Principles - Processes - Categorization - GitLab the Product - PM Responsibilities - Being a PM - Performance Indicators - Leadership
We want intuitive interfaces both within the company and with the wider community. This makes it more efficient for everyone to contribute or to get a question answered. Therefore, the following interfaces are based on the product categories defined on this page:
The categories form a hierarchy:
data/sections.yml
.data/stages.yml
.
Each stage has a corresponding devops::<stage>
label under the gitlab-org
group.data/stages.yml
.
Each group has a corresponding group::<group>
label under the gitlab-org
group.data/categories.yml
.
Each category has a corresponding Category:<Category>
label under the gitlab-org
group. Category maturity is managed in the product Category Maturity Change processdata/features.yml
.
It's recommended to associate feature labels to a category or a group with feature_labels
in the data/categories.yml
or data/stages.yml
.Notes:
Anytime one hierarchy level's scope is the same as the one above or below it, they can share the same name.
For groups that have two or more categories, but not all categories in a stage, the group name must be a unique word or a summation of the categories they cover.
If you want to refer to a group in context of their stage you can write that as "Stage:Group". This can be useful in email signatures, job titles, and other communications. E.g. "Monitor:Health" rather than "Monitor Health" or "Monitor, Health."
When naming a new stage, group, or category, you should search the handbook and main marketing website to look for other naming conflicts which could confuse customers or employees. Uniqueness is preferred if possible to help drive clarity and reduce confusion. See additional product feature naming guidelines as well.
Every category listed on this page must have a link to a direction page. Categories may also have documentation and marketing page links. When linking to a category using the category name as the anchor text (e.g. from the chart on the homepage) you should use the URLs in the following hierarchy:
Marketing product page > docs page > direction page
E.g Link the marketing page. If there's no marketing page, link to the docs. If there's no docs, link to the direction page.
Solutions can consist of multiple categories and are typically used to align to a customer challenge (e.g. the need to reduce security and compliance risk) or to market segments defined by analysts such as Software Composition Analysis (SCA). Solutions are also often used to align to challenges unique to an industry vertical (e.g. financial services), or to a sales segment (e.g. SMB vs Enterprise).
Solutions typically represent a customer challenge, and we define how GitLab capabilities come together to meet that challenge, with business benefits of using our solution.
Market segments defined by analysts don't always align to GitLab stages and categories and often include multiple categories. Two most frequently encountered are:
We are intentional in not defining SCA as containing SAST and Code Quality despite some analysts using the term to also include those categories.
Capabilities can refer to stages, categories, or features, but not solutions.
Adding more layers to the hierarchy would give it more fidelity but would hurt usability in the following ways:
We use this hierarchy to express our organizational structure within the Product and Engineering organizations. Doing so serves the goals of:
As a result, it is considered an anti-pattern to how we've organized for categories to move between groups out of concern for available capacity.
When designing the hierarchy, the number of sections should be kept small and only grow as the company needs to re-organize for span-of-control reasons. i.e. each section corresponds to a Director of Engineering and a Director of Product, so it's an expensive add. For stages, the DevOps loop stages should not be changed at all, as they're determined from an external source. At some point we may change to a different established bucketing, or create our own, but that will involve a serious cross-functional conversation. While the additional value stages are our own construct, the loop and value stages combined are the primary stages we talk about in our marketing, sales, etc. and they shouldn't be changed lightly. The other stages have more flexibility as they're not currently marketed in any way, however we should still strive to keep them as minimal as possible. Proliferation of a large number of stages makes the product surface area harder to reason about and communicate if/when we decide to market that surface area. As such, they're tied 1:1 with sections so they're the minimal number of stages that fit within our organizational structure. e.g. Growth was a single group under Enablement until we decided to add a Director layer for Growth; then it was promoted to a section with specialized groups under it. The various buckets under each of the non-DevOps stages are captured as different groups. Groups are also a non-marketing construct, so we expand the number of groups as needed for organizational purposes. Each group usually corresponds to a backend engineering manager and a product manager, so it's also an expensive add and we don't create groups just for a cleaner hierarchy; it has to be justified from a span-of-control perspective or limits to what one product manager can handle.
The impact of changes to sections, stages and groups is felt across the company.
All new category creation needs to be specifically approved via our Opportunity Canvas review process. This is to avoid scope creep and breadth at the expense of depth and user experience.
Merge requests with changes to sections, stages and groups and significant changes to categories need to be created, approved, and/or merged by each of the below:
The following people need to be on the merge request so they stay informed:
@gl-quality/eng-prod
)After approval and prior to merging, ping the Engineering Manager for Quality Engineering in the MR, if there are changes that:
This is to ensure that GitLab Bot auto-labeling can be updated prior to the change, which can be disruptive if missed.
Upon approval, tag the group Technical Writer in the merge request to ensure documentation metadata is updated after the category change is merged.
Because it helps to be specific about what is a significant change and what should trigger the above approval process, below are two non-exhaustive lists of examples that would and would not, respectively, require approval.
Changes that require the above approvers include:
Changes that require approval only from the relevant Product Director include:
When changing the name of a group, make sure to go through the following steps:
data/stages.yml
using the Group-Stage-Category-Change templateWhen changing an existing category name, there are some considerations to the order of events:
data/stages.yml
and spec/homepage/category_spec.rb
.#it-help
Slack channel to request an update to Slack channel name for the re-named categoryWe primarily use the Category Maturity Scorecard process to determine category maturity.
Typically, category maturity moves up from planned to minimal to viable to complete to lovable. However, maturity can also be downgraded. For example, in cases where we discover a JTBD is not met (see example), or when we change the definition of maturity, we may choose to move category maturity down.
When downgrading product maturity, we adjust our customer's current expectations about our product. This is particularly impactful to our go-to-market team members in customer success and product marketing. We need to do the following to enable alignment between all affected and interested parties:
Product: Orit Golowinski | Development: Tim Zallmann | Product Design: Taurie Davis, Marcel van Remmerden | Support: Shaun McCann | Product Marketing: Aathira Nair, Heather Simpson | Quality: Ramya Authappan | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Iris Gorman
Product Management: Urvi Chetta | Development: Michelle Gill | Product Design Managers: Chris Micek, Taurie Davis (Interim)
Development totals: 6 BE, 1 FE
Product Manager: Hannah Sutor | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Support: Alejandro Guerrero de Alba, Gerardo Gutierrez, Cynthia Ng | Backend Engineering Manager: Adil Farrukh | Frontend Engineering Manager: Adil Farrukh | Software Engineer in Test: Sanad Liaquat | Backend Engineering: Bogdan Denkovych, Drew Blessing, Imre Farkas, Jessie Young, Smriti Garg, Aboobacker MK | Frontend Engineering: Eduardo Sanz-Garcia | Product Design Manager: Chris Micek | UX Researcher: Ashley Knobloch | Product Designer: Daniel Mora | Technical Writer: Jon Glassman | Application Security Engineer: Rohit Shambhuni | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Customer Support Department, (TBD), Security Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Manage Authentication and Authorization Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 6 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: g_manage_organization | Product Manager: Christina Lohr | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Support: Asmaa Hassan, Cynthia Ng | Backend Engineering Manager: Małgorzata Ksionek | Frontend Engineering Manager: Małgorzata Ksionek | Software Engineer in Test: Valerie Burton | Backend Engineering: Abdul Wadood, Alex Pooley, Hitesh Raghuvanshi, Mansoor Khan, Manoj Memana Jayakumar, Serena Fang | Frontend Engineering: Peter Hegman | Product Design Manager: Chris Micek | Staff Product Designer: Mike Nichols | UX Researcher: Ashley Knobloch | Technical Writer: Lorena Ciutacu | Application Security Engineer: Rohit Shambhuni | Customer Success: John Feeney, Yolanda Feldstein | Internal Customers: Customer Support Department, (TBD), Security Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Manage Organization Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 4 BE, 2 FE
Product Manager: Magdalena Frankiewicz | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Engineering Manager: Martin Wortschack | Support: Olivier Némoz Saint-Dizier | Software Engineer in Test: Andrejs Cunskis | Backend Engineering: Carla Drago, George Koltsov, Martin Wortschack, Rodrigo Tomonari | Frontend Engineering: Illya Klymov, Martin Wortschack | Product Design Manager: Chris Micek | UX Researcher: Ashley Knobloch | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Nick Malcolm | Customer Success: John Feeney, Yolanda Feldstein | Internal Customers: Customer Support Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Manage Import GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 5 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: g_manage_integrations | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/manage/integrations | Product Manager: Grant Hickman | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: [Anton Smith] | Backend Engineering Manager: Arturo Herrero | Frontend Engineering Manager: Arturo Herrero | Software Engineer in Test: Sean Gregory | Backend Engineering: Alex Kalderimis, Andy Soiron, Bojan Marjanović, Joseph Joshua, Luke Duncalfe | Frontend Engineering: Justin Ho | Product Design Manager: Taurie Davis (Interim) | UX Researcher: Ashley Knobloch | Product Designer: Libor Vanc | Technical Writer: Ashraf Khamis | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Alliances Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD), Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Ecosystem Integrations GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 7 FE
Slack Channel: g_manage_foundations | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/manage | Product Manager: Christen Dybenko | Engineering Manager: Sam Beckham | Support: TBD | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Frontend Engineering: Lukas Eipert, Mark Florian, Mike Greiling, Olena HK., Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt, Scott de Jonge, Thomas Hutterer | Product Design Manager: Taurie Davis (Interim) | UX Researcher: Ashley Knobloch | Product Designers: Jeremy Elder, Austin Regnery, Sascha Eggenberger | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Alliances Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD), Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Driving Pajamas adoption] | Features in this Group
Product Management: Melissa Ushakov | Development: John Hope | Product Design Manager: Blair Christopher
Development totals: 5 BE, 4 FE
Handbook | Product Manager: Gabe Weaver | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Donald Cook | Frontend Engineering Manager: Donald Cook | Software Engineer in Test: Désirée Chevalier | Backend Engineering: Alexandru Croitor, Brett Walker, Eulyeon K., Heinrich Lee Yu, Mario Celi | Frontend Engineering: Coung Ngo, Deepika Guliani, Natalia Tepluhina, Simon Knox | UX Researcher: Danika Teverovsky | Product Designer: Nick Leonard | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Christiaan Conover, Edmond Chan | Internal Customers: Engineering Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Plan Project Management Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 4 BE, 2 FE
Handbook | Product Manager: Amanda Rueda | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Kushal Pandya | Frontend Engineering Manager: Kushal Pandya | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Eugenia Grieff, Jan Provaznik, Nicolas Dular, Stanislav Dobrovolschii | Frontend Engineering: Florie Guibert, Rajan Mistry | UX Researcher: Danika Teverovsky | Product Designer: Alexis Ginsberg | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Engineering Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Plan Product Planning Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 2 BE
Handbook | Product Manager: Matthew Macfarlane | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: | Backend Engineering Manager: Jarka Košanová | Frontend Engineering Manager: Jarka Košanová | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Charlie Ablett, Felipe Artur, Jarka Košanová | Frontend Engineering: | UX Researcher: Danika Teverovsky | Product Designer: Dan Mizzi-Harris | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Christiaan Conover, Edmond Chan | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (TBD), Customer Support Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Plan Certify Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 2 BE, 2 FE
Product Manager: Haim Snir | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Engineering Manager: [Brandon Labuschagne (Interim)] | Support: TBD | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Adam Hegyi, Pavel Shutsin | Frontend Engineering: Alex Pennells, Ezekiel Kigbo | UX Researcher: Danika Teverovsky | Product Designer: Matej Latin | Technical Writer: Lorena Ciutacu | Application Security Engineer: Nick Malcolm | Customer Success: Yolanda Feldstein | Internal Customers: Engineering Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Quality Department, (TBD), Development Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Plan Optimize GMAU] | Features in this Group
Product Management: Sarah Waldner | Development: Darva Satcher | Product Design Manager: Marcel van Remmerden (Interim) | Staff Product Designer: Pedro Moreira da Silva
Development totals: 7 BE, 2 FE
Handbook | Product Manager: Torsten Linz | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Sean Carroll | Frontend Engineering Manager: André Luís | Software Engineer in Test: Anastasia McDonald | Backend Engineering: Gavin Hinfey, Igor Drozdov, Jerry Seto, Patrick Cyiza, Joe Woodward, Robert May, Vasilii Iakliushin | Frontend Engineering: André Luís, Jacques Erasmus, Nataliia Radina | UX Researcher: Ben Leduc-Mills | Product Designer: Michael Le | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Conley Rogers, Kristof Goossens, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Engineering Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (Saumya Upadhyaya), Product Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Create Source Code GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 5 BE, 3 FE
Handbook | Product Manager: Kai Armstrong | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: Ben King | Backend Engineering Manager: Matt Nohr | Frontend Engineering Manager: André Luís | Software Engineer in Test: Jay McCure | Backend Engineering: Sincheol (David) Kim, Gary Holtz, Kerri Miller, Marc Shaw, Patrick Bajao | Frontend Engineering: André Luís, Phil Hughes, Stanislav Lashmanov, Thomas Randolph | UX Researcher: Ben Leduc-Mills | Product Designer: Annabel Dunstone Gray | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Greg Alfaro | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Engineering Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Create Code Review GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 5 BE, 4 FE
Handbook | Product Manager: Eric Schurter | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: Brad Sevy | Backend Engineering Manager: David O'Regan | Frontend Engineering Manager: David O'Regan | Software Engineer in Test: Jason Zhang | Backend Engineering: Chad Woolley, David O'Regan, Guillermo De los Santos García, Kassio Borges, Naman Jagdish Gala, Vishal Tak | Frontend Engineering: David O'Regan, Denys Mishunov, Enrique Alcántara, Himanshu Kapoor, Paul Slaughter | UX Researcher: Ben Leduc-Mills | Product Designer: Julia Miocene | Technical Writer: Ashraf Khamis | Application Security Engineer: Greg Alfaro | Customer Success: Conley Rogers, Kristof Goossens, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Marketing Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD), Finance Department, (TBD), People Operations, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Gerardo Lopez Fernandez | Focus: [Create Editor GMAU] | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: ops-section | Handbook | Product: | Product: [Jackie Porter, Hillary Benson, Orit Golowinski] | Development: Sam Goldstein | Development: Sam Goldstein | Product Design: Marcel van Remmerden | UX Research: Will Leidheiser | Support: Lee Matos, Lyle Kozloff, Lyle Kozloff | Product Marketing: Aathira Nair, Heather Simpson | Quality: Joanna Shih | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Tiffany Chen
Product Management: Jackie Porter | Development: Cheryl Li | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo
Development totals: 7 BE, 2 FE
Product Manager: James Heimbuck | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: Manuel Grabowski | Backend Engineering Manager: Caroline Simpson | Software Engineer in Test: Richard Chong | Backend Engineering: Allison Browne, Drew Cimino, Fabio Pitino, Kasia Misirli, Marius Bobin, Max Fan, Tianwen Chen | Frontend Engineering: Jose Ivan Vargas, Payton Burdette | UX Researcher: Erika Feldman | Product Designer: Veethika Mishra | Technical Writer: Catherine Pope | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Kristof Goossens, Rachel Fuerst, Vladimir Dzalbo | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (Joanna Shih), UX Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group, (TBD) | Focus: [Verify & Runner SMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 4 BE, 3 FE
Product Manager: Dov Hershkovitch | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: Manuel Grabowski | Backend Engineering Manager: Mark Nuzzo | Software Engineer in Test: Tiffany Rea | Backend Engineering: Avielle Wolfe, Furkan Ayhan, Laura Montemayor, Leaminn Ma | Frontend Engineering: Briley Sandlin, Frédéric Caplette, Mireya Andres | UX Researcher: Erika Feldman | Product Designer: Sunjung Park | Technical Writer: Marcel Amirault | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Kristof Goossens, Rachel Fuerst, Vladimir Dzalbo | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (Joanna Shih), UX Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group, (TBD) | Focus: [Verify & Runner SMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 5 BE, 1 FE
Product Manager: Darren Eastman | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: Alexander Tanayno, TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Elliot Rushton | Software Engineers in Test: Zeff Morgan, Aleksandr Lyubenkov | Backend Engineering: Arran Walker, Axel von Bertoldi, Georgi Georgiev, Pedro Pombeiro, Romuald Atchadé | Frontend Engineering: Miguel Rincon | UX Researcher: Erika Feldman | Product Designer: Gina Doyle | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: Kristof Goossens, Rachel Fuerst, Vladimir Dzalbo | Internal Customers: Infrastructure Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD) | Site Reliability Engineering: Alex Hanselka, Rehab Hassanein | Focus: [Verify & Runner SMAU] | Features in this Group
Product Manager: Darren Eastman | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: tbd, tbd | Software Engineers in Test: Zeff Morgan, Aleksandr Lyubenkov | Backend Engineering: | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Infrastructure Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD) | Site Reliability Engineering: Alex Hanselka, Rehab Hassanein | Focus: [Verify & Runner SaaS SMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 4 BE, 1 FE
Product Manager: Jocelyn Eillis | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: Brie Carranza | Backend Engineering Manager: Scott Hampton | Frontend Engineering Manager: Scott Hampton | Backend Engineering: Albert Salim, Dmytro Biryukov, Erick Bajao, Maxime Orefice | Frontend Engineering: Miranda Fluharty | UX Researcher: Erika Feldman | Product Designer: Gina Doyle | Technical Writer: Marcel Amirault | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (Joanna Shih), UX Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group, (TBD) | Focus: [Verify Pipeline Insights Sum of AMAUs] | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: s_package | Handbook | Product Management: Viktor Nagy | Development: Sam Goldstein | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo
Development totals: 3 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: g_package-registry | Slack Alias: @package-registry-group | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/package-registry-group | Handbook | Product Manager: Tim Rizzi | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Carrie Kroutil | Frontend Engineering Manager: Carrie Kroutil | Software Engineer in Test: Nivetha Prabakaran | Backend Engineering: David Fernandez, Dzmitry Meshcharakou, Rad Batnag | Frontend Engineering: Rahul Chanila | UX Researcher: Erika Feldman | Technical Writer: Clayton Cornell | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Distribution Team, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Focus: [Package Registry GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 5 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: g_container-registry | Slack Alias: @container-registry-group | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/ci-cd/package-stage/container-registry-group | Handbook | Product Manager: Tim Rizzi | Product Marketing Manager: Heather Simpson | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Michelle Torres | Frontend Engineering Manager: Michelle Torres | Software Engineer in Test: Sofia Vistas | Backend Engineering: Adie Po, Hayley Swimelar, Jaime Martínez, João Pereira, Suleimi Ahmed | Frontend Engineering: Rahul Chanila | UX Researcher: Erika Feldman | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Clayton Cornell | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Distribution Team, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Focus: [Container Registry GMAU] | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: s_release | Handbook | Product Management: Viktor Nagy | Development: Sam Goldstein | Product Design Manager: Rayana Verissimo
Development totals: 6 BE, 2 FE
Handbook | Product Manager: Chris Balane | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Support: James McGrew | Backend Engineering Manager: Vladimir Shushlin (Acting) | Frontend Engineering Manager: Vladimir Shushlin (Acting) | Backend Engineering: Allen Cook, Ahmed Hemdan, Alishan 'Ali' Ladhani, Bala Kumar Subramani, Halil Coban, Shinya Maeda | Frontend Engineering: Andrei Zubov, Andrew Fontaine | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: Emily Bauman | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Dominic Couture | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Delivery Team, (TBD), Distribution Team, (TBD), Security Department, (TBD), Tech Writers, (TBD), AutoDevOps and Kubernetes Group, (TBD) | Focus: [Release SMAU] | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: s_configure | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/configure | Handbook | Product Management: Viktor Nagy | Development: Sam Goldstein | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell
Development totals: 6 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: s_configure | Slack Alias: @Configure Group | Handbook | Product Manager: Viktor Nagy | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Support: Lewis Brown | Backend Engineering Manager: Nicolò Maria Mezzopera | Backend Engineering: Hordur Freyr Yngvason, Hunter Stewart, João Alexandre Prado Tavares Cunha, Mikhail Mazurskiy, Pam Artiaga, Tiger Watson | Frontend Engineering: Anna Vovchenko | Staff Product Designer: Andy Volpe | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: Ali Ndlovu | Technical Writer: Phillip Wells | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: Chester Nwachukwu, Tim Poffenbarger | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (Joanna Shih), Delivery Team, (John Skarbek), Reliability Engineering, (Devin Sylva) | Focus: [Configure GMAU] | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: s_monitor | Slack Alias: @Monitor Group | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/monitor | Handbook | Product Management: Kevin Chu | Development: Nicole Williams | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell
Development totals: 5 BE, 3 FE
Slack Channel: g_respond | Slack Alias: @respond-group | Handbook | Product Manager: Alana Bellucci | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Support: Cody West | Backend Engineering Manager: Sarah Yasonik (Acting) | Frontend Engineering Manager: Sarah Yasonik (Acting) | Backend Engineering: Kristen Cutler, Peter Leitzen, Rajendra Kadam, Sarah Yasonik, Vitali Tatarintev | Frontend Engineering: James Rushford, Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska, Tristan Read | Staff Product Designer: Andy Volpe | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: Amelia Bauerly | Technical Writer: Marcin Sędłak-Jakubowski | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Infrastructure Department, (Dave Smith), Engineering Department, (Sam Goldstein) | Focus: [Respond GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 5 BE, 3 FE
Slack Channel: g_observability | Slack Alias: @observability-group | Handbook | Product Manager: Kevin Chu | Product Marketing Manager: Aathira Nair | Backend Engineering Manager: Nicholas Klick | Frontend Engineering Manager: Francois Rose | Backend Engineering: Ankit Bhatnagar, Arun Sori, Joe Shaw, Nick Ilieskou, Paweł Rozlach | Frontend Engineering: Ankit Panchal, Daniele Rossetti, Ian Murray | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Catherine Pope | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: | Focus: [Acquisition Integration] | Features in this Group
Product: Hillary Benson | Development: Wayne Haber | Product Design: Marcel van Remmerden | Support: TBD | Product Marketing: Brian Mason | Quality: Vincy Wilson | Analyst Relations: | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Iris Gorman
Slack Channel: s_secure | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure | Handbook | Development: Thomas Woodham | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell
Development totals: 6 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: g_secure-static-analysis | Slack Alias: @secure_static_analysis_team | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure/static-analysis | Product Manager: Connor Gilbert | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Mason | Support: Eric Rosenberg | Backend Engineering Manager: Amar Patel | Software Engineer in Test: Careem Ahamed | Backend Engineering: Arpit Gogia, James Liu, Lucas Charles, Ross Fuhrman, Vishwa Bhat, Zach Rice | Frontend Engineering: Jannik Lehmann | Staff Product Designer: Andy Volpe | UX Researcher: Michael Oliver | Product Designer: Michael Fangman | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Bryan Miller, Brian Wald, Sam Morris | Internal Customers: Security Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: [Static Analysis Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 10 BE
Slack Channel: g_secure-dynamic-analysis | Slack Alias: @secure_dynamic_analysis_be | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure/dynamic-analysis-be | Product Manager: Derek Ferguson | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Mason | Support: Kate Grechishkina | Backend Engineering Manager: Seth Berger | Backend Engineering: Artur Fedorov, Aditya Tiwari, Craig Smith, Cam Swords, David Nelson, Dheeraj Joshi, Herber Madrigal, Marcos Rocha, Mike Eddington, Philip Cunningham, Seth Berger | Staff Product Designer: Andy Volpe | UX Researcher: Michael Oliver | Product Designer: Michael Fangman | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Bryan Miller, Brian Wald, Sam Morris | Internal Customers: Security Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: [Dynamic Analysis Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 6 BE
Slack Channel: g_secure-composition-analysis | Slack Alias: @secure_composition_analysis_dev | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/secure/composition-analysis-dev | Product Manager: Sam White | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Mason | Support: Katrin Leinweber | Backend Engineering Manager: Olivier Gonzalez | Software Engineer in Test: Will Meek | Backend Engineering: Adam Cohen, Fabien Catteau, Oscar Tovar, Igor Frenkel, Olivier Gonzalez, Shao Ming Tan, Tetiana Chupryna | Frontend Engineering: | UX Researcher: Michael Oliver | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Russell Dickenson | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: Bryan Miller, Brian Wald, Sam Morris | Internal Customers: Security Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: [Composition Analysis Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 3 BE
Slack Channel: g_secure-vulnerability-research | Product Manager: Hillary Benson | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Mason | Support: [Mario Mora] | Backend Engineering Manager: Mark Art | Backend Engineering: Isaac Dawson, Julian Thome, Mark Art, Michael Henriksen | Technical Writer: Clayton Cornell | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Security Department, (TBD), Engineering Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: [Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: s_govern | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/govern | Handbook | Development: Phil Calder | Product Design Manager: Justin Mandell
Development totals: 2 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: g_govern_security_policies | Product Manager: Sam White | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Mason | Engineering Manager: Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski | Backend Engineering: Dominic Bauer, Sashi Kumar Kumaresan | Frontend Engineering: Alexander Turinske | Staff Product Designer: Andy Volpe | UX Researcher: Michael Oliver | Product Designer: Camellia Yang | Technical Writer: Clayton Cornell | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Security Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: [Security Policies Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 9 BE, 6 FE
Slack Channel: g_govern_threat_insights | Product Manager: Matt Wilson | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Mason | Fullstack Managers: Thiago Figueiró, Neil McCorrison | Support: Gerardo Gutierrez | Software Engineer in Test: Harsha Muralidhar | Backend Engineering: Brian Williams, Gregory Havenga, Jonathan Schafer, Malcolm Locke, Mehmet Emin Inac, Michał Zając, Mo Khan, Subashis Chakraborty, Zamir Martins Filho | Frontend Engineering: Daniel Tian, Dave Pisek, Lorenz van Herwaarden, Neil McCorrison, Samantha Ming, Savas Vedova | Staff Product Designer: Andy Volpe | UX Researcher: Michael Oliver | Product Designer: Rebecca "Becka" Lippert | Technical Writer: Clayton Cornell | Application Security Engineer: Nikhil George | Customer Success: | Internal Customer: Security Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: [Threat Insights Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 4 BE, 1 FE
Product Manager: Derek Ferguson | Product Marketing Manager: Brian Mason | Engineering Manager: Nathan Rosandich | Support: TBD | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Aaron Huntsman, Harsimar Sandhu, Huzaifa Iftikhar, Michael Becker | Frontend Engineering: Elwyn Benson | Staff Product Designer: Andy Volpe | UX Researcher: Michael Oliver | Product Designer: Alex Fracazo | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Nick Malcolm | Customer Success: John Feeney, Yolanda Feldstein | Internal Customers: Customer Support Department, (TBD), Security Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Steve Loyd (Acting) | Focus: [Govern Compliance Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Product: Hillary Benson | Development: Wayne Haber | Product Design: Taurie Davis | Support: TBD | Product Marketing: Saumya Upadhyaya | Quality: Vincy Wilson | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Tiffany Chen
Product Management: Jensen Stava | Development: Phil Calder | Product Design Manager: Taurie Davis (Interim)
Development totals: 3 BE
Slack Channel: g_anti-abuse | Handbook | Product Manager: Jensen Stava | Engineering Manager: Jay Swain | Backend Engineering: Alex Buijs, Eugie Limpin, Hinam Mehra | Product Designer: Katie Macoy | Technical Writer: Phillip Wells | Application Security Engineer: Nick Malcolm | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: s_modelops | Handbook | Product Management: Taylor McCaslin | Development: Wayne Haber | Product Design Manager: Taurie Davis (Interim)
Development totals: 7 BE
Slack Channel: g_ai_assisted | Handbook | Product Manager: [Neha Khalwadekar] | Engineering Manager: Monmayuri Ray | Software Engineer in Test: Mark Lapierre | Backend Engineering: Alexander Chueshev, Alper Akgun, Andras Herczeg, Bruno Cardoso, Hongtao Yang, Stephan Rayner, Tan Le | Product Designer: Katie Macoy | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: Nick Malcolm | Features in this Group
Development totals: 1 BE
Slack Channel: g_mlops | Product Manager: Taylor McCaslin | Engineering Manager: Monmayuri Ray | Backend Engineering: Eduardo Bonet | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: Nick Malcolm | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: s_modelops | Product Manager: Taylor McCaslin | Engineering Manager: Monmayuri Ray | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: Nick Malcolm | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: ops-section | Handbook | Product: Justin Farris | Development: Tim Zallmann | Product Design: TBD | Product Marketing: Saumya Upadhyaya | Quality: Joanna Shih | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Eugene McCrann
Slack Channel: analytics-section | Handbook | Product Management: Sam Kerr | Development: Tim Zallmann | Product Design Manager: TBD
Development totals: 6 BE
Handbook | Product Manager: Sam Kerr (Acting) | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: [Sebastian Rehm] | Software Engineer in Test: Carlo Catimbang | Backend Engineering: Sebastian Rehm, Carlo Catimbang, Jonas Larsen, Michał Wielich, Mikołaj Wawrzyniak, Niko Belokolodov, Piotr Skorupa | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Clayton Cornell | Application Security Engineer: Greg Alfaro | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD), Data Team, (TBD) | Features in this Group
Development totals: 1 BE
Handbook | Product Manager: Sam Kerr (Interim) | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Dennis Tang | Software Engineer in Test: Carlo Catimbang | Backend Engineering: Axel García | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Lorena Ciutacu | Application Security Engineer: Greg Alfaro | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD), Data Team, (TBD) | Features in this Group
Product: Sam Awezec | Development: Phil Calder | Product Design: Marcel van Remmerden | Support: Shaun McCann | Product Marketing: Saumya Upadhyaya | Quality: Vincy Wilson | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Tiffany Chen
Slack Channel: s_growth | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/growth | Handbook | Development: Phil Calder | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer | Internal Customers: Sales Department (TBD), Marketing Department (TBD), Product Department (TBD), Finance Department (TBD)
Development totals: 6 BE
Slack Channel: g_acquisition | Handbook | Product Manager: Gayle Doud | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Engineering Manager: Kamil Niechajewicz | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering: Doug Stull, Jay Montal, Roy Liu, Ross Byrne, Sam Figueroa, Serhii Yarynovskyi | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | Product Designer: Kevin Comoli | Technical Writer: Phillip Wells | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: g_activation | Handbook | Product Manager: Paige Cordero | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Engineering Manager: Kamil Niechajewicz | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering: | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Phillip Wells | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Product: Omar Fernandez | Development: Jerome Ng | Product Design: Marcel van Remmerden | Support: John Lyttle | Product Marketing: Saumya Upadhyaya | Quality: Vincy Wilson | Analyst Relations: | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Sarah McCreesh
Product Management: Omar Fernandez | Development: Jerome Ng | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Product Design Manager: Jacki Bauer
Development totals: 3 BE, 2 FE
Slack Channel: g_purchase | Product Manager: Alex Martin | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Ragnar Hardarson | Frontend Engineering Manager: Ragnar Hardarson | Software Engineer in Test: Chloe Liu | Backend Engineering: Bishwa Hang Rai, Josianne Hyson, Shreyas Agarwal | Frontend Engineering: Angelo Gulina, Vamsi Vempati | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | Product Designer: Philip Joyce | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | Application Security Engineer: [["Costel Maxim", "Ameya Darshan (Shadowing)", "Ottilia Westerlund (Shadowing)"]] | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Development totals: 2 BE
Slack Channel: g_provision | Product Manager: Courtney Meddaugh | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Engineering Manager: Michael Lunøe (Interim) | Support: Keven Hughes | Software Engineer in Test: Dan Davison | Backend Engineering: Corinna Gogolok, Paulo Barros | Frontend Engineering: | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | Application Security Engineer: [["Costel Maxim", "Ameya Darshan (Shadowing)", "Ottilia Westerlund (Shadowing)"]] | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Development totals: 4 BE, 3 FE
Slack Channel: g_utilization | Product Manager: Omar Fernandez | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Shem Gyll | Backend Engineering Manager: Chase Southard | Frontend Engineering Manager: Chase Southard | Software Engineer in Test: Edgars Brālītis | Backend Engineering: Jason Goodman, Mohamed Hamda, Suraj Tripathi, Vijay Hawoldar | Frontend Engineering: Ammar Alakkad, Kos Palchyk, Sheldon Led | UX Researcher: Nick Hertz | Product Designer: Matthew Nearents | Technical Writer: Fiona Neill | Application Security Engineer: [["Costel Maxim,", "Ameya Darshan (Shadowing)", "Ottilia Westerlund (Shadowing)"]] | Customer Success: Hugo Azevedo | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: g_fulfillment_platform | Product Manager: Manuel Gass | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: James Lopez | Frontend Engineering Manager: James Lopez | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: | Frontend Engineering: | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: Emily Sybrant | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Site Reliability Engineering: Ahmad Sherif | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: g_billing_and_subscription_management | Product Manager: Tatyana Golubeva | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Firdaws Farukh | Backend Engineering Manager: Ragnar Hardarson | Frontend Engineering Manager: Ragnar Hardarson | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: | Frontend Engineering: | UX Researcher: Nicholas Hertz | Product Designer: Emily Sybrant | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: g_commerce_integrations | Product Manager: Courtney Meddaugh (Acting) | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Isabel Sandin | Frontend Engineering Manager: Isabel Sandin | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: | Frontend Engineering: | UX Researcher: Nicholas Hertz | Product Designer: Emily Sybrant | Technical Writer: Catherine Pope | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: TBD | Product Manager: Donique Smit | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: TBD | Frontend Engineering Manager: TBD | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: | Frontend Engineering: | UX Researcher: TBD | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Customer Success: | Internal Customers: Sales Department, (TBD), Marketing Department, (TBD), Product Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Product: Joshua Lambert | Development: Chun Du | Product Design: Taurie Davis | Support: Jason Colyer | Product Marketing: Saumya Upadhyaya | Quality: Kassandra Svoboda | Analyst Relations: Ryan Ragozzine | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Iris Gorman
Slack Channel: s_enablement | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/enablement-section | Handbook | Development: Chun Du | Product Design Manager: Chris Micek
Development totals: 6 BE
Slack Channel: g_distribution | Slack Alias: @distributionteam | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/distribution | Handbook | Product Manager: Dilan Orrino | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Diana Stanley, Nathan Black | Backend Engineering Manager: DJ Mountney | Software Engineers in Test: Grant Young, Nailia Iskhakova | Backend Engineering: Andrew Patterson, Balasankar 'Balu' C, David 'DJ' Mountney, Dmitry Makovey, Dustin Collins, Robert Marshall | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Kevin Morrison | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: [Distribution PPI] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 6 BE
Slack Channel: g_distribution | Slack Alias: @distributionteam | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/distribution | Handbook | Product Manager: Dilan Orrino | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Diana Stanley, Nathan Black | Backend Engineering Manager: Peter Lu | Software Engineers in Test: Grant Young, Nailia Iskhakova | Backend Engineering: Clemens Beck, Gerard Hickey, Hossein Pursultani, Jason Plum, Jason Young, Mitch Nielsen, Peter Lu | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Kevin Morrison | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: [Distribution PPI] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 8 BE
Slack Channel: g_gitaly | Handbook | Product Manager: Mark Wood | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Gerardo Gutierrez | Backend Engineering Manager: Andras Horvath | Software Engineer in Test: John McDonnell | Backend Engineering: Andras Horvath, James Fargher, Justin Tobler, Karthik Nayak, Patrick Steinhardt, Pavlo Strokov, Quang-Minh Nguyen, Sami Hiltunen, Will Chandler | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Conley Rogers, Kristof Goossens, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Site Reliability Engineering: Furhan Shabir, Steve Azzopardi | Focus: [Gitaly GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 4 BE
Slack Channel: g_gitaly | Handbook | Product Manager: Mark Wood | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Gerardo Gutierrez | Backend Engineering Manager: John Cai | Software Engineer in Test: John McDonnell | Backend Engineering: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Christian Couder, John Cai, Patrick Steinhardt, Toon Claes | Technical Writer: Evan Read | Application Security Engineer: Costel Maxim | Customer Success: Conley Rogers, Kristof Goossens, Simon Mansfield | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Site Reliability Engineering: Furhan Shabir, Steve Azzopardi | Focus: [Gitaly GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 7 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: g_geo | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/geo-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Sampath Ranasinghe | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Bo Carbonell, Łukasz Korbasiewicz | Backend Engineering Manager: Juan Silva | Frontend Engineering Manager: Juan Silva | Software Engineer in Test: Nick Westbury | Backend Engineering: Aakriti Gupta, Douglas Barbosa Alexandre, Gabriel Mazetto, Ian Baum, Javiera Tapia, Juan Silva, Michael Kozono, Valery Sizov | Frontend Engineering: Zack Cuddy | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: TBD | Technical Writer: Axil | Application Security Engineer: Kevin Morrison | Internal Customer: Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: [Geo Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: s_enablement | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/enablement-section | Handbook | Development: Nick Nguyen | Product Design Manager: Chris Micek
Development totals: 4 BE
Slack Channel: g_application_performance | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/memory-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Gabe Weaver (Acting) | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: [Paul Phillips] | Software Engineer in Test: TBD | Backend Engineering: Aleksei Lipniagov, Matthias Käppler, Nikola Milojevic, Roy Zwambag | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Technical Writer: Jon Glassman | Application Security Engineer: Kevin Morrison | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: [Memory PPI] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 6 BE, 1 FE
Slack Channel: g_global_search | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/search-team | Handbook | Product Manager: Joshua Lambert (Interim) | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Vlad Stoianovici, Cleveland Bledsoe Jr | Backend Engineering Manager: Changzheng Liu | Frontend Engineering Manager: Changzheng Liu (Interim) | Software Engineer in Test: Erick Banks | Backend Engineering: Dmitry Gruzd, John Mason, Madelein van Niekerk, Ravi Kumar, Siddharth Dungarwal, Terri Chu | Frontend Engineering: Tomáš Bulva | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Product Designer: Nick Brandt | Technical Writer: Ashraf Khamis | Application Security Engineer: Kevin Morrison | Internal Customers: Engineering Department, (TBD), Customer Success, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: [Paid GMAU] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 7 BE
Slack Channel: g_database | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/database-team | Handbook | Product Manager: [Roger Woo] | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Alex Ives | Backend Engineering: Alex Ives, Diogo Frazão, Jon Jenkins, Krasimir Angelov, Leonardo da Rosa, Matt Kasa, Prabakaran Murugesan, Simon Tomlinson | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Technical Writer: Amy Qualls | Application Security Engineer: Kevin Morrison | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: [Database PPI] | Features in this Group
Development totals: 4 BE
Slack Channel: g_pods | GitLab Group: @TBD | Handbook | Product Manager: Fabian Zimmer | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Support: Ben Prescott | Backend Engineering Manager: Barry Firman | Backend Engineering: Dylan Griffith, Barry Firman, Kamil Trzciński, Omar Qunsul, Thong Kuah | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Technical Writer: Jon Glassman | Application Security Engineer: Kevin Morrison | Internal Customers: Quality Department, (TBD), Infrastructure Department, (TBD) | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: [Database PPI] | Features in this Group
Product: Fabian Zimmer | Development: Marin Jankovski | Product Design: TBD | Support: Jason Colyer | Product Marketing: Saumya Upadhyaya | Quality: Kassandra Svoboda | Analyst Relations: | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Legal & Corporate Affairs: Iris Gorman
Slack Channel: s_platforms | GitLab Group: @gitlab-com/gl-infra/platform | Handbook
Slack Channel: g_delivery | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/delivery | Handbook | Product Manager: Andrew Thomas (Life Support) | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: g_scalability | GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/scalability | Handbook | Product Manager: Andrew Thomas (Life Support) | Product Marketing Manager: Saumya Upadhyaya | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: Rohit Shambhuni | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Features in this Group
Development totals: 1 BE
Slack Channel: f_gitlab_dedicated | GitLab Group: @TBD | Handbook | Product Manager: Andrew Thomas | Product Marketing Manager: [Saumya Upadhyaya & Heather Simpson] | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: [Oriol Lluch] | Frontend Engineering Manager: TBD | Backend Engineering: Sean Arnold | UX Researcher: Will Leidheiser | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: Greg Alfaro | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Site Reliability Engineering: Andy Knight, Andrew Newdigate, Craig Miskell, Muhamed Huseinbašić, Samir Hafez, Stephan Breitrainer | Focus: [GMAU] | Features in this Group
Slack Channel: TBD | Slack Alias: @TBD | GitLab Group: @TBD | Product Manager: Connor Gilbert | Product Marketing Manager: Jennifer Bianchini | Support: TBD | Backend Engineering Manager: Stephen Dumesnil | Software Engineers in Test: Andy Hohenner, Brittany Wilkerson | Backend Engineering: | UX Researcher: TBD | Technical Writer: [#docs Slack channel] | Application Security Engineer: TBD | Infrastructure Manager: Dave Smith | Focus: [GMAU] | Features in this Group
Product Management: David DeSanto
Slack Channel: mobile-devops | Features in this Group
Product Management: Kenny Johnston
Development totals: 1 BE
Slack Channel: 5-minute-production-app | Product Sponsor: Kenny Johnston | Backend Engineering: Sri Rangan | Focus: [Five Minute Production App AMAU] | Features in this Group
GitLab Group: @gitlab-org/incubation-engineering/no-code-low-code | Handbook | Product Management: [Tao Guo]
Slack Channel: incubation-eng | Features in this Group
We have boundless ambition, and we expect GitLab to continue to add new stages to the DevOps lifecycle. Below is a list of future stages we are considering:
Stages are different from the application types you can service with GitLab.
Not all categories are at the same level of maturity. Some are just minimal and some are lovable. See the category maturity page to see where each category stands.
This list of other functionality so you can easily find the team that owns it. Maybe we should make our features easier to search to replace the section below.
Internal Customers: Create:Gitaly, Enablement section, SaaS Platforms section, Infrastructure Department, Support Department, Customer Success, Contributor Success
Some product areas are have a broad impact across multiple stages. Examples of this include, among others:
While the mental models for these areas are maintained by specific stage groups, everyone is encouraged to contribute within the guidelines that those teams establish. For example, anyone can contribute a new setting following the established guidelines for Settings. When a contribution is submitted that does not conform to those guidelines, we merge it and "fix forward" to encourage innovation.
If you encounter an issue falling into a facilitated area:
group::category
label for the facilitating group.group::category
label for the most closely related group. For example, when adding a new setting related to Merge Requests, apply the group::source code
label.There are certain product capabilities that are foundational in nature and affect or refer to horizontal components of the architecture that have an impact across functional groups and stages.
These capabilities may refer to "Facilitated Functionality" (see section above) where the mental models are owned by a particular group, while anyone can contribute. However, there may be others that will not have a clear owner because they don’t fall squarely into any particular group’s purview of product categories. Prime examples of this are issues related to the improvement or evolution of foundational components, frameworks and libraries that are used by several or all groups across the organization. Another example could be components created by special task groups in the past that have been since dissolved and that have not required continued development to justify the funding of a dedicated permanent group to maintain them.
Whatever the source of the functionality, rather than thinking of these components as "not having an owner", it is important to think of them as being owned by everyone through the lens of shared responsibility. "Shared responsibility" means that every group should be committed and responsible to contribute to their continued maintenance, improvement and innovation.
Contribution, in this context, may manifest in different ways:
It does not mean, however, that a single group should necessarily be solely responsible for all of these activities. Multiple groups could end up collaborating in execution. This coordination however requires a careful triage of the shared responsibility issues in the issue tracker where a single DRI coordinates these activities.
For more information please review this section in the quality department handbook to learn more about a decentralized approach to triaging these types of issues.
Category | Group |
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5 Minute Production App (five_minute_production_app ) |
Five Minute Production App |
API (api ) |
Integrations |
API Security (api_security ) |
Dynamic Analysis |
Activation Experiment (experimentation_activation ) |
Activation |
Adoption Experiment (experimentation_adoption ) |
Activation |
Advanced Deployments (advanced_deployments ) |
Release |
Application Performance (application_performance ) |
Application Performance |
Application instrumentation (application_instrumentation ) |
Product Intelligence |
Attack Emulation (attack_emulation ) |
Dynamic Analysis |
Audit Events (audit_events ) |
Compliance |
Authentication and Authorization (authentication_and_authorization ) |
Authentication and Authorization |
Auto DevOps (auto_devops ) |
Configure |
Backup/Restore of GitLab instances (backup_restore ) |
Geo |
Billing & Payments (billing_and_payments ) |
Billing and Subscription Management |
Build (build ) |
Distribution:Build |
Build Artifacts (build_artifacts ) |
Pipeline Insights |
Cloud Native Installation (cloud_native_installation ) |
Distribution:Deploy |
Cluster Cost Management (cluster_cost_management ) |
Configure |
Code Quality (code_quality ) |
Static Analysis |
Code Review Workflow (code_review_workflow ) |
Code Review |
Code Search (code_search ) |
Global Search |
Code Suggestions (code_suggestions ) |
AI Assisted |
Code Testing and Coverage (code_testing ) |
Pipeline Insights |
Commerce Integrations (commerce_integrations ) |
Commerce Integrations |
Compliance Management (compliance_management ) |
Compliance |
Container Registry (container_registry ) |
Container Registry |
Container Scanning (container_scanning ) |
Composition Analysis |
Continuous Delivery (continuous_delivery ) |
Release |
Continuous Integration (CI) (continuous_integration ) |
Pipeline Execution |
Continuous Verification (continuous_verification ) |
Respond |
Conversion Experiment (experimentation_conversion ) |
Acquisition |
Credential Management (credential_management ) |
Authentication and Authorization |
CustomersDot Application (customersdot_application ) |
Fulfillment Platform |
DAST (dynamic_application_security_testing ) |
Dynamic Analysis |
DORA Metrics (dora_metrics ) |
Optimize |
DataOps (dataops ) |
DataOps |
Database (database ) |
Database |
Delivery (delivery ) |
Delivery |
Dependency Firewall (dependency_firewall ) |
Container Registry |
Dependency Management (dependency_management ) |
Threat Insights |
Dependency Proxy (dependency_proxy ) |
Container Registry |
Dependency Scanning (dependency_scanning ) |
Composition Analysis |
Deployment Management (deployment_management ) |
Configure |
Design Management (design_management ) |
Product Planning |
Design System (design_system ) |
Foundations |
DevOps Reports (devops_reports ) |
Optimize |
Disaster Recovery (disaster_recovery ) |
Geo |
Environment Management (environment_management ) |
Release |
Error Budgets (error_budgets ) |
Scalability |
Error Tracking (error_tracking ) |
Observability |
Expansion Experiment (experimentation_expansion ) |
Acquisition |
Feature Flags (feature_flags ) |
Release |
Fulfillment Admin Tooling (fulfillment_admin_tooling ) |
Fulfillment Admin Tooling |
Fulfillment Infrastructure (fulfillment_infrastructure ) |
Fulfillment Platform |
Fuzz Testing (fuzz_testing ) |
Dynamic Analysis |
Geo-replication (geo_replication ) |
Geo |
GitLab Advisory Database (advisory_database ) |
Vulnerability Research |
GitLab CLI (gitlab_cli ) |
Code Review |
GitLab Dedicated (dedicated ) |
GitLab Dedicated |
GitLab Documentation Site (gitlab_docs ) |
Not owned |
GitLab Handbook (gitlab_handbook ) |
Not owned |
GitLab Runner Core (runner ) |
Runner |
GitLab Runner SaaS (runner_saas ) |
Runner SaaS |
Gitaly (gitaly ) |
Gitaly:Git |
Global Search (global_search ) |
Global Search |
Helm Chart Registry (helm_chart_registry ) |
Package Registry |
IAST (interactive_application_security_testing ) |
Dynamic Analysis |
Importers (importers ) |
Import |
Incident Management (incident_management ) |
Respond |
Infrastructure Cost Data (infrastructure_cost_data ) |
Scalability |
Infrastructure as Code (infrastructure_as_code ) |
Configure |
Insider Threat (insider_threat ) |
Anti-Abuse |
Instance Resiliency (instance_resiliency ) |
Anti-Abuse |
Integrations (integrations ) |
Integrations |
Intelligent Code Security (intel_code_security ) |
AI Assisted |
Internationalization (internationalization ) |
Import |
Kubernetes Management (kubernetes_management ) |
Configure |
License Compliance (license_compliance ) |
Composition Analysis |
Logging (logging ) |
Observability |
MLOps (mlops ) |
MLOps |
Merge Trains (merge_trains ) |
Pipeline Execution |
Metrics (metrics ) |
Observability |
Mobile App Signing & Deployment Management (mobile_signing_deployment ) |
Mobile DevOps |
Navigation & Settings (navigation ) |
Foundations |
No-code Automation (no_code_automation ) |
No-code Automation |
Omnibus Package (omnibus_package ) |
Distribution:Deploy |
On-call Schedule Management (on_call_schedule_management ) |
Respond |
Onboarding (onboarding ) |
Acquisition |
Package Registry (package_registry ) |
Package Registry |
Pages (pages ) |
Editor |
Performance Testing (performance_testing ) |
Pipeline Insights |
Permissions (permissions ) |
Authentication and Authorization |
Pipeline Authoring (pipeline_authoring ) |
Pipeline Authoring |
Planning Analytics (planning_analytics ) |
Project Management |
Pods (pods ) |
Pods |
Portfolio Management (portfolio_management ) |
Product Planning |
Product Analytics (product_analytics ) |
Product Analytics |
Projects (projects ) |
Organization |
Purchase (purchase ) |
Purchase |
Quality Management (quality_management ) |
Certify |
Rate Limiting Framework (rate_limiting ) |
Application Performance |
Redis (redis ) |
Application Performance |
Release Evidence (release_evidence ) |
Release |
Release Orchestration (release_orchestration ) |
Release |
Remote Development (remote_development ) |
Editor |
Requirements Management (requirements_management ) |
Certify |
Review Apps (review_apps ) |
Pipeline Insights |
Runbooks (runbooks ) |
Respond |
Runner Fleet (runner_fleet ) |
Runner |
SAST (static_application_security_testing ) |
Static Analysis |
SM Provisioning (sm_provisioning ) |
Provision |
SaaS Provisioning (saas_provisioning ) |
Provision |
Scalability (scalability ) |
Scalability |
Secret Detection (secret_detection ) |
Static Analysis |
Secrets Management (secrets_management ) |
Pipeline Authoring |
Security Benchmarking (security_benchmarking ) |
Vulnerability Research |
Security Policy Management (security_policy_management ) |
Security Policies |
Service Desk (service_desk ) |
Respond |
Service Ping (service_ping ) |
Product Intelligence |
Snippets (snippets ) |
Not owned |
Software Bill of Materials (sbom ) |
Threat Insights |
Source Code Management (source_code_management ) |
Source Code |
Subgroups (subgroups ) |
Organization |
Subscription Cost Management (subscription_cost_management ) |
Utilization |
Subscription Management (subscription_management ) |
Billing and Subscription Management |
System Access (system_access ) |
Authentication and Authorization |
Team Planning (team_planning ) |
Project Management |
Tracing (tracing ) |
Observability |
US Public Sector Services (pubsec_services ) |
US Public Sector Services |
User Management (user_management ) |
Authentication and Authorization |
User Profile (user_profile ) |
Organization |
Value Stream Management (value_stream_management ) |
Optimize |
Vulnerability Management (vulnerability_management ) |
Threat Insights |
Web IDE (web_ide ) |
Editor |
Webhooks (webhooks ) |
Integrations |
Wiki (wiki ) |
Editor |
Workflow Automation (workflow_automation ) |
AI Assisted |