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Wayne Haber README

I’m the director of engineering for the growth sub-department, sec sub-department and the ModelOps group. I am also a SME for security at the company.

Links about Wayne:

• GitLab
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• WayneHaber.com

I’m a veteran of three successful startups (including GitLab) and have experience in multiple areas including healthcare, finance, and security.

How to collaborate with Wayne

• I subscribe to servant-leadership
• Learning is very important to me. I read approximately one book a week and aspire to take one online class (Udemy or LinkedIn learning) every month or so.
• I subscribe to the philosophy of “saying what you are going to do and doing what you say”.
• I am an advocate of remote-work due to it being highly effective (on many levels) for both the company and for the individual.
• At work, nothing makes me happier than when:
  • A user benefits from a change developed by my team
  • A prospect becomes a customer (or an existing customer expands their usaage of the product) because of a feature developed by my team
  • A team member learns something new and expands their horizons
  • A process or procedure or technology is improved that benefits the overall company, team members, or the technology industry as a whole
• I prefer to use this 1-1 format
• I do skip-level meetings with those who work for my direct reports every two months.
• I do an AMA (ask me anything) / office hours session with my team approximately monthly. Anyone at the company is invited to attend if they are so inclined.
• Some of my favorite business books include:
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  • The Phoenix Project
  • Start with Why
• I am in Atlanta, GA, USA (Eastern US).
• I am most productive in the morning.
• When reaching out to me my preferences are (in order of preference):
  • Tag me in merge request
  • Tag me in issue
  • Tag me in a message in a Slack channel
  • Send me a 1:1 message in Slack
  • Send me an email
• Since we are successful at being the most transparent company in the world, I prefer communications to be public whenever possible. However, this sometimes does not come naturally to me as my experience before GitLab was at a security company where confidentiality was of the utmost importance.
• I prefer that when possible, all recorded meetings should be made public on GitLab Unfiltered. I am often pleasantly surprised by how this can increase collaboration both inside and outside the team.
• I always try to explain the “why”. Engineers often leave that out and focus on the “what” and “how”.

Zoom

• I am working on interrupting people less, slowing down my pace, and pausing more often. This is to increase the clarity of what I am communicating while also increasing my emotional intelligence. I am getting realtime feedback on this via system called Poised. In particular, rather than interrupting a speaker when I have something to say, I am trying to indicate that via non-verbal communication via video.
• When on video, I will sometimes use the Zoom emoji feature rather than interupting the speaker to express my feedback on something.
• If I don't have my video feed on, it is likely because I am listening but multitasking (working on something, doing something at home, etc) and I don't want those other activities to be distracting to the meeting attendees.

Engineering director shadow program

Engineering director shadow program