalability
Phil Hughes	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Code Review
Stanislav Lashmanov	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Code Review
Thomas Randolph	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Code Review

Create:Code Creation

Person	Role

Create:Editor Extensions

Person	Role

Stable Counterparts

The following members of other functional teams are our stable counterparts:

Person	Role
Ramya Authappan	Manager, Quality Engineering, Dev & Analytics
Emilio Salvador	VP, Dev Relations and Community
John Coghlan	Director, Developer Relations
Kalyani Yerraguntla	Learning & Development Program Manager

How we work

Error Budgets

Error budgets are one of the Dev sub-department/section's performance indicators. They're vital in determining how reliable services within Dev are over any given timeframe. The budget is spent any time user-facing services experience a percentage of errors or latency breaching their defined thresholds. We track our error budgets using Grafana dashboards.

Engineering Managers in Dev focus on the 7-day timeframe of their error budget. An example dashboard can be found here.

Reporting your groups error budget, reliability, and security status

Every week, engineering leaders meet to discuss topics including the error budgets across the entire Engineering Division.

Dev engineering leaders use this Google document to track our error budget status week-over-week, which are then reported on in these meetings by senior leadership.

Engineering Managers are advised to report up to their managers, or self-report the status of their group on Monday's using the above document to ensure we have an accurate weekly snapshot of the sub-department's error budget status, outstanding reliability issue status, and past due security issues.

Automating a weekly check-in on your error budget

One way that groups can keep error budgets in mind is by automating a weekly reminder in Slack to check on their error budget.

A Slack workflow can be created that allows any member of the team to provide a quick update on the current error budget status.

Cross-functional Backlog

(Sisense↗) We also track our backlog of issues, including past due security and infradev issues, and total open SUS-impacting issues and bugs.

Merged Merge Request Types

(Sisense↗) MR Type labels help us report what we're working on to industry analysts in a way that's consistent across the engineering department. The dashboard below shows the trend of MR Types over time and a list of merged MRs.

Common Links

Issue Tracker
Slack Channels
- #sd_dev_engineering
- #s_manage
- #s_plan
- #s_create