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
Jarka Košanová	Acting Engineering Manager, Manage:Authentication and Authorization
Bogdan Denkovych	Backend Engineer, Manage:Authentication and Authorization
Drew Blessing	Backend Engineer, Manage:Authentication and Authorization
Eduardo Sanz-Garcia	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Authentication and Authorization
Imre Farkas	Staff Backend Engineer, Manage:Authentication and Authorization

Manage:Compliance

Person	Role
Dennis Tang	Engineering Manager, Manage:Compliance
Alper Akgun	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Analytics
Axel García	Frontend Engineer, Analytics
Harsimar Sandhu	Backend Engineer, Manage:Compliance
Huzaifa Iftikhar	Backend Engineer, Manage:Compliance
Jiaan Louw	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Compliance
Jeremy Jackson	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Analytics
Max Woolf	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Compliance
Robert Hunt	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Compliance
Michael Becker	Senior Backend Engineer

Manage:Import

Person	Role
Martin Wortschack	Engineering Manager, Manage:Import
Carla Drago	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import
George Koltsov	Backend Engineer, Manage:Import
Illya Klymov	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Import
Rodrigo Tomonari	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import

Manage:Optimize

Person	Role
Brandon Labuschagne	Acting Engineering Manager, Manage:Optimize
Adam Hegyi	Staff Backend Engineer, Manage:Optimize
Ezekiel Kigbo	Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Optimize
Magdalena Frankiewicz	Backend Engineer, Manage:Optimize, Product Management internship
Pavel Shutsin	Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Optimize

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
Coung Ngo	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
Natalia Tepluhina	Staff Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Simon Knox	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management

Plan:Product Planning

Person	Role
John Hope	Backend Engineering Manager, Plan:Product Planning
Charlie Ablett	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Eugenia Grieff	Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Felipe Artur	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Florie Guibert	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Jan Provaznik	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Kushal Pandya	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Rajat Jain	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning

Create

Create:Source Code

Person	Role
Sean Carroll	Backend Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code
Igor Drozdov	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Joe Woodward	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Robert May	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Vasilii Iakliushin	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code

Create:Code Review

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

Create:Editor

Person	Role
David O'Regan	Engineering Manager, Create:Editor
Chad Woolley	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Editor
Denys Mishunov	Staff Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor
Enrique Alcántara	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor
Himanshu Kapoor	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor
Kassio Borges	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Editor
Paul Slaughter	Staff Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor
Vishal Tak	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Editor

Create:Static Site Editor

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

Create:Code Review Frontend

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

Gitaly

Person	Role
Tim Zallmann	Senior Director of Engineering, Dev

Ecosystem Backend

Person	Role

Ecosystem Frontend

Person	Role

Stable Counterparts

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

Person	Role
Darby Frey	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Devops for Mobile Apps
Ramya Authappan	Quality Engineering Manager, Dev
Tim Zallmann	Senior Director of Engineering, Dev
John Coghlan	Senior Manager, Developer Evangelism
Orit Golowinski	Director, Product Management, Dev

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