Dev Sub-department
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:Foundations
Name | 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 |
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
Name | Role |
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Martin Wortschack | Engineering Manager, Manage:Import and Integrate |
Carla Drago | Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate |
Senior Backend Engineer | Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import and Integrate |
Ivane Gkomarteli | 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 |
Plan
Plan:Project Management
Name | 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
Name | Role |
---|---|
Kushal Pandya | Fullstack Engineering Manager, Plan:Product Planning |
Abhilash Kotte | Senior Fullstack Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
Eugenia Grieff | Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
Florie Guibert | Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
Jack Chapman | Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
Joseph Joshua | Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
Nicolas Dular | Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
Rajan Mistry | Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning |
Plan:Optimize
Name | Role |
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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 | Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize |
Rudy Crespo | Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize |
Plan:Knowledge
Name | Role |
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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:Code Review
Name | Role |
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Andrew Smith | Core Team member |
Ben Bodenmiller | Core Team member |
Dave Munchiello | Board Observer |
George Hoyem | Board Observer |
George Tsiolis | Core Team member |
Godfrey Sullivan | Lead Independent Director, Board of Directors |
Hannes Rosenögger | Core Team member |
Jacopo Beschi | Core Team member |
Karen Blasing | Board of Directors |
Kyle Doherty | Board Observer |
Marco Zille | Core Team member |
Mark Porter | Board of Directors |
Matt Mullenweg | Board Observer |
Matthew Jacobson | Board of Directors |
Patrick Rice | Core Team member |
Randy Gottfried | Advisor |
Robert Schilling | Core Team member |
Merline Saintil | Board of Directors |
Siddharth Asthana | Core Team member |
Sue Bostrom | Board of Directors |
Sunny Bedi | Board of Directors |
Takuya Noguchi | Core Team member |
Niklas van Schrick | Core Team member |
Vitaliy Klachkov | Core Team member |
Create:Code Review Frontend
Name | 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
Name | Role |
---|---|
Matt Nohr | Backend Engineering Manager, Create:Code Creation |
Allen Cook | Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Anna Springfield | Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Jan Provaznik | Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Marvin Gay | Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Mikołaj Wawrzyniak | Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Missy Davies | Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Sri Rangan | Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Tian Gao | Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Vitali Tatarintev | Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation |
Create:Editor Extensions
Name | Role |
---|---|
Andrew Smith | Core Team member |
Ben Bodenmiller | Core Team member |
Dave Munchiello | Board Observer |
George Hoyem | Board Observer |
George Tsiolis | Core Team member |
Godfrey Sullivan | Lead Independent Director, Board of Directors |
Hannes Rosenögger | Core Team member |
Jacopo Beschi | Core Team member |
Karen Blasing | Board of Directors |
Kyle Doherty | Board Observer |
Marco Zille | Core Team member |
Mark Porter | Board of Directors |
Matt Mullenweg | Board Observer |
Matthew Jacobson | Board of Directors |
Patrick Rice | Core Team member |
Randy Gottfried | Advisor |
Robert Schilling | Core Team member |
Merline Saintil | Board of Directors |
Siddharth Asthana | Core Team member |
Sue Bostrom | Board of Directors |
Sunny Bedi | Board of Directors |
Takuya Noguchi | Core Team member |
Niklas van Schrick | Core Team member |
Vitaliy Klachkov | Core Team member |
Create:IDE
Name | Role |
---|---|
Adebayo Adesanya | Manager, Software Engineering |
Alper Akgun | Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:IDE |
Chad Woolley | Senior Backend Engineer, Create:IDE |
Enrique Alcántara | Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:IDE |
Hunar Khanna | Senior Backend Engineer, Create:IDE |
Paul Slaughter | Staff Frontend Engineer, Create:IDE |
Vishal Tak | Staff Backend Engineer, Create:IDE |
Create:Source Code
Name | Role |
---|---|
Andrew Smith | Core Team member |
Ben Bodenmiller | Core Team member |
Dave Munchiello | Board Observer |
George Hoyem | Board Observer |
George Tsiolis | Core Team member |
Godfrey Sullivan | Lead Independent Director, Board of Directors |
Hannes Rosenögger | Core Team member |
Jacopo Beschi | Core Team member |
Karen Blasing | Board of Directors |
Kyle Doherty | Board Observer |
Marco Zille | Core Team member |
Mark Porter | Board of Directors |
Matt Mullenweg | Board Observer |
Matthew Jacobson | Board of Directors |
Patrick Rice | Core Team member |
Randy Gottfried | Advisor |
Robert Schilling | Core Team member |
Merline Saintil | Board of Directors |
Siddharth Asthana | Core Team member |
Sue Bostrom | Board of Directors |
Sunny Bedi | Board of Directors |
Takuya Noguchi | Core Team member |
Niklas van Schrick | Core Team member |
Vitaliy Klachkov | Core Team member |
Create:Source Code Frontend
Name | Role |
---|---|
André Luís | Frontend Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review, Delivery & Scalability |
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 |
Jacques Erasmus | Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code |
Patrick Cyiza | Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code |
Joe Woodward | Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code |
Nataliia Radina | Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code |
Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska | Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code |
Robert May | Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code |
Vasilii Iakliushin | Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code, Systems:Gitaly API |
Stable Counterparts
The following members of other functional teams are our stable counterparts:
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.
Common Links
- Issue Tracker
- Slack Channels
- #sd_dev_engineering
- #s_manage
- #s_plan
- #s_create
Manage Stage
Plan Stage
Plan:Project Management Team
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