# Reach out to the following teams before making any
# structural changes to this file as it's used for
# downstream reporting:
# - People Team
# - Data Teamhttps://gitlab.com/-/ide/project/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/tree/master/-/

- slug: dz
  type: person
  name: Dmitriy 'DZ' Zaporozhets
  start_date: 2013-01-24
  locality: Kharkiv
  country: Ukraine
  role: Co-founder, <a href="/job-families/fellow-of-initial-delight/">Fellow of initial delight</a>
  reports_to: sid
  twitter: dzaporozhets
  gitlab: dzaporozhets
  picture: picture_dmitriy.png
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Core Team Alumni
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Dmitriy started GitLab in September 2011 and has released it every month on the 22nd since then.
          He wanted to make a great and free project management system that he could use every day.
          He loved to work on GitLab so much that in January of 2013 he began to work on GitLab fulltime.
          When he has time he loves to code a major new GitLab feature in two days.
          He loves a good chocolate and a merge request that can be accepted without comments.
          He is the lead author of GitLab CE and CI.


- slug: hilaqu
  type: person
  name: Hila Qu
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Irvine, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/director-of-product">Director of Product</a>, Growth
  reports_to: evp-of-product
  picture: hilaqu.jpeg
  twitter: hilaqu
  gitlab: hilaqu
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Growth Section
  story:  |
          Hila studied biology in college, has worked in analytics, marketing and product management, and settled in growth where she can conduct data-driven experiments and AB testing without exploding a lab. She published a book about Growth in 2018, you can find it in Amazon but need to know Chinese to read it. She live in Orange County, CA with her 2 boys and 1 husband. She enjoys reading, writing, Yoga and studying psychology by researching herself.

- slug: sid
  type: person
  name: Sid Sijbrandij
  start_date: 2012-08-24
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: Co-founder, <a href="/job-families/chief-executive-officer/">Chief Executive Officer (CEO)</a>, <a href="/job-families/board-of-directors/board_member/">Board of Directors</a>
  reports_to: bruce-a
  twitter: sytses
  gitlab: sytses
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Executive
    - Board
    - Core Team Alumni
    - Chief of Staff Team
  expertise:  |
              <li>Compensation Committee <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  picture: picture_sytse.png
  story:  |
          Sid saw the first ruby code in 2007 and loved it so much he learned to program and made this his profession.
          Before that he was engaged in various businesses, from selling programmable infrared receivers to starting a recreational submarine company.
          He is always looking to publicly document an answer or to make a process more efficient.
          He was never good at sports but tries to make it up in quantity by hiking, sailing, skiing, snowboarding, speed skating, dancing Zouk, squashing, and running.
          He loves participating in conversations on Hacker News, and reading Marc Andreessen's tweets (now that Marc stopped this greatly increased his productivity).
          Here's a link to Sid's <a href="/handbook/ceo/">README</a>.

- slug: marin
  type: person
  name: Marin Jankovski
  start_date: 2012-09-04
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-infrastructure/#senior-engineering-manager-delivery-and-scalability">Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure, Delivery & Scalability</a>
  reports_to: steveloyd
  picture: picture_marin.jpg
  twitter: maxlazio
  gitlab: marin
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Core Team Alumni
  projects:
    omnibus-gitlab: maintainer
    cookbook-omnibus-gitlab: maintainer
    charts-gitlab-io: maintainer
    gitlab-chart: maintainer
    distribution: maintainer
    gitlab-omnibus-builder: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.html">LFS</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Marin loves to develop in Rails but has also grown an interest in operations, release and development workflows.
          When video conferencing with him you get a cat running across the room as a bonus.
          He is notorious for starting early in the morning just after breakfast and not having lunch until his workday is over.
          You would expect him to be hungry and grumpy the last few hours but as long as his internet connection is up he is always friendly and upbeat.
          He loves travelling and talking about politics. Here's a link to Marin's <a href="/handbook/engineering/readmes/marin-jankovski/">README</a>.

- slug: jacob-v
  type: person
  name: Jacob Vosmaer
  start_date: 2013-07-01
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#gitaly">Staff Backend Engineer, Gitaly</a>
  reports_to: zj
  picture: picture_jacob.png
  twitter: jacobvosmaer
  gitlab: jacobvosmaer-gitlab
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitaly Team
    - Core Team Alumni
  projects:
    gitaly: maintainer
    gitlab-development-kit: maintainer
    gitlab-workhorse: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li>Git  <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>Go Programming Language (GoLang) <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Jacob became a professional software developer in 2012 after a brief academic career as a logician.
          He joined GitLab in 2013 as a Senior Service Engineer, helping customers install and maintain GitLab and working on GitLab.com infrastructure.
          As a Staff Backend Engineer he now works mostly on <a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/">Gitaly</a>.

- slug: haydn
  type: person
  name: Haydn Mackay
  start_date: 2014-10-01
  locality: Alameda, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/regional-sales-director/">Regional Sales Director, US West</a>
  reports_to: mpyle
  picture: picture_haydn.png
  twitter: haydnmackay
  gitlab: Haydn
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Over the past 10 years, Haydn worked for a California based ISV assisting large, distributed development teams to select and get the most out of a series of collaboration tools.
          During his second year, the company sent him back to his homeland of Australia to open a Sydney office where he developed a keen interest in team workflows and later returned to California to work exclusively with global accounts transitioning to Agile.
          When not working or taking care of his two young kids, Haydn enjoys cycling (of any kind), snow sports and the many tasty microbrews from the area.

- slug: anthony-mcmahon
  type: person
  name: Anthony McMahon
  start_date: 2019-08-26
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/regional-sales-director/">Regional Sales Director, APAC</a>
  reports_to: mpyle
  picture: mcmahon_gitlab_headshot.jpg
  twitter: amcmahon88
  gitlab: amcmahon88
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Based in Australia, Anthony is an executive with +30 years global experience in Technology 23yrs at HP and SAP and Airlines-Logistics 8 yrs at Ansett and TNT. Proven track record of
          growing technology businesses, recognized in Asia for his customer focus, able to balance results and develop people. Known for cultivating relationships with C-level customers and
          partners, Public Sector, Industry influencers, media and analysts.
          Anthony enjoys most sports, especially Rugby and Snow Skiing. He still enjoys playing touch football weekly and watching his 4 kids sporting events.

- slug: martyfischer
  type: person
  name: Marty Fischer
  start_date: 2019-10-15
  locality: Washington, DC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/federal-channel-manager/">Public Sector Channel Manager</a>
  reports_to: KeithBarnes
  picture: martyfischer.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Martyfischer37
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Marty Fischer has lead many channel
          Organizations and has spent 12 years in direct sales with Federal System
          integrators as well as program business. Marty spends his time with his two children and sports are his passion.

- slug: valery-s
  type: person
  name: Valery Sizov
  start_date: 2014-10-06
  locality: Kharkiv
  country: Ukraine
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Geo</a>
  reports_to: nick-nguyen
  picture: picture_vsizov.png
  twitter: Sizov_Valeriy
  gitlab: vsizov
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Geo BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/merge_request_approvals.html">Merge Request approvals</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/elasticsearch.html">Elasticsearch</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/custom_hooks.html">Git hooks</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_bitbucket.html">Bitbucket import</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/gitlab_slack_application.html">Slack application</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-geo/README.html">Geo</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          I started GitLab together with Dmitriy Zaporozhets in 2011. I'm very passionate about developer tools and CI. I like Ruby, Go, UNIX, git, PostgreSQL and other cool technologies.
          I have a very strong desire to improve the world by making all things easier. Simplicity is my religion.

- slug: douwe
  type: person
  name: Douwe Maan
  start_date: 2015-02-01
  locality: Mexico City
  country: Mexico
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Lead</a>, Meltano
  reports_to: sid
  picture: douwe.jpg
  twitter: DouweM
  gitlab: DouweM
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Meltano
  story:  |
          Douwe caught the programming virus at the age of 9, got his first freelance job 2 years later, and spent the years that followed gaining experience with a wide range of technologies&mdash;both by himself and at two startups.
          Around 2011, he found Ruby and fell in love with the language and the open-source community surrounding it, which made him a perfect fit for GitLab.
          In 2019, having had a hand in 55 GitLab releases and a front row seat to the 100X growth of the company and engineering organization, he joined the <a href="http://meltano.com/">Meltano</a> project to use that experience to strengthen and grow its engineering team and open source community.
  remote_story: |
                When I joined GitLab in 2015 while in university, remote work allowed me to get the most out of the few hours I had each day in between lectures, homework, and exams.<br>
                In 2016, GitLab enabled me to go <a href="/2017/01/31/around-the-world-in-6-releases/">around the world in 6 releases</a>, visiting and working with colleagues in 20 cities in 14 countries.<br>
                On this trip, I fell in love with a girl in Mexico, who I met again at 2017's <a href="/2017/02/08/gitlab-mexico-summit-2017/">GitLab Summit in Cancún</a> and ended up staying with in Mexico City until my visa expired 6 months later.<br>
                On the eve of the 2018 <a href="/company/culture/contribute/previous/#summit-in-cape-town-south-africa">GitLab Summit in Cape Town</a>, I asked her to marry me while wearing my GitLab hoodie, after which we celebrated with a GitLab-provided bottle of champagne.

- slug: vp-of-product-strategy
  type: person
  name: Mark Pundsack
  start_date: 2016-04-19
  locality: Wilmette, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/vp-of-product-strategy/">VP of Product Strategy</a>
  reports_to: sid
  picture: mpundsack.jpg
  twitter: MarkPundsack
  gitlab: markpundsack
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Strategy
    - Corporate Development
    - Executive
  story:  |
          Originally a computer engineer doing speech recognition research, he moved to product management about 20 years ago. Over the past 8 years, Mark has developed a passion for developer experience. Most recently at CircleCI as VP Product, and before that, at Heroku focusing on continuous delivery and the Heroku-GitHub integration. Outside of work he builds Star Wars Lego, plays Minecraft, and studies Taekwondo with his 8-year old son and dresses up his 5-year old daughter as a science princess. A recent transplant to Chicagoland from California; you'll often see him bundled up in a winter coat for no reason at all.

- slug: paul-m
  type: person
  name: Paul Machle
  start_date: 2015-09-21
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/chief-financial-officer/">Chief Financial Officer (CFO)</a>
  reports_to: sid
  picture: paul.jpg
  twitter: pmachle
  gitlab: pmachle
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Executive
  expertise:  |
              <li>Compensation Committee <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Paul has been a cfo for several young and fast growing technology companies. Paul has a passion for the role finance can play to help companies scale fast.  Paul graduated
          from UC Berkeley and really enjoys watching the bears beat Stanford. Paul lives in San Francisco and spends a lot of time coaching and watching his boys play sports.

- slug: evp-of-product
  type: person
  name: Scott Williamson
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Boulder, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/evp-of-product/">EVP of Product</a>
  reports_to: sid
  picture: scottwilliamson.jpg
  twitter: Boulder_ScottW
  gitlab: sfwgitlab
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Executive
  story: |
         Scott lives in Boulder, CO with a beautiful wife and two teenagers.  His career mission is to create products and experiences that customers love & value, by building and leading a world class product organization.  Prior to GitLab, Scott spent six years as VP Product for SendGrid, which enjoyed a successful IPO and a $3B acquisition by Twilio.  Scott has helped scale three companies through periods of rapid growth, and loves the personal and professional growth that scaling environments provide.  Scott's personal passion is competing in Olympic distance triathlons, so you can find Scott swimming, biking, and running around the trails, roads, and lakes of Boulder.|

- slug: kamil
  type: person
  name: Kamil Trzciński
  start_date: 2015-05-27
  locality: Warsaw
  country: Poland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/distinguished-engineer/">Distinguished Engineer, Ops and Enablement</a>
  specialty: <a href="/handbook/product/categories/#memory-group">Memory</a>
  reports_to: craiggomes
  picture: kamil.jpg
  twitter: ayufanpl
  gitlab: ayufan
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Memory BE Team
    - Core Team Alumni
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    gitlab-runner: maintainer
    charts-gitlab-io: maintainer
    labkit-ruby: maintainer
    container-registry: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li>Maintainer of <a href="/features/gitlab-ci-cd/">GitLab CI</a></li>
              <li>Maintainer of the <a href="/2015/11/03/pivotal-cloud-foundry-tile-for-gitlab-ee/">GitLab EE Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) tile<a></li>
              <li>Docker, <a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.html">LFS</a>, <a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/">GitLab Runner</a>, and <a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jenkins.html">Jenkins</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Kamil is a low-level programming enthusiast with years of experience in building apps for all platforms. He is also a security, virtualization and graphics expert with a variety of programming languages in his toolkit together with deep operating systems architecture knowledge.
          He's focusing lately on security principles of mobile platforms and the "container revolution". In his spare time he likes to run, cycle and play good games, although not all at the same time.

- slug: phil-c
  type: person
  name: Philip 'Phil' Camillo
  start_date: 2015-08-01
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: alan-cooke
  picture: phil.jpg
  twitter: pmanjr311
  gitlab: philcamillo
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Phil has been in tech sales for over 5 years and has worked with early stage startups to more established tech companies. Over the past few years he has led a team of sales reps at Stack Overflow while surpassing annual revenue targets. Phil is working remotely out of Denver and enjoys snowboarding, golfing and loves to play the guitar.

- slug: robert-s
  type: person
  name: Robert Speicher
  start_date: 2015-04-01
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Delivery</a>
  reports_to: em-delivery
  picture: rspeicher.jpg
  twitter: rspeicher
  gitlab: rspeicher
  specialty: <a href="/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/team/delivery/">Delivery</a>
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Delivery Team
    - Core Team Alumni
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    release-tools: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html">GitLab Flavored Markdown</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="http://rspec.info/">RSpec</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab the company in 2015, Robert was
          already an active member of the GitLab community beginning in 2012,
          contributing <a href="http://contributors.gitlab.com/contributors/robert-speicher/commits">changes both big and small</a>
          to the open source project.

- slug: emily-k
  type: person
  name: Emily Kyle
  start_date: 2015-09-01
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/corporate-events-manager/">Manager, Corporate Events and Branding</a>
  reports_to: melissasmolensky
  picture: emilykyle.jpg
  twitter: emilylucie
  gitlab: Emily
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  expertise:  |
              <li>GitLab Summit <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://gitlab.myshopify.com/">Swag Queen</a></li>
  story: |
         After making it to round four of the Mars One selection process, Emily decided she would miss Mexican food too much on Mars,
         so she removed herself from the running. If the selection process taught her anything it was how critical collaboration is for getting things accomplished.
         After a quick Google search she found GitLab and immediately knew they would <em>git</em> her enthusiasm for community and innovation.
         In her free time, she stays active and makes shoes, just in case they serve quesadillas on Mars and need a cobbler one day.

- slug: bruce-a
  type: person
  name: Bruce Armstrong
  start_date: 2015-08-28
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/board-of-directors/board_member/">Board of Directors</a>
  twitter: khoslaventures
  departments:
    - Board
  expertise:  |
              <li>Compensation Committee <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  picture: bruce.jpg
  story:  |
          To learn more about Bruce Armstrong, check out <a href="http://www.khoslaventures.com/team/bruce-armstrong">Khosla Ventures</a>.

- slug: sue-bostrom
  type: person
  name: Sue Bostrom
  start_date: 2019-04-25
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/board-of-directors/board_member/">Board of Directors</a>
  twitter:
  departments:
    - Board
  picture: sue_bostrom.png
  story:  |
          To learn more about Sue Bostrom, check out <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-bostrom-95201332/">her LinkedIn bio here</a>.

- slug: david-hornik
  type: person
  name: David Hornik
  start_date: 2019-02-28
  locality: Menlo Park, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/board-of-directors/board_member/">Board of Directors</a>
  twitter: davidhornik
  departments:
    - Board
  expertise:
  picture: davidhornik.jpg
  story:  |
          To learn more about David Hornik, check out <a href="http://www.augustcap.com/team/david-hornik/">August Capital</a>.

- slug: randy-gottfried
  type: person
  name: Randy Gottfried
  start_date: 2019-03-01
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: Advisor
  twitter:
  departments:
    - Advisors
  picture: randygottfried.jpeg
  story:  |
          To learn more about Randy Gottfried, check out <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/randy-gottfried-06784/">Randy Gottfried on LinkedIn</a>.

- slug: george-hoyem
  type: person
  name: George Hoyem
  start_date: 2019-03-01
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: Board Observer
  twitter:
  departments:
    - Board Observers
  picture: georgehoyem.jpeg
  story:  |
          To learn more about George Hoyem, check out <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgehoyem/">George Hoyem on LinkedIn</a>.

- slug: kyle-doherty
  type: person
  name: Kyle Doherty
  start_date: 2019-03-01
  locality: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  country: USA
  role: Board Observer
  twitter: kydoh
  departments:
    - Board Observers
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  story:  |
          To learn more about Kyle Doherty, check out <a href="https://www.generalcatalyst.com/team/hemant-taneja/">General Catalyst</a>.

- slug: matt-m
  type: person
  name: Matt Mullenweg
  start_date: 2017-08-03
  locality: Houston, TX
  country: USA
  role: Board Observer
  twitter: photomatt
  departments:
    - Board Observers
  picture: matt_mullenweg.jpg
  story:  |
          Matt is the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind Wordpress. He loves building things that people all over the world use, and considers himself lucky to be able to work for a living at what he loves doing. His specialties are simplifying the complex, patience, and hiring.

- slug: dave-munchiello
  type: person
  name: Dave Munchiello
  start_date: 2019-04-01
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: Board Observer
  twitter: davemuni
  departments:
    - Board Observers
  picture: dave-munichiello.jpg
  story:  |
          To learn more about Dave Munchiello, check out <a href="https://www.gv.com/team/dave-munichiello/">Google Ventures</a>.

- slug: drew-b
  type: person
  name: Drew Blessing
  start_date: 2015-09-23
  locality: Kearney, NE
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Manage:Access</a>
  reports_to: liam-m
  picture: drew.jpg
  twitter: drewblessing
  gitlab: dblessing
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Access BE Team
    - Core Team Alumni
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auth/ldap.html">LDAP</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://github.com/jneen/rouge">Rouge</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Before joining the GitLab team, Drew was involved in the GitLab community as a member of the core team.
          Outside of work Drew enjoys traveling, wrenching on his 1966 GMC truck, gardening, and spending time with his wife, son and their two dogs.

- slug: yorick
  type: person
  name: Yorick Peterse
  start_date: 2015-10-01
  locality: Hilversum
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Staff Backend Engineer, Delivery</a>
  reports_to: em-delivery
  specialty: <a href="/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/team/delivery/">Delivery</a>
  picture: picture_yorick.jpg
  twitter: yorickpeterse
  gitlab: yorickpeterse
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Delivery Team
  projects:
    release-tools: maintainer
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html">GitLab Flavored Markdown</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story: |
         Yorick first started working as a professional software developer in
         2010. Since then he has worked on a wide variety of projects, ranging
         from domain name management software to website scrapers, and from
         Sinatra APIs to Natural Language Processing software. These days he
         works on <a href="https://github.com/YorickPeterse/inko">Inko</a>,
         <a href="https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga">Oga</a>, and various
         other FOSS projects. Yorick will focus primarily on improving the
         performance of GitLab. He's also an avid practitioner of Krav Maga, a
         tea connoisseur, and a cat enthusiast. Here's a link to Yorick's <a href="/handbook/engineering/readmes/yorick-peterse/">README</a>

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  type: person
  name: Gabriel Mazetto
  start_date: 2015-11-18
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Geo</a>
  reports_to: nick-nguyen
  picture: gabriel.jpg
  twitter: brodock
  gitlab: brodock
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Geo BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
    omnibus-gitlab: reviewer
    gitlab_kramdown: maintainer
    gitlab-docs: reviewer
    gitlab-markup: maintainer
  specialty: Geo
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-geo/README.html">Geo</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Gabriel is the first Brazillian in the team, before joining GitLab,
          he was fighting the scalability and performance battle on a
          daily basis for fast growing startups and projects.
          He loves metrics and proudly works from a data-driven perspective.
          He also loves to grind his own coffee and help build online
          communities in his spare time.

- slug: ruben-d
  type: person
  name: Rubén Dávila
  start_date: 2015-11-16
  locality: Lima
  country: Peru
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Fulfillment</a>
  reports_to: james-l
  picture: ruben.jpg
  twitter: rdavila
  gitlab: rdavila
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Growth Section
    - Fulfillment BE Team
  projects:
    license-app: maintainer
    customers-app: maintainer backend
    gitlab-license: maintainer
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/license.html">EE License</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repository_mirroring.html">Repository Mirroring</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/time_tracking.html">Time Tracking <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Rubén is a Rails developer based in Lima, Perú. Before joining GitLab, he was working remotely for other US based startups. Today, he is very happy at GitLab given that one of his dreams was to collaborate full time with open source projects. When he is away from the keyboard, he is usually taking a walk with his dogs.

- slug: grzegorz
  type: person
  name: Grzegorz Bizon
  start_date: 2015-12-01
  locality: Olsztyn
  country: Poland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Staff Backend Engineer, Verify:Continuous Integration</a>
  reports_to: darby-frey
  picture: grzegorz.png
  twitter: GrzegorzBizon
  gitlab: grzesiek
  specialty: <a href="/features/gitlab-ci-cd/">GitLab CI</a>
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:CI BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    gitlab-qa: maintainer
    gitlab-development-kit: maintainer
  expertise:  |
                <li>Backend CI/CD <a href="/job-families/liaison/">liaison</a></li>
                <li><a href="/job-families/specialist/backstage">Backstage</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Grzegorz is a developer who has worked on open-source projects since 2002.
          He enjoys creating software that people actually love using, so GitLab was an obvious choice for his next company to work at.
          Before joining GitLab, Grzegorz worked in a startup environment on introducing new technologies and improving software quality.
          Then, after a few years of exploring the corporate galaxy, he decided to move to a startup environment again.
          In his free time Grzegorz enjoys running in the forest and reading three books at once.

- slug: doug-a
  type: person
  name: Douglas Barbosa Alexandre
  start_date: 2015-12-01
  locality: Lavras
  country: Brazil
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Staff Backend Engineer, Geo</a>
  reports_to: nick-nguyen
  picture: douglas.png
  twitter: dbalexandre
  gitlab: dbalexandre
  specialty: Geo
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Geo BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    version-gitlab-com: maintainer backend
  expertise:  |
              <li>Maintainer of <a href="/features/gitlab-geo/">GitLab Geo</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/todos.html">Todos</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issue_board.html">Issue Boards</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/raketasks/github_import.html">GitHub import</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Douglas is a software developer that fell in love with Ruby since 2007 and the open-source community surrounding it and has been working with Ruby on Rails for the past 3 years. Before joining GitLab, he was working remotely for nonprofit organization based in Brazil. He enjoys to improve people's lives with the product he is working on, so GitLab was a perfect match to him. In his free time, he loves to drink a good beer and, spend time with his friends.

- slug: axil
  type: person
  name: Achilleas Pipinellis
  start_date: 2015-12-01
  locality: Montpellier
  country: France
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Senior Technical Writer</a>, Create, Package, Monitor, Secure, Defend
  reports_to: tech-writing-manager-1
  picture: axil.jpg
  twitter: _axil
  gitlab: axil
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
    - Core Team Alumni
    - Merge Request buddy
  projects:
    gitlab-docs: maintainer
    gitlab: maintainer docs
    omnibus-gitlab: maintainer docs
    gitlab-runner: maintainer docs
    gitlab_kramdown: reviewer
    gitlab-development-kit: reviewer docs
    gitlab-chart: reviewer docs
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/">Documentation</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
  story:  |
          Achilleas has been using GitLab since version 2, back when the default
          username and password were not documented. He started actively
          contributing to GitLab in 2013, in 2014 he became a member of the core
          team, and ultimately joined GitLab in 2015.

          He was introduced to Linux in 2006 and since then he tried many
          distributions until finding Arch Linux which won his heart and has
          been using it daily since 2009. As an open source enthusiast he is
          contributing to many projects, and is mostly into System Administration.

          He likes traveling and attending conferences that promote the free
          software movement.

- slug: wilson
  type: person
  name: Wilson Lau
  start_date: 2015-06-12
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/revenue-accounting">Director of Revenue</a>
  reports_to: pao-jf
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  gitlab: wilsonlau
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Wilson has worked in many accounting roles at various early to mid-stage startups over the past 20 years. When not debiting or crediting, you  can find Wilson at a San Francisco Giants game, spending time with his dogs or at the poker table. Ante up!

- slug: rev-rec-dir
  type: person
  name: Andrew M.
  start_date: 2020-03-02
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/revenue-accounting">Revenue Director</a>
  reports_to: wilson
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  pronouns:
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Joins on March 2

- slug: shoneycutt
  type: person
  name: Sara Honeycutt
  start_date: 2020-01-01
  locality: Texas
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/corporate-controller">Director - Corporate Controller</a>
  reports_to: pao-jf
  picture: SaraHoneycutt.jpeg
  pronouns:
  twitter:
  gitlab: shoneycutt
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  Sara is a CPA and began her career with PriceWaterhouse Coopers. She has extensive experience working with large publicly traded companies in multiple industries. Sara has one son who is an aspiring chef and two very bossy pugs. She and her family spend as much time traveling and getting outdoors as possible.
          Joins on Jan 1st

- slug: igor
  type: person
  name: Igor Groenewegen-Mackintosh
  start_date: 2019-03-01
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/director-of-tax/">Director of Tax</a>
  reports_to: paul-m
  picture: igor_gm.jpg
  gitlab: igroenewegenmackintosh
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Igor has a passion for taxes, the technology sector and enjoys contributing his part to the finance organization. When not working he enjoys to spending time with his wife and children, cooking and more importantly: eating, playing soccer with his team or casual gaming.

- slug: tomasz-m
  type: person
  name: Tomasz Maczukin
  start_date: 2015-12-14
  locality: Olsztyn
  country: Poland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Verify:Runner</a>
  reports_to: elliot-rushton
  picture: tomasz.jpg
  twitter: TomaszMaczukin
  gitlab: tmaczukin
  specialty: <a href="/features/gitlab-ci-cd/">GitLab CI</a>
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Runner BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab-runner: maintainer
    autoscaler: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
              <li>DevOps interest</li>
              <li>CI <a href="/job-families/expert/reliability/">Reliability expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Tomasz is a software developer, a devop beginner and a big linux enthusiast.
          After a few years of working in different corporations he said 'Enough!' and
          decided to switch to start-up and open source environment. In his work, he
          appreciates a clean code and clean architecture.

          After hacking hours, he becomes a family man, who loves to read a good book,
          watch a nice movie and go for a long walk. If there is a time and opportunity
          he enjoys hiking and cycling - especially in mountains.

          Cat lover.

- slug: remy-c
  type: person
  name: Rémy Coutable
  start_date: 2016-01-11
  locality: Cannes
  country: France
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-productivity">Staff Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity</a>
  reports_to: kyle-wiebers
  picture: remy.png
  twitter: rymai
  gitlab: rymai
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Engineering Productivity Team
    - Merge Request coach
    - Core Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    gitlab-docs: maintainer backend
    release-tools: maintainer
    gitlab-styles: maintainer
    gitlab-qa: maintainer
    gitlab-triage: maintainer
    triage-ops: maintainer
  expertise: |
              <li>Merge request <a href="/job-families/expert/merge-request-coach/">coach</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/quick_actions.html">Quick actions</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Rémy loves the Web, the open-source, Git and Ruby. He's very versatile
          and enjoys working on complete features from back to front. When not
          thinking about code, Rémy likes to read about philosophy, politics or
          ecology, to play volley-ball and, to freedive.

- slug: luke-babb
  type: person
  name: Luke Babb
  start_date: 2016-01-11
  locality: Colorado Springs, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/brand-designer/">Manager, Creative</a>
  reports_to: shanebouchard
  picture: lukebabb.jpg
  twitter: lukebabb
  gitlab: luke
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Luke was a designer in many capacities for several
          Kansas City based startups, larger companies and ad agencies. During
          that time he grew incredibly passionate about building products, but more
          specifically, the brand behind them. Now residing in Colorado, Luke is
          incredibly grateful for GitLab's all-remote culture which allows him to be
          a stay-at-home Dad to their two young children (Brooke and Aiden, who often
          frequent GitLab calls). For fun he enjoys hockey, getting his sweat on at
          Orangetheory Fitness, and most importantly spending time with his wife, two
          kids, and miniature Dachshund.

- slug: mgalletto
  type: person
  name: Monica Galletto
  start_date: 2019-08-12
  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/production-designer/">Associate Production Designer</a>
  reports_to: luke-babb
  picture: monicagallettogitlab.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: monica_galletto
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Monica is passionate about using graphic design to create engaging experiences that connect people and improve systems. Monica channels her free time into other creative pursuits, such as portrait photography and drawing quirky comics about her life. You can also find her traveling frequently (and devouring food wherever she goes), skiing in the winter or finding patches of sunshine any other time of the year, and attending art and cultural festivals.

- slug: james-l
  type: person
  name: James Lopez
  start_date: 2016-01-18
  locality: A Coruña
  country: Spain
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management/">Engineering Manager, Fulfillment</a>
  reports_to: growth-eng-director
  picture: james.png
  twitter: jlopezofficial
  gitlab: jameslopez
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Growth Section
    - Fulfillment BE Team
    - Merge Request coach
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    githost: reviewer
    takeoff: maintainer
    gitlab-development-kit: reviewer
    license-app: maintainer
    gitlab-license: maintainer
    customers-app: maintainer backend

  expertise: |
             <li>Merge request <a href="/job-families/expert/merge-request-coach/">coach</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/import_export.html">Import/Export</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/cycle_analytics.html">Cycle Analytics</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/takeoff/">Deployment</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release/">Release</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          James has been contributing to the open source community since 2003.
          He worked remotely as a Ruby engineer for Vodafone before joining GitLab,
          where he is an engineering manager focused on people and process improvements.
          When he is not in front of a black screen, you can find him enjoying
          sea-sports, cycling, or keeping up to date with the latest trends in
          technology, Astronomy, and top spinning.

- slug: timo
  type: person
  name: Timo Schuit
  start_date: 2016-01-18
  locality: Hamburg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: jburghart
  picture: timo.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: teemo
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Timo is an independent contractor via TS IT Solutions GmbH. As an open source software enthusiast he thus decided to combine
          his passion with his job by joining GitLab. Before that he worked in the
          gaming industry doing sales and business development. Timo loves traveling,
          Tarantino movies, good beer, and Mexican cuisine. If you like to discuss
          politics, economics or privacy matters, Timo is your guy.

- slug: zj
  type: person
  name: Zeger-Jan van de Weg
  start_date: 2016-02-15
  locality: Amersfoort
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager</a>, Gitaly
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: zegerjan.jpeg
  twitter: zjvandeweg
  gitlab: zj-gitlab
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitaly Team
  projects:
    gitaly: maintainer
    labkit: maintainer
  story:  |
          Zeger-Jan is a husband, and father of two awesome kids. In his spare time he spends time with his family,
          plays board games, and watch TV shows. Writes in Golang for fun and profit, where Ruby is his goto scripting
          languages.

- slug: felipe-a
  type: person
  name: Felipe Artur
  start_date: 2016-03-16
  locality: Goiânia, GO
  country: Brazil
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Portfolio Management & Plan:Certify
  reports_to: midhir
  picture: felipe_artur.jpg
  twitter: FelipeArtur
  gitlab: felipe_artur
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Portfolio Management BE Team
    - Plan:Certify BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/jira.html">JIRA</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/permissions.html#project-features">Project feature visibility</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issue_board.html">Issue boards</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/discussions/index.html#image-discussions">Image discussions</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Software enthusiast who started his career developing desktop applications. Former member of a repositories/task management company who is here to make GitLab better. Likes playing RTS video games and boxing in his free time.

- slug: david-mountney
  type: person
  name: David 'DJ' Mountney
  start_date: 2016-03-23
  locality: Victoria
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distribution">Staff Distribution Engineer</a>
  reports_to: eng-manager-distribution
  picture: dj.png
  twitter: twk3
  gitlab: twk3
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  projects:
    omnibus-gitlab: maintainer
    charts-gitlab-io: maintainer
    gitlab-chart: maintainer
    gitlab-omnibus-builder: maintainer
    cng: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/project_services/kubernetes.html">Kubernetes</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          DJ grew up on a farm in the Canadian Prairies where it is common to have to fix your own tools and equipment. This didn't change when computers became the tools, and he discovered the joy of development while pursuing a career in IT. He has been working as a developer at various sized companies since 2008 and is excited to be able to finally work in the open source community with GitLab.

- slug: clement
  type: person
  name: Clement Ho
  start_date: 2016-10-04
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Monitor</a>
  reports_to: samgoldstein
  picture: clement.jpg
  twitter: ClemMakesApps
  gitlab: ClemMakesApps
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor FE Team
    - Monitor:Health
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer
    gitlab-eslint-config: maintainer
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer
    customers-app: maintainer frontend
    status-page: maintainer frontend
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/fe_guide/style_guide_scss.html">CSS</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/discussions/index.html#image-discussions">Image discussions</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/index.html">Portfolio management</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Clement is passionate about technology and startups. He continually seeks
          out new ways to improve his skillset and finds satisfaction in building
          intuitive technology products that people can use to improve their lives.
          Before working for GitLab, he was also a regular contributor and a GitLab MVP.

- slug: annabel
  type: person
  name: Annabel Dunstone Gray
  start_date: 2016-03-28
  locality: Houston, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#ux-designer">Product Designer, Secure</a>
  reports_to: valerie
  picture: annabel.png
  twitter: annabeldunstone
  gitlab: annabeldunstone
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Secure UX Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer UI
    design.gitlab.com: reviewer UX
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/fe_guide/style_guide_scss.html">CSS</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Annabel is a product designer (former frontend engineer) with a passion for creating beautiful and functional applications. She has learned bits and pieces of various languages during her career, but is most excited about JavaScript, SASS, and Rails. In her free time she enjoys curling up with a good book, inventing cookie recipes, and spending time with her wonderful family.

- slug: stan
  type: person
  name: Stan Hu
  start_date: 2016-04-18
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-fellow">Engineering Fellow</a>
  reports_to: christopher-l
  picture: stanhu.jpg
  twitter: stanhu
  gitlab: stanhu
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Core Team Alumni
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    gitlab-build-images: maintainer
    prometheus-client-mmap: maintainer
    grape-path-helpers: maintainer
    container-registry: maintainer
  story:  |
          Before joining full-time, Stan was a 4-time GitLab MVP who just
          wanted to make GitLab better for his team at PacketZoom. Over the
          last two decades, he has worked at all levels of the software stack,
          even debugging issues with hardware. At Aclima, Stan led the
          development of one of the largest air quality sensor networks in the
          world for Google. He was part of a small team that created the Vanu
          Anywave Base Station, the first FCC-certified software-defined
          radio. A three-time Boston Marathon qualifier and finisher, Stan now
          channels his energy into training for his next triathlon.

- slug: reb
  type: person
  name: Richard 'Reb' Baum
  start_date: 2016-04-12
  locality: Jamesburg, NJ
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
  picture: reb.jpg
  twitter: therebbie
  gitlab: xyzzy
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Reb loves working hands-on with customers.  He has many years of experience
          in doing so, over a wide range of industries and environments
          in consultative, support, and training situations.  He is passionate about
          technology and enjoys discussing it with others.  An avid traveler, Reb
          is always looking for the next interesting place to visit.

- slug: sean-m
  type: person
  name: Sean McGivern
  start_date: 2016-04-27
  locality: Edinburgh, Scotland
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Staff Backend Engineer</a>, Scalability
  reports_to: rachel-nienaber
  picture: smcgivern.jpg
  gitlab: smcgivern
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Scalability Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    version-gitlab-com: maintainer backend
    grape-path-helpers: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/resolve_conflicts.html">Merge conflict</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Sean likes writing code, and especially likes writing code that helps other
          people write code. Despite dabbling with other editors, he's been unable to
          break his Emacs habit. He lives in Scotland, and spends his free time playing
          sports, overthinking films, and failing to maintain his garden.

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  type: person
  name: Mark Fletcher
  start_date: 2016-05-01
  locality: Edinburgh, Scotland
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-productivity">Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity</a>
  reports_to: kyle-wiebers
  gitlab: markglenfletcher
  specialty: <a href="/job-families/specialist/issue-triage/">Issue Triage</a>
  picture: mark.jpg
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Engineering Productivity Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
    gitlab-docs: maintainer backend
    gitlab-triage: maintainer
    triage-ops: maintainer
  story:  |
          Mark's experience within the technology sector has been varied, including various Web Development and Technical Support roles.
          One of the most challenging being providing Internet connectivity to remote parts of the French Alps.
          Whenever possible, he likes to hone his skills in the arts of skiing, cooking, travelling, lifting heavy things and avoiding running anywhere.
          One day, he would really like a dog to call his own, so he can stop bothering other people's.

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  type: person
  name: Christian Couder
  start_date: 2016-05-01
  locality: Colombes
  country: France
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Gitaly</a>
  reports_to: zj
  picture: christiancouder.jpg
  twitter: ChristianCouder
  gitlab: chriscool
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitaly Team
  specialty: Git Command-line
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)">C language</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script">Shell script</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Based near Paris, France, Christian has been developing Git since 2006. He is passionate about open source projects, especially development tools.

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  type: person
  name: Marcia Ramos
  start_date: 2016-05-02
  locality: Lisbon
  country: Portugal
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Senior Technical Writer</a>, Create, Release
  reports_to: susan-tacker
  picture: marcia.jpg
  twitter: XMDRamos
  gitlab: marcia
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
  projects:
    gitlab-docs: maintainer
    gitlab: maintainer docs
    gitlab_kramdown: reviewer
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/">Documentation</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/blog/release-posts/">Release posts</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="/handbook/engineering/technical-writing/markdown-guide/">Markdown Kramdown</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="/community/writers/">Community Writers</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Marcia is passionate about computers since the early 1990s, when she first touched the
          command line and somehow managed to play games on DOS. Her background in Science opened the way for technical
          writing, which she has been improving since 2005, by writing and reviewing professionally. Over the last few
          years, her enthusiasm for technology motivated her to learn web development, and write about it too. She loves photography.
          When she's not typing, you will find her behind the camera, or on a plane for being behind her camera somewhere else.

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  type: person
  name: André Luís
  start_date: 2018-02-01
  locality: Lisbon
  country: Portugal
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager</a>, Create:Source Code, Delivery & Scalability
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: andreluis.jpg
  twitter: andr3
  gitlab: andr3
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          André is a self-described web nerd who grew up with the web. He has a twin brother but (he says) he's not the evil one.
          Loves bridging the world of Design and Engineering with accessibility in mind. While on breaks from that, he brews coffee with an Aeropress,
          enjoys mountain biking, binge-watches every standup comedy special and is thrilled by landscape and architectural photography,
          especially when done at night.

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  type: person
  name: Donald Cook
  start_date: 2019-02-11
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Plan</a>
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: donaldcook.png
  twitter: _donaldcook
  gitlab: donaldcook
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Donald started programming years ago, and eventually developed a fondness for all things JavaScript.
          Recently, he has focused on growing and developing engineering teams, especially on the frontend side of things.
          Most of his free time is spent running around with his wife and three daughters.

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  type: person
  name: Nicole Williams
  start_date: 2020-03-16
  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Release (CD)</a>
  reports_to: director-of-engineering-cicd
  picture: nicolewilliams.jpg
  twitter: nicolemw
  gitlab: nicolewilliams
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Release FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  story:  |
          Nicole has many years of experience building large scale web applications and leading
          high performing engineering teams. Outside of work she can usually be found reading a book,
          buying a plant, or spending quality time with her family and friends.

- slug: jakeburden
  type: person
  name: Jake Burden
  start_date: 2019-08-12
  locality: Shelton, CT
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Release:Release Management</a>
  reports_to: nicole-williams
  picture: jakeburden-fe-release.jpg
  twitter: jekrb
  gitlab: jakeburden
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Release FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  story:  |
          Jake is creative technologist with a passion for designing and engineering solutions to solve hard problems.
          He loves writing open source code, and his curiosity drives his motivation to continuously learn about various systems and architectures.
          His formal education is in Philosophy, which in his opinion is closely related to software engineering, in that they are both the rigorous systematic testing of our rational beliefs about the world.

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  type: person
  name: Daniel Cipoletti
  start_date: 2019-10-15
  locality: New York, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Verify</a>
  reports_to: director-of-engineering-cicd
  picture: danielcipoletti.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dcipoletti
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Verify:CI FE Team
    - Verify:Testing FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Daniel has been working in the engineering industry for over 15 years. An ambitious prototyper at heart, he is extremely passionate about exploring the unknown and pushing the needle towards experimental innovation. Daniel is also a strong advocate for remote work culture and aims to help it to increasingly grow and thrive. When not nerding out, Daniel loves to build and sound sketch on various synthesizers and enjoy life with his wife, daughter, and three cats.

- slug: ITmanager-PeterK
  type: person
  name: Peter Kaldis
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Alameda, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/manager-it">IT Manager</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: peterkaldis.jpg
  twitter: pkaldis
  gitlab: pkaldis
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  story:  |
          Peter has been working as an IT Professional for over 20 years. He has a passion for new technology and driving change through innovation. During off-hours Peter loves camping, hiking and cycling.

- slug: IThelpdesk-PauliusL
  type: person
  name: Paulius L.
  start_date: 2019-11-25
  locality: EMEA
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/it-helpdesk-analyst">IT Helpdesk Analyst</a>
  reports_to: ITmanager-PeterK
  picture: Paulius_Laurinavicius.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: plaurinavicius
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  story:  |
          Based in EMEA, Paulius has 2+ years working in the IT industry. His passion for helping people and thirst for knowledge makes him great at what he does. Outside of work Paulius loves cruising on his motorcycle, exploring the wilderness, relaxing at home and playing video games.

- slug: mohammedalkobaisy
  type: person
  name: Mohammed Al Kobaisy
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/it-operations-system-engineer">IT Operations Systems Administrator</a>
  reports_to: ITmanager-PeterK
  picture: mohammedalkobaisy.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  story:  |
          Mohammed has good experience in the IT industry with B.Sc. in Computer Science and several years working as an IT. A bilingual that loves reading history and enjoy traveling.

- slug: jamiecarey
  type: person
  name: Jamie Carey
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Portland, Oregon
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/business-system-analyst/">Senior Business Systems Analyst</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: jamiecarey.jpg
  pronouns: she/her
  gitlab: j.carey
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/business-ops/readmes/jcarey/">my README aka Working with me</a></li>
  story:  |
          Jamie always knew she wanted to be a business systems analyst when she grew up! Jamie enjoys asking "why" and "how" and improving processes. She spends her time pulling weeds, talking back to her cat, and teaching her dog to come when called. She is #TeamFastWalkers and loves a pina colada made with real fruit.

- slug: karliakue
  type: person
  name: Karlia Kue
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Minneasota
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/business-system-analyst/">Business Systems Analyst</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: karliakue.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Karlia is a Business Systems Analyst who enjoys helping others. When she is not working, she can be found reading or spending time with her family.

- slug: barbararoncato
  type: person
  name: Barbara Roncato
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Porto
  country: Portugal
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/business-system-analyst">Business Systems Analyst</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: barbararoncato.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  story:  |
          Barbara is a Business Analyst with experience in Agile Project Management and Software Implementation. She is an overall proactive and honest person who is passionate about her career. In her spare time you can find her at the gym lifting (heavy... sort of) weights or watching every single horror movie that has ever been made.

- slug: lisbethvinueza
  type: person
  name: Lisbeth Vinueza
  start_date: 2019-02-27
  locality: Quito
  country: Ecuador
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/business-system-analyst">Business Systems Analyst</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: lisbethvinueza.png
  twitter: kathrou77
  gitlab: lisvinueza
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Lis is passionate about resolving customer needs and improving the efficiency of business workflows. In her free time, Lis enjoys trying new food, visiting new places and playing with her dog Dulce.

- slug: PhilEncarnacion
  type: person
  name: Phillip Encarnacion
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality: Austin, Texas
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/business-system-analyst/">Business Systems Specialist</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: PhilEncarnacionTeamPageImage.jpeg
  pronouns: he/his
  gitlab: PhilEncarnacion
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  story:  |
          Phil Encarnacion is a Business Systems Specialist working out of Austin, Texas. He enjoys hiking, singing, and appreciating puns in every conceivable context. He is also responsible for the galaxy's greatest homemade chocolate chip cookies.

- slug: fin-sys-admin
  type: person
  name: Alexandra W.
  start_date: 2019-04-20
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/finance-systems-administrator/">Senior Finance Systems Administrator</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - IT
  story:  |

- slug: gullion
  type: person
  name: Chris Gullion
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Buffalo, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter: thegullion
  gitlab: cgullion
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Chris has over a decade of systems and application architecture experiece, and is obsessed with customer success and digital transformation. He enjoys time spent with family and friends, traveling, woodworking and building (anything) with his daughter Lucy.

- slug: phil-h
  type: person
  name: Phil Hughes
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Liverpool
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: andre-l
  picture: phil-hughes.jpg
  twitter: iamphill
  gitlab: iamphill
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-docs: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer
    gitlab-eslint-config: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer frontend
    status-page: maintainer frontend
  expertise:  |
                <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/fe_guide/architecture.html">Frontend Architectural</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issue_board.html">Issue Boards</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/fe_guide/vue.html">Vue.js</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/">Web IDE</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Phil has a huge passion for programming, with skills ranging anywhere from JavaScript to C++. Having experienced a variety of roles in industry, he realised that front-end development was more his "cup of tea" and has since been focusing on improving his skills in this area. When not geeking out, he loves to spend time with his wife and his daughter Emilia.

- slug: paul-slaughter
  type: person
  name: Paul Slaughter
  start_date: 2018-04-30
  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: roman-kuba
  picture: paulslaughter.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: pslaughter
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Editor FE Team
    - Frontend
    - Merge Request coach
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer
    customers-app: maintainer frontend
    status-page: maintainer frontend
  expertise: |
              <li>Frontend merge request <a href="/job-families/expert/merge-request-coach/">coach</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/">Web IDE</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Paul is an evangelist for agile principles and functional programming. He is a full stack web developer with a keen interest in building beautiful and maintainable UIs. When he’s not making commits, you will find him spending time with his wife and daughters, training in jiu jitsu, playing music and teaching others how to code.

- slug: eliran
  type: person
  name: Eliran Mesika
  start_date: 2016-05-09
  locality: Tel-Aviv
  country: Israel
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/corporate-development/">Director,Corporate Development</a>
  reports_to: evp-of-product
  picture: eli.jpg
  twitter: eliran_mesika
  gitlab: eliran.mesika
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Corporate Development
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Nicknamed 'The Fox', Eliran graduated engineering at the Technion and has since focused on leading business growth for software companies. He managed the Customer Experience group at ClickTale, built a monetization ecosystem for Conduit and most recently co-founded OhTell, a micro-video hotel review company. Outside work you can find 'The Fox' in the water or on land, training for IRONMAN triathlon races.

- slug: mike-walsh
  type: person
  name: Mike Walsh
  start_date: 2016-05-16
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: alan-cooke
  picture: MikeWalsh.jpg
  twitter: MikeJohnWalsh
  gitlab: MikeWalsh
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Mike has been selling software since the late 1990's and successfully
          survived the bursting of the "Dot-com Bubble". He lives in San Francisco
          but grew up in Boston and still supports the Boston Bruins and New
          England Patriots. When not helping customers solve problems, you can
          find him on the golf course attempting to lower his handicap.

- slug: lin
  type: person
  name: Jen-Shin Lin
  start_date: 2016-05-16
  locality: Taipei
  country: Taiwan
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-productivity">Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity</a>
  reports_to: kyle-wiebers
  picture: jen-shin.jpg
  twitter: godfat
  gitlab: godfat
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Engineering Productivity Team
    - Merge Request coach
  specialty: <a href="/features/gitlab-ci-cd/">GitLab CI</a>
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    gitlab-docs: maintainer backend
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
    gitlab-triage: maintainer
    triage-ops: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li>Merge request <a href="/job-families/expert/merge-request-coach/">coach</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reply_by_email.html">Reply by Email</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Jen-Shin is a Taiwanese who is also known as @godfat on the Internet. He learned Ruby from 2006 and has built a ton of stuffs with it including open source libraries. He's also passionate about functional programming, particularly Haskell. Other than programming, Jen-Shin loves computer games, especially some indie games. At some point he would really like to write one indie game as well, combining two major interests.

- slug: alejandro-r
  type: person
  name: Alejandro Rodríguez
  start_date: 2016-05-30
  locality: Santiago
  country: Chile
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: dave-smith
  picture: alejandro.jpg
  twitter: eReGeBe
  gitlab: eReGeBe
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
  story:  |
          From Venezuela, now in Chile, Alejandro has been passionate about
          computers from the moment he once actually deleted System32 and tried
          to fix it. Since then he has developed Web applications for a variety
          of clients with a wide range of technologies. He believes in Torvalds'
          concept of "good taste" in code and strives to achieve it. Outside of
          programming he enjoys trading card games and discovering new music.

- slug: dennis
  type: person
  name: Dennis Tang
  start_date: 2018-03-01
  locality: Los Angeles, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Manage:Access & Manage:Compliance & Manage:Import & Manage:Spaces</a>
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: dennis.jpg
  twitter: tangdennis
  gitlab: dennis
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage FE Team
    - Frontend
    - Merge Request coach
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
  expertise: |
              <li>Frontend merge request <a href="/job-families/expert/merge-request-coach/">coach</a></li>
  story:  |
          Dennis is a web designer turned software developer with a penchant for frontend development. He is passionate about building the greatest products by delivering the best user experiences. In his free time he enjoys traveling, motorsports, snowboarding, and playing guitar.

- slug: martin-w
  type: person
  name: Martin Wortschack
  start_date: 2018-08-15
  locality: Vienna
  country: Austria
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Manage:Analytics (Interim)</a>
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: martin_wortschack.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: wortschi
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    customers-app: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer
    status-page: maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Martin is a frontend engineer based in beautiful Vienna, which is besides one of the world's most liveable places, also known as the world's grumpiest city among it's citizens. He discovered his passion for Javascript while interning at a San Francisco based startup after his Computer Science studies. After working in the field of e-tourism, he spent most of his professional career as a software engineer in the banking industry. When not working, he loves to work out at his local Crossfit box. Besides, he enjoys cooking, trying new food and traveling the world with his girlfriend.

- slug: brandon-l
  type: person
  name: Brandon Labuschagne
  start_date: 2018-11-12
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Manage:Analytics</a>
  reports_to: martin-w
  picture: brandonlabuschagne.jpg
  twitter: brandonlabs
  gitlab: blabuschagne
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Brandon is a frontend engineer with experience working across the full tech stack. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa and when not sitting infront of his MacBook, he can generally be found in the city's beautiful mountains, either on his bicycle or in his running shoes. He believes in the vision that everyone can contribute and is excited to be part of GitLab's amazing, global team of creative people.

- slug: itzik-g
  type: person
  name: Itzik Gan-Baruch
  start_date: 2019-03-11
  locality: Tel Aviv
  country: Israel
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/technical-marketing-manager/">Technical Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: dan-gordon
  picture: itzikgb.jpg
  twitter: itzikgb
  gitlab: iganbaruch
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Technical Marketing
  expertise:  |
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing, CI</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing, CI/CD (acting)</a></li>
  story:  |
          Itzik joins GitLab with a background in Technical Marketing, Demo Solutions, Product Management, and Technical enablement.
          He brings strong capabilities to bridge gaps between business and technology, increase customer satisfaction, and customer business results.
          Itzik enjoys four wheeling in his jeep to explore hidden pearls of nature, flying his drone, and spending quality time with his wife and baby daughter.

- slug: ezekiel-k
  type: person
  name: Ezekiel Kigbo
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Manage:Analytics</a>
  reports_to: martin-w
  picture: ezekielkigbo.png
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Ezekiel is a Frontend Engineer, while primarily working with javascript he has experience in a range of languages enjoying the thrills of learning and understanding the sometimes strange, but interesting ways computers are becoming part of our lives. When he is away from the keyboard you can find him volunteering to help others learn to program, dribbling around on the football (soccer) field, exploring the world of sound synthesis or tumbling down a wikipedia hole.

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  name: Brooks Royer
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  locality: Anywhere
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-business-partner/">Finance Business Partner</a>
  reports_to: craig-mestel
  picture: brooksroyer.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: broyer1
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Brooks has spent the majority of his professional career in the tech industry after graduating from Rhodes College and University of Houston for his undergrad and MBA respectively.  With a background in finance, he is passionate about the relationships built while partnering with business leaders.  You'll often find Brooks traveling with his wife and two dogs in their Airstream.  In his spare time, Brooks enjoys running, golfing, and skiing as often as possible.

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  type: person
  name: Zach Gaston
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-business-partner/">Finance Business Partner - Marketing</a>
  reports_to: craig-mestel
  picture: zachgaston.jpg
  twitter: zrgaston
  gitlab: zgaston
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Zach has spent over 15 years in analytical roles and within the tech industry, primarily with a go-to-market focus. This experience informs his perspective on effective business partnership in his role at Gitlab as the finance business partner to marketing. Zach lives with his wife and 2 kids just outside of Raleigh, NC. In his free time, he enjoys spending time on the water and is a passionate home cook.

- slug: cmachado
  type: person
  name: Christine Machado
  start_date: 2019-05-07
  locality: Spokane, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-business-partner/">Finance Business Partner </a>
  reports_to: craig-mestel
  picture: christinemachado.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cmachado1
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Christine is a financial analyst with a passion for financial modeling, problem solving, and analytics. She comes from a diverse background, having spent time in procurement, accounting, and financial analysis. When Christine isn't diving into the numbers you can find her cheering on her alma mater (Go Zags!), Irish dancing, or exploring the Pacific Northwest.

- slug: cmcclure
  type: person
  name: Cristal McClure
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/financial-analyst/">Financial Analyst </a>
  reports_to: fin-bus-par
  picture: cristalmcclure.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cmcclure1
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Cristal is a go-to-market financial analyst who works primarily across the Sales and Marketing teams. She has a passion for growing startups and solving problems through data analysis, and prior to GitLab worked in finance for both public and private sector companies. When Cristal isn't working she's probably doing something Pacific Northwesty- her favorties include backcountry skiing, trail running, and drinking IPAs at local breweries.

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  type: person
  name: Illya Klymov
  start_date: 2019-03-25
  locality: Kharkiv
  country: Ukraine
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Manage:Access</a>
  reports_to: dennis
  picture: illyaklymov.jpg
  twitter: xanf_ua
  gitlab: xanf
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage FE Team
    - Frontend
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Despite doing JavaScript for more than a decade, Illya is still in love with coding. He joined GitLab after running his own company for several years to focus more on development activities. He does a lot of public speaking and his primary interests are performance, static typing and building maintainable code. During his free time he is teaching JavaScript for fun and profit
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    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend

- slug: jiaanlouw
  type: person
  name: Jiaan Louw
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Manage:Compliance</a>
  reports_to: dennis
  picture: jiaan.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jiaan
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage FE Team
    - Frontend
  story:  |
          Jiaan is a frontend engineer with experience in full-stack and game development.
          He is passionate about creating automated solutions and the best possible user experiences.
          You can find him in Cape Town, South Africa coding up a storm or relaxing at one of
          the many beautiful restaurants in the Cape Winelands.
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend

- slug: roberthunt
  type: person
  name: Robert Hunt
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Strood, Kent
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Manage:Compliance</a>
  reports_to: dennis
  picture: roberthunt.png
  twitter: mrenigma123
  gitlab: rob.hunt
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage FE Team
    - Frontend
  story:  |
    Rob is a frontend engineer having previously worked as a full-stack for a variety of agencies and companies.
    He loves researching and developing solutions to every day problems, creating solutions that make people smile.
    When not coding for fun or work, you'll find Rob gaming, reading or catching up on the latest developments in a
    variety of sciences including: Physics, Astronomy, Paleontology, Archeology, Cryptozoology and Egyptology.
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend

- slug: peterhegman
  type: person
  name: Peter Hegman
  start_date: 2020-02-10
  locality: Bellingham, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Manage:Spaces</a>
  reports_to: dennis
  picture: peterhegman.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: peterhegman
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage FE Team
    - Frontend
  story:  |
          Peter is a frontend engineer who lives equal distance between Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC in the city of Bellingham, WA. Peter previously worked in an agency setting building web apps for the health care industry. He has experience with backend technologies but his primary focus has been working with frontend technologies such as Vue.js and React. He is passionate about writing clean and maintainable code that helps contribute to a better user experience. In his free time you can find Peter out in the woods riding his mountain bike or up at the mountain searching for fresh snow.

- slug: vitalyslobodin
  type: person
  name: Vitaly Slobodin
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Rostov-on-Don
  country: Russia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Fulfillment</a>
  reports_to: fe-mgr-fulfillment
  picture: vitalyslobodin.jpg
  twitter: vitalliumm
  gitlab: vitallium
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Growth Section
    - Fulfillment FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
    customers-app: trainee_maintainer frontend
    license-app: trainee_maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Vitaly is a big fan of pure and solid code.
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          In the past he was a maintainer of PhantomJS.
          Believes that browsers (not robots) will rule the world.
          Enjoys cooking for his family.

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  type: person
  name: Liam McAndrew
  start_date: 2018-08-23
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager</a>, Manage:Access
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: liammcandrew.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: lmcandrew
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Access BE Team
    - Manage:Spaces BE Team
    - Manage:Import BE Team
  story:  |
          Liam is an experienced engineering manager with a particular interest
          in growing startups, agile ways of working and automation.
          When not at the keyboard, Liam can be found watching (and sometimes playing)
          football, riding his bike, or being outnumbered by his wife and two young daughters.

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  type: person
  name: Brittany Rohde
  start_date: 2016-06-01
  locality: Washington DC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/total-rewards/">Compensation & Benefits Manager</a>
  reports_to: carol-teskey
  picture: brittanyrohde.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: brittanyr
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
  expertise:  |
              <li>GitLab Compensation <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>GitLab US Benefits <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>GitLab People Data <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
           Coming from a mathematics background, Brittany combined her love for human interaction with her thirst for knowledge and began working in human resources. She enjoys learning as much as possible about employee relations, compensation, and benefits. Originally from Northern California as a giant Giants fan, she stays active in the great outdoors with her husband, daughter, and their playful pups, Golden Retriever, Cowboy Jake, and St. Bernard, Lucy Lulu.
  remote_story: |
           Remote work has enabled Brittany to have a continuous career since her husband's job moves her all over the United States at a moment's notice. In her tenure at GitLab, she has worked from three different homes across three different states. Additionally, being able to work at any time of the day that works for her allows for more time with her daughter, husband, and puppies. The thought of commuting or going back to an office seems dreadful to Brittany who loves the additional time she gets back due to the remote only culture of GitLab.

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  type: person
  name: Dimitrie Hoekstra
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  start_date: 2016-08-04
  locality: Breda
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Verify (CI)</a>
  reports_to: nadiaudalova
  picture: dimitrie.jpg
  twitter: dimitrieh
  gitlab: dimitrieh
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops UX Team
    - Verify and Release UX Team
    - Verify Team
    - Ops Section
  projects:
    gitlab-design: maintainer
    design.gitlab.com: reviewer UX
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer
  story:  |
          With a deep passion for design, a love for beautiful typography, and an incredible enthusiasm for the open source community, Dimitrie strives to create elegant interfaces that delight the user. He has a background in 3D and an endless technical curiosity for new tools and software. When he's not working or online, he enjoys being with his friends and family, swimming, reading fantasy novels, and playing board games or guitar.

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  type: person
  name: Taurie Davis
  start_date: 2016-07-05
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-management/#ux-manager">UX Manager, FE/UX Foundations</a>
  reports_to: christielenneville
  picture: taurie.jpg
  twitter: tauried
  gitlab: tauriedavis
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
    - FE/UX Foundations Team
  projects:
    gitlab-design: maintainer
    design.gitlab.com: maintainer UX
  story:  |
          Taurie is passionate about identifying problems, creating reliable solutions,
          and crafting intuitive experiences. She enjoys implementing her own designs while
          understanding each step in the development process, ensuring that
          the user experience stays the top priority. When she is not working, Taurie spends
          most of her time training as an aerialist, enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest,
          or cuddling up at home with a movie and her cat.

- slug: pedro-m
  type: person
  name: Pedro Moreira da Silva
  start_date: 2016-09-15
  locality: Lisbon
  country: Portugal
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: mvanremmerden
  picture: pedro.jpg
  twitter: pedromscom
  gitlab: pedroms
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  projects:
    gitlab-design: maintainer
    design.gitlab.com: maintainer UX
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="http://design.gitlab.com/">Colors and typography</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>Navigation <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Pedro is committed to keeping people happy while using GitLab. He's passionate about transparency, remote work, and open design. Outside of work, it's all about traveling, soccer, movies, and music.
  remote_story:  |
          The best part of working remotely at GitLab is how much better I appreciate and invest in quality time with family and friends. Because I'm more productive, I also have more time to organize my life and not feel stressed out. Oh, and the commute? It's nonexistent, so I'm not only helping myself but also the planet.

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  name: Matej Latin
  start_date: 2018-04-16
  locality: Ljubljana
  country: Slovenia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-ux-designer">Senior Product Designer, Growth:Expansion</a>
  reports_to: jackibauer
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  twitter: matejlatin
  gitlab: matejlatin
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Growth UX Team
  remote_story:  |
                 I started my design career as a freelancer working remotely with companies worldwide but I had always wanted to work in a full-time, on-site design position. I assumed that collaboration would be better and communication with other team members easier—two things that greatly impact a designer’s ability to do meaningful work. After moving abroad and spending 6 years working on-site in Germany and London, I realised that my assumption was wrong. Just because people are co-located, it doesn’t necessarily mean they work together better. In fact, the opposite is often the case. So I decided to go back to working remotely and joined GitLab. Unlike before, I now have more control over my day-to-day life, my working environment, and a better work-life balance. GitLab being all-remote means we all put extra effort into communicating well which leads to better collaboration. In my private life, I have more energy and time to spend with my wife, our cat, run my own business on the side, and practice my hobbies. I can’t imagine anything better than that!
  story:  |
          Matej has been designing websites, interfaces and experiences since he joined a Web Design after-school class at age 13. His passion for simple and usable design took him on a journey through Germany, Luxembourg, England, Scotland and all the way back to his native Slovenia. He's a bookworm, a minimalist and a typography geek.

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  type: person
  name: Marcel van Remmerden
  start_date: 2019-03-25
  locality: Hamburg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-management/#ux-manager">UX Manager</a> <a href="/handbook/engineering/career-development/#interim-manager">(Interim)</a>, Dev:Create</a>
  reports_to: christielenneville
  picture: marcelvanremmerden.jpg
  twitter: mvremmerden
  gitlab: mvanremmerden
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:  |
          Combining research, design, prototyping and coding, Marcel is a UX Designer
          who is all about building great products. Having already worked for startups,
          consulting firms, product companies and as a freelancer, he knows how to adapt
          to different contexts and teams. When he is not busy trying out the latest UX
          tools, he is planning his next travels, on the soccer pitch or obsessing
          over his fantasy football lineup.

- slug: andy-volpe
  type: person
  name: Andy Volpe
  start_date: 2018-06-04
  locality: Cleveland, OH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: valerie
  picture: andyvolpe.png
  twitter: heyandyvolpe
  gitlab: andyvolpe
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Defend UX Team
  projects:
    gitlab-design: maintainer
    design.gitlab.com: reviewer UX
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer
  story:  |
          Originally trained as in industrial designer, Andy has been designing interfaces and experiences since the touchscreen revolution. His attention to detail allows him to design effectively and efficiently with the ultimate goal of letting design dissolve into behavior. Andy is a history nerd and random fact sponge who can be found at most trivia nights. He also enjoys playing hockey, golfing, traveling the world with his fiance and aspires to get his pilot's license one day.

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  name: Amelia Bauerly
  start_date: 2018-09-10
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: uxmanager-ops
  picture: ameliabauerly.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ameliabauerly
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops Section
    - Ops UX Team
    - Package, Configure and Monitor UX Team
    - Monitor:Health
  story:  |
          In her UX practice, Amelia aims to prioritize collaboration and to amplify otherwise unheard voices. She aims for simplicity in her designs and is committed to continually growing and improving as a designer. In her free time, she wanders through the beautiful Pacific Northwest forests and listens to all the live music she can.

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  name: Rayana Verissimo
  start_date: 2018-11-05
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Senior Product Designer, Release:Release Management</a>
  reports_to: nadiaudalova
  picture: rayanaverissimo.png
  twitter: imrayana
  gitlab: rayana
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops UX Team
    - Verify and Release UX Team
    - Ops Section
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer UI
    gitlab-design: maintainer
    gitlab-ui: reviewer UI
    design.gitlab.com: trainee_maintainer UX
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/releases/">Release Management</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Passionate about Design Systems, Rayana helps teams work on a more systematic way. Her strength lies in UI Design and Engineering, hands-on HTML and CSS — bridging the design/development gap.
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  name: Timothy Noah
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-ux-designer">Senior Product Designer, Growth:Retention</a>
  reports_to: jackibauer
  picture: timnoah.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: timnoah
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Growth UX Team
  story:  |
          Tim is a creative problem solver who loves to spend time right at the intersect of design, business, and strategy. He thinks of himself as having the mind of an engineer, and the heart of an artist. Culminating in logical, and emotional Design thinking - soulful design. As an ex-footballer Tim still enjoys playing recreationally and coaching when he can.

- slug: jeremy-e
  type: person
  name: Jeremy Elder
  start_date: 2019-05-20
  locality: Waconia, MN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Senior Product Designer, FE/UX Foundations, Visual Design</a>
  reports_to: taurie
  picture: jelder.jpg
  twitter: jeremyelder
  gitlab: jeldergl
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
    - FE/UX Foundations Team
  projects:
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer
    design.gitlab.com: trainee_maintainer UX
  story:  |
          Jeremy thinks in systems and designs in moments. He is passionate about distilling concepts into engaging, usable, responsible and honest work. He believes in learning with grace and creating with a deeper purpose. When not working, you’ll find Jeremy biking in the woods or camping with his family.

- slug: Bhavadeep
  type: person
  name: Arani Bhavadeep
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Bangalore
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer, APAC</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
  picture: bhavadeep.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: abhavadeep
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Bhavadeep is a Professional Services Engineer based out of Bengaluru, India. He started his carrier as Build and Release Engineer and later he moved in to DevOps stream. Bhavadeep love travelling, Meet people around the world and get to know more about new technologies.

- slug: alex-h
  type: person
  name: Alex Hanselka
  start_date: 2016-07-05
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: dave-smith
  picture: alex.jpg
  twitter: purrdeta
  gitlab: ahanselka
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  projects:
    gitlab-restore: maintainer
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Alex first became interested in Open Source when he discovered Linux
          in 2003. After trying most distros, he realized the true way of Gentoo
          and has used it ever since. In his free time he enjoys playing video
          games, reading, swimming, and of course hanging out with his 2 cats.

- slug: melissa-y
  type: person
  name: Melissa Yue
  start_date: 2016-07-05
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/general-ledger-accountant/">General Ledger Accountant</a>
  reports_to: kimstithem
  picture: melissa_yue.jpg
  twitter: Melissa52201593
  gitlab: melissa3
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab, Melissa worked as senior accountant for an international public corporation. In her free time she enjoys swimming, reading, watching movies.

- slug: gla
  type: person
  name: Luis A
  start_date: 2020-03-01
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/general-ledger-accountant/">General Ledger Accountant</a>
  reports_to: kimstithem
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  pronouns:
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Joins on March 1, 2020

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  type: person
  name: Michael Terhar
  start_date: 2019-04-01
  locality:
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  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Federal Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: robertclark
  picture: miketerhar.png
  twitter: mterhar
  gitlab: mterhar
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Prior to GitLab, Mike has worked in a variety of Information Technology roles including Sysadmin, Developer, Security, DevOps, as well as Project and Program management. Outside of work, Mike enjoys spending time with his kids and running through the woods.

- slug: mpyle
  type: person
  name: Mike Pyle
  start_date: 2019-04-02
  locality: Menlo Park, California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/vp-enterprise-sales/">VP of Enterprise Sales</a>
  reports_to: mike-mcbride
  picture: Pyle2.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mpyle
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Mike joined GitLab following 8+ years leading the Heroku arm of Salesforce, most recently as its CRO and Co-GM. Prior to that, he served as VP, Business Development at Zendesk after two years as VP, Sales of SmartTurn and 8 years responsible for enterprise and mid-market sales teams at Expertcity/Citrix Online (GoToMeeting/GoToMyPC/GoToAssist). When not contributing to the future of distributed work, you can find Mike enjoying the Bay Area with his wife, two sons, and golden retriever, or in the pool before they all wake up.

- slug: julie-m
  type: person
  name: Julie Manalo
  start_date: 2016-07-06
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: julie_manalo.jpg
  twitter: _julie_manalo
  gitlab: julie_manalo
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  expertise: |
             <li>Renewal <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab, Julie worked for a Californian based ISV, supporting the Sydney, Australia office. During this time, Julie spent 10 years covering work across operations, HR, finance and sales.  When she is not working, Julie is at the gym or having quiet catch-ups with friends over coffee. When time permits, she also enjoys a good game of poker.

- slug: ahmad-s
  type: person
  name: Ahmad Sherif
  start_date: 2016-07-11
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: dave-smith
  picture: ahmad.jpg
  twitter: ahmadsherif
  gitlab: ahmadsherif
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  projects:
    gitlab-monitor: maintainer
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
  story:  |
          Ahmad has been passionate about web development since he laid his eyes
          on web forums back in 2003, hasn't stopped coding ever since. He's interested
          in diving deep down the technology stack, figuring out how everything works
          and how to make it work better. He contributes to the Rubinius project
          on some occasions, and when he's not working, he can be fiddling around
          with 3D modelling or learning new languages.

- slug: abubakar
  type: person
  name: Abubakar Siddiq Ango
  start_date: 2016-07-11
  locality: Den Haag
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/developer-evangelist/">Technical Evangelism Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: psharma
  picture: angoabubakar.jpg
  twitter: sarki247
  gitlab: abuango
  departments:
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Marketing
    - Merge Request buddy
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/kubernetes/">Kubernetes</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
  story:  |
          Before joining the GitLab team, Abubakar has worked in the academic environment providing support and maintaining IT infrastructure. He also actively participates in several training programs targeted at youths and students. In his spare time, Abubakar reads and also participate in the local developer community events.

- slug: michael-friedrich
  type: person
  name: Michael Friedrich
  start_date: 2020-03-02
  locality: Nuremberg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/developer-evangelist/">Developer Evangelist</a>
  reports_to: psharma
  picture: michaelfriedrich.jpg
  twitter: dnsmichi
  gitlab: dnsmichi
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Marketing
  story:  |
          Michael is a passionate open source developer with a strong focus on improving everyone's workflows. He loves to write good documentation, blog posts and howtos. Following this passion, he created GitLab trainings/workshops for an easy-to-start experience with Git, GitLab and CI/CD. You can find him online sharing his thought leadership in the monitoring/observablity and DevSecOps communities. Before joining GitLab, Michael has been the backend lead and community evangelist at the Icinga monitoring project for 10+ years. Originally from Linz, Austria, he is now located in the Nuremberg area, Germany where he enjoys Franconian culture and the countryside. When Michael is not working on the next LEGO model, he tries to make everyone addicted with <a href="https://dnsmichi.at/about/">dragee keksi</a> from Austria.

- slug: rene-verschoor
  type: person
  name: Rene Verschoor
  start_date: 2019-05-20
  locality: Wijk aan Zee
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ilia-kosenko
  picture: reneverschoor.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rverschoor
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Rene became a computer nerd way back in the 70's starting with a KIM-1. Since then he has worked and played with all kinds of software and hardware. He owned a record store specialized in punk and new-wave, and worked at TomTom and Atlassian. Rene lives with his wife and husky in a small coast town in The Netherlands. When Rene is not helping GitLab users achieving great things, he likes to listen to weird music, read SciFi, tinker with Arduino/RasPi, create technical art together with his wife, enjoy seeing his granddaughter grow up, and have long walks on a stormy beach with his husky.

- slug: nick-t
  type: person
  name: Nick Thomas
  start_date: 2016-08-01
  locality: Shetland
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Staff Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: michellegill
  picture: nick-thomas.png
  gitlab: nick.thomas
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab-shell: maintainer
    gitlab-workhorse: maintainer
    gitlab:
      - maintainer backend
      - reviewer go
    gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-geo/">Geo</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/elasticsearch.html">Elasticsearch</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          After eight years spent building The Cloud (or at least, A Cloud),
          Nick fell in love with his newest tool for doing so - GitLab! Now
          living 60° north, his free time is spent dancing, skating, kayaking,
          and running.

- slug: arihant
  type: person
  name: Arihant Godha
  start_date: 2016-08-01
  locality: Mumbai
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: arihant.png
  twitter: arihantar
  gitlab: arihantar
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
              <li>Enterprise Edition Specialist</li>
  story:  |
          Arihant is passionate about automating the boring parts of work life and likes to write small and useful ruby scripts. He loves interacting with people and solving problems. He also enjoys playing with his kid and likes social outings.

- slug: erica-l
  type: person
  name: Erica Lindberg
  start_date: 2016-08-18
  locality: Boulder, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/global-content-manager/">Senior Manager, Global Content</a>
  reports_to: melissasmolensky
  picture: erica.jpg
  twitter: EricaLindberg_
  gitlab: Lindberg
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
  story:  |
          As a self-described journalist, Erica is a dedicated researcher with a proclivity for narrative. Before joining GitLab, Erica worked for Kapost where she unofficially attended B2B marketing bootcamp. She is passionate about media, technology, and audience development. When she's not working, she enjoys hiking, cooking, and reading.

- slug: mike-greiling
  type: person
  name: Mike Greiling
  start_date: 2016-08-22
  locality: Minneapolis, MN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Ecosystem</a>
  reports_to: leipert
  picture: mikegreiling.png
  twitter: mikegreiling
  gitlab: mikegreiling
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Frontend
    - Dev Section
    - Ecosystem FE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer
    gitlab-eslint-config: maintainer
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer
    gitlab-development-kit: maintainer
    customers-app: maintainer frontend
    status-page: maintainer frontend
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/fe_guide/architecture.html">Frontend Architectural</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://webpack.js.org/">Webpack</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Mike hails from the land of 10,000 lakes where the winters are cold and the sports teams never win.
          Prior to joining GitLab, Mike spent much of his post-graduate years as a freelancer and occasional
          entrepreneur.  He has a passion for crafting elegant solutions to complex problems through software
          and enjoys exploring new languages and frameworks whenever possible.  In his free time, Mike enjoys
          biking, craft beer, travel, and spending time with his wife and daughter.

- slug: athar
  type: person
  name: Athar Hameed
  start_date: 2016-09-05
  locality: Kuala Lumpur
  country: Malaysia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Senior Support Engineer, Self-managed (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: athar.jpg
  twitter: atharhameed
  gitlab: athar
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
              <li>Enterprise Edition Specialist</li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/">API</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html">CI/CD</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auth/ldap.html">LDAP</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Athar is into Linux and coding. In his free time, he enjoys Brazilian jiu-jitsu, swimming, reading, or even just doing nothing at all.

- slug: elsje-s
  type: person
  name: Elsje Smart
  start_date: 2016-09-26
  locality: Marazion
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Senior Manager, EMEA Sales Development</a>
  reports_to: evanw
  picture: elsje.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Elsje
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  remote_story: |
    Even though I worked remotely for many years as a telemarketing consultant for my customers, I was always the "remote person" with others working from their office. I never truly felt part of the team. I also worked in a permanent role for a US-based company for four years with the EMEA team all working from home, but we were often out of the loop. At GitLab we are all on the same level; because we are all remote there is no ability to leave people out of the loop as eveything is written down which is a necessity in our async-working world, and it works seamlessly. GitLab is the best move I ever made.
  story:  |
          Elsje has worked in IT sales and marketing for most of her career and was freelance consultant for many years providing inside sales support to software companies. Elsje lives in Marazion, west Cornwall in the UK with her husband, two girls, two dogs, and cat (when she bothers to be home), with a view of the sea and St Michael's Mount from her office window.

- slug: sdr-kristof-e
  type: person
  name: Kristof Eger
  start_date: 2019-08-19
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: panosr
  picture: kristofeger.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: keger
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joined Aug 19th


- slug: joe-d
  type: person
  name: Joe Drumtra
  start_date: 2016-09-21
  locality: Las Vegas, NV
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (Pacific Northwest Area) </a>
  reports_to: area-sales-mgr-west3
  picture: joedrumtra.jpg
  twitter: techpretender
  gitlab: jdrumtra
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Joe is an accomplished sales professional with experience in advertising, infrastructure and cloud platform technologies and has spent enough time on the command line to know how to break just about everything.  Joe grew up in Chicago-land and has lived in Atlanta Georgia and Phoenix Arizona before moving to San Francisco California.  In his free time Joe is avid snowboarder, yogi and non-fiction reader.

- slug: kyla
  type: person
  name: Kyla Gradin
  start_date: 2016-09-21
  locality: Fargo, North Dakota
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
  picture: kyla.jpg
  twitter: KylaGradin
  gitlab: kyla
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Hailing from the Great Plains of North Dakota, where winters are colder than Antarctica(it feels like) and accents are less noticeable than the movie Fargo. Kyla has seven years of experience in the computer technology field, where she prides herself on business development and management consulting. Prior to joining the GitLab team, Kyla acquired most of her experience working at a multinational technology company, where she dedicated much of her time to the cloud platform and infrastructure. Outside of work she enjoys traveling the world, attending sporting events, and spending summers at the lake with family and friends. GitLab's slice of North Dakota nice.

- slug: james-e-j
  type: person
  name: James Edwards-Jones
  start_date: 2016-09-26
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Manage:Access</a>
  reports_to: liam-m
  picture: jamesedwardsjones.jpg
  twitter: jamedjo
  gitlab: jamedjo
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Access BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.html">LFS</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.html">Protected branches and tags</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/saml.html">SAML</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          James has been developing games and websites since childhood and studied Computer Science at university.
          He taught on a coding bootcamp in London, gaining a deeper understanding of the Ruby language to help answer unusual questions.
          James believes it’s better when we share the things we work on, and joined GitLab to help make that happen.

- slug: jason-plum
  type: person
  name: Jason Plum
  start_date: 2016-09-26
  locality: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distribution">Senior Distribution Engineer</a>
  reports_to: eng-manager-distribution
  picture: jplum.jpg
  twitter: WarheadsSE
  gitlab: WarheadsSE
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab-chart: maintainer
    charts-gitlab-io: maintainer
    cng: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/project_services/kubernetes.html">Kubernetes</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          From Pennsylvania Amish country comes an avid technologist, serial mentor and community evangelist. Jason can be seen attending, boothing, and speaking at as many FOSS conferences and Linux User Groups as he can manage. Previously working as a distribution manager for a thin client company, Jason brings his expertise in packaging for Linux along with a strong desire to produce tools for the community that has changed his life.

- slug: gerard-hickey
  type: person
  name: Gerard Hickey
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Issaquah, Washington
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distribution">Senior Distribution Engineer</a>
  reports_to: eng-manager-distribution
  picture: gerardhickey.jpg
  twitter: wt0f
  gitlab: ghickey
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab-chart: reviewer
    omnibus-gitlab: reviewer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/project_services/kubernetes.html">Kubernetes</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Gerard started working with computers using a Sinclair ZX81 back
          when everthing had to be self-taught. Fast forward a couple of
          years and as he started working with IBM PCs he started interacting
          with an AT&T Unix system and found nirvana working with Unix.
          Lately, he has been working with Kubernetes and thinks that he
          has found nirvana again.

- slug: emily-v-h
  type: person
  name: Emily von Hoffmann
  start_date: 2016-09-26
  locality: Sunnyvale, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-researcher/">UX Research Coordinator</a>
  reports_to: ux-manager-research
  picture: emvonhoffmann.jpg
  twitter: emvonhoffmann
  gitlab: evhoffmann
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - UX Research Team
  expertise:  |
              <li>Twitter <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>Facebook <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Before moving into UX, Emily worked in content, growing social for GitLab's brand for several years. She's usually hiking, on a plane, or trying to get off of twitter.

- slug: lee-m
  type: person
  name: Lee Matos
  start_date: 2016-10-17
  locality: New York City
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Senior Support Engineering Manager (Interim)</a>
  reports_to: tom-cooney
  picture: leematos.jpg
  twitter: leematos
  gitlab: lbot
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
    - Ops Support Stable Counterpart
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
  story:   |
        Lee is passionate about the intersection of Leadership and Technology. If he's not on the Internet, he's probably playing Magic: The Gathering, riding a bike, or in the Techno club.

- slug: ian-b
  type: person
  name: Ian Baum
  start_date: 2016-10-17
  locality: Hutchinson, MN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distribution">Senior Distribution Engineer</a>
  reports_to: eng-manager-distribution
  picture: ibaum.jpg
  twitter: thessbaum
  gitlab: ibaum
  projects:
    omnibus-gitlab: maintainer
    gitlab-chart: reviewer
    cng: reviewer
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  story:  |
          Ian has been interested in computers from an early age. Both making them do things, and figuring out why they do other things. His professional career has been mostly systems oriented, with an occasional foray into the software development world. In his spare time, he enjoys brewing and drinking beer, trying new restaurants, and exploring Minnesota.

- slug: cindy-p
  type: person
  name: Cindy Pallares
  start_date: 2016-10-24
  locality: Texas
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: dave-smith
  picture: cindy.jpg
  twitter: cinnnnnnnnnndy
  gitlab: cindy
  pronouns: they?or=she
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  expertise:   |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
             <li>Enterprise Edition Specialist</li>
  story:   |
          Cindy is a software developer who is passionate about open source. She previously worked as an upstream contributor and has taught robotics to elementary and high school students. She enjoys programming in python and lurking on IRC. On her spare time, she enjoys photography, traveling, indoor gardening, and walking her dog.

- slug: kushal-p
  type: person
  name: Kushal Pandya
  start_date: 2016-11-01
  locality: Pune
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Portfolio Management, Plan:Certify</a>
  reports_to: donaldcook
  picture: kushal.png
  twitter: Kushal_Pandya
  gitlab: kushalpandya
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan FE Team
    - Frontend
    - Merge Request coach
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer
    customers-app: maintainer frontend
    status-page: maintainer frontend
  expertise: |
             <li>Frontend merge request <a href="/job-families/expert/merge-request-coach/">coach</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/index.html">Portfolio management</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Kushal is full-stack JavaScript aficionado. Prior to GitLab,
          he worked at Saba Software, Inc. for almost 4 years designing enterprise webapps on Learning (LMS), Talent
          and Certification domains, with extensive experience working with ExtJS at scale and migration of ExtJS apps to React and Angular 2.
          When not writing code, he loves cooking Indian food, flashing Android custom ROMs, exploring Linux distros,
          watching gadgets on YouTube, playing acoustic guitar, movies, and a short road trip to a hill nearby.

- slug: rebecca-d
  type: person
  name: Rebecca Dodd
  start_date: 2016-11-09
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/editor/">Managing Editor</a>
  reports_to: erica-l
  picture: rebecca-dodd.jpg
  gitlab: rebecca
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Editorial
  expertise:  |
              <li>Editorial <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>Blog <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>Content <a href="/handbook/marketing/blog/#editorial-reviews">editor</a></li>
  story: |
         Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, Rebecca found her way to GitLab from consumer journalism via content marketing. A self-proclaimed word nerd with a special fondness for 90s adventure games, Rebecca is on a mission to bring GitLab content to a wider audience. Outside of work, she's probably queueing at one of London's latest hipster restaurant openings.

- slug: simon-k
  type: person
  name: Simon Knox
  start_date: 2017-02-06
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management</a>
  reports_to: donaldcook
  picture: simon.jpg
  twitter: psimyn
  gitlab: psimyn
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
    design.gitlab.com: maintainer frontend
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/fe_guide/style_guide_scss.html">CSS</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Simon is a self-described web worker based in the coffee capital of the world.
          He enjoys learning languages, and exploring what browsers are capable of.
          Outside of devtools, he mostly alternates between reading, listening to music, walking his dog, and some light typing.

- slug: jose-vargas
  type: person
  name: Jose Ivan Vargas
  start_date: 2016-11-07
  locality: Ciudad Guzman
  country: Mexico
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: clement
  picture: jose-ivan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jivanvl
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM FE Team
    - Monitor:APM
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/new_fe_guide/development/performance.html#monitoring">Frontend monitoring <a href="/job-families/expert/">expert</a></a></li>
  story:  |
          Jose Ivan is a software developer with a passion for all things technology and programming. With a
          thirst to improve his own skills and knowledge, either coding or reading he won't stop looking for
          ways to create software. In his free time he likes to play videogames, drive around on his car,
          cooking barbeques and reading about new tech.

- slug: tristanread
  type: person
  name: Tristan Read
  pronouns: he/him
  start_date: 2018-11-19
  locality: Christchurch
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: clement
  picture: tristanread.png
  twitter: tristanrread
  gitlab: tristan.read
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health FE Team
    - Monitor:Health
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Tristan is a Frontend Engineer who loves creating new things.
          He has an Electrical & Electronic Engineering background and has worked as a software engineer in the medical, educational and geospatial domains.
          He is based in New Zealand. In his spare time, he enjoys board games, spicy food, and thinking about the next snowboarding or surfing trip.

- slug: dhiraj
  type: person
  name: Dhiraj Bodicherla
  start_date: 2019-05-21
  locality: Vancouver
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: clement
  picture: dhirajbodicherla.png
  twitter: bdhiraj
  gitlab: dbodicherla
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM FE Team
    - Monitor:APM
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Dhiraj is a Frontend Engineer who lives in beautiful Vancouver, Canada.
          He loves building applications, especially in JavaScript. He has worked on Backbone and React in the past and recently started to love Vue.
          During his spare time, he enjoys cooking, watching movies and TV shows, listening to audiobooks, driving and playing PS4 games.

- slug: lauramontemayor
  type: person
  name: Laura Montemayor
  pronouns: she/her
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: New York City
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: clement
  picture: lauramontemayor.png
  gitlab: lauraMon
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health FE Team
    - Monitor:Health
    - Frontend
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
    gitlab-ui: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Laura is a Frontend Engineer who loves software and data.
          She has a background in Computer Engineeering and was previously in the EdTech industry.
          She is based in NYC. In her spare time, she likes playing video games, reading, cooking, chilling with her friends and kittens, and daydreaming. She likes the beach and often thinks about being a zookeeper.

- slug: mrincon
  type: person
  name: Miguel Rincon
  start_date: 2019-07-22
  locality: Bogotá
  country: Colombia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: clement
  picture: mrincon.jpg
  twitter: miguelrincon86
  gitlab: mrincon
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM FE Team
    - Monitor:APM
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
  story: |
         Miguel has over 10 years of experience in web development, both as an individual contributor and team lead.
         He believes in lifelong education and likes to learn about all sorts of topics.
         After graduating in Colombia he moved to China, where he met his beautiful wife.
         Thanks to GitLab, he is working from two opposite sides of the globe.
         His JavaScript is better than his Chinese.

- slug: olenahoralkoretska
  type: person
  name: Olena HK.
  start_date: 2019-07-22
  locality: Kyiv
  country: Ukraine
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: clement
  picture: olenahoralkoretska.jpg
  twitter: sharlatta
  gitlab: ohoral
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health FE Team
    - Monitor:Health
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab:
      - trainee_maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Lena is a FE dev that likes clean and intuitive solutions. She worked on creating web, mobile and  TV apps. She also teaches at FE Academy and was a tutor for ngGirls. Lena enjoys reading and many different sports - skiing, snowboarding, pole dancing, wake-boarding, working out in the gym and swimming. She wants to travel around the world and meets any initiative with “Let’s create a website for that”.

- slug: ux-manager-research
  type: person
  name: Sarah Jones
  start_date: 2016-11-14
  locality: Manchester
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-research-manager/">UX Research Manager</a>
  reports_to: christielenneville
  picture: sarah_odonnell.jpeg
  gitlab: sarahj
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - UX Research Team
  story:  |
          Sarah is interested in how users think, feel and behave when interacting with products.
          She's passionate about using research to design brilliant user experiences and to create successful products.
          Sarah loves spending time outdoors and is happiest with her dogs by her side. She also enjoys reading, collecting vinyls and is an avid foodie.

- slug: katherine-o
  type: person
  name: Katherine Okpara
  start_date: 2017-12-21
  locality: Berkeley, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-researcher/">UX Researcher, Create</a>
  reports_to: ux-manager-research
  picture: katherineokpara.jpg
  twitter: katokpara
  gitlab: katokpara
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - UX Research Team
  story:  |
          Katherine is passionate about universal design and how it enhances user experience research. She has a B.A. in Psychology and worked in roles that involved cognitive psychology research, business analysis, and marketing prior to working at GitLab. Katherine enjoys writing poetry, studying languages, and watching Bollywood movies in her free time.

- slug: james-k
  type: person
  name: James Komara
  start_date: 2016-11-14
  locality: Scottsdale, AZ
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market, Southwest</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: komara.jpg
  twitter: ja_me_sk
  gitlab: ja-me-sk
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          From Tech Support leveled up to Sales & Customer Success, James has many years of experience with a broad background in Business, IT, and Computer Science.  You will find James managing your account to ensure you get the most out of products now and going forward.  When not plugged-in, he is most likely cycling, functional training, spending time with family, and often staying up too late.

- slug: balu
  type: person
  name: Balasankar "Balu" C
  start_date: 2016-11-16
  locality: Kochi, Kerala
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distribution">Distribution Engineer</a>
  reports_to: eng-manager-distribution
  projects:
    omnibus-gitlab: maintainer
    peopleops-employment-automation: maintainer
    gitlab-omnibus-builder: maintainer
  picture: balasankarc.jpg
  twitter: cbalasankar
  gitlab: balasankarc
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  story:  |
          Balu is from Kerala, southern most part of India and is passionate about anything related to Freedom and Privacy. He has been contributing to different Free Software and language computing communities for quite some time, especially in Packaging (he is currently a Debian Developer), Software Development, Localization, and Evangelism. Other than a computer geek, he is mainly a procaffinator and a bibliophile. He enjoys reading (and sometimes even writing) poetry too.

- slug: matija-c
  type: person
  name: Matija Čupić
  start_date: 2016-11-21
  locality: Belgrade
  country: Serbia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Verify:Continuous Integration</a>
  reports_to: darby-frey
  picture: matija.png
  twitter: matteeyah
  gitlab: matteeyah
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:CI BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
    gitlab-development-kit: reviewer
    gitlab-contributors: maintainer
    tanukidesk: maintainer
  story:  |
          Matija is a software engineer from Belgrade, Serbia.
          When he's not totally submerged into RoR and/or C#, he enjoys fitness, gaming
          or anything else related to technology in general (like cool gadgets!).
          His definition of a good time is evangelizing technology supplemented by sublime food and the sound of mechanical keyboards clicking in the background.

- slug: harish-r
  type: person
  name: Harish Ramachandran
  start_date: 2016-11-28
  locality: Jacksonville, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: michael-dunninger
  picture: harish-ramachandran.jpg
  twitter: harishsr
  gitlab: harishsr
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
             <li>Enterprise Edition Specialist</li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auth/ldap.html">LDAP</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/geo/replication/">Geo</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html">CI/CD</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Harish lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and loves spending his time with his beautiful wife and two daughters.  Most of the time he spends off the computer is spent reading, exercising, watching movies, and visiting awesome places. He loves traveling and has developed the itch to explore new places. Thankfully he works at a company awesome enough to encourage this!

- slug: collen-k
  type: person
  name: Collen Kriel
  start_date: 2016-12-12
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
  picture: collen.jpg
  twitter: collenkriel
  gitlab: collen
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Originally from South Africa, Collen is a Ruby on Rails developer with a background in enterprise software sales and freelance tech journalism. He is fascinated with how great software is made and the positive impact it can have on our professional and personal lives. In his free time he reads (a lot), travels, and takes average photos.

- slug: toon-c
  type: person
  name: Toon Claes
  start_date: 2017-01-02
  locality: Herentals
  country: Belgium
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Geo</a>
  reports_to: nick-nguyen
  picture: toon.jpg
  twitter: to1ne
  gitlab: toon
  pronouns: he/him
  specialty: Geo
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Merge Request coach
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Geo BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab:
      - reviewer backend
      - maintainer database
    gitlab-development-kit: maintainer
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/">GitLab API</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li>Merge request <a href="/job-families/expert/merge-request-coach/">coach</a></li>
  story:  |
          Toon's interest in electronics and computers started when he was a young boy. He
          learned how to solder using broken circuit boards his father replaced while
          repairing televisions. And when his parents got their first computer, he learned
          MS-DOS and started programming by typing over BASIC programs from
          magazines. Over the years the interest in computer kept growing.
          Most of the time Toon lives inside Emacs typing on one of his
          mechanical ergonomic keyboards, which he might have soldered himself.

- slug: jarka-k
  type: person
  name: Jarka Košanová
  start_date: 2017-01-03
  locality: Pilsen
  country: Czech Republic
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Portfolio Management & Plan:Certify
  reports_to: midhir
  picture: jarka.jpg
  twitter: jajina_k
  gitlab: jarka
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Portfolio Management BE Team
    - Plan:Certify BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/jira.html">JIRA</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/snippets.html">Snippets</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/index.html">Portfolio management</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Although living in the city of beer where she was also born Jarka spent almost 4 years in Switzerland and still loves that country. She's had experience with different programming languages and started loving Ruby immediately after she tried it for the first time. In her free time she tries to do a lot of sports, loves hiking (especially in mountains), traveling around the world or reading books.
  remote_story: |
                When I decided I wanted to move from Switzerland back home to the Czech Republic I found out that going to an office every day is problematic.
                I still wanted to spend weeks, maybe even months, in Switzerland and I definitely didn't want to take a vacation for that. At that time
                I found one of many benefits of remote work. It was back in 2016, since then I realized there is much more to this.
                And this is true especially at GitLab.
                Working for GitLab as a family-first company allows me to work while raising a small kid and still find time for plenty of my hobbies.
                I make use of the flexibility GitLab offers. I can travel and don't need to take a vacation for it,
                I can do sport or hike in beautiful mountains in the morning and work in the afternoon or late evenings.
                It also helps me to keep healthy relationships as I can meet friends for lunch or spend a day with my parents while working.
                Working remotely at GitLab simply supports me in leading a fulfilling life.

- slug: xiaogang
  type: person
  name: Xiaogang Wen 温小刚
  start_date: 2017-01-03
  locality: Beijing
  country: China
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect (APJ)</a>
  reports_to: adriansmolski
  picture: xiaogang.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: xiaogang_gitlab
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Xiaogang is based in Beijing, China where he has been living for more than 20 years. His whole career has been dedicated to software tooling, with various roles, from SCM support specialist to solution architect. Xiaogang has deep experience on software build acceleration and software production automation. He loves traveling, especially around places steeped in history, and enjoys a variety of foods.

- slug: mark-r
  type: person
  name:  Mark Rogge
  start_date: 2017-01-03
  locality: Sunny San Diego California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/regional-sales-director">Regional Sales Director, US East</a>
  reports_to: mpyle
  picture: markorogge.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:    A proven Senior Executive leading Sales teams with an impressive track record of driving net new revenue and market share growth for Fortune 500 and private venture backed technology companies.  Mark is a graduate of Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management (MBA), and of Augsburg College (BS in Economics).  Mark enjoys traveling the world with his wife and enjoying the almost perfect outdoor weather in Southern California.  He is also an avid football fan of USC and the Minnesota Vikings.

- slug: oswaldo-f
  type: person
  name: Oswaldo Ferreira
  start_date: 2017-01-09
  locality: São Paulo
  country: Brazil
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Scalability
  reports_to: rachel-nienaber
  picture: oswaldo.png
  twitter: olsfer
  gitlab: oswaldo
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Scalability Team
    - Merge Request coach

  projects:
    customers-app: maintainer backend
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/">GitLab API</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/related_issues.html">Related issues</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li>Merge request <a href="/job-families/expert/merge-request-coach/">coach</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issue_board.html">Issue boards</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/">Merge requests</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Oswaldo started his engineering journey back in 2012 at a research center
          playing with a metadata extraction library. Since then, passionate about the field,
          he kept writing Ruby and JavaScript code on a variety of projects.
          While he is not on VIM editor, he likes watching TV series with his girlfriend,
          reading and playing tough games.

- slug: dir-of-product-enablement
  type: person
  name: Joshua Lambert
  start_date: 2017-01-09
  locality: Philadelphia, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/group-manager-product/">Group Manager, Product</a>, Enablement
  reports_to: vp-of-product
  picture: joshua.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: joshlambert
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Enablement PM Team
  story:  |
          Josh's passion with computers started in elementary school when his parents brought an IBM PCjr home along with a book on BASIC. In his teenage years he spent time working on a variety of coding projects and assembling his own computers. He developed a love for product management 6 years ago, while working on a solution in the mobile productivity space. When not spending time with his family or working on technology, he tries to get out skiing and playing tennis.

- slug: eric-e
  type: person
  name: Eric Eastwood
  start_date: 2017-01-09
  locality: Twin Cities, Minnesota
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#gitter">Backend Engineer, Gitter</a>
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: eric.png
  twitter: MadLittleMods
  gitlab: MadLittleMods
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitter Team
  projects:
    gitter-webapp: maintainer
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/award_emojis.htmls">Emoji</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Eric loves building projects with the web-stack whether it be a playground for his PostCSS plugin or slapping a UI on top of a Unity 3D game.
          Prior to working at GitLab, he worked at Gitter transforming the way developers communicate about their open source projects.
          In his spare time, he enjoys flipping hardware bits on a FPGA and exploring new ways to improve the developer experience.

- slug: ben-k
  type: person
  name: Ben Kochie
  start_date: 2017-01-09
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: asandoval
  picture: bjk.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: bjk-gitlab
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  story:  |
          Originally from Minnesota, Ben has been a Systems Engineer/SRE since running a tiny ISP in the late 1990s.
          Now living in Berlin, Germany, he's a contributor to the Prometheus monitoring system.

- slug: andrew-n
  type: person
  name: Andrew Newdigate
  start_date: 2017-01-09
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/distinguished-engineer/">Distinguished Engineer, Infrastructure</a>
  specialty: <a href="/handbook/product/categories/#enablement">Gitaly</a>
  reports_to: marin
  picture: picture_andrew.jpg
  twitter: suprememoocow
  gitlab: andrewn
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
  projects:
    labkit: maintainer
    labkit-ruby: maintainer
  story:  |
          Andrew spent 17 years living in London before returning home to Cape Town in South Africa.
          Before joining GitLab, Andrew cofounded <a href="https://gitter.im">Gitter</a>
          where he was the CTO. Married with two kids, he spends what little spare time he has
          tinkering with machine-learning, building contraptions of questionable usefulness.
          Away from technology, his passions are travel, photography, motorcycling and the
          great outdoors.

- slug: pete-m
  type: person
  name: Peter McCracken
  start_date: 2017-02-01
  locality: Boston
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: Sheila-Walsh
  picture: pete_mccracken.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: PTMJR
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Peter has been working in the DevOps space for the past three years. His mission is to capture the customer's vison then bring that vison to reality and help them achieve ultimate success.
          In his spare time, he enjoys working on his golf game, playing hockey, and hiking with friends. He also loves traveling to new places and taking in the local culture.

- slug: adam-j
  type: person
  name: Adam Johnson
  start_date: 2017-02-06
  locality: Golden, Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Area Sales Manager (US East Named Accounts)</a>
  reports_to: mark-r
  picture: adamjohnson.jpg
  twitter: adam31johnson
  gitlab: adamjohnson
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  A passionate agilist after years of living in a waterfall world, Adam's professional passion is selling in to and collaborating with Senior Leadership at Enterprise organizations. His goal is simple - focus on making their teams and company more effective, while empowering them to make and meet their commitments to the business. Outside of work Adam is a family man. He enjoys all things outdoors including big mountain skiing, hiking, camping, and anything else that the 300+ days of sunshine brings to Colorado.

- slug: mark-b
  type: person
  name: Mark Bell
  start_date: 2017-02-13
  locality: Lafayette, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: adam-j
  picture: markbell.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Throughout my life I've been passionate about technology and software. This started when I was 12 years old and my father brought home a Timex computer.
          Later he would bring home one of the original IBM PCs. That was a major upgrade. All these years later I'm still interested in software.
          I joined GitLab to help others improve the way they make software. What a great way to make a living.

- slug: john-may
  type: person
  name: John May
  start_date: 2017-02-15
  locality: Centennial Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: Sheila-Walsh
  picture: johnmay.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jmay
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          John lives in Colorado "Where the mountains touch the sky and rivers bend" as sung by the a Colorado band called The Samples. John has worked with top-tier companies for agile transformation and DevOps. In his sparetime, John can be found on an ice rink either playing or coaching his son and daughter who play competitive hockey.

- slug: adam-m
  type: person
  name: Adam Mulvany
  start_date: 2017-02-27
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: adammulvany.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: amulvany
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Adam has spent the majority of his career history in high-demand healthcare environments and has built a strong set of skills in Support, Systems Administration and DevOps. It is his passion to work on the frontline of large scale distributed web applications and to reduce workload through automation, documentation and process improvement.  Adam feels most at home inside a bash terminal surrounded by open source software.

- slug: adam-o
  type: person
  name: Adam Olson
  start_date: 2017-03-01
  locality:  Wichita, KS
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Area Sales Manager (EastCentral)</a>
  reports_to: mark-r
  picture: adamolson.jpg
  twitter: adamsolson
  gitlab: aolson
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Twenty+ years of helping customers solve their software development problems with people, process, and tools.  My passion is delivering real business value with measurable results, not just generating software revenue.   Focused on spending as much time as possible with family (4 kids) and friends.

- slug: cdigirolamo
  type: person
  name: Chip Digirolamo
  start_date: 2019-05-20
  locality:  Erie, Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: adam-j
  picture: chipdigirolamo.png
  twitter: chipdigi
  gitlab: chipdigi
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          I've been selling software to software developers for 20 years. I live in Erie, CO w/ my wife Cleo & daughters Sophia (18) & Olivia (21), when she's not at the Univ. of Denver. I love mountain biking, skiing and Boston sports.

- slug: bob-v-l
  type: person
  name: Bob Van Landuyt
  start_date: 2017-03-06
  locality: Kortrijk
  country: Belgium
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Scalability
  reports_to: rachel-nienaber
  picture: bob.png
  twitter: bobvlanduyt
  gitlab: reprazent
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Scalability Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    labkit-ruby: maintainer
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/admin_area/settings/external_authorization.html">External Authorization Control</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/forking_workflow.html">Forking</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/i18n/externalization.html">Internationalization</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Bob has a keen eye for the good stuff. He's always on the lookout for software that looks nice and gets out of the way.
          He started tinkering on his SE/30 and never stopped.
          Since 2009 he has been developing web apps and backends in Ruby on Rails that match his own expectations.
          Preferably on a mech keyboard that sounds as beautiful as it looks.
          He listens only to the best of books and reads the greatest music (or vice versa) while roaming between Belgium and Poland.
          Firm believer in the standing desk, having a beard and learning by living.

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  type: person
  name: Paul Almeida
  start_date: 2017-03-06
  locality: Washington D.C.
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/director-public-sector-sales/">Director of Public Sector Sales</a>
  reports_to: mpyle
  picture: paulalmeida.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: pauldalmeida
  departments:
    - Sales
  story: Paul joins GitLab from Puppet, where he developed and grew the Public Sector  business. At Puppet, he brought in new customers and built a sales team for the Public Sector organization. Paul enjoys assisting government customers solve problems with innovative software. Prior to working with Puppet, He served in a number of sales roles for VMware. He enjoys playing football and basketball, coaching his children's football and basketball teams, and spending his weekends with his family.

- slug: simon-w
  type: person
  name: Simon Williams
  start_date: 2017-03-27
  locality: Totnes
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: robertbyrne
  picture: simonwilliams.jpg
  twitter: glsimonabw
  gitlab: simonwill
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:
          Simon joins GitLab from Workshare, where he helped companies collaborate more effectively with each other.  At Workshare he ran the EMEA Channel, managed technology partners, and was an Account Manager.  He's interested in helping clients achieve their business goals by leveraging software.  In his spare time, he enjoys family time with his new son, getting out in nature and personal development.

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  type: person
  name: Kristen Lawrence
  start_date: 2017-04-03
  locality: Arvada,Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/director-customer-success/">Director of Customer Success, Public Sector</a>
  reports_to: paul-a
  picture: KristenLawrence.2.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: klawrence
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Kristen has over 15 years of experience in technology sales and most recently leading a national team selling software and services for agile transformations.  Her passion and mission is to drive customer success through the entire customer journey from early understanding the complex problems companies are challenged with, through implementation, adoption and optimization, but most of all to ensure that our customers receive maximum business value from the GitLab platform with a premium experience.  When she is not working she enjoys spending time with her family outdoors in beautiful Colorado.

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  type: person
  name: Conor Brady
  start_date: 2017-04-03
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market</a>
  reports_to: chrisanderton
  picture: conor-brady.png
  twitter: ConorFBrady
  gitlab: Cbrady
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
           Based in Ireland, Conor is a sales professional with a wealth of IT knowledge and experience having previously worked in several of the world's largest Tech multinationals. In his personal time Conor is and avid traveller who enjoys exploring new cultures and foods.

- slug: chloe
  type: person
  name: Chloe Whitestone
  pronouns: she/her
  start_date: 2017-04-03
  locality: Bear, DE
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
  picture: chloe.jpg
  twitter: drachanya
  gitlab: chloe
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
    - Static Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Dynamic Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Composition Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Fuzz Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Chloe has dedicated her career to providing a fantastic customer experience and is excited to help GitLab grow. Outside of work, she takes a lot of pictures of her cats and watches a lot of television. She attended her first Star Trek convention when she was one-year-old, and it has been a slippery slope ever since. Her favorite is “the one with the whales”, but she loves all space operas equally. She also has a very useful degree in Latin, so she’s available for all of your demon-summoning needs.

- slug: brent-c
  type: person
  name: Brent Caldwell
  start_date: 2017-04-03
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/federal-inside-sales-manager/">Federal Inside Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: paul-a
  picture: brent_caldwell.png
  twitter: McGuilicutty
  gitlab: bcaldwell-gitlab
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Brent enjoys learning new technology and working with both technical and non technical clients to help solve their problems.

- slug: jameson-b
  type: person
  name: Jameson Burton
  start_date: 2017-04-17
  locality: Indiana
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-operations-manager/">Associate Marketing Operations Manager</a>
  reports_to: darawarde
  picture: jameson.png
  twitter: prof_wafflez
  gitlab: jburton
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Marketing Operations
  story:  |
          Jameson has taken the leap into Marketing Operations after several years in sales. He is a casual climber, a Nintendo fanboy and an animal lover.

- slug: lturner
  type: person
  name: Lindsey L. Turner
  start_date: 2019-07-25
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Sales Development Manager, AMER - Enterprise East </a>
  reports_to: evanw
  picture: lturner.png
  twitter: lindseylturner
  gitlab: lindseyLturner
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          My strengths and expertise lie in strategic planning, business operations, sales and marketing, forward thinking, leadership, and team building. An entrepreneur and visionary at heart, I have worked with and helped build several technology start-up companies, built three sales teams from the ground up, founded and ran a global non-profit organization, and designed and implemented the first and most comprehensive online website and app database of special needs friendly places and services.

- slug: tim-z
  type: person
  name: Tim Zallmann
  start_date: 2017-04-17
  locality: Vienna
  country: Austria
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#director-of-engineering">Director of Engineering, Dev</a>
  reports_to: christopher-l
  picture: timzallmann.jpg
  twitter: tpmtim
  gitlab: timzallmann
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer
    gitlab-ui: maintainer
    gitlab-eslint-config: maintainer
    status-page: maintainer frontend
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/new_fe_guide/development/performance.html#monitoring">Frontend monitoring <a href="/job-families/expert/">expert</a></a></li>
  story:  |
          Tim started building websites professionally 18 years ago as a full-stack engineer. Through his career, he has built online games, Websites, mobile apps for music festivals, and complete online banking solutions. In the last years he focused on Javascript and Unity3D. Tim enjoys hanging out with his wife, playing football, supporting his favorite football club "SK Rapid Wien", doing water sports (scuba diving, kayaking, fishing except swimming), and playing video games with friends.

- slug: mike-kozono
  type: person
  name: Michael Kozono
  start_date: 2017-04-17
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Staff Backend Engineer, Geo</a>
  reports_to: nick-nguyen
  locality: Granite Bay, CA
  picture: michael-kozono.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mkozono
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Geo BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
  story:  |
          Mike caught the programming bug, but didn’t know it, as a kid playing with HyperCard at school.
          Fortunately, he has since switched to Ruby.
          He strives to leave it better than he found it, whether it is a codebase or the local park.
          He loves trying new food, taking advantage of California’s beer and wine, being outdoors, and hanging out with his wife and son.

- slug: ccasella
  type: person
  name: Cristiano Casella
  start_date: 2019-03-18
  locality: Florence
  country: Italy
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tammgr-michael-le
  picture: ccasella.jpg
  twitter: Cris_Casella
  gitlab: ccasella
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  expertise: |
          <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/product/continuous-integration/" target="_blank">Continuos Integration</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/kubernetes/" target="_blank">Kubernetes</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/agile-delivery/" target="_blank">Agile Delivery</a></li>

- slug: joshikripa
  type: person
  name: Kripa Joshi
  start_date: 2019-03-25
  locality: New York, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: kripajoshi.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: joshikripa
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers

- slug: valerie
  type: person
  name: Valerie Karnes
  start_date: 2019-04-01
  locality: Nashville, TN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-management/#ux-manager">UX Manager, Secure & Defend</a>
  reports_to: christielenneville
  picture: valerie.jpg
  gitlab: vkarnes
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Secure UX Team
    - Defend UX Team
  story:  |
          Valerie is a design leader invested in the professional development of others and delivers customer-centric solutions for complex areas in enterprise software. Outside of work, she likes hiking in the beautiful local parks, appreciating the art of letterpress, and obsessing over her favorite college basketball team.

- slug: mikenichols
  type: person
  name: Mike Nichols
  start_date: 2019-04-01
  locality: Orlando, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Release:Progressive Delivery</a>
  reports_to: nadiaudalova
  picture: mikenichols.jpg
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops UX Team
    - Verify and Release UX Team
    - Ops Section
  story:  |
        Mike loves the challenge of taking something complex, breaking it down into digestible parts, understanding the variables in play, and working through the solution.  He believes the more time you spend examining the problem, the better chance you have of solving it.  When not building better experiences, Mike spends most of his time with his 2 daughters, and playing golf.

- slug: mbenzaquen
  type: person
  name: Matt Benzaquen
  start_date: 2019-04-01
  locality: California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/senior-manager-sales-systems">Senior Manager, Sales Strategy</a>
  reports_to: dhong
  picture: mattbenzaquen.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mbenza
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
        "With a background in analytics and experience helping a small startup in the devops space become a successful public company, Matt Benzaquen is focusing his efforts at GitLab on sales strategy.  Originally from Texas, he has spent the last 13 years in California and has no intention of leaving :)  In his free time he enjoys racing cars and motorcycles, traveling around the world, and partaking in all kinds of outdoor activities."


- slug: jackbrennan
  type: person
  name: Jack Brennan
  start_date: 2019-04-29
  locality: Boston, MA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/senior-manager-sales-systems">Senior Manager, Sales Systems</a>
  reports_to: dhong
  picture: jackbrennan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jbrennan1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
        "Jack strives to add business value by managing the vision and implementation of the business systems tech stack. He has experience building out Sales Systems, Sales Operations and Business Operations teams, but as a certified Salesforce.com Platform developer, he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty."

- slug: mikelong
  type: person
  name: Mike Long
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality: Corte Madera, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-management/#ux-manager">UX Manager, Dev:Plan & Dev:Manage</a>
  reports_to: christielenneville
  picture: mikelong.jpg
  gitlab: mikelong
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
    - Dev Section
  story: |
        Mike is an experienced design leader who facilitates the evolution of cultures through design thinking. He creates meaningful experiences and healthy teams by collaborating across stakeholders. He places the user at the center of every decision and helps customers achieve their highest goals.

- slug: nadiaudalova
  type: person
  name: Nadia Udalova
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-management/#ux-manager">UX Manager, Release and Verify</a>
  reports_to: christielenneville
  picture: nadiaudalova.png
  twitter: NadiaUdalova
  gitlab: nudalova
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops UX Team
    - Verify and Release UX Team
    - Ops Section
  story:  |
          Nadia is a user experience strategist and design leader, specialising on incorporating User Experience into a company vision and building strong, collaborative design teams. Nadia has over ten years of experinece in IT,  five of which are in DevOps domain. In her time outside of working hours - you can find Nadia in the gym or walking her dog in the park.

- slug: uxmanager-ops
  type: person
  name: Justin Mandell
  start_date: 2020-01-20
  locality: Lake Arrowhead
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-management/#ux-manager">UX Manager, Package, Configure, and Monitor</a>
  reports_to: christielenneville
  picture: jmandell.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jmandell
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops UX Team
    - Ops Section
    - Package, Configure and Monitor UX Team
    - Monitor:Health
    - Monitor:APM
    - Configure
    - Package
  story:  |
          Justin is a user experience, interaction, visual design leader with a passion for product creation and user-centered design. He's worked on products with screens no bigger than a typical thumbnail image all the way up to a flat screen TV and everything in between. He believes in the power of team collaboration and the design process that helps create cool, interesting, useful things. He has a wife, a step-son, 3 cats and a dog. He's a bit of a Star Wars fan, loves movies, reading, video games and looks forward to the day he can set up a muaythai bag in his garage again.

- slug: jackibauer
  type: person
  name: Jacki Bauer
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-management/#ux-manager">UX Manager, Growth & Enablement</a>
  reports_to: christielenneville
  picture: jackibauer.jpg
  gitlab: jackib
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Growth UX Team
  story:  |
          Jacki is a UX leader who has previously worked at Visa and Rackspace. She is constantly looking for ways to make good things better. She has two dogs and a cat and likes growing vegetables, reading, traveling, and Marie Kondo-ing just about anything.

- slug: larry-b
  type: person
  name: Larry Biegel
  start_date: 2017-05-15
  locality:  Ellicott City, MD
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: tom-plumadore
  picture: Larry-GitLab.jpg
  twitter: LarryBiegel
  gitlab: Larry-Gitlab
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          I have been in software sales for more than 20 years. My responsibility here at GitLab is to generate revenue and help fuel our growth.  I do so by helping enterprises to enhance how they respond to change. I have 3 kids and < 5 years, we will be empty nesters.


- slug: tammgr-michael-le
  type: person
  name: Michael L
  start_date: 2020-03-01
  locality: Stuttgart, Germany
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Manager, Technical Account Managers, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |


- slug: tamdir-sherrod-p
  type: person
  name: Sherrod Patching
  start_date: 2020-03-23
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Director, Technical Account Managers, Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
  picture: sherrodpatching.jpg
  twitter: sherrodpatching
  gitlab: spatching
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Sherrod has been leading teams for the past 20 years and technical customer success teams for the past 13 years. She is passionate about people and a process/frameworks junkie. Sherrod used to have spare time and dabbled in music, but now she just runs around after two very high-energy little girls of 4 and 1.

- slug: john-woods
  type: person
  name: John Woods
  start_date: 2017-05-15
  locality: Victoria, BC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Manager, Technical Account Managers, West</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: johnwoods.jpg
  twitter: JohnWoods06
  gitlab: jwoods06
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          John is an experienced IT specialist who is passionate about the customer experience.
          Having graduated with a degree is Political Science and Philosophy, John has done a great job of not putting that to any use.
          Outside of work, John is passionate about boardgames, wine, hockey and his family (not necessarily in that order).

- slug: chenje-katanda
  type: person
  name: Chenje Katanda
  start_date: 2017-05-29
  locality: Den Haag
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tammgr-michael-le
  picture: chenje.jpg
  twitter: ckatanda
  gitlab: ckatanda
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:   |
        Chenje has a strong passion for sharing knowledge and is always working towards improving ease of access to this knowledge for all. In his spare time, Chenje enjoys watching a good game of rugby, travelling as well as action(sports and wildlife) photography.

- slug: david-thomas
  type: person
  name: David Thomas "DT"
  start_date: 2017-06-12
  locality: Santa Cruz, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: shannonmason
  picture: davidpthomas.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dt
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          David is a passionate technologist and vim enthusiast helping organizations build GREAT software.
          With a 20-yr background in Agile, SCM, and server-side development, he credits his tech enthusiasm to his Dad for buying the family a TRS-80 in 1981.
          David is also an <a href="https://ultrasignup.com/results_participant.aspx?fname=David&lname=Thomas">accomplished ultramarathon trail runner</a> with 31 finishes including 100M (29hrs!) in the Arizona desert.
          Connect with David at dt@gitlab.com!

- slug: shinya
  type: person
  name: Shinya Maeda
  start_date: 2017-06-12
  locality: Kyoto
  country: Japan
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Release:Progressive Delivery</a>
  specialty: <a href="/features/gitlab-ci-cd/">GitLab CI/CD</a>
  reports_to: chasesouthard
  picture: shinya.png
  twitter: dosuken123
  gitlab: dosuken123
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Release BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Shinya is an Inspection System engineer who is good at hardware integration. So far he has bulit up 20+ softwares using external devices such as Stereo Camera, Sound Level Meter, Arduino, etc. He also likes competiting on programming contests. Once he met a tough problem, he won't be satisfied until he has found the solution.
          In his free time, he enjoys composing original music and covering famous songs.

- slug: victor-h
  type: person
  name: Victor Hernandez
  start_date: 2017-07-10
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
  picture: VictorHernandez.png
  twitter: vhernandez
  gitlab: vehernandez
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Curiosity first led Victor to software development, a drastic but happy change early in his career path. After discovering agile practices, he achieved personal nirvana. Victor has worked in different organizations in testing, quality assurance, agile coaching, and most recently, solution engineering. He enjoys continuous learning of different technologies, stacks, and practices. An evangelist at heart, he advocates best solutions and practical approaches to big challenges. Originally from Mexico City, Mexico, he is an Agile, Lean, and DevOps enthusiast; a husband, father to three boys, a wanna-be artist, sci-fi geek, travel-hungry, and perennially curious.

- slug: matt-doerfler
  type: person
  name: Matt Doerfler
  start_date: 2017-07-31
  locality: Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market, Mountain</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: mattdoerfler.png
  twitter: MDGitLab
  gitlab: mdoerfler
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Matt has been in technology and software sales for 10 years with an emphasis on continuous innovation. His passion for the outdoors has led him to be an advanced mountain and river guide. You'll often find him fly fishing high mountain streams and lakes while taking notes for an upcoming fly fishing book.

- slug: jarv
  type: person
  name: John 'Jarv' Jarvis
  start_date: 2017-08-01
  locality: Ljubljana
  country: Slovenia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Delivery</a>
  specialty: <a href="/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/team/delivery/">Delivery</a>
  reports_to: em-delivery
  picture: jarv.jpg
  twitter: __jarv__
  gitlab: jarv
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Delivery Team
  projects:
    release-tools: reviewer
  expertise: |
             <li>VPN <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          John has been an enthusiastic computer nerd going all the way back to his first computer, a TRS-80 model I. After studying
          electrical engineering at university he went on to become an devops lead at a startup,
          academia, and then a big company. Eventually deciding to spend time in Europe, he is now
          living in Slovenia where he continues to travel and enjoy the many wonderful things the city of
          Ljubljana has to offer. In addition to having fun working at Gitlab, John enjoys hacking on tiny
          electronics and playing with the latest languages and frameworks.
          When he isn't working in front of screen he is spending his free time teaching people to dance,
          learning Slovenian and noodling on his guitar.

- slug: allessio-c
  type: person
  name: Alessio Caiazza
  start_date: 2017-08-14
  locality: Florence
  country: Italy
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#delivery">Senior Backend Engineer, Delivery</a>
  reports_to: em-delivery
  picture: acaiazza.jpg
  twitter: nolith
  gitlab: nolith
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Delivery Team
  projects:
    gitlab-runner: maintainer
    gitlab-templates: maintainer
    gitlab-pages: maintainer
    gitlab-workhorse: maintainer
    gitlab:
      - maintainer backend
      - reviewer go

  story:  |
          Alessio received his first computer when he was 8yrs old, nobody in his family knew
          how to use it but Alessio looked so happy with his new toy.
          Time passed and Alessio's room started to look more like a lab than a proper child room.
          Lots of his adolescence nights were spent coding and playing online games.
          After the university he worked as a software engineer but he always had production
          engineering tasks also.
          If not on a computer you may find him with his family, playing some board games or
          trying to fix gardening problems in his backyard.

- slug: joel-k
  type: person
  name: Joel Krooswyk
  start_date: 2017-08-14
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/#manager-solutions-architects">Manager, Solutions Architects, Public Sector</a>
  reports_to: kristen-l
  picture: joelkrooswyk.jpg
  twitter: JoelKroos
  gitlab: jkrooswyk
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Joel is an enterprise-level problem solver passionate about seeing customers succeed with software projects. When he's not at a computer, he enjoys hiking, rehabbing homes, sports cars and spending time with family.

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  type: person
  name: Micaël Bergeron
  start_date: 2017-08-28
  locality: Québec
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Global Search</a>
  reports_to: cliu
  picture: micaelbergeron.png
  twitter: micaelbergeron
  gitlab: mbergeron
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Global Search BE Team
  story:  |
          Micaël is an enthusiastic person, loving all things computer. He enjoys music and shares his passion with his family and friends. He always tries to be friendly and forgiving, and loves to discuss about anything.

- slug: jordan-goodwin
  type: person
  name: Jordan Goodwin
  start_date: 2017-08-15
  locality: Boulder, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: adam-j
  picture: JordanGoodwin.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jordan_goodwin
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Jordan is a native of Cincinnati, OH but moved out to Boulder, CO for school and never looked back.  He lives with his Wife, newborn daughter and two German Sheperd Dogs and likes to read and hike in his spare time.

- slug: jacie
  type: person
  name: Jacie Bandur
  start_date: 2017-08-28
  locality: Salt Lake City, UT
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/learning-development-specialist/">Learning and Development Generalist</a>
  reports_to: learning-dev-partner
  picture: Jacie.jpeg
  twitter: jaciebandur
  gitlab: jbandur
  departments:
    - People Team
  story:  |
          Jacie is a Nebraska native currently exploring what Utah has to offer. She worked in recruiting for almost 5 years before making the switch to Learning & Development. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Brock, and their two pups - “mini” goldendoodle, Kooper, and mini labradoodle, Avery. Other than that she enjoys reading, loves to travel, is a yoga enthusiast and 200 hour RYT, and tries to spend as much time with family and friends as possible.

- slug: nico-o
  type: person
  name: Nico Ochoa
  start_date: 2017-09-05
  locality: Fort Collins, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: alan-cooke
  picture: NicoOchoa.jpg
  twitter: nrochoa
  gitlab: NicoOchoa
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Nico has over 20 years of software and technology sales experience working with Fortune 1000 clients. He was drawn to GitLab the technology due to its ability to help clients deliver faster with one integrated platform. He was drawn to GitLab the company for its culture and values.

- slug: james-r
  type: person
  name: James Ramsay
  start_date: 2017-09-06
  locality: Melbourne, VIC
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Group Manager, Product</a>, Create
  reports_to: ericbrinkman
  picture: jramsay.jpg
  twitter: _jramsay
  gitlab: jramsay
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          James enjoys gravel cycling, baking bread, and woodwork.

- slug: davin-w
  type: person
  name: Davin Walker
  start_date: 2017-09-05
  locality: American Fork, UT
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: jason-colyer
  picture: davinwalker.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: davinwalker
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Davin has been interested in technology since his first multiplayer game had networking problems. He enjoys experimenting with different technologies and is always engaged in one project or another.

- slug: cristine-s-m
  type: person
  name: Cristine Sotomango Marquardt
  start_date: 2017-09-05
  locality: San Diego, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/payroll-specialist/">Payroll Specialist</a>
  reports_to: payroll-jn
  picture: cristinesotomango.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: csotomango
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Cristine has focused most of her career in finance operations, accounts receivable, & billing. Most recently, Cristine decided to expand her knowledge into the payroll world. Outside of work, Cristine is a dedicated Ashtanga yoga practitioner and she can be found every morning on her mat. Cristine also enjoys indoor sport climbing, hiking, board games & video games.

- slug: karen-mc
  type: person
  name: Karen McKinney
  start_date: 2018-11-05
  locality: Arizona
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/billing-specialist/">Billing Specialist</a>
  reports_to: rev-rec-dir
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Soon to come!

- slug: chris-maurer
  type: person
  name: Chris Maurer
  start_date: 2017-09-11
  locality: Springfield, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/#manager-solutions-architects">Manager, Solutions Architects, Public Sector</a>
  reports_to: kristen-l
  picture: chrismaurer.png
  twitter: mauichief
  gitlab: cdmaurer13
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Chris has spent most of his career building overly-complex solutions which integrate multiple applications that probably had no business being integrated, so he is looking forward to working on boring solutions. Outside of work, he can be found playing softball or flag football on the National Mall in D.C., watching or playing baseball or soccer with his 3 boys, or binge-watching whatever visual crack Netflix has recently released (although he is way behind on the binge-watching at the moment).

- slug: alex-strachan
  type: person
  name: Alex Strachan
  start_date: 2017-09-11
  locality: Brisbane
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Senior Support Engineer, Self-managed (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: astrachan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: astrachan
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/geo/replication/">Geo</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/README.html#installing-gitlab-using-the-omnibus-gitlab-package-recommended">Omnibus</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Alex has spent the majority of his career in Support, System Administration working for a variety of employers in size and business function.  He has seen how the sysadmin role is changing and working for GitLab will allow him to immerse into these technologies.

- slug: ronald-z
  type: person
  name: Ronald van Zon
  start_date: 2018-07-02
  locality: Didam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ronanoconnor
  picture: ronaldvanzon.jpg
  twitter: eagllus
  gitlab: rvzon
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
    - Merge Request buddy
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>

  story:  |
          Ronald started off as an developer and soon discovered that tracking down bugs for customers is something he enjoys. In his spare time he will either be working on a cool project or relaxing by playing games.

- slug: david-wells
  type: person
  name: David Wells
  start_date: 2017-09-18
  locality: Atlanta, Georgia
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: tom-plumadore
  picture: davidwells.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          David is a solution software sales professional with over 20 years of consistently exceeding business objectives including - bookings, revenue, and customer satisfaction with F1000 companies.  Outstanding written / verbal communication skills and exceptional team player that effectively leverages all direct and virtual resources to accelerate the sales cycles through deployment.  Trusted advisor with high character that delivers value to customers, partners, and company.   Keen understanding of all sales processes including accurate forecasting and leveraging all technology-based tools.

- slug: chris-cornacchia
  type: person
  name: Chris Cornacchia
  start_date: 2017-09-18
  locality: Longmont, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: james-roberts
  picture: chriscornacchia.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: ccornacchia
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  Chris has been a technology sales professional since 2000 and the past 12 years focused on providing Software Developments Solutions to clients.  Located in Colorado, Chris loves mountain biking, hiking and just being outdoors.  He has a wife and two young boys, Cameron(5) and Calvin(1).
          Joining September 18th

- slug: eric-j
  type: person
  name: Eric Johnson
  start_date: 2017-09-25
  locality: California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management/#executive-vp-of-engineering">Executive Vice President of Engineering</a>
  pronouns: he/him
  reports_to: sid
  picture: ejohnson.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: edjdev
  departments:
    - Executive
    - Engineering Function
  story:  |
          Prior to GitLab, Eric is the veteran of 4 enterprise technology startups. His previous industry experience is in marketing technology, localization software, online video streaming, and a commercial drone software & hardware. He specializes in building great teams and scaling rapidly. He believes in the servant leadership model and staying cool under pressure. When not at work he's either exercising or spending time with his wife and two young daughters. Here's a link to Eric's <a href="/handbook/engineering/readmes/eric-johnson/">README</a>.
  remote_story: |
                Previous to GitLab I used to bike to my metro stop, and commute over an hour each way into San Francisco. It was normal for me to leave the house before my wife and kids were awake, and to return after they had eaten dinner 5 days a week. Now I spend no time on trains, and tons more time with family, while adding more value at my job. I also like that every 9 months GitLab gives me an excuse to travel to an exotic location in the world to one of our summits. I don't get to travel internationally for fun much anymore after having kids, and this is a great perk for me.

- slug: johnathan-h
  type: person
  name: Johnathan Hunt
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality:  Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-management/#vp-of-security">Vice President of Security</a>
  pronouns: he/him
  reports_to: eric-j
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  Johnathan has been in the infosec space for almsot 20 years building security programs at 4 companies.  He has worked at 2 Fortune 500's and 4 startups.  He is a proud father of 3 boys who diligently work to keep him as exhausted as possible.  Enjoys working out, traveling, reading, learning and family time!
  remote_story: Prior to Gitlab I worked at InVision (another remotely distributed company) for 4 years.  Prior to that I sustained a routined 2 to 2.5 hour commute in Atlanta traffic daily.  It is a real blessing to have the opportunity to reclaim that time to spend with my family.


- slug: christopher-l
  type: person
  name: Christopher "Leif" Lefelhocz
  start_date: 2019-01-22
  locality: Texas
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#director-of-engineering">Senior Director of Development</a>
  reports_to: eric-j
  picture: christopherlefelhocz.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: clefelhocz1
  departments:
    - Engineering Function

- slug: lanice
  type: person
  name: Lanice Sims
  start_date: 2017-09-25
  locality: Philadelphia, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: ramonaelliott
  picture: Lanice.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: LaniceSims
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Lanice is new-ish to the tech scene and has found a passion helping others through technology. She is kicking off her career in business development, using tech to solve problems. In her free time, Lanice likes to travel and explore different cities and cultures.

- slug: francisco-j-l
  type: person
  name: Francisco Javier López
  start_date: 2017-10-02
  locality: Murcia
  country: Spain
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: engineering-manager-create-ds
  picture: franciscojavierlopez.png
  twitter: fjsanpedro
  gitlab: fjsanpedro
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Editor BE Team
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    gitlab:
      - reviewer backend
      - trainee_maintainer database
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/wiki/">Wiki</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Fran has been programming for more than 20 years in several disciplines of computer science. After using many different programming languages he fell in love with Rails (since Rails 2). When not working, Fran enjoys spending time with family, reading about new tech and playing video games.

- slug: aric-b
  type: person
  name: Aric Buerer
  start_date: 2017-10-02
  locality: Kearney, NE
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: jason-colyer
  picture: aricbuerer.jpg
  twitter: AricBuerer
  gitlab: abuerer
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/geo/replication/">Geo</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/high_availability/">High Availability</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/README.html#installing-gitlab-using-the-omnibus-gitlab-package-recommended">Omnibus</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Aric is a support engineer with a background in linux system administration. He loves to learn and is always looking to expand his knowledge base. When not working, Aric can be found traveling, exploring the outdoors, or watching football with his wife and son.

- slug: william-c
  type: person
  name: William Chia
  pronouns: he/him
  start_date: 2017-10-02
  locality: Concord, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Native & IaC</a> and <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Intern Product Manager</a>, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: john-jeremiah
  picture: william-chia.jpg
  twitter: thewilliamchia
  gitlab: williamchia
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
    - CICD Section
    - Ops Section
    - Product Management
    - Monitor:Health
    - Ops Product Marketing Counterpart
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, Cloud Native</a></li>
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, GitOps/IaC</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          William is a product-minded storyteller who’s been crafting both code and copy since the late 90’s. At GitLab, William leads product marketing for GitLab's Cloud Native and Infrastructure as Code use cases. Prior to joining GitLab, William's career focused on serving technical users and buyers at companies like Twilio and Digium, the sponsor of open source Asterisk. Outside of work, you can find William cooking, practicing Taekwondo, and playing video games with his wife and three children.

  remote_story: |
          When I joined GitLab it took me only 1 month to onboard and reach the same level of produtivity that has previously taken me 6 months or longer at other companies I've worked for. When everything is documented and information is accessible, instead of locked away in a specific person's mind, it's so much easier to come up to speed. Working in tiny, iterative increments means I get started sooner, progress is more apparent, and I learn faster what works and what doesn't. Our values of transparency and iteration are a big part of what makes GitLab successful at doing remote-only. I've been here for 2 years now and I still feel like the culture makes me more productive. I'm working fewer hours than I have at any company and spending more time with my family, while at the same time, being more effective at my job.

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  type: person
  name: Jim Torres
  start_date: 2017-10-03
  locality: Newcastle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: tom-plumadore
  picture: JimTorres.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Jim Torres has been working with data and technology for more than 20 years. He has extensive experience in helping reseller development worldwide and increasing customer adoption of new and existing technology to advance business value. Jim has worked in several startups as well as established companies such as GE Digital and has experience with multiple markets such as Finance, Telecom, Healthcare and Industrial to name just a few. Jim works effectively to provide value to all markets, customers and resellers.

- slug: mayra-c
  type: person
  name: Mayra Cabrera
  start_date: 2017-10-09
  locality: Monterrey
  country: Mexico
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#delivery">Senior Backend Engineer, Delivery</a>
  reports_to: em-delivery
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  twitter: may_cabrera
  gitlab: mayra-cabrera
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Delivery Team
    - Merge Request buddy
  projects:
    gitlab:
      - maintainer backend
      - maintainer database
  story:  |
          Mayra is a knowledge-motivated person with a passion for building outstanding software, she loves bringing products to life that changes people’s lives for the better. Mayra also happens to love programming, she values clean, well-crafted code created through best practices and patterns over anything else.
          Proud Mexican and cat enthusiast, in her spare time Mayra enjoys geeky stuff in general like books, movies, TV series and of course, cats.
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release/">Release</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
             <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>

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  name: Brendan O'Leary
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  start_date: 2017-10-09
  locality: Annapolis, MD
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/developer-evangelist/">Senior Developer Evangelist</a>
  reports_to: psharma
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  twitter: olearycrew
  gitlab: brendan
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
    - Merge Request buddy
    - Parental Leave Reentry buddy
  expertise: |
          <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
          <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/parental-leave-buddy/">Parental Leave Reentry buddy</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html">CI/CD</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/jira.html">JIRA</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  remote_story: |
    As my bio says, I have 4 young children at home.  When I came back to GitLab after having my fourth I noted in our Thanks channel - 'Much easier transition coming back from paternity then I’ve ever had.  Being at home & being able to step away to help is so much better than commuting into an office and not being able to help at all.'
  story:  |
          Brendan has a passion for software development and iterating on processes just as quickly as we iterate on code.  He is a zealous advocate for the user experience. Brendan can still remember what his first computer - a Tandy 2000 - felt like to use (and break...sorry Dad). Working with customers to deliver value is what drives Brendan's passion for DevOps and smooth CI/CD implementation.  Brendan has worked with a wide range of customers - from the nation's top healthcare institutions to environmental services companies to the Department of Defense.  The only thing more eclectic is probably his taste in music.  Outside of work, you'll find Brendan with 1 to 4 kids hanging off of him at any given time or occasionally finding a moment alone to build something in his workshop.

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  type: person
  name: Brett Walker
  start_date: 2017-10-09
  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Project Management
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: brettwalker.jpg
  twitter: rubyjunkie
  gitlab: digitalmoksha
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Project Management BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  expertise: |
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html">GitLab Flavored Markdown</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Brett has been programming for many years - from writing a version of Centipede for the TRS-80 to Ruby on Rails and macOS applications.  He's always working on something, so you can usually find him in front of the keyboard.

- slug: jim-riley
  type: person
  name: Jim Riley
  start_date: 2017-10-16
  locality: Arlington, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Federal Area Sales Manager - Public Sector</a>
  reports_to: paul-a
  picture: jimriley.jpg
  twitter: jimriley
  gitlab: jrileyinva
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Excited to help GitLab in the Federal marketplace.

- slug: susannahreed
  type: person
  name: Susannah Reed
  start_date: 2019-01-22
  locality: Gaithersburg, MD
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader, Public Sector</a>
  reports_to: JKS
  picture: susannahreed.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: sreed1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Susannah joins GitLab from Micro Focus where she supported the Public Sector with Security and Big Data Analytics solutions. When not chasing her baby daughter and two dogs, you can find her traveling, cooking, or learning something new.

- slug: nadia-v
  type: person
  name: Nadia Vatalidis
  start_date: 2017-10-30
  locality: Johannesburg
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-operations/">Senior Manager, People Operations</a>
  reports_to: carol-teskey
  picture: nadiavatalidis1.jpg
  twitter: nadiavat
  gitlab: Vatalidis
  departments:
    - People Team
  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab, Nadia ran a small recruiting agency, mostly
          working with International companies and specifically passionate about
          remote working. When she's not working, she is hiking with her family, running
          or taking her Scott Spark 910 29'er for a spin!

- slug: hannah-s
  type: person
  name: Hannah Schuler
  start_date: 2017-11-27
  locality: Denver
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Sales Development Manager, AMER - Enterprise West</a>
  reports_to: evanw
  picture: hannah.jpg
  twitter: hannahschuler8
  gitlab: hschuler
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Hannah is a technology sales professional who is passionate about
          introducing new solutions that help her customers deliver amazing
          results and in turn help organizations drive business value.
          Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family outdoors
          in beautiful Colorado and trying her hand at any recipe she sees.

- slug: jthomasburrows
  type: person
  name: Jay Thomas-Burrows
  start_date: 2019-02-18
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Sales Development Manager, APAC</a>
  reports_to: evanw
  picture: jaythomasburrows.png
  twitter: jthomasburrows
  gitlab: jthomasburrows
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Jay is a technology business growth professional with extensive experience across international markets. Passionate about optimisation and team effectiveness, he is a believer in helping others do their best work as well as continually improving the way he does his.

- slug: andy-g
  type: person
  name: Andy Gunter
  start_date: 2017-11-27
  locality: Durham
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: andygunter.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: agunter
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Joined November 27th

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  type: person
  name: Christiaan Conover
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Chesapeake Beach, MD
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: christiaanconover.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: christiaanconover
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
    - Project Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Portfolio Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Certify Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Christiaan is a web developer and DevOps engineer who is passionate about helping businesses and developers create and deploy their projects faster, easier, and more reliably. He used and managed GitLab instances for years prior to joining the GitLab team.

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  type: person
  name: Jan Provaznik
  start_date: 2017-12-01
  locality: Brno
  country: Czech Republic
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Portfolio Management & Plan:Certify
  reports_to: midhir
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Portfolio Management BE Team
    - Plan:Certify BE Team
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              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/epics/index.html">Portfolio management</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/">Search</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Jan loves Linux and software development. When he is not working, he likes skiing and reading Terry Pratchett's books.

- slug: gronk
  type: person
  name: Ralf 'gronk' Gronkowski
  start_date: 2017-12-01
  locality: Hamburg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Manager, Customer Success, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
  picture: gronk.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: gronk
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          gronk is passionate about all things software development.

- slug: jessica-m
  type: person
  name: Jessica Mitchell
  start_date: 2017-12-04
  locality: Chicago,IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-business-partner">People Business Partner</a>
  reports_to: carol-teskey
  picture: JessicaMitchell.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jkalimon
  departments:
    - People Team
  expertise: |
              <li>Employee Relations, Merit and Compensation, Performance Management, Learning and Development, Coaching, Engineering, Product Management and Product Marketing, Employee Engagement <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
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          Jessica is the HR Business Partner supporting Marketing, Meltano and Product.  Before joining Gitlab she was held various HR roles at Cisco for 15 years and 2 years at SailPoint as a HRBP.  She currently lives in Chicago, IL with her family and enjoys, scuba diving, hiking and eating Italian food.

- slug: paul-d
  type: person
  name: Paul E. Duffy
  start_date: 2017-12-11
  locality: Boston, MA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: Sheila-Walsh
  picture: PaulDuffy.jpg
  twitter: pauleduffy
  gitlab: PaulDuffy
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Paul has spent the last 17 years helping clients implement and adopt
          new technology solutions that help drive business value. In his spare time he
          loves playing with his two young children, excercising and cheering on The Patriots!

- slug: brooke-w
  type: person
  name: Brooke Williamson
  start_date: 2017-12-04
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: mthennessy
  picture: brookewilliamson.jpg
  twitter: bwilliamson_GL
  gitlab: bwilliamson
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Brooke is a Seattle Native who loves to stay active by getting outside - rain or shine!
          Prior to joining GitLab, Brooke ran the lead generation efforts for a predictive analytics start-up,
          where the firm earned the 2017 Business Analytics Microsoft Partner of the Year Award.
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- slug: madison-t
  type: person
  name: Madison Taft
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hannah-s
  picture: MadisonTaft.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mtaft
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          "Madison is a Seattle Native who loves to travel to ancient architectural points around the world, play with her dog Molly and hike mountains in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to Gitlab, Madison worked in Augmented Reality and Traditional Cloud. She enjoys learning and discovering new subjects and enviorments."

- slug: michael-hamilton
  type: person
  name: Michael Hamilton
  start_date: 2017-12-11
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Sales Development Manager, Commercial West</a>
  reports_to: evanw
  picture: michaelhamilton.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: mhamilton
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Prior to working at Gitlab, Michael was developing his sales skills
          at Curvature. He loves to rock climb, play with his dog, and build
          awesome things!

- slug: adam-p
  type: person
  name: Adam Pestreich
  start_date: 2017-12-11
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: mthennessy
  picture: adampestreich.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: apestreich
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Prior to working at Gitlab, Adam has worked in technology recruiting and adtech sales.
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- slug: stevencull
  type: person
  name: Steven Cull
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Chicago, Illinois
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hannah-s
  picture: stevecull.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: scull
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          "My first foray into technology was aboard the USS Midway as an Avionics Tech. From there I landed in Reuters America and then Reuters Japan.
          I've had the opportunity to work wthin object data storage, digital marketing tech and now DevOps. To keep the balance, I teach yoga and bike the entire city of Chicago and when I can I get into the forest!"

- slug: jdalex
  type: person
  name: JD Alex
  start_date: 2018-12-17
  locality: Bend, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-sourcer/">Sourcer</a>
  reports_to: anastasia-p
  picture: jdalex.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jalex1
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          "JD Alex is a sourcing professional commited to connecting potential candidates positions here at GitLab. JD is a lifelong comic book and movie fan, and continues to collect toys, comics and memorabilia. Most of JD's time spent outside of work is consuming as much coffee as possible while diving into the next story arch of any great comic, or riding his motorcycle."

- slug: thiago-p
  type: person
  name: Thiago Presa
  start_date: 2017-12-11
  locality: Porto Alegre
  country: Brazil
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
  picture: thiagopresa.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tpresa
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
      <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/project_services/kubernetes.html">Kubernetes</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>

  story:  |
          Before joining Gitlab, Thiago worked in a variety of technical roles in Brazil.
          He enjoys biking around his city, reading and spending time with his family in his spare time.

- slug: david-astor
  type: person
  name: David Astor
  start_date: 2017-12-18
  locality: Marietta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
  picture: DavidAstor.jpg
  twitter: disastor242
  gitlab: disastor
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          I'm a listener, a story teller, an agilist, a part time runner, an avid college football fan and loyal husband and friend.
          I like to look at life like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Make your own way, but most importantly, have fun while doing it.
          If you can find like-minded people to share your adventure with, you've already won.

          I enjoy bad puns, making people laugh and especially learning new things.
          Also, there's not a home project that I won't attempt at least once.
          Smile, learn something new today and if you can, make a new friend.

- slug: patrick-h
  type: person
  name: Patrick Harlan
  start_date: 2017-12-20
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Manager, Technical Account Managers</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: patrickharlan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: pharlan
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Developer in a past life, Patrick now enjoys helping large companies make meaningful leaps in how they use new technology. He enjoys just about any DIY activity/hobby, and is an Excel nerd from a life of playing fantasy baseball.

- slug: justin-h
  type: person
  name: Justin Haley
  start_date: 2018-01-02
  locality: Basingstoke
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: robertbyrne
  picture: justin_haley.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: justinhaley
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Justin joined GitLab with 20 years experience selling software development tools at IBM, Hewlett Packard,
          Keynote Software and Shunra Software. Justin lives with his partner and daughter, along with 3 cats and
          3 dogs, so there’s never a dull moment at home. Outside of work, Justin enjoys good food, good wine and
          assists in the running of a target shooting club(not at the same time as enjoying good wine).

- slug: ralph-k
  type: person
  name: Ralph Kompare
  start_date: 2018-01-02
  locality: Highland,MD
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: paul-a
  picture: ralph-kompare.jpg
  gitlab: rkompare
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Ralph has beek selling enterprise software for many years and has worked at some very successful startups. He is a dog lover and owns a Pit Bull. He enjoys time with his family, working out,reading, and tries to play golf when he can. Ralph also believes in making good relationships with everyone he meets.

- slug: craig-p
  type: person
  name: Craig Pepper
  start_date: 2018-01-03
  locality: Nashville, TN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/public-sector-inside-account-representative/">Public Sector Inside Sales Representative</a>
  reports_to: brent-c
  picture: craig-pepper.jpg
  twitter: craig_pepper1
  gitlab: Cpepper
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Craig has 25-plus years experience in software sales and has been providing innovative technology solutions to Federal Government customers for more than a decade.  He enjoys running, hiking, traveling, music, photography, reading and spending time with family and friends.  While he greatly enjoys playing guitar, he has been advised not to quit his day job. He lives in the Nashville metro area. 

- slug: james-ritchey
  type: person
  name: James Ritchey
  start_date: 2018-01-05
  locality: San Jose, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-management/#security-manager">Security Manager, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: johnathan-h
  picture: jamesritchey.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jritchey
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          James specializes in application security, penetration testing, and software development. Prior to GitLab, he was at Apple hacking all the things. His goal is to help GitLab succeed in the most secure way possible. He also has a passion for drinking great beer and eating exceptional food.

- slug: juan-broullon
  type: person
  name: Juan Broullon
  start_date: 2019-03-04
  locality:
  country: Andorra
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: james-ritchey
  picture: juanbroullon.jpg
  twitter: ph3t_
  gitlab: jbroullon
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Juan spent almost three years making commerce secure at the Shopify Security Team. In his spare time, he likes exploring electronic music, finding bugs, and playing videogames.

- slug: kaung-aung
  type: person
  name: Kaung Htet Aung
  start_date: 2019-04-06
  locality:
  country: Singapore
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: james-ritchey
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  gitlab: kaunghtet
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          BJoins on Month XXth

- slug: ethan-strike
  type: person
  name: Ethan Strike
  start_date: 2018-10-15
  locality: Viña del Mar
  country: Chile
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-management/#security-manager">Security Manager, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: johnathan-h
  picture: ethanstrike.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: estrike
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Ethan enjoys building and securing applications and their infrastructure.
          Originally from the USA, he followed his heart to Chile where he is found
          exploring the country and eating empanadas.

- slug: jeremy-matos
  type: person
  name: Jeremy Matos
  start_date: 2019-05-28
  locality: Nyon
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: ethan-strike
  picture: jeremymatos.jpg
  twitter: SecuringApps
  gitlab: jeremymatos
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Jeremy helps building security in applications and writing secure code.
          Originally from France, he moved to Switzerland where he enjoys ski touring and mountain bike.

- slug: costel-maxim
  type: person
  name: Costel Maxim
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Bucharest
  country: Romania
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: ethan-strike
  picture: CMaxim.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: cmaxim
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Costel is a security engineer with hands on experience in all phases of an security engagement for web applications,
          API, mobile or infrastructure.

- slug: andrewkelly
  type: person
  name: Andrew Kelly
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: james-ritchey
  picture: andrewkelly.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ankelly
  departments:
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Andrew enjoys building and securing software.

- slug: dominiccouture
  type: person
  name: Dominic Couture
  start_date: 2019-11-19
  locality: Château-Richer, QC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: james-ritchey
  picture: dcouture.jpg
  twitter: dee__see
  gitlab: dcouture
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Dominic enjoys building and helping others build secure software.
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- slug: vitormeirelesdesousa
  type: person
  name: Vitor Meireles De Sousa
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Geneva
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: ethan-strike
  picture: vitormeirelesdesousa.png
  twitter: Muffinbox33
  gitlab: vdesousa
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Vitor likes to learn new things and continuously work to help securing applications and systems.
          He's based in Switzerland and enjoys social activities and different sports (martial arts,
          kite-surfing, biking, ...) when not in front of his computer!

- slug: ronchan
  type: person
  name: Ron Chan
  start_date: 2020-03-16
  locality: Auckland
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Application Security</a>
  reports_to: ethan-strike
  picture: RonChan.jpg
  twitter: ngalongc
  gitlab: rchan-gitlab
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Ron enjoys building and helping others build secure software.
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- slug: jan-urbanc
  type: person
  name: Jan Urbanc
  start_date: 2018-07-30
  locality: Vrhnika
  country: Slovenia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-management/#director-of-security">Interim Director of Security, Operations</a>
  reports_to: johnathan-h
  picture: jurbanc.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jurbanc
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Jan is seasoned in handling security disasters, and building mechanisms to prevent them. He is also a pet hoarder (4 cats, 3 dogs).

- slug: jeff-burrows
  type: person
  name: Jeff Burrows
  start_date: 2019-01-02
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-analyst/">Security Manager, Compliance</a>
  reports_to: johnathan-h
  picture: jeffburrows.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jburrows001
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Jeff specializes in information security compliance with a background in operations and management. Prior to GitLab he worked with Unity Technologies and a security consulting firm. When not working, he enjoys running, backpacking, cooking, woodworking, and hanging out with his partner and two dogs.

- slug: nikolas-sarosy
  type: person
  name: Nik Sarosy
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Cincinnati, OH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-analyst/">Senior Security Analyst, Compliance</a>
  reports_to: jeff-burrows
  picture: NikSarosy.jpg
  twitter: rotarjenkins
  gitlab: nsarosy
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Nik specializes in information security compliance with a background in vulnerability management, incident response and threat intelligence. Prior to GitLab he worked the Kroger Co. When not working, he enjoys Lego, cooking, and hanging out with his partner and two dogs.

- slug: jennifer-blanco
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  name: Jennifer Blanco
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  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-analyst/">Senior Security Analyst, Compliance</a>
  reports_to: jeff-burrows
  picture: jenniferblanco.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:
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      - Engineering Function
      - Security Department
  story:  |
          Jennifer is a risk professional with 10 years of experience in legal and information security in technology settings.
          Her personal interests include learning about research in life sciences, technology, and social science. Neuroscience and
          body mechanics are of special interest so you can find her challenging herself athletically outdoors when she's not
          exercising the brain exploring the great indoors.

- slug: tony-silveira
  type: person
  name: Tony Silveira
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Round Rock, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-analyst/">Senior Security Analyst, Compliance</a>
  reports_to: jeff-burrows
  picture: tonysilveira.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tsilveira
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Tony joined GitLab in December 2019.  Prior to joining GitLab, Tony worked in the financial and healthcare industries where his primary areas of focus were
          IT risk management, data security, and compliance.   In his free time he enjoys baking/cooking, videos games, spending time with friends, as well as
          spoiling his two cats.

- slug: steve-truong
  type: person
  name: Steve Truong
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-analyst/">Security Analyst, Compliance</a>
  reports_to: jeff-burrows
  picture: stevetruong.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: sttruong
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Steve is an IT risk and compliance professional with a background in project management and performing external audit services. Prior to joining GitLab in December 2019, Steve worked at Amazon as a Project Launch Analyst and supported the launch of new products and services in the APAC region. Steve also worked at Deloitte as an Advisory Senior Consultant where he focused on performing IT controls testing to support external financial audits as well as SOC1 and SOC2 attestations for Fortune 500 Companies operating in the technology sector. In his free time he enjoys playing board games/video games, saltwater aquarium keeping, and snowboarding.

- slug: elizabeth-coleman
  type: person
  name: Elizabeth Coleman
  start_date: 2020-01-20
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-analyst/">Senior Security Analyst, Compliance</a>
  reports_to: jeff-burrows
  picture: lizcoleman.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: lcoleman
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  expertise:  |
  story:  |
          Elizabeth (Liz) is an IT risk and compliance professional specializing in coordinating IT risk assessments over general IT controls and IT application controls for SOC and SOX audits across multiple industries. In her free time Liz enjoys activites such as triathlons (she is a 6 time Ironman finisher), hiking, running, and traveling with her husband and dog.

- slug: devin-harris
  type: person
  name: Devin Harris
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/field-security-engineer/">Senior Security Analyst, Field Security</a>
  reports_to: jeff-burrows
  picture: dsharris.jpg
  twitter: DHarrisDevelop
  gitlab: dsharris
  pronouns: He/Him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Devin is located in Austin, TX. Devin is passionate about advancing security for entities of all sizes. Devin enjoys spending time with his family, tinkering with things, and fixing cars.

- slug: luca-w
  type: person
  name: Luca Williams
  start_date: 2018-01-08
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Product Manager</a>, Manage
  reports_to: jeremy-w
  picture: luca.williams.png
  twitter: tipyn2903
  gitlab: tipyn
  pronouns: they/them
  departments:
    - Product Management
  story:  |
          Originally from Cambridge, UK. Usually found in the sun somewhere in Austin, TX these days playing the ukulele, reading self improvement books, comics and sci-fi/fantasy novels, drinking coffee and eating tacos with their partner and friends. Talk to them about anything related to Star Wars, Steven Universe, Marvel, MtG, minimalism, LGBTQ/diversity, Product Management, Design or UX. Oh.. and they're the one in the elephant onesie!

- slug: aricka
  type: person
  name: Aricka Flowers
  start_date: 2018-01-08
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/digital-production-manager/">Manager, Digital Production</a>
  reports_to: erica-l
  picture: arickaflowers.jpg
  twitter: arickaflowers
  gitlab: atflowers
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Digital Production
  expertise:  |
              <li>Video production <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>Content <a href="/handbook/marketing/blog/#editorial-reviews">editor</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Aricka comes to GitLab with more than 15 years of journalism, content strategy & marketing experience. While running a political news site for close to seven years, she was bitten by the tech bug and has been doubling down into that world ever since. Hailing from a town known for its fantastical culinary offerings, Aricka is a big time foodie that's always on the prowl for a new restaurant or recipe.

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  type: person
  name: Philippe Charrière
  start_date: 2018-01-15
  locality: Lyon
  country: France
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tammgr-michael-le
  picture: philippecharriere.jpg
  twitter: k33g_org
  gitlab: k33g
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Joined January 15th

- slug: osnatvider
  type: person
  name: Osnat Vider
  start_date: 2019-07-22
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
  picture: osnatvider.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Osnat has worked in tech startups her entire career. Even when she studied Fine Arts. Or Screenwriting. When Bug2000 was a thing. Her experience working in different roles and departments - QA, RND, CS - has enlightened her to understand that Empower People At Scale is her goal, and that technology could be the noblest idea of all.

- slug: mbruemmer
  type: person
  name: Martin Brümmer
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  locality: Leipzig
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
  picture: martinbruemmer.png
  twitter: derbruemmer
  gitlab: mbruemmer
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Martin started his career as a research scientist and went on to consult on data-driven software solutions. He loves to serve as bridge between customer, company and product. Martin is into open science, everything data and baroque music.

- slug: lyle-k
  type: person
  name: Lyle Kozloff
  start_date: 2018-01-22
  locality: Vancouver, BC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Senior Support Engineering Manager (Interim)</a>
  reports_to: tom-cooney
  picture: lyle.jpg
  twitter: lkozloff
  gitlab: lyle
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
    - Merge Request buddy
    - Ops Support Stable Counterpart
  expertise:  |
                <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
  story:  |
          Lyle graduated from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo (otherwise known as Cal Poly) in 2005 with a degree in Computer Engineering. Upon graduation he spent two years serving in Peace Corps, Benin helping local non-profits and other volunteers with technical projects. After a 2 year stay in rural Japan, he spent 9 years in Cambodia as the IT Director of an education-focused non-profit. Lyle now lives with his family in Vancouver, Canada. He enjoys learning languages, playing with his children and eating delicious things at in the city's many excellent restaurants.

- slug: diana-s
  type: person
  name: Diana Stanley
  start_date: 2018-01-22
  locality: Oakland, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Senior Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas West)</a>
  reports_to: lyle-k
  picture: dianastanley.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dstanley
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auth/ldap.html">LDAP</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Diana ran a large GitLab installation. She has a long background in
          support and Dev Ops, in companies large and small. She loves a good puzzle. In her free
          time she takes a lot of garment fitting and sewing workshops, and is the slave to two dogs
          and two cats at home.

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  type: person
  name: Laci 'Lah tsi' Videmsky
  start_date: 2018-01-22
  locality: Morro Bay, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
  picture: lvidemsky.png
  twitter: videmsky
  gitlab: videmsky
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Laci is a lifelong technologist and surfer. From evangelizing open source for the water sector
          to hacking on code and infrastructure, Laci has had the fortune of finding himself surrounded
          by great people doing greater things, and benefiting from both. When not hanging out with his
          wife, three kids, two cats, and a dog, Laci can be found shapping tool handles in the woodshop
          or paddling around the pacific looking for the next magical wave.

- slug: joe-miklos
  type: person
  name: Joe Miklos
  start_date: 2018-01-22
  locality: Oakland, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: alan-cooke
  picture: Joe_Miklos_Profile.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jmiklos
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Born and raised in the Bay Area of California, I've grown up loving the outdoors and disruptive technology companies. From working with small companies at the start of my career to Fortune 10 businesses later on, I've always put the customer first. My passion is understanding and solving an organizations most difficult problems. I live with my beautiful wife and our dog among the trees in the Oakland Hills.

- slug: philippe-l
  type: person
  name: Philippe Lafoucrière
  start_date: 2018-01-24
  locality: Québec City, QC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distinguished-backend-engineer">Distinguished Backend Engineer, Secure, Defend</a>
  reports_to: waynehaber
  picture: philippe.lafoucriere.jpg
  twitter: plafoucriere
  gitlab: plafoucriere
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer go
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Philippe was the founder and CEO of Gemnasium, a SaaS to monitor software dependencies. In his free time, he enjoys travelling and camping, especially when it comes to large and open spaces in the wild.

- slug: olivier-g
  type: person
  name: Olivier Gonzalez
  start_date: 2018-01-24
  locality: Québec City, QC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager, Secure:Composition Analysis</a>
  reports_to: todd-s
  picture: oliviergonzalez.jpg
  twitter: gonzoyumo
  gitlab: gonzoyumo
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Composition Analysis
  story:  |
          With a full-stack engineer background Olivier likes to work on all the layers of an application.
          Previously at Gemnasium working on a SaaS to monitor software dependencies.
          When not in front of his computer Olivier enjoys riding motorcycle, snowboarding and playing video and board games.
          Born in France but now living in Canada he also enjoys the wonderful winter season.

- slug: fabien-c
  type: person
  name: Fabien Catteau
  start_date: 2018-01-24
  locality: Compiègne
  country: France
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Staff Backend Engineer, Secure:Composition Analysis</a>
  reports_to: olivier-g
  picture: fabiencatteau.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: fcatteau
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Composition Analysis
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer go
  story:  |
          Before joining the GitLab team, Fabien was lead developer of Gemnasium, a SaaS to monitor software dependencies.
          He enjoys coding in Go and SQL, and he's a true fan of Postgres!
          In his free time, Fabien enjoys listening to podcasts, running and going for long walks in the countryside.

- slug: tetiana-ch
  type: person
  name: Tetiana Chupryna
  start_date: 2018-11-12
  locality: Kharkiv
  country: Ukraine
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#security-products">Backend Engineer, Secure:Composition Analysis</a>
  reports_to: olivier-g
  picture: tetianachupryna.jpg
  twitter: TetianaOfficial
  gitlab: brytannia
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Composition Analysis
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Tetiana became a GitLab user in 2015 and she joined the team almost 4 years after.
          She is interested in security and secretly obsessed with math statistics.
          In her spare time, Tetiana grows herbs and vegetables in her balcony garden,
          learns new languages, cooks, paints in watercolor and reads books.
          If she is lucky and there is snow outside, she enjoys riding a snowboard.

- slug: can-e
  type: person
  name: Can Eldem
  start_date: 2019-06-04
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Backend Engineer, Secure:Composition Analysis</a>
  reports_to: olivier-g
  picture: caneldem.jpeg
  gitlab: caneldem
  twitter: c_eldem
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Composition Analysis
  story: |
         I am a software engineer who enjoys simple solutions for complex problems.
         I spend my life savings going on music gigs, discovering new restaurants and do some crafting like pottery.

- slug: mo-k
  type: person
  name: Mo Khan
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality: Calgary, AB
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Senior Backend Engineer, Secure:Composition Analysis</a>
  reports_to: olivier-g
  picture: mkhan.jpg
  gitlab: xlgmokha
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Composition Analysis
  story: |
         Mo is a passionate developer with experience across various fields and technologies.
         He prefers development with Ruby and actively participates in open source development and community work.

- slug: adamcohen
  type: person
  name: Adam Cohen
  start_date: 2019-07-15
  locality: Sydney, NSW
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Senior Backend Engineer, Secure:Composition Analysis</a>
  reports_to: olivier-g
  picture: adamcohen.png
  gitlab: adamcohen
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Composition Analysis
  story: |
         Adam is a Backend Engineer originally from Toronto, Canada, but now living in Sydney, Australia.  He has spent many years working on payment gateway systems, product ingestion tools for retailer integration and identity management platforms.  When he's not coding, he enjoys playing beach volleyball, riding his motorcycle, cooking and reading.

- slug: igorfrenkel
  type: person
  name: Igor Frenkel
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Toronto, Ontario
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Senior Backend Engineer, Secure:Composition Analysis</a>
  reports_to: olivier-g
  picture: igorfrenkel.jpg
  gitlab: ifrenkel
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Composition Analysis
  story: |
    Igor is Backend Engineer from Toronto, Canada. He is passionate about engineering craftsmanship and secure software. In his spare time he likes to read scifi, listen to podcasts, and rock climb.

- slug: iwiedler
  type: person
  name: Igor Wiedler
  start_date: 2019-12-16
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: asandoval
  picture: igorwiedler.png
  twitter: igorwhilefalse
  gitlab: igorwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
  pronouns: they/them
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  story:  |
          Igor has been building and operating software systems for a while.

- slug: taylor-m
  type: person
  name: Taylor A. Murphy, PhD
  start_date: 2018-01-29
  locality: Nashville, TN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-engineer/">Staff Data Engineer, Architecture</a>
  reports_to: jstark
  picture: taylormurphy.jpg
  twitter: tayloramurphy
  gitlab: tayloramurphy
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - Data
  projects:
    gitlab_data: maintainer
    data-image: maintainer
    gitlab-data-utils: maintainer
    snowflake_spend: maintainer
    data_chatops: maintainer
  expertise:  |
            <li>Data Warehousing <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://app.periscopedata.com/app/gitlab/">Periscope Data</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://www.getdbt.com/">Data build tool (dbt)</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Taylor is a data geek who loves increasing efficiency, transparency, and value with data.
          His background is in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, but he learned he loves computers
          and data more while working as a Data Scientist. When not munging or analyzing data, he enjoys
          being outdoors with his wife and son, reading, writing, playing ultimate frisbee, playing with his
          dogs, and learning about anything related to space.

- slug: michael-w
  type: person
  name: Michael Walker
  start_date: 2019-01-06
  locality: Lehi, UT
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-engineer/">Senior Data Engineer</a>
  reports_to: jstark
  picture: michael_walker_pic_square.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: m_walker
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - Data
  story:  |
          Michael is a digital native who loves munging, consuming, and learning about data.
          Prior to GitLab, Michael worked at a variety of midsized companies doing data and database engineering.
          He enjoys sports of all kinds, video games, and hanging out with his precocious son and his lovely wife.

- slug: magdas
  type: person
  name: Magdalena Sendal
  start_date: 2020-02-10
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-engineer/">Data Engineer</a>
  reports_to: jstark
  picture: magdalenasendal.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: msendal
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - Data
  story:  |
          Magda loves all things related to working with data. She has got background in computer science and several years of experience in similar data related roles.
          The world of plants, computer vision, knitting as well as outdoor adventures keeps her busy outside the world of work.

- slug: paularmstrong
  type: person
  name: Paul Armstrong
  start_date: 2020-03-16
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-engineer/">Data Engineer</a>
  reports_to: jstark
  picture: paularmstrong.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: paul_armstrong
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - Data
  story:  Paul is passionate about learning new things, Open Source technology and solving(or finding) business problems using data. He has multiple years of experience in similar roles and was a massive fan of GitLab prior to joining. Outside of work he spends as much time as possible in the ocean and loves to travel.

- slug: amberlammers
  type: person
  name: Amber Lammers
  start_date: 2019-03-18
  locality: Washington, DC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/it-operations-system-engineer/">IT Operations System Administrator</a>
  reports_to: ITmanager-PeterK
  picture: amberlammers.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: amberlammers
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  story:  |
          Amber has several years of IT experience with a focus on systems and security. She is constantly learning and loves spending time outdoors and with her animals.

- slug: marcdisabatino
  type: person
  name: Marc DiSabatino
  start_date: 2019-07-31
  locality: Newark, DE
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/it-helpdesk-analyst/">Lead, IT Helpdesk Analyst - Americas</a>
  reports_to: ITmanager-PeterK
  picture: Mdisabatino.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: marc_disabatino
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  story:  |
          Marc has about 5 years of IT Helpdesk experience, with an emphasis on providing a friendly and quality experience. In his free time he enjoys the great outdoors, spending time with his 3 cats, cooking, music, and learning about new technologies.

- slug: mario-d-l-o
  type: person
  name: Mario de la Ossa
  start_date: 2018-01-29
  locality: Managua
  country: Nicaragua
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Project Management
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: mario.jpg
  twitter: mdelaossa
  gitlab: mdelaossa
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Project Management BE Team
    - Merge Request buddy
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/elasticsearch.html">Elasticsearch</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>

  story:  |
          Mario is passionate about backend development and sharing knowledge.
          Prior to GitLab he worked at Plex for a few years helping them create an awesome backend infrastructure.
          During his free time he enjoys helping out the local open source community and spending time outdoors.

- slug: tony-s
  type: person
  name: Tony Scafidi
  start_date: 2018-01-29
  locality: Litchfield, NH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: Sheila-Walsh
  picture: tonyscafidi.png
  twitter: tjscaf11
  gitlab: tonyscaf
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Tony has 20+ years of software development sales experience partnering with large enterprise organizations and helping his clients deliver business value.  Customer success is a priority.  In his personal life, Tony is passionate about his family and coaching.  He resides in New Hampshire with his wife, Laurie, and enjoys spending time with three active children.  Tony can be found on the softball field most nights and weekends, either coaching his competitive travel team or the high school team.

- slug: ashish-k
  type: person
  name: Ashish Kuthiala
  start_date: 2018-01-29
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/director-product-marketing/#senior-director-product-marketing">Sr. Director of Product Marketing</a>
  reports_to: tbarr
  picture: ashishkuthiala.jpg
  twitter: kuthiala
  gitlab: kuthiala
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
  expertise:  |
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/">Strategic Marketing</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/mrnci/">Market Research and Customer Insights</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/analyst-relations/">Analyst Relations</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/customer-reference-program/">Customer References</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/partner-marketing/">Partner and Channel Marketing</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/competitive/">Competitive Intelligence</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/sales/training/">Sales and Partner Enablement</a></li>
  story:  |

- slug: michael-miranda
  type: person
  name: Michael Miranda
  start_date: 2018-03-06
  locality: Los Angeles, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: mthennessy
  picture: mikemiranda.jpg
  twitter: zmikemiranda
  gitlab: mikemiranda
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Mike Miranda is a sales professional committed to connecting clients with solutions that will optimize their business performance. He is a lifelong learner, bibliophile, and podcast junkie who is passionate about people and their stories.

- slug: michael-lebeau
  type: person
  name: Michael LeBeau
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, Acceleration</a>
  reports_to: mmalcolm
  picture: mikelebeau.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: mlebeau
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Mike is an experienced sales professional with an extensive background in business development. After a successful decade working in the financial sector, Mike left to follow his passions for tech and the outdoors by bootstrapping his own startup for connecting outdoor enthusiasts. Currently residing in Colorado, he loves staying active in the mountains whether climbing, biking, skiing or summiting peaks.

- slug: dylan-g
  type: person
  name: Dylan Griffith
  start_date: 2018-02-01
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Staff Backend Engineer, Global Search</a>
  reports_to: cliu
  picture: dgriffith.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: DylanGriffith
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Global Search BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab:
      - maintainer backend
    charts-auto-deploy-app: maintainer
    gitlab-elasticsearch-indexer: trainee_maintainer
  story:  |
          Dylan is a programming geek. He loves learning new programming languages and working with new technologies and is a big fan and long time user of GitLab CI/CD.
          In his free time he likes snowboarding, tennis, soccer and table tennis.

- slug: nklick
  type: person
  name: Nicholas Klick
  start_date: 2019-07-22
  locality: Ann Arbor, MI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager, Configure</a>
  reports_to: samgoldstein
  picture: nicholas-klick.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: nicholasklick
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
  projects:
    omnibus-gitlab: reviewer
  story:  |
          Nicholas has stewarded systems transacting billions of dollars and serving tens of millions of users. With over 10 years experience in DevOps and delivering highly scalable web applications, Nicholas loves building great teams, products and services while thriving at the nexus of infrastructure and application development.

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  type: person
  name: Michael Lutz
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/director-of-professional-services">Senior Director of Professional Services</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
  picture: mlutz_headshot-2.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:  michael_lutz
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
        Michael comes to Gitlab with over 20 years of experience in Professional Services leadership focused in the software space.  He has a passion for removing roadblocks and ensuring his customers and teams have every opportunity to succeed.  Customer success is a personal driver for Michael.  He has lead PS and Success organizations at small private companies and large public companies such as Salesforce, BMC Software and Symantec. Outside of work, Michael teaches scuba diving, loves watching his son play college lacrosse and stays active with his princesses daughter.
          Michael joined in November 2019

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  type: person
  name:  Donita Farnsworth
  start_date:  2020-03-19
  locality: Ann Arbor, Michigan
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-project-manager/">Senior PS Project Coordinator</a>
  reports_to:  srdirectorproserv-michael-l
  picture: Donita_Farnsworth.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dfarnsworth04
  pronouns:
  departments:
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  story:  Donita comes to Gitlab with 15 years of experience of working within Professional Services teams, having a passion for all aspects of the PS backoffice aspects, Time Tracking, Resource Managagement, and Project Coordination.  Helping the team and company meet our goals!  In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my family, enjoying the great outdoors of Michigan and attending my boys many sporting events.  Donita joined Gitlab on March 19, 2020,

- slug: david-tacheny
  type: person
  name: David Tacheny
  start_date: 2018-07-30
  locality: North Hollywood, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/#manager-professional-services">Manager of Professional Services</a>
  reports_to: srdirectorproserv-michael-l
  picture: davidtacheny.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dtacheny
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  David has been a Systems Engineer since 1999 and the past 7 years focused on providing DevOps in the Cloud.  Located in N. Hollywood CA, David has a family with 4 kids, who really enjoys traveling.  His oldest daughter is a freshman at SacState in the Honors program. He is also big Starwars and Marvel fan.

- slug: sean-billow
  type: person
  name: Sean Billow
  start_date: 2018-05-24
  locality: Longmont, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: adam-j
  picture: seanbillow.jpeg
  twitter: seanbillow
  gitlab: sbillow
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  Sean has been a technology sales professional since 1997 and the past 17 years focused on providing Software Development Solutions to clients.  Located in Colorado, Sean loves flyfishing, hiking, tennis and experincing life with his family.  He has a wife (Amanda) and two daughters, Lauren (18) and Emily(16).

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  type: person
  name: Suri Patel
  start_date: 2018-02-05
  locality: Los Angeles, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/content-marketing/">Content Marketing Manager</a>, Dev
  reports_to: erica-l
  picture: suripatel.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: suripatel
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Content Marketing
  expertise:  |
              <li>Coffee <a href="/company/culture/all-remote/tips/#coffee-chats">chat expert</a></li>
              <li>Content <a href="/handbook/marketing/blog/#editorial-reviews">editor</a></li>
  story:  |
          Suri loves reading, visiting museums, and spending time with her family.

- slug: brein-m
  type: person
  name: Brein Matturro
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: North Conway, NH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/content-marketing/">Senior Content Marketing Manager - Customer</a>
  reports_to: erica-l
  picture: breinmatturro.jpg
  twitter: bnmatturro
  gitlab: bmatturro
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Content Marketing
  story:  |
          Bree is an experienced software technology writer and editor. She lives with her husband and two sons, teaches Vinyasa yoga, and owns a Ben & Jerry's.

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  type: person
  name: Alexander Tanayno
  start_date: 2018-02-12
  locality: Novosibirsk
  country: Russia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: alexandertanayno.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: atanayno
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auth/ldap.html">LDAP</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html">CI/CD</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Alexander is interested in everything related to technical support and likes to share as much knowledge as possible. On his spare time he enjoys playing bass guitar, travelling, and eating doner kebab.

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  type: person
  name: Jeremy Watson
  start_date: 2018-02-12
  locality: Philadelphia, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Group Manager, Product</a>, Manage
  reports_to: ericbrinkman
  picture: jwatson.jpg
  twitter: gitJeremy
  gitlab: jeremy
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Jeremy loves traveling, great coffee, photography, and his yappy chihuahua Roe.

- slug: matt-gonzales
  type: person
  name: Matt Gonzales
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: Grand Prairie, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Senior Product Manager</a>, Manage:Compliance
  reports_to: jeremy-w
  picture: mattgonzales.png
  twitter: OmNomAGonz
  gitlab: mattgonzales
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Matt is a San Antonio, TX native and amateur taco aficionado. He loves video games, circuit training, hobbyist coding, travel, and embarrassing his wife.

- slug: haris-delalic
  type: person
  name: Haris Delalić
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality: Johns Creek, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Manage:Import
  reports_to: jeremy-w
  picture: HarisDelalic.jpg
  twitter: DelalicHaris
  gitlab: hdelalic
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Haris started his career as a Software Developer with a degree in Computer Science. However, it didn’t take long for him to find his true passion in Product. With the mantra that every user deserves an awesome user experience, he focused his career on delivering innovative solutions to everyday problems.
          Originally from Sarajevo, Haris now lives in Johns Creek with his wife and two boys. This Trekkie dad spends his free time embarrassing his kids with endless dad jokes.

- slug: melissaushakov
  type: person
  name: Melissa Ushakov
  start_date: 2020-03-30
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Manage:Access
  reports_to: jeremy-w
  picture: melissaushakov.jpg
  gitlab: mushakov
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Melissa fell in love with software development in highschool and sees it as a way to bring delightful experiences to everyone. She went to school for Computer Science and eventually found her way to Product Management. Originally from Mexico, Melissa now lives in Austin with her husband, two kids and two dogs. She loves spending time outside despite the Texas heat.

- slug: ericschurter
  type: person
  name: Eric Schurter
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Richmond, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Create:Static Site Editor
  reports_to: ericbrinkman
  picture: ericschurter.jpg
  twitter: e_shirt
  gitlab: ericschurter
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Eric lives just outside of Richmond, VA with his wife and two kids. When he's not helping to build delightful product experiences, he is likely to be found working on his house, watching a movie, playing video games, reading comics, or building a LEGO set.

- slug: justinfarris
  type: person
  name: Justin Farris
  start_date: 2020-02-10
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Group Manager, Product</a>, Plan
  reports_to: ericbrinkman
  picture: justinfarris.jpg
  twitter: jfarris
  gitlab: justinfarris
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Justin grew up in Spokane Washington where he began his career in product (after a short stint working in the film industry). From there he moved to Seattle working on various startups and consumer technology companies. Outside of work Justin loves spending time outdoors with his family and their Golden Retriever, Copper.

- slug: jordan-bushong
  type: person
  name: Jordan Bushong
  start_date: 2018-02-12
  locality: Saint Louis, MO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Manager, AMER - Enterprise Central</a>
  reports_to: evanw
  picture: jordanbushong.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jbushong
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Jordan Bushong is an experienced sales professional located in Saint Louis, MO.  Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife, family and 4 rescue dogs. They enjoy good food, bike rides and long hikes.


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  type: person
  name: Robert Schilling
  start_date: 2013-06-12
  locality: Graz
  country: Austria
  role: Core Team member
  picture: rschilling.jpeg
  twitter: razer6
  gitlab: razer6
  departments:
    - Core Team
  story:  |
          Robert is a developer who loves science and technology. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in computer security at Graz University of Technology. His research interests include physical attacks, automated countermeasure design, and efficient hardware designs for computing architectures. In his spare time, he enjoys working on his partner's boat, driving it in Croatia, and DIY projects. When not in front of his computer, Robert can often be found with a glass of good single malt whiskey in his hand discussing sports and open source software.

- slug: hannes-rosenögger
  type: person
  name: Hannes Rosenögger
  start_date: 2016-06-13
  locality: Cologne
  country: Germany
  role: Core Team member
  picture: hannesrosenogger.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: haynes
  departments:
    - Core Team
  story:  |

- slug: vitaliy-klachkov
  type: person
  name: Vitaliy Klachkov
  start_date: 2017-03-16
  locality: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
  country: Russia
  role: Core Team member
  picture: vitaliyklachkov.jpg
  twitter: blackst0ne
  gitlab: blackst0ne
  departments:
    - Core Team
  story:  |
          Vitaliy is a software developer from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin, Russia.
          Before Vitaliy became a full-time software developer, he administrated Linux systems related to science, banking, and software development.

- slug: takuya-noguchi
  type: person
  name: Takuya Noguchi
  start_date: 2017-11-16
  locality: Tokyo
  country: Japan
  role: Core Team member
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter: tn961ir
  gitlab: tnir
  departments:
    - Core Team
  story:  |
          Takuya is a software engineer specializing in digital transformation from Tokyo, Japan.
          He started to use Git in 2005 and GitLab in 2013, but started to contribute to GitLab in 2015.
          He focuses on keeping GitLab easier to contribute, as well as fixing bugs and adding features.
          In 2016 he founded <a href="https://www.meetup.com/GitLab-Meetup-Tokyo/">GitLab Tokyo</a> and
          <a href="https://gitlab-jp.connpass.com/">GitLab.JP</a> communities.
          As of May 2019, they have reached more than 1,500 members.
          He is also one of <a href="https://www.cncf.io/people/ambassadors/">the Cloud Native Ambassadors
          of Cloud Native Computing Foundation</a> to encourage developers
          to adopt a cloud native computing paradigm for various kinds of applications and systems.
          Other OSS contributions can be found at <a href="https://github.com/tnir">GitHub: @tnir</a>.

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  type: person
  name: Jacopo Beschi
  start_date: 2018-01-18
  locality: Brescia
  country: Italy
  role: Core Team member
  picture: jacopobeschi.jpg
  twitter: jacopobeschi
  gitlab: jacopo-beschi
  departments:
    - Core Team
  story:  |
          Jacopo is a software developer from Brescia, Italy. He started to contribute to GitLab in late 2016. He focuses on bug fixes and new features in various sides of the app: backend, frontend, api, quality. He enjoys test automation and static code analysis tools. In his spare time he enjoys gym training and watching programming talks.

- slug: george-tsiolis
  type: person
  name: George Tsiolis
  start_date: 2018-09-27
  locality: Athens
  country: Greece
  role: Core Team member
  picture: gtsiolis.png
  twitter: gtsiolis
  gitlab: gtsiolis
  departments:
    - Core Team
  story:  |
          George is a user experience engineer based in Athens, Greece. He's passionate about designing and implementing functional and effective user interfaces. He has been involved in a number of projects focusing on network resource management over heterogeneous networks and service orchestration over programmable infrastructures. Moreover, he has been practicing user experience design and frontend engineering along with small and cross-functional teams while keeping collaboration a top priority. When he's not cherry-picking commits, he's probably on the move, running, or having fun with friends.

- slug: ben-bodenmiller
  type: person
  name: Ben Bodenmiller
  start_date: 2018-11-07
  locality: Riverside, CA
  country: USA
  role: Core Team member
  picture: benbodenmiller.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: bbodenmiller
  departments:
    - Core Team
  story:  |

- slug: vivian-g
  type: person
  name: Vivian Goetz
  start_date: 2018-02-21
  locality: Pleasanton, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/channel-sales-manager/">Channel Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: michellehodges
  picture: viviangoetz.jpg
  twitter: vgoetz1
  gitlab:  vgoetz1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab, Vivian spent time at a enterprise software startup division of GE Digital launching their Channel program. Prior to GE Digital Vivian spent over 18 years at software divisions at HP and EMC in channels & alliances. The channel is her passion and she is thrilled to join GitLab and help grow the channel. In her spare time, Vivian enjoys spending time outdoors, hiking, reading, the beach, spending time with her family including two daughters.

- slug: chun-d
  type: person
  name: Chun Du
  start_date: 2019-04-01
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#director-of-engineering">Director of Engineering, Enablement</a>
  reports_to: christopher-l
  picture: ChunDu.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cdu1
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
  story:  |
          Chun loves food, cooking, and photography.

- slug: tom-plumadore
  type: person
  name: Tom Plumadore
  start_date: 2019-03-04
  locality: Atlanta, Ga
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Southeast Area Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: mark-r
  picture: tomplumadore.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Plumadore
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |


- slug: kristie-thomas
  type: person
  name: Kristie Thomas
  start_date: 2018-02-26
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/executive-business-administrator/">Executive Business Administrator</a>
  reports_to: evp-of-product
  picture: kristiemcgoldrick.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: kristie.thomas
  departments:
    - Product
    - Engineering
  story:  |
          Kristie lives in Denver, CO USA with her husband. They enjoy spending time with family and friends, and have a strong community in Colorado. Kristie loves working at GitLab for many reasons, one being the work life balance that has resulted from the remote environment and the GitLab culture. Because of the flexibility GitLab offers, Kristie is able to teach and practice yoga much more than when she was commuting to an office. Reach out anytime for a chat!

- slug: jeffersonjones
  type: person
  name: Jefferson Jones
  start_date: 2019-03-04
  locality: Las Vegas, NV
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, Americas (Mid Market)</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
  picture: jeffersonjones.jpg
  twitter: JeffersonJone16
  gitlab: jjones
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          With over 10 years experience in the IT industry ranging from Cyber Security, Networking, Devops and System Engineering, Jefferson is an open source aficionado and expert in identifying and resolving complex technical issues toward the attainment of productivity growth and process improvement.

- slug: bill-duncan
  type: person
  name: Bill Duncan
  start_date: 2018-02-26
  locality: Richmond, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/public-sector-inside-account-representative/">Public Sector Inside Sales Representative</a>
  reports_to: brent-c
  picture: billduncan.jpg
  twitter: bill_duncan
  gitlab: bill_duncan
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Bill brings years of successful sales experience for AppDev/Test, Agile and DevOps solutions to the US Federal sector. Prior to joining GitLab, he focused on Federal sales at IBM's Rational Software and Hybrid Cloud Divisions. In his spare time, Bill helps his wife, a Certified Master Gardener, with her various projects and also enjoys playing with their golden retriever and three cockatiels. In addition to reading every DevOps book he can, Bill is also an avid Sci-Fi fan and an active follower of the VA Tech Hokies Mens Basketball and Football teams.

- slug: leipert
  type: person
  name: Lukas Eipert
  start_date: 2018-03-02
  locality: Leipzig
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Ecosystem</a>
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: leipert.jpg
  twitter: leipert_io
  gitlab: leipert
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Frontend
    - Dev Section
    - Ecosystem FE Team
    - Ecosystem BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
    gitlab-svgs: maintainer
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/teampage-map">Team Map Maintainer</a></li>
  story:  |
          Lukas comes from a long dynasty of teachers and broke the tradition to
          study computer science. When he was eleven and started building an
          online shop with PHP, the path to becoming a Frontend Engineer seemed
          quite clear. He likes building software for other developers. In his
          spare time Lukas enjoys cooking, brewing beer and playing "Skat".

- slug: lindsaykerr
  type: person
  name: Lindsay Kerr
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Eugene, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Defend</a>
  reports_to: waynehaber
  picture: lindsaykerr.jpg
  twitter: lkerr78
  gitlab: lkerr
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend FE Team
    - Frontend
  story:  |
          Lindsay grew up in Oregon and earned her Bachelor's of Science in Mathematics & Computer Science from the University of Oregon. Before joining GitLab, Lindsay was an engineering manager at Symantec focusing on the consumer support & services online experience. When not working she can be found in her backyard gardening, reading or playing with her daughter, hiking slowly in the woods, or out at one of the local microbreweries about town.

- slug: chase-w
  type: person
  name: Chase Wright
  start_date: 2018-03-05
  locality: Chattanooga, TN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/finance-planning-and-analysis/">Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis</a>
  reports_to: craig-mestel
  picture: chasewright.png
  twitter: thechasewright
  gitlab: wwright
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Chase has spend his career working in education, immigration, logistics, healthcare, and consulting. Chase has a passion for finance, data analysis, and strategy. Chase studied Finance at the University of Montevallo and Information Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In his spare time Chase enjoys spending time with his wife and their golden retriever, running, traveling, and discussing philosophy.

- slug: dorde-s
  type: person
  name: Đorđe Šumenković
  start_date: 2018-03-06
  locality: Belgrade
  country: Serbia
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: panosr
  picture: djordjesumenkovic.jpg
  twitter: dsumenkovic
  gitlab: dsumenkovic
  departments:
    - Marketing
  expertise: |
               <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relations/community-advocacy/#handling-swag">Swag</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>

  story:  |
          If you are looking for a buddy to get the job done, lift some weights, race through a city center on a
          bicycle, binge-watch shows, destroy a few WoT's tier 6 tanks or escape a puzzle room, call Đorđe and
          meet up with him. His day is full of challenges and he always thrives to make time for more activities
          and more people. Also, he is passionate about technology, especially smartphones and PCs.

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  name: Karen Blasing
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/board-of-directors/board_member/">Board of Directors</a>
  picture: karenblasing.jpg
  twitter: Karenblasing
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Board
  story:  |
          Karen currently serves on the boards of Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) where she serves on the Audit Committee, Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS)- chairing the Audit Committee and serving on the Compensation Committee and GitLab – serving as Audit Committee Chairman. She previously served on the board of Ellie Mae (NYSE: Elli) – chairing the Merger &amp; Acquisition Committee and served on the Audit Committee. She also served on the boards of 2 private companies LogRhythm (acquired by Thoma Bravo) and MetricStream. Blasing served as Chief Financial Officer for Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GDWR) from July 2009 through March 2015, where she led the company’s successful initial public offering in January 2012 and two subsequent follow-on offerings. Ms. Blasing has also served as Chief Financial Officer for Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell), Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), and Counterpane Internet Security (acquired by BT). She has held senior finance roles at salesforce.com, Informix Corporation (acquired by IBM), Oracle Corporation and Syntex Pharmaceuticals (now Roche). She holds B.A.’s in both Economics and Business Administration from the University of Montana and an MBA from the University of Washington.

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  type: person
  name: Matthew Jacobson
  start_date: 2018-08-14
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/board-of-directors/board_member/">Board of Directors</a>
  twitter: mjacobson1003
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Board
  expertise:
  picture: matthewjacobson.jpg
  story:  |
          To learn more about Matthew Jacobson, check out <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-jacobson-4645106/">his LinkedIn bio here.</a>.

- slug: anna-p
  type: person
  name: Anna Piaseczna
  start_date: 2018-03-12
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/billing-specialist/">Senior Billing Specialist</a>
  reports_to: rev-rec-dir
  picture: annapiaseczna.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: annapiaseczna
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Anna studied linguistics but her career path led her to (finance) operations. She enjoys being a part of the ever-changing tech world. In her free time she loves reading about coaching and wellbeing. She also is an avid crafter, but most of all loves spending time with her family and watch her children grow.

- slug: antonio-m
  type: person
  name: Antonio Mimmo
  start_date: 2018-03-15
  locality: Bratislava
  country: Slovakia
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Manager, Field Marketing</a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
  picture: antoniomimmo.jpeg
  twitter: av_mimmo
  gitlab: amimmo
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
          Antonio is a passionate marketer and is well known for his talent to connect people with brands, products and services. In his free time he likes to learn something new every day and to produce music.

- slug: tina-m
  type: person
  name: Tina Morwani
  start_date: 2019-10-10
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Senior Field Marketing Manager, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: antonio-m
  picture: tina.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tmorwani
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
          Tina is a self-professed current affairs, science fiction and literature lover. Deeply committed to growing brands with purpose, she is skilled in building marketing strategies and integrated campaigns that reinforce the brand story and drive revenue.

- slug: john-jeremiah
  type: person
  name: John Jeremiah
  start_date: 2018-03-19
  locality: Melbourne, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Manager, Product Marketing</a>
  reports_to: ashish-k
  picture: johnjeremiah.jpeg
  twitter: j_jeremiah
  gitlab: johnjeremiah
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
  story:  |
          A former IT leader, now a software product marketing leader, helping to show the way
          to deliver solutions faster.  When I'm not online, you can probably find me underwater,
          diving and exploring the reefs.

- slug: mek
  type: person
  name: Mek Stittri
  start_date: 2018-03-19
  locality: Mountain View, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-quality/#director-of-quality-engineering">Director of Quality Engineering</a>
  reports_to: eric-j
  picture: mekstittri.jpg
  twitter: mekdev
  gitlab: meks
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Mek led and grew the test automation infrastructure team at Airware.
          Prior to Airware he has spent the last decade in Quality Engineering for both enterprise companies and startups in the Bay Area.
          You can also find him at Test Automation meetups and conferences. He has a passion in baking quality in from the start,
          championing testability and developer productivity. In his spare time he enjoys coffee, running and yoga.

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  type: person
  name: Ramya Authappan
  start_date: 2018-08-06
  locality: Chennai
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-quality/#engineering-manager-quality">Quality Engineering Manager, Dev</a>
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  reports_to: mek
  picture: ramyaauthappan.png
  twitter: atramya
  gitlab: at.ramya
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Dev QE Team
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/engineering/quality/#self-managed-usecase">GitLab self-managed usecase</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer qa
    gitlab-qa: maintainer
  story:  |
          Ramya is passionate about building and designing test frameworks. She has around ten years of experience in the test automation space.
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          She is also the Director of <a href="https://www.womenwhocode.com/chennai">WomenWhoCode, Chennai</a>  and helps in organising meetups for the same, encouraging women in technology.
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  type: person
  name: Joanna Shih
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-quality/#engineering-manager-quality">Quality Engineering Manager, Ops & CI/CD</a>
  reports_to: mek
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  twitter:
  gitlab: jo_shih
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Ops & CI/CD QE Team
    - CICD Section
    - Ops Section
  story:  |

- slug: tanyapazitny
  type: person
  name: Tanya Pazitny
  start_date: 2019-02-25
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-quality/#engineering-manager-quality">Quality Engineering Manager, Secure & Enablement</a>
  reports_to: mek
  picture: tanyapazitny.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: tpazitny
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Secure & Enablement QE Team
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Secure Section
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    gitlab: reviewer qa
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
  story:  |
           I'm an enthusiastic test automator and Quality Engineering Manager who likes building tools to make other people’s lives easier and infusing quality into every stage of software development. In my spare time I love cooking, crafting, petting my dogs, and home improvement.

- slug: kyle-wiebers
  type: person
  name: Kyle Wiebers
  start_date: 2019-07-15
  locality: Des Moines, IA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-quality/#engineering-manager-quality">Interim Quality Engineering Manager, Engineering Productivity</a>
  reports_to: mek
  picture: kylewiebers.jpg
  twitter: wiebersk
  gitlab: kwiebers
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Engineering Productivity Team
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    gitlab-qa: reviewer
    triage-ops: maintainer
    gitlab-triage: maintainer
    gitlab-styles: reviewer
  story: |
         Kyle is an engineer with a relentless pursuit of shortening feedback loops. He
         has worked in large enterprises and small companies in engineering and automation
         roles. Whenever Kyle has the opportunity, he enjoys working out, listening to
         podcasts, spending time with his family, and cooking.

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  type: person
  name: Emily Mowry
  start_date: 2018-03-19
  locality: Boulder, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-experience-associate/">Senior People Experience Associate</a>
  reports_to: Beverley-R
  picture: emowry.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Mowry
  departments:
    - People Team
    - People Experience Team
  expertise: |
             <li>Onboarding <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Emily is a Nashville native currently residing in Boulder, CO with her husband and sweet baby girl. When not providing the best people ops experience for employees, you can find her cheering on the Vols, working out, shopping, and of course enjoying everything Colorado has to offer.

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  type: person
  name: Borivoje 'Bora' Tasovac
  start_date: 2018-03-19
  locality: Belgrade
  country: Serbia
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/community-advocate/">Junior Community Advocate</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
  picture: borivojetasovac.jpg
  twitter: BorivojeTasovac
  gitlab: borivoje
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Community Relations
  expertise: |
               <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relations/community-advocacy/#initiatives">Initiatives</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
               <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/community-relations/opensource-program">OSS Project</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          His perfect day consists of creative work, any kind of sport (preferably skiing) and spending time with friends and family. Ideally, all of that with as many interesting people as possible. Besides that, he loves to travel, read quality books, watch TED talks, and discover anything related to technology. Borivoje's rule is: work hard, play hard.

- slug: roger-o
  type: person
  name: Roger Ostrander
  start_date: 2018-03-26
  locality: Washington, DC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Abuse Operations</a>
  reports_to: charl-de-wit
  picture: rostrander.jpg
  twitter: atiaxi
  gitlab: rostrander
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Roger's headed anti-abuse efforts at startups before, and he'll do it
          again!  When not coding for work, he's coding VR games for fun or
          writing ridiculous self-published novels.

- slug: dan-gordon
  type: person
  name: Dan Gordon
  start_date: 2018-03-26
  locality: San Jose, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/technical-marketing-manager/">Manager, Technical Marketing</a>
  reports_to: ashish-k
  picture: dangordon.jpg
  twitter: dbgordon
  gitlab: dangordon
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Technical Marketing
  story:  |
          Having lived through the pain and felt the human impact of poor software and IT practices, Dan is passionate about making modern software delivery practices as ubiquitous as wearing a seatbelt. Previously a product marketer, and a product manager at leading IT and DevOps tool vendors, he's excited to introduce GitLab to the masses. Outside of work you can find Dan hanging out with his wife, daughter, and son, 3D printing, exploring VR, or enjoying a movie.

- slug: michael-snow
  type: person
  name: Michael Snow
  start_date: 2018-04-02
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: Business Systems Administrator
  reports_to: jackbrennan
  picture: michaelsnow.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: msnow1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Michael finds that he is most at home when he is not at home. You can
          find him either traveling and exploring some far off city or with his
          nose buried deep in a book. While he started out as a structural engineer
          designing buildings in NYC he soon found in himself a deep passion for
          technology, which eventually helped him to find his way to Gitlab. He
          is currently learning how to code and yes as his name would have it
          he is also very into snowboarding!

- slug: julie-a
  type: person
  name: Julie Armendariz
  start_date: 2018-04-02
  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-business-partner/">People Business Partner</a>
  reports_to: carol-teskey
  picture: juliearmendariz.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jarmendariz
  departments:
    - People Team
  story:  |
          Julie is the People Business Partner supporting the G&A functions which includes the Finance, Legal and People teams. Before joining Gitlab she held various People roles at Transplace, Capital One and Cisco Systems. She lives in Dallas, TX with her husband and enjoys spending time with her family. Julie loves photography and traveling, and is halfway to her goal of visiting 100 countries.
  expertise:  |
              <li>GitLab People Business Partner for Finance, Legal, and the People Team <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>

- slug: julius-k
  type: person
  name: Julius Kvedaras
  start_date: 2018-04-02
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ilia-kosenko
  picture: juliuskvedaras.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mrjkc
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Julius is very pasionate about IT and likes to learn new technologies all the time. When he is not learning he is creating.

- slug: lisa-v-d-k
  type: person
  name: Lisa van de Kooij
  start_date: 2018-04-03
  locality: Groningen
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: hmason
  picture: LisavandeKooij.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: LisavandeKooij
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
           Before joining GitLab, Lisa worked several years in a major financial institution.
           As a Sales professional she's always been passionate about continues improvement and understanding needs of others.
           In her free time she loves to explore new places, photography and spend time with friends and family.

- slug: bastianvanderstel
  type: person
  name: Bastian van der Stel
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: hmason
  picture: bastianvanderstel.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: bastian_vanderstel
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
           Before joining GitLab, Bastian worked several years in consulting, procurement and sales.
           He puts customer experience above anything else, and is always willing the go the extra mile to make his customers happy.
           In his free time, he likes to play guitar, explore new places with his Volkswagen T2 and spend time with family and friends.


- slug: deandre
  type: person
  name: DeAndre Harris
  start_date: 2018-04-02
  locality: Chicago
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
  picture: deandreharris.jpg
  pronouns: he/him/they/them/sis
  gitlab: deandre
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/">API</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html">CI/CD</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          DeAndre is a self-proclaimed nerd with a passion for supporting users.

- slug: zkovacs
  type: person
  name: Zsuzsanna Marta Kovacs
  start_date: 2018-08-20
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-sourcer/">Sourcer</a>
  reports_to: anastasia-p
  picture: zsuzsannakovacs.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: zkovacs
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |

- slug: mark-cesario
  type: person
  name: Mark Cesario
  start_date: 2018-04-02
  locality: Golden, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: shannonmason
  picture: markCesario.png
  twitter: cesariomj
  gitlab: mcesario
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Mark is focused on helping companies through their digital transformation using disruptive technologies .  Mark enjoys playing hockey, hiking and spending quality time with family and friends.

- slug: anastasia-p
  type: person
  name: Anastasia Pshegodskaya
  start_date: 2018-04-04
  locality: Moscow
  country: Russia
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-sourcer/">Manager, Sourcing</a>
  reports_to: dave-g
  picture: anastasiapshegodskaya.jpg
  gitlab: Apshegodskaya
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  expertise:  |
              <li>Talent treasure hunter <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>LinkedIn Recruiter <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story: |
         Anastasia is extremely passionate about people and excited about the changes technologies can bring into our lives. The guiding principle in her recruiting career and life is the belief that a well-developed technology can work like magic, be it solving global problems or hiring people. All her free time is devoted to her corgi and traveling, and she is still looking for a perfect way to combine these two hobbies.

- slug: daisy
  type: person
  name: Daisy Miclat
  start_date: 2018-04-09
  locality: Reading
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: hmason
  picture: daisymiclat.jpg
  twitter: daisymiclat
  gitlab: dmiclat
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Daisy holds a background in tech sales and journalism. Aside from having a passion in tech, Her other passions include traveling to tropical places, surfing longboards on beautiful swells, and cooking adventurous dishes with unique flavors.

- slug: antony-s
  type: person
  name: Antony Saba
  start_date: 2018-04-09
  locality: Albuquerque, NM
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/#strategic-security">Senior Security Engineer, Strategic Security</a>
  reports_to: paul-harrison
  picture: antony-saba.jpg
  twitter: awsaba
  gitlab: asaba
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Antony has been working on security solutions for over 10 years in
          a variety of environments and is bringing that experience
          to GitLab. He maintains that professional focus by frequently starting
          new hobbies in his spare time.

- slug: samgoldstein
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  name: Sam Goldstein
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management/#director-of-engineering">Director of Engineering, Ops</a>
  reports_to: christopher-l
  picture: samgoldstein.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: sgoldstein
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Ops Section
    - Ops Development Leadership
  story:  |
          Sam is an engineering leader passionate about building great products and high output teams. He played a key role in the development and launch of multiple products at New Relic and Stackery, and has experience scaling and managing in a wide range of production environments, including physical hardware, container orchestration platforms, and serverless managed services.  Sam lives in Portland, Oregon, USA with his wife and two kids.  He loves biking, cooking, coding, camping, and enjoying the Pacific Northwest.

- slug: xiaoheli
  type: person
  name: Xiaohe Li
  start_date: 2020-02-04
  locality: San Jose, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/pricing-manager">Principal Pricing Manager</a>
  reports_to: evp-of-product
  picture: xiaoheli.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: xli1
  pronouns: She/her
  departments:
    - Product Management
  story:  |
          Xiaohe has pricing experience across software, cloud, and hardware from industry leading companies. Xiaohe truly believes that pricing is a combination of science and art, and so is life. In her spare time, Xiaohe enjoys hanging out with her kids and husband, taking a hike as the way of meditation with her friends, and listening to her mother’s daily story.

- slug: michaelkarampalas
  type: person
  name: Michael Karampalas
  start_date: 2019-08-19
  locality: Marshfield, MA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Principal Product Manager</a>, Growth:Retention
  reports_to: hilaqu
  picture: michaelkarampalas.png
  twitter: mkarampalas
  gitlab: mkarampalas
  departments:
    - Product Management
  story:  |
          Michael began his career in a customer support role at Constant Contact, where he developed strong customer empathy skills and a desire to make an impact on the product. He transitioned into product management and has since spent the last 12+ years in various product and product leadership roles at Constant Contact and Buildium. He lives in Marshfield, MA where he enjoys spending time outdoors and at the beach with his beautiful wife and 8-year-old twins.

- slug: ericbrinkman
  type: person
  name: Eric Brinkman
  start_date: 2018-12-17
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/director-of-product/">Director of Product</a>, Dev Products
  reports_to: vp-of-product
  picture: ericbrinkman.jpg
  twitter: ericbrinkman
  gitlab: ebrinkman
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Eric began his career in product by developing AMD microprocessors, getting to work on chips found in the XBox and PlayStation.
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          digital transformation. In his spare time, Eric enjoys hanging out with his three kids, reading, running, building things, and playing video games.

- slug: ddesanto
  type: person
  name: David DeSanto
  start_date: 2019-08-16
  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/director-of-product/">Director of Product, Secure and Defend</a>
  reports_to: vp-of-product
  picture: ddesanto.jpg
  twitter: david_desanto
  gitlab: ddesanto
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Secure Section
    - Defend Section
    - Secure PM Team
    - Defend PM Team
  story:  |
          David is a network security professional with over 15 years of security research and product strategy experience. Prior to GitLab, David worked for Spirent Communications leading the Cybersecurity product strategy and product team as well as leading UX Design and Threat Research for all of Spirent. David’s career has also included roles at the industry’s top security research and testing labs. David holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from NYU School of Engineering and is a frequent speaker at major international security conferences. David and his wife live in the greater Dallas, TX area with their two dogs Lexi and Luthor. David spends his free time hiking with his wife as well as playing with their dogs in the backyard. David also enjoys playing video games and watching movies with his wife.

- slug: kencjohnston
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  name: Kenny Johnston
  start_date: 2018-11-12
  locality: Kansas City, KS
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/director-of-product/">Sr. Director of Product, Ops</a>
  reports_to: vp-of-product
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  twitter: kencjohnston
  gitlab: kencjohnston
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Ops Section
    - Merge Request buddy
    - Ops Product Leadership
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
  story:  |
          Kenny started his career in political campaigns before returning to his educational background in computer engineering. He has experience with large open-source initiatives through his time working in the early days of OpenStack for HPE and Rackspace. Kenny recently managed the product management team for a portfolio of managed open-source technologies including OpenStack, Ceph and Kubernetes. In his spare time, Kenny enjoys building puzzles with his two young children, playing boardgames with his partner, kicking the soccer ball around and learning new cooking techniques. Here's a link to Kenny's <a href="https://gitlab.com/kencjohnston/personal/blob/master/README.md">README</a>.
  remote_story:  |
          In previous remote roles I was always flying back to "home-base." At one point, I was traveling every three weeks. After working at GitLab for five months, I took my FIRST trip. Before departing, my son said to me -"Dad, it's OK that you are leaving for a couple of days, you've been here A LOT." That broke my heart.

- slug: ash-m
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  name: Ash McKenzie
  start_date: 2018-04-10
  locality: Geelong
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Staff Backend Engineer, Ecosystem</a>
  reports_to: leipert
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  twitter: ashmckenzie
  gitlab: ashmckenzie
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Ecosystem BE Team
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    gitlab-development-kit: maintainer
    gitlab: maintainer backend
    gitlab-shell: maintainer
    gitlab-workhorse: trainee_maintainer
  story: |
         Ash loves making peoples lives easier and more fun by writing &
         deploying simple software solutions.  In his spare time he loves
         tinkering with electronics and pouring countless hours (and dollars)
         into the ultimate open source based home automation system.

- slug: jarek
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  name: Jarek Ostrowski
  start_date: 2018-04-23
  locality: Bedford, NH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer</a>, FE/UX Foundations
  reports_to: taurie
  picture: jarekostrowski.jpg
  twitter: jaaaaarek
  gitlab: jareko
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
    - FE/UX Foundations Team
  projects:
    design.gitlab.com: trainee_maintainer UX
  story:  |
          Jarek is a self-taught designer/developer who emphasizes white-space, bold type, and subtle nuances. He's also a passionate entrepreneur whose launched multiple side projects in the design space. When he's not coding, he's golfing. And if he's not golfing, he's thinking about golfing.

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  name: Guenjun Yoo/유근준/兪根濬
  start_date: 2018-04-23
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (APJ)</a>
  reports_to: adriansmolski
  picture: guenjunyoo.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: gyoo
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Guenjun joined GitLab with over 20 years of software development & support experience.
          He is passionate about conflation, especially in software engineering and the humanities.
          He loves to help people by solving complex issues.

- slug: BenjaminMa
  type: person
  name: Benjamin Ma / 馬志光
  start_date: 2019-05-20
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (APJ)</a>
  reports_to: adriansmolski
  picture: BenjaminMa3.jpg
  twitter: gitlabma
  gitlab: bma
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Benjamin has solid and extensive experiences in customer relationship management, technical support, systems / projects implementation and management, and team leadership. He has a thirst for knowledge, growing concern of the society, and ever-lasting love for his family. Last but not least, he is eager to contribute the success of our customers.

- slug: iyoo
  type: person
  name: InchulYoo
  start_date: 2019-10-28
  locality: Seoul/Seongnam
  country: South Korea
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: adriansmolski
  picture: iyoo.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: iyoo
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Inchul, Yoo joined GitLab with Software engineering supporting background.
          He has a good knowledge for Software Development and How to use the Tools to support real development team.
          He also well understanding the competitor features as like Atlassian, GitHub and Perforce.

- slug: daniel-gruesso
  type: person
  name: Daniel Gruesso
  start_date: 2018-04-30
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Product Manager</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: james-r
  picture: danielgruesso.jpg
  twitter: danielgruesso
  gitlab: danielgruesso
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code
  story:  |
          Daniel found his love of technology early, tinkering with any electronic device he could find. He began his career in RF engineering and finally settled in product management, where he's worked in the fintech space and more recently building platforms for software teams. Daniel is passionate about enabling teams with rich and elegant tools. Originally from Bogota, Daniel now lives in Atlanta with his wife and two <del>bots</del> boys. Daniel is an avid soccer fan and enjoys traveling, cooking, languages, film, and craft beer.

- slug: mbeadle
  type: person
  name: Matt Beadle
  start_date: 2018-04-30
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, Acceleration</a>
  reports_to: mmalcolm
  picture: mattbeadle.jpg
  twitter: mbeadle_gitlab
  gitlab: mbeadle
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Matt is an eager Sales Representative ready to sell a technical product like Gitlab. Outside of work he enjoys snowboarding, backing, and kayaking. If he is not out in the woods he enjoys playing golf and spending time with his family and friends!

- slug: brian-w
  type: person
  name: Brian Wald
  start_date: 2018-04-30
  locality: Traverse City, MI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/#manager-solutions-architects">Manager, Solutions Architects - US East</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
  picture: brianwald.jpg
  twitter: brianwald
  gitlab: brianwald
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Static Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Dynamic Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Composition Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Fuzz Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Brian is a Solutions Architect and Digital Strategist with 12+ years experience in web technology and business consulting. He is passionate about open-source technology and strives to enable businesses to make smart technology choices.

- slug: dave-smith
  type: person
  name: Dave Smith
  start_date: 2018-05-01
  locality: Erie, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-infrastructure/">Engineering Manager, Reliability Engineering</a>
  reports_to: brentnewton
  picture: davidsmith.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dawsmith
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Ops Infra Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Dave is a normal Boulder area person. He comes from an Agile background and loves exploring where Agile, DevOps, and SRE meet. His sanity is maintained by skiing, practicing yoga, and playing pickup ultimate frisbee games.

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  type: person
  name: Michael McBride
  start_date: 2018-05-01
  locality: San Mateo, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/chief-revenue-officer/">Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)</a>
  reports_to: sid
  picture: mcbride.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mmcb
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Executive
    - Sales
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          After starting out in mechanical engineering (long before drones and self-driving cars were a thing), Michael has spent his career in software, wireless and mobile.  From startups to public companies, Michael has helped build and scale technology companies for more than 20 years. He has created and led worldwide sales organizations from scratch at companies including Lookout (cybersecurity) and Meraki (cloud managed networking) and led product teams at Good Technology (mobile).  He helped start a social gaming company which was acquired by Japanese gaming giant DeNA where he ran worldwide platform and experienced the highs of serving hundreds of millions of users playing against one another and the lows of refactoring the giant perl monolith behind it all.  If you used BeOS, he thinks you're cool and fondly remembers working with the incredible team at Be, Inc.  Michael loves to be outside, plays soccer, coaches youth lacrosse and skis with his wife and two sons. He is 100% confident that both of his sons will work in a distributed organization as they grow up and that GitLab will be the new example of how highly effective and large scale companies run and grow.

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  type: person
  name: Mark Chao
  start_date: 2018-05-07
  locality: Taipei
  country: Taiwan
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: engineering-manager-create-ds
  picture: markchao.jpg
  twitter: lulalala_it
  gitlab: lulalala
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Editor BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Mark is a happy Rubyist who likes to make gems and contribute to open source projects. He made a 4chan-like imageboard because he likes anime and manga.
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- slug: alex-pooley
  type: person
  name: Alex Pooley
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Perth
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: engineering-manager-create-ds
  picture: alexpooley.jpg
  twitter: brownbeagle
  gitlab: alexpooley
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Editor BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Alex taught himself to code instead of doing homework. Fortunately that "Internet" thing worked out and a couple of decades later he is still able to build innovative web applications for a living.
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- slug: matt-walsh
  type: person
  name: Matt Walsh
  start_date: 2018-08-02
  locality: New York, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: mthennessy
  picture: matthewwalsh.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mjwalsh
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Matt's a former investment analyst turned entrepreneur, with a passion for business development and all things tech. He likes snowboarding in winter, running in summer, and world traveling.

- slug: imre-f
  type: person
  name: Imre Farkas
  start_date: 2018-05-09
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Access</a>
  reports_to: liam-m
  picture: imrefarkas.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ifarkas
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Access BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Imre is an open source enthusiast, an avid learner, loves cloud computing and containers, and frequently tinkers with the latest DevOps tools.

- slug: andrew-winata
  type: person
  name: Andrew Winata
  start_date: 2018-05-14
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: andrewwinata.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: awinata
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Andrew has experience working in a fully managed hosting company that allows him to build his Sysadmin and DevOps prowess.
          He loves anything tech related, naturally curious and enjoys learning new things.
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- slug: wayne-z
  type: person
  name: Wayne Zhao
  start_date: 2018-05-14
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: waynezhao.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: wayne_zhao
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Wayne has been working as a technology sales for 10 years across computer hardware, software and telecommunication prior to joining GitLab.
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- slug: pauloakley
  type: person
  name: Paul Oakley
  start_date: 2019-03-11
  locality: Oregon
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hannah-s
  picture: pauloakley.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: PaulOakley
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joined on March 11

- slug: nmccorrison
  type: person
  name: Neil McCorrison
  start_date: 2020-02-10
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Secure</a>
  reports_to: todd-s
  picture: neilmccorrison.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: nmccorrison
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure FE Team
    - Frontend
  story:  |
          Neil is a Colorado native and is passionate about building web applications.  He, his wife and two sons are huge basketball fans and can be regulary found at Denver Nuggets games.  Neil also tries to hit the slopes as often as possible.

- slug: sam-beckham
  type: person
  name: Sam Beckham
  start_date: 2018-05-21
  locality: Stockton-on-Tees
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Secure
  reports_to: nmccorrison
  picture: sambeckham.jpg
  twitter: samdbeckham
  gitlab: samdbeckham
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Sam is a hairy fella from the north of England.
          He co-organises Frontend NE, a meetup, conference, and Youtube channel for frontend developers.
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- slug: paul-gascou-vaillancourt
  type: person
  name: Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt
  start_date: 2019-04-01
  locality: Montreal, QC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Secure</a>
  reports_to: nmccorrison
  picture: paulgascouvaillancourt.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: pgascouvaillancourt
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
    gitlab-ui: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Paul has been passionate about web development for a while, he likes trying out new languages and libraries whenever he can.
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- slug: andrew-f
  type: person
  name: Andrew Fontaine
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Sault Ste. Marie, ON
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Release:Progressive Delivery</a>
  reports_to: nicole-williams
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  twitter: afontaine_ca
  gitlab: afontaine
  pronouns: he/him
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer frontend
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Release FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  story: |
         Andrew fell into working on websites by joining and running hackathons in his undergrad,
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         (playing) video games.
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                Working from home allows me to use my own space, which means
                using the gear that I've already acquired for my own hobbies,
                such as a giant monitor. It's also allowed me to visit my family
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- slug: mirandafluharty
  type: person
  name: Miranda Fluharty
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Fort Collins, Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Verify:Testing</a>
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  reports_to: frontend-manager-verify
  picture: mirandafluharty.jpg
  gitlab: mfluharty
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Verify:Testing FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Miranda has been tinkering with web-based projects ever since she gained access to the internet.
          She loves finding ways to automate monotonous tasks and optimize user workflows.
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- slug: sarahhennighpalermo
  type: person
  name: Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo
  start_date: 2019-02-25
  locality: Brooklyn, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Release:Progressive Delivery</a>
  role_slug: developer
  reports_to: nicole-williams
  twitter: superSGP
  gitlab: sarahghp
  picture: sarahghp.jpg
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Release FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Sarah learned to code because she thought she couldn't draw.
          She loves everything about the front-end, from SVG to the Javascript spec itself, and has even contributed to TC39's documentation push.
          In her free time, Sarah codes visuals live with her algorithmic band, Codie, makes video art, paints, and swims.

- slug: westley
  type: person
  name: Westley van den Berg
  start_date: 2018-05-21
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Analyst, Anti-Abuse</a>
  reports_to: charl-de-wit
  picture: WestleyvandenBerg.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: wvandenberg
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Joined May 21st

- slug: aoetama
  type: person
  name: Agnes Oetama
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  reports_to: jgragnola
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  twitter: AgnesOetama
  gitlab: aoetama
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing Programs
  story:  |
          Agnes's experience spans over 9 years of B2B marketing in the Technology Space
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- slug: tom-cooney
  type: person
  name: Tom Cooney
  start_date: 2018-05-22
  locality: Martinez, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Director of Support</a>
  reports_to: eric-j
  picture: tomcooney.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tcooney
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Tom has been part of and helped build Software Support teams for over 3 decades enjoying the natural collaboration and comradery of support teams.  Tom and his wife, Deborah, enjoy traveling and trying to stay fit!

- slug: smb-cust-advocate
  type: person
  name: Vilius "Kavas" Kavaliauskas
  start_date: 2018-05-28
  locality: Vilnius
  country: Lithuania
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: hmason
  picture: vilius.jpg
  twitter: vilius
  gitlab: kavas
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, Vil is all about modern sales & SMBs. He’s passionate about processes & data in his work and employs both to give flawless experience to SMBs he’s supporting and advocating. Before joining GitLab, he did sales and business development for internet anonymity and privacy companies. Apart from continuous professional development, Vil is really into photography, crossfit, and exploring new places.

- slug: dir-fld-mktg
  type: person
  name: Leslie Blanchard
  start_date: 2018-05-29
  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/director-field-marketing/">Director of Field Marketing</a>
  reports_to: evanw
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  twitter:
  gitlab: lblanchard
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
          Hailing from North Carolina, Leslie has equal parts zeal for both city-based foodie expeditions as she does for riding horseback in the country. A big believer that travel can be a transformative experience, Leslie has visited 5 of 7 continents, with aspirations of hitting them all. Throughout her career, Leslie has found that she is passionate about partnering with sales to grow and retain their customer base and she takes pride in getting to know as many customers as possible!

- slug: sr-prod-mktg-mgr-sec
  type: person
  name: Cindy Blake
  start_date: 2018-05-29
  locality: Bryan, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Senior Product Marketing Manager, Security Specialist</a>
  reports_to: john-jeremiah
  picture: cindyblake.jpg
  twitter: cblake2000
  gitlab: cblake
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    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, DevSecOps</a></li>
  story:  |
          Cindy loves to garden, kayak, explore the outdoors, and travel. She enjoys architecture, history, and all kinds of crafts. A wannabe teacher, she loves to use relatable, every day experiences to explain complex security topics. Ask her about perimeter security and 'when pigs fly' or smart phones relative to integrated DevSecOps.

- slug: fed-impl-eng
  type: person
  name: Michael Leopard
  start_date: 2018-06-04
  locality: Columbia, MD
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Federal Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: robertclark
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  twitter:
  gitlab: leopardm
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          A lifelong tinkerer, Michael has been writing software since he was a kid when he got his own personal computer loaded with Visual Basic at 11. He has worked the full stack across a myriad of languages and has helped to inspire companies to value DevOps. Outside of work, Michael loves traveling with his girlfriend, playing guitar in the band The Hawkshaws, working on cars, and woodworking.

- slug: edslatt
  type: person
  name: Ed Slatt
  start_date: 2019-05-21
  locality: Hershey, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Federal Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: robertclark
  picture: edslatt.jpg
  twitter: ed_slatt
  gitlab: eslatt
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Ed has been training in software development since graduating with an Engineering Science and Mechanics degree in 2000.  He’s particularly interested in the magic technology enables especially related to real-time control systems and CNC maker capabilities.  Ed enjoys coffee, making tiny contributions to his many pet projects and loves “Survivor-McGuyver” nights with his wife and three kids.

- slug: adrianofonseca
  type: person
  name: Adriano S. Fonseca
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Zandvoort
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
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  twitter: adriano_fonseca
  gitlab: afonseca2
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Adriano has been working in several IT roles since his seventeen's, having passed through support, system administration, software development, technical training and more recently DevOps. Working as a DevOps Engineer, he could to observe how technics like infrastructure and pipeline as code, continuous integration, continuous deployment can increase productivity and helping teams to deliver software in a more agile way. Adriano is someone who believes that human interactions are the key to achieve ambitious goals.

- slug: petarprokic
  type: person
  name: Petar Prokic
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Rotterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
  picture: petarprokic.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: pprokic
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Versatile software engineer and DevOps enthusiast that enjoys exploring new landscapes with his family (by bike, car, ski, etc.), practising Brasilian jiu-jitsu, playing basketball and improving his guitar skills.

- slug: devin-s
  type: person
  name: Devin Sylva
  start_date: 2018-06-04
  locality: Haiku, HI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: dave-smith
  picture: devinsylva.jpg
  twitter: devinsylva
  gitlab: devin
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Devin has been in front of a screen since his first Commodore 64. He has explored most aspects of the industry from the front end to networking, and is currently focusing on making services resistant to the chaos of the internet.  In his time away from a terminal, he plays guitar and dances tango.

- slug: Jay-J
  type: person
  name: Jay Jewell
  start_date: 2018-06-04
  locality: Massachusetts
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/public-sector-inside-account-representative/">Public Sector Inside Sales Representative</a>
  reports_to: brent-c
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: Jewell
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Joined June 4th

- slug: Alexis-S
  type: person
  name: Alexis D Shaw
  start_date: 2018-06-04
  locality: Palm Beach County, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/public-sector-inside-account-representative/">Public Sector Inside Sales Representative</a>
  reports_to: brent-c
  picture: alexisdshaw.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Alexissh
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
            Alexis has over 20yrs of experience in Enterprise Software sales and has worked with Federal Government customers for over a decade. He is a Northern VA transplant living in South Florida who has embraced the South Florida lifestyle and is living the "Salt Life".

- slug: sdr-ms
  type: person
  name: Marcus Stangl
  start_date: 2018-06-04
  locality: Steamboat Springs, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: jordan-bushong
  picture: marcusstangl.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mstangl
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
           Marcus is an adventurous sales professional. In his spare time he enjoys
           exploring the outdoors, trying new recipes, and searching for new ski spots
           in the Colorado mountains.

- slug: sdr-gp
  type: person
  name: Glenn Perez
  start_date: 2018-06-04
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, APAC</a>
  reports_to: jthomasburrows
  picture:  glennperez.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: glennper
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joined June 4th

- slug: emilie
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  name: Emilie Schario
  start_date: 2018-06-05
  locality: Savannah, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/chief-executive-officer/internal-strategy-consultant/">Internal Strategy Consultant, Data</a>
  reports_to: stella-treas
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  gitlab: emilie
  twitter: emilieschario
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Chief of Staff Team
    - Merge Request buddy
  projects:
    gitlab_data: maintainer
    snowflake_spend: maintainer
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://www.getdbt.com/">Data build tool (dbt)</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>

  story:  |
          The only things Emilie loves more than data are her dog, her family, and food. And making lists of three.
  remote_story:  |
          Emilie moved 6 times in her first 4 years after college due to her husband's job requiring frequent moves. Thanks to remote work, a move means 4 days off to pack, move, and get the internet installed instead of 6 months searching for a role.


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  name: Stephanie Garza
  start_date: 2018-06-11
  placeholder:
  locality: Saginaw, MI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Junior Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: liammcnally
  picture: stephaniegarza.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: StephanieGarza
  departments:
    - Recruiting
    - People Team
  expertise:  |
              <li>Diversity <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>LinkedIn Recruiter <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li>PowerToFly <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          My passion, drive and diverse background provides me with the experience necessary to connect and assist people from all walks of life. Diversity and Inclusion are my passion. I believe that every single person is unique, creative and valuable. I enjoy guiding individuals to discover their goals, dreams and passions.

- slug: cynthia-ng
  type: person
  name: Cynthia 'Arty' Ng
  start_date: 2018-06-12
  locality: Duncan, BC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (Americas West)</a>
  reports_to: ronnie-alfaro
  picture: cynthiang.jpg
  twitter: TheRealArty
  gitlab: cynthia
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
    - Merge Request buddy
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html">CI/CD</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/README.html">API</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/">Web Accessibility</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Cynthia has experience in support, education, and technology with roles primarily focused on implementing technology for better user experience and services that aids people in using technology. She likes to solve problems and help people solve their problems. She is passionate various aspects of technology support, but especially about documentation, workflows, and accessibility. She also contributes to community technology events and initiatives including being a mentor at Canada Learning Code workshops.
  remote_story: |
          GitLab has changed the way I think about remote work. While I have worked remote before, a lot of work was still done synchronously and in an office part time. At GitLab, work is much more flexible because so much is done asynchronously. Being a global company also means that I can also work in other locations, allowing me to visit friends and family in other locations. At the same time, it has allowed me to live outside a big city, and spend more time with local family and friends when not travelling.

- slug: shane-rice
  type: person
  name: Shane Rice
  start_date: 2018-06-12
  locality: Pensacola, FL
  country: USA
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
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  country: Canada
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
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  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:CI BE Team
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
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          Cheryl is interested in all things distributed systems, DevOps and agile development.
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  country: USA
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    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
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          Crystal is an Engineering Manager on the Ops team.  When not working she enjoys running, cooking, dog walks, local music and spending time with her family and friends.

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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Release BE Team
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          John has a passion for engineering with a focus on JavaScript, Python, and Go. He has a keen interest in distributed fullstack architecture, and
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  name: Krasimir Angelov
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          Kras is a software developer interested in all things backend, ops and automation. He loves fishing and spending time outdoors with his family.

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  name: Jason Goodman
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  locality: New York, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Release:Progressive Delivery</a>
  reports_to: chasesouthard
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    - Development Department
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    - Release BE Team
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  country: USA
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    - Technical Account Managers
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    - Compliance Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Import Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Analytics Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Spaces Group CS Stable Counterpart
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          Yolanda has worked in Cloud technology for over a decade and has a passion for customer success! Yolanda loves to learn new things, whether in tech or for fun! Outside of work Yolanda likes to spend time with her family, especially her new baby boy. Yolanda is captain of a softball beer league team, practices Yoga and hopes to continue earning some stripes on belt in Jiu-jitsu! Just a white belt at the moment, no need to fear!

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  type: person
  name: David Sakamoto
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  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
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  departments:
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    - Professional Services
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           After graduating with an Industrial Engineering degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, David started his professional career at Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) where he was a Process Engineer and eventually a Program Manager, leading the release for high-end servers, supercomputers and MIPs processors. From there, he served in an diverse collection of roles and companies, including Software Program Manager (Genentech/biotech), Professional Services (XUMA / startup), Sales Engineering / Professional Services / Support / SW QA / Maintenance (CITTIO / startup), Success Operations / Software Development / Customer Success (Cisco), Customer Success / Services / Cloud Operations (EVault) and ultimately Customer Success at Gitlab. With this eclectic background, he brings deep passion and experience in leading customer experiences, developing teams, scaling businesses, and optimizing delivery of products and services to maximize customer success and propel revenue growth. He is thankful to live in beautiful San Francisco a couple blocks from Ocean Beach where he occasionally surfs. He's blessed to have a wonderful wife, two delightfully exuberant twin boys and a rambuncious shephard mix (Mister Syd). He also really loves tacos.

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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Release BE Team
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    gitlab:
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      - trainee_maintainer backend
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          Etienne is a passionate software developer and open-source enthusiast. When he is not coding, Etienne hangs out with his wife and his two twin daughters, goes for runs and plays the piano.

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  name: Sean Carroll
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  country: Switzerland
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Release BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab:
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      - trainee_maintainer backend
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          Sean loves helping people reach their goals with open source solutions, and has worked on numerous tech stacks and in many vertical industries over the years. When not hammering away on his keyboard, he hosts dinners, runs bookclubs and hikes up or skis down mountains.

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  name: Thomas Woodham
  start_date: 2019-03-11
  locality: Greer, SC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager, Secure:Static Analysis</a>
  reports_to: todd-s
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Static Analysis
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    Before joining GitLab, Thomas was an engineering manager at Sophos, a cybersecurity product development company. When he isn't working, you can find him spending time with his family, at the gym, and flailing about in video games.

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  name: Lucas Charles
  start_date: 2019-01-02
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Senior Backend Engineer, Secure:Static Analysis</a>
  reports_to: thomaswoodham
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    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Static Analysis
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    gitlab: reviewer backend
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          Lucas likes building tools to build more tools. He joined GitLab in 2019 after passionately
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          When not coding, Lucas is living in the Pacific Northwest, brewing his own beer, camping,
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  name: Ross Fuhrman
  start_date: 2019-02-25
  locality: Kansas City, KS
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  reports_to: thomaswoodham
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
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          Ross loves ruby. He is the organizer of the Kansas City Ruby User Group and also helps run Rails Girls Kansas City.

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  name: Daniel Searles
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  locality: Edmonds, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Senior Backend Engineer, Secure:Static Analysis</a>
  reports_to: thomaswoodham
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Static Analysis
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         Daniel enjoys functional programming, data science, and thinking about unsolved math problems. He loves to garden with his family, play and listen to music, surf the frigid WA coast, and brew coffee using many different methods.
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  name: Zach Rice
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  locality: Lansing, MI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Backend Engineer, Secure:Static Analysis</a>
  reports_to: thomaswoodham
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Static Analysis
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          Zach is a programmer who joined Gitlab to help make it more <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/direction/secure/">Secure</a>.
          He contributes to open source projects and actively maintains <a href="https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks">Gitleaks</a>.
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  locality: Calgary, AB
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    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Static Analysis
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  story:  |
          Saikat is a passionate programmer who loves to know about current and emerging technologies around the world. He is an avid reader of modern science and technologies. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and has gained experience in software development for 10 years. Besides programming and reading, he enjoys watching movies and playing soccer.

- slug: sethberger
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  name: Seth Berger
  start_date: 2019-07-16
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager, Secure:Dynamic Analysis</a>
  reports_to: todd-s
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  departments:
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    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Dynamic Analysis
  story:  |
          Seth has spent his entire career in software. He taught himself to code at an early age when CGI-BIN and the blink tag were popular.  If he is not in front of his computer, he is usually spending time with his family, sailing Lake Michigan or catching up on his non-fiction reading.

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  departments:
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    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Dynamic Analysis
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  story:  |
          Avielle is a backend engineer who loves clean, well tested code. She also loves video games, lying in the sun, and her two little house panthers.

- slug: cswords
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  name: Cam Swords
  start_date: 2019-07-17
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Senior Backend Engineer, Secure:Dynamic Analysis</a>
  reports_to: sethberger
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Dynamic Analysis
  story: |
         Cam is a curious software engineer who enjoys writing software that people love to use.
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- slug: philipc
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  name: Philip C.
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  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Senior Backend Engineer, Secure:Dynamic Analysis</a>
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    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
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  name: Craig Smith
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  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#secure">Backend Engineer, Secure:Dynamic Analysis</a>
  reports_to: sethberger
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure BE Team
    - Secure BE Team:Dynamic Analysis
  story: |
          Craig is a lifelong software engineer who loves to work in an Agile manner to deliver useful, working software in the fastest and most flexible way possible. When he's not coding you'll find Craig in the ocean, surfing, swimming or snorkeling.

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  name: Thiago Figueiró
  start_date: 2020-04-06
  locality: Sydney, NSW
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Backend Engineering Manager, Defend</a>
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend BE Team
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         Thiago was born in Brazil and graduated as a Computer Engineer in Rio de Janeiro, then
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  locality: Fort Collins, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/reference-program-manager/">Reference Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: colinfletcher
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    - Strategic Marketing
    - Market Research and Customer Insights
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  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/reference-program-manager/">Reference Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: colinfletcher
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  twitter:
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    - Strategic Marketing
    - Market Research and Customer Insights
  story:  Fiona loves creating and sharing customer success stories and helping her colleagues succeed. She likes running, yoga and travel.

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  name: Kaleb Hill
  start_date: 2018-06-18
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hannah-s
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  twitter: _Kaleb_Hill
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  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
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  story:  |
          Sales professional & former competition DJ who loves technology and has a history of working with disruptive technologies.
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- slug: daniel-davison
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  name: Dan Davison
  start_date: 2018-06-18
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
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    - Quality Department
    - Ops & CI/CD QE Team
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
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          Passionate software architect.  With his roots in software development, Daniel found a calling in DevOps and
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          out with his wife and kitty.
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  name: Joyce Tompsett
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  locality: Tracy, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/analysts-relations-manager/">Analyst Relations Manager</a>
  reports_to: colinfletcher
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  departments:
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    - Strategic Marketing
    - Market Research and Customer Insights
    - Ops Section AR Stable Counterpart
    - Secure & Defend Section AR Stable Counterpart
    - Growth Section AR Stable Counterpart
    - Enablement Section AR Stable Counterpart
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">Co-Chair GitLab Women+ ERG</a> member</li>
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          After working in infrastructure and datacenter worlds for a long time, Joyce has made the move to software. She was an industry analyst for 15 years, in the US, Germany, and Italy, before she came back to the US and worked as an evangelist and product marketer for EMC. She is a yogini and world traveler, passionate reader, and loves her garden and cooking. She lives with her husband and son and four opinionated felines. Joyce and her husband Bill spend their spare time in wineries, breweries, or exploring new foods and places.

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  name: Ryan Ragozzine
  start_date: 2019-10-23
  locality: San Diego, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/analysts-relations-manager/">Analyst Relations Manager</a>
  reports_to: colinfletcher
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  twitter: ryan_ar
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  departments:
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    - Strategic Marketing
    - Market Research and Customer Insights
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    - Ops Section AR Stable Counterpart
    - Growth Section AR Stable Counterpart
    - Enablement Section AR Stable Counterpart
  story:  Joins in October, 2019

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  name: Tina Sturgis
  start_date: 2018-06-25
  locality: Detroit Metro Area, MI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Manager, Partner and Channel Marketing</a>
  reports_to: ashish-k
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  twitter: t_sturgis
  gitlab: TinaS
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Partner and Channel Marketing
  remote_story:  |
          I have been fortunate enough to work remotely for 20+ years in enterprise software. So zero commute time is not a 'nice to have' for me it is absolutely mandatory in my career. The big question is how GitLab's #remotework is different? My top three are: (1) ALL remote helps me to always feel included. There are no workstreams that happen at a watercooler at HQ, (2) we all work asynchronously with the help of GitLab.com and Google Suite - everyone can truly contribute anytime/anywhere across across the company, and (3) GitLab's culture is both frightening and exciting all at the same time...the level of transparency and collaboration we have here sometimes makes you uncomfortable because that is not how you have worked in the past. This uncomfortable position is how we at GitLab achieve greatness..it is how we can iterate as fast as we do and keeps us open to new thoughts and ideas always!
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          Tina joins Gitlab with over 20+ years experience in sales, marketing and consulting across the entire DevOps lifecycle. She lives with her husband, 2 daughters and 200lbs English Mastiff in South Lyon, MI (just outside of Ann Arbor). She is a HUGE University of Michigan football fan -- GO BLUE!!! Outside of that you can see her master chauffeuring skills in action while she takes her kids to volleyball and swim.  In her spare time she loves riding indoors on her Peloton.

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  name: Alisha Rashidi
  start_date: 2019-10-09
  locality: New York, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Partner and Channel Marketing</a>
  reports_to: pmm-ts
  picture: alisharashidi.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Arashidi
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Partner and Channel Marketing
  story:  |
          Alisha has been working in the DevOps space for 4+ years, and loves creating and building partnerships. Outside of work, she likes pilates, yoga, geeking out over vintage jewelry, and traveling.
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  name: Jenny Nguyen
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/payroll-and-payments-lead/">Sr. Manager, Global Payroll and Payments</a>
  reports_to: shoneycutt
  picture: jennynguyen.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jnguyen28
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Jenny joins GitLab with more than 14 years of payroll and system conversion experience. She lives in Dallas with her husband and two kids. In her spare time, she loves playing sports with her family. Her motto is: "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama

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  type: person
  name: Steve Grossman
  start_date: 2018-07-09
  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: shannonmason
  picture: stevegrossman.jpg
  twitter: ALMWiz
  gitlab: Steevo
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
        Experienced software sales engineer, servant-leader of pre-sales engineering teams and software engineer with focus on value stream management, agile development, software configuration management, and software delivery process improvement. I like helping clients understand their own software delivery value streams and apply tools to facilitating and automating those processes while making sure that organizational compliance initiatives are being followed.  In my free time I enjoy technology, the outdoors and cars.

- slug: sdr-jd
  type: person
  name: Joseph Davidson
  start_date: 2018-06-25
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/financial-analyst/">Financial Analyst</a>
  reports_to: chase-w
  picture: JoeDavidson.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jdavidson124
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Outside of work, Joseph enjoys collecting American Civil War memorabilia, cheering on the 49ers to win a 6th Super Bowl, and exploring the beautiful state of Oregon.

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  type: person
  name: Ray Paik
  start_date: 2018-06-25
  locality: Sunnyvale, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/code-contributor-program-manager/">Code Contributor Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
  picture: raypaik.png
  twitter: rspaik
  gitlab: rpaik
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Community Relations
  story:  |
          Love working with open source communities.  Prior to GitLab, Ray was a community manager for OPNFV and he was involved in the project since its formation in 2014.  Outside of work, you will likley find him with his wife/daughter cheering on the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team.

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  type: person
  name: Jason Yavorska
  start_date: 2018-07-16
  locality: Utrecht
  country: The Netherlands
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  reports_to: kencjohnston
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  twitter: j4yav
  gitlab: jyavorska
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Merge Request buddy
    - CICD Section
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
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          Jason is an American citizen who has lived in the Netherlands since 2016, and is passionate about software delivery. Personal interests include MST3K, coding, travel, and chess.
  remote_story: |
          I have family all over the world, and GitLab gives me the opportunity to travel far and wide to spend time with everyone. Also, with kids, I'm so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be home and support my wife and children in balance with my ambitious work goals. It's a dream come true.

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  type: person
  name: Priyanka Sharma
  start_date: 2018-06-28
  locality: San Francisco
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/director-technical-evangelism/">Director of Technical Evangelism</a>
  reports_to: melissasmolensky
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  twitter: pritianka
  gitlab: pritianka
  departments:
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  story:  |
          In addition to my work at GitLab and I serve on the board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the home for the Kubernetes and Prometheus projects, among others. As a former entrepreneur I have a passion for growing developer products through open source communities. So I advise startups at HeavyBit industries, an accelerator for developer products. I went to school at Stanford University for *believe it or not* political science and love reading and playing with my dog, Ollie, in my spare time. You can follow me on <a href=”twitter.com/pritianka”>Twitter</a>.


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  type: person
  name: Marc Kriz
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  locality: Alexandria, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: jim-riley
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  twitter: marckriz59
  gitlab: MarcKriz
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Creative, passionate, business management strategist with a 20+ year record of achievement solving our customers most challenging issues with the industry's leading software.

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  type: person
  name: Joel Beck
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  locality: Alexandria, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: JKS
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  gitlab: joelbeck
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
            A Strategic Account Leader focused on helping customers speed up their software lifecycle.

- slug: tristan-w
  type: person
  name: Tristan Williams
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  locality: Los Angeles, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (Americas West)</a>
  reports_to: ronnie-alfaro
  picture: tristanwilliams.jpg
  twitter: mrtristanw
  gitlab: tristan
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          A Los Angeles native, Tristan has experience in the hosting industry and is passionate about getting customers the solutions they need and creating documentation along the way. Outside of GitLab, you'll most likely find him out photographing on film or working on his classic muscle car project.

- slug: fed-sa-pr
  type: person
  name: Pete Raumann
  start_date: 2018-07-16
  locality: Frederick, MD
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: kristen-l
  picture: peteraumann.jpg
  twitter: gitlabpete
  gitlab: praumann
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
        Born and raised in the Washington D.C. area, Pete has had a focus on helping Federal customers achieve the goals and requirements set by the U.S. Government. Pete has a strong background in data and identity management, virtualization, mobility and collaboration. If he's ever missing in action and no where to be found, he's probably somewhere on the beaches of Maryland or Delaware with his family.

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  type: person
  name: Jerome Uy
  start_date: 2018-07-16
  locality: Manila
  country: Philippines
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: jeromeuy.jpg
  twitter: jeromeuy-oyaye
  gitlab: jerome
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Jerome started early with computers and has a passion in building sites and managing servers. Prior to GitLab, Jerome spent the last few years working as a technical support in the Web Hosting industry. Jerome also loves building web projects that impacts the community as a whole so he spends his free time working on websites. When he is not on his computer, he loves being with his wife and children, reading, exploring new foods and watching movies.

- slug: mark-lapierre
  type: person
  name: Mark Lapierre
  start_date: 2018-07-23
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
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  reports_to: ramya-authappan
  picture: marklapierre.jpg
  twitter: mdlap
  gitlab: mlapierre
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Dev QE Team
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/engineering/quality/#self-managed-usecase">GitLab self-managed usecase</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer qa
    gitlab-qa: maintainer
  story:  |
          Mark uses his knowledge of cognitive psychology and passion for continuous improvement to enhance quality and productivity. Through automation he aims to remove the monotony and drudgery of testing so that everyone can enjoy their work more, as well as being more efficient and effective. When not working he enjoys studying natural language processing and the science of well-being, and practicing meditation and yoga.

- slug: peter-kunkli
  type: person
  name: Peter Kunkli
  start_date: 2018-08-01
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
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  reports_to: hailey-p
  picture: peterkunkli.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: pkunkli
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Peter is passionate about sales development, coming form an company in the Big Data space. He supports the German speaking regions in EMEA. In his spare time he loves to read on the topic of self development, catch up on new tech and go for a bike ride or a hike in nature.

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  type: person
  name: Brandon Jung
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  locality: Golden, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/alliances/vp-of-alliances/">VP of Alliances</a>
  reports_to: mike-mcbride
  picture: brandonjung.jpg
  twitter: brandoncjung
  gitlab: bjung
  departments:
    - Alliances
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab Brandon founded and built the Google Cloud ecosystem that includes technology companies as diverse as Red Hat, Docker, Cloudera, Pivotal and Tableau as well as companies with deep cloud expertise like Cloud Technology Partners, Agosto, CI&T, Accenture and McKinsey.  He originally hails from Denver but has since lived in Oklahoma (for undergrad in computer science and finance), Houston, New York, Dallas, Chicago where he received his MBA from Kellogg and is now back in Denver with his wife and three children.

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  name: Mayank Tahilramani
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/alliances/alliances-manager/">Alliance Manager</a>
  reports_to: vp-alliances
  picture: mayanktahil.png
  gitlab: mayanktahil
  departments:
    - Alliances
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Mayank has led several roles spanning from managing alliances/partnerships at Google Cloud, software pre-sales and technical SME for networking solutions at Citrix, as well as functioned as a developer at a smaller software consulting company in Biotech. Mayank originally was born in New Delhi, India, but raised in Atlanta Georgia where he graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology. In his free time you'll eiher find him exploring the outdoors in the PNW or tinckering away with some shiny new open source technology at home.

- slug: cody-west
  type: person
  name: Cody West
  start_date: 2018-08-07
  locality: Tulsa, OK
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas West)</a>
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  reports_to: lyle-k
  picture: codywest.jpg
  twitter: codyww
  gitlab: cody
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:     |
        Cody is passionate about technology, helping people, and solving interesting problems. Before GitLab, he worked in a variety of technical support roles. He enjoys exploring new cities, spending time with family, eating great food, and watching TV and movies.

- slug: jason-colyer
  type: person
  name: Jason Colyer
  start_date: 2018-08-13
  locality: Friendswood, Texas
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Support Engineering Manager (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: lyle-k
  picture: jasoncolyer.jpg
  twitter: jcolyer2007
  gitlab: jcolyer
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/project_services/kubernetes.html">Kubernetes</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/saml.html">SAML</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/high_availability/">High Availability</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auth/ldap.html">LDAP</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:   |
        Jason is a dedicated Linux user with a passion for helping and teaching others. Prior to GitLab, he worked in several roles ranging from front-line support to DevOps engineering. In his free time, he likes to make chain mail, code/develop (primarily in ruby), do woodworking, and play video games.

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  name: Evan Read
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  locality: Brisbane
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Senior Technical Writer</a>, Configure
  reports_to: susan-tacker
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
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    gitlab: maintainer docs
    gitlab-docs: maintainer
    gitlab-development-kit: maintainer docs
    omnibus-gitlab: maintainer docs
    gitlab-runner: maintainer docs
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         Evan is passionate about language and knowledge sharing. His interests include politics,
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- slug: rupertdouglas
  type: person
  name: Rupert Douglas
  start_date: 2019-02-25
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Senior Technical Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: cyndi-walsh
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  pronouns: he/him
  twitter: rupertcdouglas
  gitlab: rdouglas-gitlab
  departments:
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Rupert is a Design, UX & Quality Recruiter who's spent his career helping start-ups, scale ups, global brands and design agencies build out their product, design, UX and creative teams. When he's not working, you'll find him trying to run marathons, attempting to snowboard or cooking up a storm in the kitchen.

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  type: person
  name: Blair Lunceford
  start_date: 2018-08-13
  locality: Steamboat Springs, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: jason-colyer
  picture: blairlunceford.jpg
  twitter: blairlunce
  gitlab: blunceford
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/auth/ldap.html">LDAP</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Blair is passionate about delivering great support engineering to GitLab clients. In her spare time, she likes to explore the mountains of Colorado, rafting and cycling in the summer and skiing in the winter. She also loves to coach and play volleyball.

- slug: robert-marshall
  type: person
  name: Robert Marshall
  start_date: 2018-08-14
  locality: Tampa, Florida
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distribution">Distribution Engineer</a>
  reports_to: eng-manager-distribution
  picture: robertmarshall.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  story:  |
          Robert is passionate about technology and has a keen interest in Linux, automation, orchestration,
          and data warehousing. He loves teaching others and regularly speaks at open source conferences and
          gatherings on a wide range of topics. Robert splits his free-time between contributing to the
          Fedora community, tabletop gaming, writing, music orchestration, and crafting.

- slug: fernando-arias
  type: person
  name: Fernando Arias
  start_date: 2018-12-10
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Secure</a>
  reports_to: nmccorrison
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  gitlab: farias-gl
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Fernando is a web developer who loves contributing to open source projects. Having entered web development in 2011, he has worked building
          UI/UX for IT Management/InfoSec products like Spiceworks and Metasploit Pro. On his free time he enjoys competitive paintball, photography,
          and drone flying.

- slug: mark-florian
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  name: Mark Florian
  start_date: 2019-02-04
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Secure, Defend</a>
  reports_to: nmccorrison
  picture: markrian.jpg
  twitter: mdflorian
  gitlab: markrian
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend FE Team
    - Secure Section
    - Secure FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer
    status-page: maintainer frontend
  story:  |
    Though an astrophysicist by training, Mark decided to pursue a career where
    he had a bit more agency, and which measured timescales in days rather than
    billions of years. Frontend development seemed a perfect fit, where Mark
    enjoys writing correct, pragmatic and simple user interfaces. He loves to
    ski, travel, eat good food, and generally contemplate just how good dogs
    are.

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  name: Amarbayar Amarsanaa
  start_date: 2018-08-20
  locality: Ulaanbaatar
  country: Mongolia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: asandoval
  picture: amarbayaramarsanaa.png
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  story:  |

- slug: david-somers
  type: person
  name: David Somers
  start_date: 2019-05-01
  location_factor: 1
  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/director-of-field-enablement/">Director, Field Enablement</a>
  reports_to: dhong
  picture: Headshot_dcs.jpg
  twitter: dcsomers
  gitlab: dcsomers
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          David is a sales enablement and marketing professional with a passion for aligning customer, sales, and marketing. Before joining GitLab, David worked in a variety of roles for almost 11 years at Red Hat including Field Marketing, Global Marketing Strategy, and Sales Enablement. During the last 4 years prior to joining GitLab, David helped to develop and execute Red Hat's sales enablement strategy as Director of Sales Enablement + Development Portfolio (global leadership role reporting to the VP of Sales Enablement + Development). David enjoys spending time with his family, college basketball, traveling, and savoring hoppy, hazy IPAs.

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  type: person
  name: John Blevins
  start_date: 2019-08-29
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-training-facilitator-field-enablement/">Sales Training Facilitator, Field Enablement</a>
  reports_to: david-somers
  picture: johnblevins.jpeg
  pronouns: he/him
  gitlab: jblevins608
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          John is an experienced sales enablement professional that is passionate about empowering salespeople with the right information, tools, processes, and methodology to close deals and advance their career. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoys spending time at Lake Lanier riding his SeaDoo and traveling all over the world. John studied Sociology and International Business at Georgia State University and has visited over 20 countries.

- slug: monica-jacob
  type: person
  name: Monica Jacob
  start_date: 2020-01-29
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-communications-manager/">Sales Communications Manager</a>
  reports_to: david-somers
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  twitter: MonicaTJacob
  gitlab: monicaj
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Monica is passionate about all things communications and has led cross-functional comms programs in diverse technology environments ranging from  enterprise cloud companies to rapidly-growing SaaS businesses. Outside of work, you can find her expanding her horizons more in the more literal sense. She has an intense love for traveling the world and experiencing different cultures and takes every possible opportunity to embark on a new adventure.

- slug: shelley-bates
  type: person
  name: Shelley Bates
  start_date: 2020-02-24
  locality: Colorado Springs, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/program-manager-field-enablement/">Senior Program Manager, Partner Enablement</a>
  reports_to: david-somers
  picture: ShelleyBates.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: Shell
  pronouns: she, her, hers
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Shelley is an Air Force Veteran with 18 yrs of L&D experience and 23 yrs of IT experience. She has been working specifically in Sales Enablement over the past 6 yrs. On a personal note, she loves hiking and cycling. Currently residing in Colorado, which is a hiking mecca with surreal landscapes consisting of mountains and canyons and some of the most awe-inspiring sunsets ever imaginable! Other hobbies include making friends smile by sharing results of her culinary skills and reading multiple genres of books at any given time.

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  type: person
  name: Emily Luehrs
  start_date: 2018-08-21
  locality: Campbell, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/account-based-marketing-manager/">Account Based Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: evanw
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  twitter:
  gitlab: emilyluehrs
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
    Emily runs account based marketing efforts here at GitLab. Outside of work Emily is a lover of all things food and outdoors, and lives to compete in anything that includes swim biking and running although if you leave out the running she likes it even better. She is the mother of the Coopinator and Charlie, who frequent GitLab company calls on occasion.

- slug: rachel-nienaber
  type: person
  name: Rachel Nienaber
  start_date: 2018-09-03
  locality: Surrey
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-infrastructure/#engineering-manager-scalability">Engineering Manager, Scalability</a>
  reports_to: marin
  picture: rachelnienaber.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rnienaber
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Scalability Team
  story:  |
          Rachel is an Engineering Manager with recent focus in the domain of finance and accounting. She enjoys helping teams to get things done.
          Before working with Scalability, she was part of the Geo Team. Prior to GitLab she has worked for Amazon Video and CurrencyCloud.
          She owns a whippet who joins team calls from time to time.

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  name: Trust Ogor
  start_date: 2018-09-03
  locality: Lagos
  country: Nigeria
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Technical Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: liammcnally
  picture: trustogor.jpg
  twitter: mynameistrust
  gitlab: togor
  departments:
  - People Team
  - Recruiting
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
         I do it!

- slug: alin-c
  type: person
  name: Alin Ciciu
  start_date: 2018-05-29
  locality: Canterbury, Kent
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
  picture: alin.jpg
  gitlab: aciciu
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
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  story:  |
          Alin is a support engineer with previous experience in the advertising tech space.
          Prior to GitLab, Alin spent the last few years developing an advertising fraud detection platform.
          Passionate about computer security and games, he usually spends his free time in front of his PC, hacking together some PoCs for new vulnerabilities or playing online games.

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  type: person
  name: Steve Azzopardi
  start_date: 2018-07-09
  locality: Gozo
  country: Malta
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Verify:Runner</a>
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  reports_to: elliot-rushton
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  gitlab: steveazz
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Runner BE Team
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    gitlab-runner: maintainer
    gitlab-workhorse: trainee_maintainer
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          For Steve building software is more than just a job; it’s his
          passion. Being a big advocate for Open Source Software, GitLab is
          the perfect place for him to help grow a community around Open
          Source Software.

          Tea and cat lover.

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  type: person
  name: Georgi Georgiev
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Sofia
  country: Bulgaria
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Verify:Runner</a>
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  reports_to: elliot-rushton
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Runner BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab-runner: maintainer
    autoscaler: reviewer
  story:  |
          A firm believer in the saying "Do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life". While not hacking away on the laptop you can find him in the climbing, crossfit or regular gym.

          Pro dog petter.

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  type: person
  name: Pedro Pombeiro
  start_date: 2020-01-27
  locality: Bulle
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Verify:Runner</a>
  reports_to: elliot-rushton
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Runner BE Team
  projects:
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          Pedro has always enjoyed making fellow developers' lives easier and more productive,
          so GitLab is a perfect fit for him. He's worked remotely for the last 2 decades,
          initially in the industrial sector, and more recently on consumer apps such as Plex
          as part of fully distributed teams. You can find his professional background on
          <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedropombeiro/">LinkedIn</a>.
          When not spending time with his family, you can find him playing music (guitar and piano),
          hiking or skiing in the Swiss mountains.
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          Initially at an offshore office and more recently with 100% distributed teams.
          Working on an offshore office gave me some flexibility, but I still felt as the odd one compared to the main team.
          I'd miss out on learning and development opportunities that were tailored to the main team, along with many other opportunities.
          When I moved to Switzerland in 2012 I chose a quiet countryside city where there was basically a single big employer.
          After a while I started realizing that this choice was limiting my growth, as well as the kind of coworkers that I got to work with.
          Fortunately, in 2014, shortly after buying a lifetime subscription for a personal media streaming service called Plex,
          I received a newsletter in which Plex asked for software developers, without any restriction on location,
          and 2 weeks later I was moonlighting with them.
          The fact that my previous employer could no longer use the lack of other opportunities in the region as leverage to
          underpay and to not recognize its workers was a breath of fresh air for me, and it was clear I would likely never work
          co-located again. There are just so many advantages to remote work for me that the alternative is not even something I want to consider.
  expertise:

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  type: person
  name: Lyubomir Raykov
  start_date: 2020-03-02
  locality: Sofia
  country: Bulgaria
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Verify:Runner</a>
  reports_to: elliot-rushton
  picture: lyubomirraykov.jpg
  twitter: lyuboraykov
  gitlab: lraykov
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Runner BE Team
  story:  |
          Lyubo loves building reliable and dependable software. Other than that he enjoys all sports in the mountains, fantasy books and keeping close to friends and family.

- slug: scott-hampton
  type: person
  name: Scott Hampton
  start_date: 2018-10-29
  locality: Mesa, Arizona
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Verify:Testing</a>
  role_slug: developer
  reports_to: frontend-manager-verify
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  twitter: _Scott_Hampton_
  gitlab: shampton
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Verify:Testing FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Scott loves problem-solving and being creative. He enjoys his job at GitLab, because
          it allows him to do both. Outside of work, he enjoys writing and recording music.

- slug: nathan-friend
  type: person
  name: Nathan Friend
  start_date: 2018-12-10
  locality: Woodstock, ON
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Release:Release Management</a>
  role_slug: developer
  reports_to: nicole-williams
  picture: nathanfriend.jpg
  twitter: NathanAFriend
  gitlab: nfriend
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Release FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Nathan is fascinated with usability and aesthetics and loves building software
          that is delightful to use. When he's not coding, Nathan enjoys spending time
          with his wife and son, playing the cello, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and
          visiting friends and family in Prince Edward Island and Iowa.

- slug: dennis-a
  type: person
  name: Dennis Appelt
  start_date: 2018-09-03
  locality: Luxembourg
  country: Luxembourg
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Staff Security Engineer, Security Research</a>
  reports_to: ethan-strike
  picture: dennisappelt.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dappelt
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Dennis specializes in application security and security testing. Before joining GitLab, he obtained a PhD
          at the University of Luxembourg on the topic of automated security testing and worked at Ripple securing blockchain applications.
          In his spare time, Dennis loves rock climbing and playing boardgames with friends.

- slug: peter-leitzen
  type: person
  name: Peter Leitzen
  start_date: 2018-09-03
  locality: Bochum
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
  role_slug: developer
  reports_to: crystalpoole
  picture: peterleitzen.jpg
  twitter: splattael
  gitlab: splattael
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health BE Team
    - Monitor:Health
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Passionate coder and open-source enthusiast specialised in backend development using Ruby, Crystal, and Docker.
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- slug: shawn-s
  type: person
  name: Shawn Sichak
  start_date: 2018-10-01
  locality: Johnstown, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Security Engineer, Security Operations</a>
  reports_to: kylesmith
  picture: shawnsichak.jpg
  twitter: shawnsichak
  gitlab: ssichak
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Shawn is passionate about making awesome products and services while helping to make security and compliance as frictionless as possible.
          When not at work, he enjoys all things outdoors, Pittsburgh sports teams, and spending time with his family.

- slug: kellymurdock
  type: person
  name: Kelly Murdock
  start_date: 2018-10-08
  locality: Suffield, CT
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Recruiting Manager, Sales, Marketing, & G&A</a>
  reports_to: dave-g
  picture: kellymurdock.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Kellymurdock
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Kelly enjoys connecting with people and finding top talent to make teams great!

- slug: eva-p
  type: person
  name: Eva Petreska
  start_date: 2018-10-15
  locality: Toronto
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Technical Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: liammcnally
  picture: evapetreska.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: epetreska
  departments:
  - People Team
  - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Joined in October,2018

- slug: cheri-holmes
  type: person
  name: Cheri Holmes
  start_date: 2018-10-15
  locality: Dublin,CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/executive-business-administrator/">Manager, Executive Business Administrator</a>
  reports_to: mike-mcbride
  picture: cheriholmes.jpg
  gitlab: cheriholmes
  departments:
    - CEO
  story:  |
          Cheri is an Executive Admin who believes in going beyond the call of duty. She's always looking for opportunities to collaborate, finding ways to streamline a process, and enjoys new challenges. She is passionate about providing seamless support to the team here at GitLab and brings 10+ years of experience to the role. She prides herself in being a scheduling wizard, event guru and MacGyver of all things Admin!

          Based in the East Bay, CA. In her spare time she enjoys spontaneous trips to Disneyland with her family, baking, reading, and unlimited amounts of coffee.

- slug: jaclyn-grant
  type: person
  name: Jaclyn Grant
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/executive-business-administrator/">Sr. Executive Business Administrator</a>
  reports_to: paul-m
  picture: jaclyn.jpg
  gitlab: jngrant
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Jaclyn loves traveling (near or far), ancient history, fantasy/sci-fi books and movies, she loves her 13 y/o cat named Darius and finding balance in life.

- slug: tony-carella
  type: person
  name: Tony Carella
  start_date: 2018-10-15
  locality: Cincinnati, OH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Security Engineer, Security Operations</a>
  reports_to: kylesmith
  picture: tonycarella.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: acarella
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Tony has been merging the world of security and data science for the past several years. In his roles as a security engineer he has leveraged data to maximize efficiency, make informed decisions, and set obtainable goals. Originally from Toronto, Tony currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his girlfriend and their miniature poodle.

- slug: henri-philipps
  type: person
  name: Henri Philipps
  start_date: 2018-11-01
  locality: Potsdam
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  expertise: |
                <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
  reports_to: asandoval
  picture: hphilipps.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: hphilipps
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  projects:
    labkit: maintainer
  story:  |
          Having worked for several startups as System Engineer and Software Engineer, Henri has witnessed the challenges and opportunities of fast-growing companies and loves to work on distributed systems, trying to improve their scalability. He is living in Potsdam, Germany and has 3 daughters and 2 cats.

- slug: eng-manager-distribution
  type: person
  name: Steven Wilson
  start_date: 2019-04-29
  locality: Atlanta, Georgia
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager, Distribution</a>
  reports_to: chun-d
  picture: StevenWilson.jpg
  twitter: mendeni
  gitlab: mendeni
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  story:  |
          Steven is a technical leader with proven experience in infrastructure engineering, application development, integration and management.
          When not behind the keyboard, Steven runs with his <a href="/company/team-pets">Boxador</a> and does DIY home projects.
          He also loves to drum and study WWII history.

- slug: dave-pisek
  type: person
  name: Dave Pisek
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Secure</a>
  reports_to: nmccorrison
  picture: davepisek.jpg
  twitter: davepies
  gitlab: dpisek
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Dave started his first ventures into code when Dreamweaver was still for hipsters and spacer gifs made up a big chunk of an average website. He applauded the fall of table layouts and the rise of web standards and still feels strongly about making the web a better place. He loves both learning and sharing new concepts and skills. In his spare time, he spends time with his two kids, reading, getting stronger in the gym and drinking coffee.

- slug: djadmin
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  name: Dheeraj Joshi
  start_date: 2019-11-11
  locality: Delhi
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Secure</a>
  reports_to: nmccorrison
  picture: dheerajjoshi.jpg
  twitter: dheerajhere
  gitlab: djadmin
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Secure Section
    - Secure FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
    gitlab-ui: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Dheeraj has been building apps since the time he got introduced to VB6 in high school. He is quite adept at writing JavaScript, an open source lover, and web security enthusiast. When he is not writing code, he spends time finding and reporting security vulnerabilities in web applications. In his spare time Dheeraj enjoys playing football, caffeinating or craving for good food.

- slug: danieltian
  type: person
  name: Daniel Tian
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Honolulu, HI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: lindsaykerr
  picture: danieltian.jpg
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story: |
    Daniel has lived in Hawaii for most of his life and has been working on web applications ever since graduating with a degree in Computer Science. He is passionate about gaming and has worked for multiple gaming companies in the past before joining GitLab. During his free time, he enjoys discovering new games, browsing Reddit, and learning how to be a good parent for his daughter.

- slug: savasvedova
  type: person
  name: Savas Vedova
  start_date: 2020-03-01
  locality: Zurich
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: lindsaykerr
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  twitter: savasvedova
  gitlab: svedova
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend FE Team
    - Frontend
  story:  |
    Savas is a passionate self-taught developer with a degree in Political Science and International Relations.
    Since age of 12, he is developing web applications - sometimes even for fun.
    He loves spending his leisure time with his family. Also, he enjoys running, swimming and hanging out with friends.

- slug: alexanderturinske
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  name: Alexander Turinske
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  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: lindsaykerr
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  gitlab: aturinske
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
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          Alexander grew up in Wisconsin and has lived in Atlanta, San Francisco, and now Denver. He loves contributing to communities to help others and currently lives in an apartment building with seven of his friends where they take turns cooking dinner. In his spare time he reads, runs, rock climbs, plays with his cat, Oberon, and tries to build his tolerance to spice.

- slug: nick-kipling
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  name: Nick Kipling
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Ashby-de-la-Zouch
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Package</a>
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  reports_to: danielcroft
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  gitlab: nkipling
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Package Group
    - Package FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
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          Nick is a developer that is passionate about delivering great software that users enjoy
          working with. Through his career, he has worked across the full stack building mobile
          apps, chat applications, frameworks, API's and provided training and guidance to other
          developers. A big belief is to be constantly striving to learn and improve at every
          opportunity in all forms of development and he actively works to increase his skills
          whenever possible.

- slug: payton-burdette
  type: person
  name: Payton Burdette
  start_date: 2019-08-19
  locality: Anderson, SC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Verify:Continuous Integration</a>
  reports_to: frontend-manager-verify
  picture: paytonburdette.jpg
  twitter: beardedpayton
  gitlab: pburdette
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Verify:CI FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Payton has a passion for clean code and developing feature-rich web applications. Outside of work, he enjoys working out and watching japanese anime.

- slug: frederic-caplette
  type: person
  name: Frédéric Caplette
  start_date: 2020-01-27
  locality: Deux-Montagnes, Quebec
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Verify:Continuous Integration</a>
  reports_to: frontend-manager-verify
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  gitlab: f_caplette
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Verify:CI FE Team
    - Frontend
    - CICD Section
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Frédéric started to code to make games and continued on learn how to make web sites and applications. Outside of work, he can be found gaming, reading, hiking, travelling or watching japanese animes.

- slug: jose-finotto
  type: person
  name: Jose Cores Finotto
  start_date: 2018-08-31
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/database-reliability-engineer/">Staff Database Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: brentnewton
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    - Infrastructure Department
  story:

- slug: luke-duncalfe
  type: person
  name: Luke Duncalfe
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Auckland
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Knowledge
  reports_to: engineering-manager-create-ds
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  twitter: l_d
  gitlab: .luke
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Knowledge BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab:
      - reviewer backend
      - trainee_maintainer backend
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story: "Luke is a developer who enjoys everything about programming: the problem-solving, the learning curves and the creativity. Besides programming, he enjoys experimental art and music, camping, playing the piano, and playing with his kids."

- slug: asandoval
  type: person
  name: Anthony Sandoval
  start_date: 2019-01-02
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-infrastructure/">Engineering Manager, Reliability Engineering</a>
  reports_to: brentnewton
  picture: asandoval.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: AnthonySandoval
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story: |
         Anthony keeps the balance between people and operations. When he's not focused on uptime, he's spending quality time with his wife and their two children. A Michigan native, he loves the Great Lakes. During the summer months, you'll find him running the lakeshore or sailing on beautiful Lake Michigan.

- slug: lewis-brown
  type: person
  name: Lewis Brown
  start_date: 2018-12-03
  locality: McMinnville, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas West)</a>
  reports_to: lyle-k
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  twitter:
  gitlab: lwbrown
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department

- slug: HelenOrtel
  type: person
  name: Helen Ortel
  start_date: 2019-08-26
  locality: Washington D.C
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Staff Field Marketing Manager, US Public Sector</a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
  picture: helenortel.jpg
  twitter: Orthelen
  gitlab: Hortel
  departments:
    - Marketing
  story:  |
          Public Sector marketing professional for 20+ years, when not at work I enjoy hiking, cycling, and spending time with family and friends.

- slug: ginnyreib
  type: person
  name: Ginny Reib
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Commack, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Senior Field Marketing Manager, US East</a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
  picture: ginnyreib.jpg
  twitter: ginnyreib
  gitlab: Greib
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
    Ginny focuses on Gitlab's field marketing efforts in the East. Ginny lives on Long Island with her husband of 25 years, 3 children and 3 dogs. Her happy place is in the kitchen.

- slug: pete
  type: person
  name: Peter Huynh
  start_date: 2018-12-03
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Field Marketing Manager - APAC</a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
  picture: peterhuynh.png
  twitter: peter.haitch
  gitlab: Phuynh
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          "Peter is a technology marketer who is motivated by being able to contribute to the success of other. His hobbies include cycling, watching NRL and is passionate about giving back to the community through volunteering activities."

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  type: person
  name: Rich Hancock
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Vancouver, Washington
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Field Marketing Manager, US West</a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
  picture: RichHancock.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rhancock
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing

  story:  |
          Rich is responsible for Field Marketing in the US West. As the father of two girls and the grandfather of two girls, Rich spends a lot of time in the bleachers of different sporting events. When not cheering on his girls, you will find him running obstacle course races like Spartan and Rugged Maniac. And because he mistakenly got a degree in computer networking, he also sets up Wi-Fi for everyone he knows!

- slug: derek-k
  type: person
  name: Derek Knox
  start_date: 2018-12-03
  locality: Moscow, ID
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Static Site Editor
  reports_to: jeanduplessis
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  twitter: derekknox
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Static Site Editor Team
  projects:
    www-gitlab-com:
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  story:  |
          "I utilize pen and pad, computer graphics software, and code to bring ideas into the world. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in addition to C# with Unity3D are my preferred languages and tools for doing so. I do this both professionally and personally. I'm not bound to the screen as a result of these interests however as I love to snowboard (12+ yrs) and play ice hockey (20ish yrs) too. I'm also currently authoring <a href="https://codingfordesignersbook.com/preface">Coding for Designers</a> too, so feel free to check it out.""

- slug: ryan-on
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  name: Ryan O'Nell
  start_date: 2018-12-03
  locality: Belmont, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/vp-of-commercial-sales/">VP of Commercial Sales</a>
  reports_to: mike-mcbride
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  country: Australia
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  locality: Phila., PA
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  name: Cindy Nunez
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          Ann enjoys watching documentaries, spending time with family, and playing with her dog.

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  name: Harley Devlin.
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  locality: Cork
  country: Ireland
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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          Harley is based in Cork, Ireland. She has worked in payroll for the recruitment and tech sector over a number of years, and enjoys the ever changing environment. In her free time she likes to rock climb, view art and spend time with her three boys.

- slug: nicoleannprecilla
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  name: Nicole Ann Precilla
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  locality: Quezon City
  country: Philippines
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/expense-specialist/">Expense Specialist</a>
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  twitter:
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    - Finance
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Nikki has experienced working on Accounts Payable function. She loves spending time with her family and enjoys going to the beach to explore.

- slug: rajatjain
  type: person
  name: Rajat Jain
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  locality: Bangalore
  country: India
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan FE Team
    - Frontend
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          Rajat has a knack for designing & building minimal and usable web applications. He is based in India and has a background in Computer Science. When he is not coding, he is either reading books, trekking or traveling.


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  name: Scott Stern
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  country: USA
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  twitter:
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan FE Team
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          Scott loves everything Javascript. Based in Southern California, he enjoys contributing to open source and learning more about web and the front end ecosystem. Outside of software development, Scott enjoys the outdoors and going to the beach.

- slug: cngo
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  name: Coung Ngo
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  locality: Glasgow
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management</a>
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  twitter:
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan FE Team
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          Coung is a software developer with a passion for writing clean code. Outside of work, he likes to play piano, guitar, and video games, and also volunteers at CodeYourFuture to help refugees learn to code.

- slug: florie-guibert
  type: person
  name: Florie Guibert
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  country: Australia
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  twitter:
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan FE Team
    - Frontend
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    gitlab:
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          Florie is passionate about anything Frontend, especially CSS.
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- slug: axel-garcia
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  name: Axel García
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  locality: Santiago
  country: Chile
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Plan:Portfolio Management & Plan:Certify</a>
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan FE Team
    - Frontend
  story:  |
          Axel fell in love with web design from an early age and he is
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          foundation. In his free time, he enjoys reading, listening to
          music, and playing adventure videogames.

- slug: dustin-collins
  type: person
  name: Dustin Collins
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  locality: Kansas City, MO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distribution">Distribution Engineer</a>
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  twitter:
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    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  story:  |
          Dustin is an experienced software engineer, focusing on cloud-native infrastructure.
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  name: Steve Abrams
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  locality: Highlands Ranch, CO
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  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Package</a>
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Package Group
    - Package BE Team
  projects:
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          Steve loves solving problems and writing code. He has been a developer ever since he
          discovered his love for code in his previous life as a mechanical engineer. He loves
          finding great coffee shops, being out and about in the mountains, playing piano, and running.

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  type: person
  name: David Fernandez
  start_date: 2019-10-01
  locality: Monthey
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Package</a>
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Package Group
    - Package BE Team
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          Based in Switzerland, David is a passionate code writer.
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  name: Giorgenes Gelatti
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  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Package</a>
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    gitlab: reviewer backend
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    - Development Department
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          Giorgenes is a software developer with a long experience in backend programming and web development.
          Born in Brazil, he has experienced life in the USA, England and Russia before moving to Australia where he currently lives.
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  name: Hayley Swimelar
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  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Package</a>
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Package Group
    - Package BE Team
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          Hayley is a software developer with an eclectic background ranging from running 35mm film projectors to being a professional genealogist.
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  name: João Pereira
  start_date: 2019-12-2
  locality: Oeiras
  country: Portugal
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Package Group
    - Package BE Team
  projects:
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  story:  |
          João is a passionate software engineer interested in open source software, distributed systems and DevOps.
          When he's not writing code, he enjoys spending time with his family, driving, walking on the beach and watching movies and TV shows.

- slug: thong-kuah
  type: person
  name: Thong Kuah
  start_date: 2018-07-16
  locality: Wellington
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Staff Backend Engineer, Configure</a>
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  twitter: thongkuah
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  departments:
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    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
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  story:  |
          Thong is a software developer, who loves to solve complex problems with neat code.

          Having broad experience with all aspects of web application development, he really appreciates open
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          Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he enjoys the local coffee, reading fiction books, and watching Studio Ghibli movies. A cat person.
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          Working with other GitLab team-members around the
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          family time, which I truly appreciate.

          Having previously worked one day a week from home, I knew the benefits
          in terms of productivity and flexibility which is crucial to enable me
          to contribute to my family life with young children. Going fully remote with GitLab
          has meant that I am able to send and pick up my kids from school every weekday, thus relieving the stress
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  type: person
  name: James Fargher
  start_date: 2019-01-03
  locality: Wellington
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Gitaly</a>
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    - Dev Section
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  locality: Reykjavik
  country: Iceland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Configure</a>
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  twitter: vindvaki
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    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
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    gitlab: reviewer backend
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        Hordur is a polyglot Backend Engineer with a background in Math and Computer Science.
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  name: João Cunha
  start_date: 2018-12-31
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Configure</a>
  reports_to: nklick
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    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
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          João is a Backend Engineer who has discovered his love for DevOps. After a long relationship with Ruby, now Docker and Gitlab CI have become his professional passions. Outside the work environment, João is a family guy who loves his wife, family and friends. Favourite activities include: watching movies/series, playing FIFA, playing guitar, supporting C. R. Flamengo, kitesurfing and snowboarding.

- slug: tiger-watson
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  name: Tiger Watson
  start_date: 2019-01-21
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Configure</a>
  reports_to: nklick
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  twitter:
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    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
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  name: Mikhail Mazurskiy
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  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Configure</a>
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    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
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          Kubernetes in particular is something he enjoys working with.

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  name: Manoj M J
  start_date: 2019-06-04
  locality: Kochi, Kerala
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Manage:Access</a>
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Access BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
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           Hailing from Kerala, popularly known as "God's Own Country", Manoj is a hardcore Ruby and Rails enthusiast. He loves contributing to open source and is a big fan of boring solutions. When not writing code, he loves to read, take pictures, and play around with his fiancé's adorable little kitten.

- slug: adam-hegyi
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  name: Adam Hegyi
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Analytics</a>
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Analytics BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab:
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      - maintainer database
  story:  |
          Adam works as a software engineer since 2010. Adam is passionate about the Ruby language and solving performance problems. In his spare time, Adam loves traveling and spending time with his family.

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  name: Aakriti Gupta
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  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Manage:Analytics</a>
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  twitter: aakri_tea
  gitlab: aakriti.gupta
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Analytics BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Aakriti is an Indian expat living in Berlin, who loves Korean food, slipping in several languages in one sentence and  photographing absurd things.
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  name: Sebastián Arcila-Valenzuela
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  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Access</a>
  reports_to: liam-m
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  gitlab: sarcila
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Access BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Sebastián is a software engineer who started his career as ACM/ICPC contestant and C/C++ developer back in 2008. Who after juggling for almost 6 years with Java, Python, and Ruby fell in love with Clojure. When he is not working, he likes to cook, play videogames, and cycle.

- slug: georgekoltsov
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  name: George Koltsov
  start_date: 2019-07-03
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Manage:Import</a>
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Import BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          George is a passionate software engineer who enjoys solving problems with elegant and simple solutions. In his spare time, George likes to travel, play tennis and video games.

- slug: pstrokov
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  name: Pavlo Strokov
  start_date: 2019-11-04
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  locality: Dnipro
  country: Ukraine
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Gitaly</a>
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  twitter:
  gitlab: 8bitlife
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitaly Team
  story:  |
          Pavlo is a backend engineer who started with Java and then switched to Go. He is passioned about sports and active outdoor activities as well as cooking.

- slug: josiannehyson
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  name: Josianne Hyson
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Munich
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Manage:Import</a>
  reports_to: liam-m
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  twitter:
  gitlab: jhyson
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Import BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Josianne is a software engineer from New Zealand. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, boardgames, and photography.

- slug: patrickbajao
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  name: Patrick Bajao
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Manila
  country: Philippines
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: michellegill
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
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    - Merge Request coach
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  story:  |
          Patrick enjoys building things that provide great value to users. Started programming with PHP then fell in love with Ruby. He's been creating applications with it for almost 8 years now. In his spare time, he likes to play NBA2K, root for the Houston Rockets, binge watch Netflix, watch Pewdiepie and other youtubers and travel.

- slug: id-backend
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  name: Igor Drozdov
  start_date: 2019-01-21
  locality: Minsk
  country: Belarus
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code BE Team
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    gitlab-shell: maintainer
    gitlab: maintainer backend
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          Igor started his career as a software engineer back in 2013. Before joining GitLab, he was working for companies from London and Hamburg. Igor enjoys Ruby language, but also passionate about functional programming. In his spare time, you can find him drinking beer, watching movies, smiling or daydreaming :)

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  type: person
  name: Markus Koller
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Winterthur
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Knowledge
  reports_to: engineering-manager-create-ds
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  twitter:
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Knowledge BE Team
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    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  expertise:  |
           <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
  story:  |
          Markus has been fascinated with the FOSS world ever since a random stranger from the Internet sent him a Slackware CD, and has been working as a web developer since 2008.
          He's very passionate about self-organization and always looking for new ways to grow and fail forward.
          He enjoys reading books, watching movies, meditating, and loves travelling the world and spending time in nature while biking or hiking.

- slug: kerri-miller
  type: person
  name: Kerri Miller
  start_date: 2019-04-08
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: michellegill
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  twitter: kerrizor
  gitlab: kerrizor
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
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  story:  |
          Kerri Miller is a Software Engineer and Team Lead currently based in the Pacific Northwest. She has worked at companies large and small, mentors and teaches students, and still finds time to work on Open Source projects and organize multiple conferences every year.
          Having an insatiable curiosity, she has worked as a lighting designer, marionette puppeteer, sous chef, and professional poker player, and enjoys hiking, long-distance motorcycling, yoyos, and working with glass.
          Asked to describe herself in two words, she thought a bit and replied "lackwit gadabout."

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  name: Christine Yoshida
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Copperopolis, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-practice-manager/">Practice Manager, Education Services</a>
  reports_to: srdirectorproserv-michael-l
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  twitter:
  gitlab: c.yoshida
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Christine is an experienced leader and innovator in the field of Learning and Development. Her broad experience ranges from curriculum and content design to career coaching and certification assessments. Her passion is creating educational solutions that help people achieve business, career, and life success. Christine lives in Northern California with her husband, 2 adult children, and two dogs. She is an avid runner and loves crafts such as knitting, crochet, and home decorating.


- slug: panosr
  type: person
  name: Panos Rodopoulos
  start_date: 2019-08-07
  locality: Athens
  country: Greece
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Sales Development Manager, EMEA - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: elsje-s
  picture: panos.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: PanosR
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Panos' flair for synergy and collaboration underpins his role as SDR Manager in the EMEA team. When he is not trying to set his team up for success thorugh clear processes; he's trying to feed them the Japanese Ramen and Thai Curry that he cooks. If he could only find a way to mail it to them while its still warm.


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  type: person
  name: Amparo Luna
  start_date: 2019-10-01
  locality: Barranquilla
  country: Colombia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: engineering-manager-create-ds
  picture: AmparoLuna.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: a_luna
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Editor BE Team
  story:  |
          Amparo is a developer who got the opportunity to work with Rails in late 2012 and she hasn't looked back ever since. Before joining Gitlab, she worked remotely in a Rails application for student success management. When she's not working, she is probably taking pictures of her cat or playing with him. She also likes to go on walks, watch movies, practice yoga and spend time with her family.

- slug: jenniferparker
  type: person
  name: Jennifer Parker (Jen)
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/reference-program-manager/">Reference Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: colinfletcher
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  twitter: jenatgitlab
  gitlab: jlparker
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Market Research and Customer Insights
  story:  |
          Jennifer is a Reference Program Manager with a background of gaining insight into her customer's experience.  She is ardent that her customers have a voice and that their needs be met by changing developing software to support their requirements.  She loves anything extremely spicy, collects shoes, loves to read, and her kids think her hobbies include housework.

  remote_story: |
           Jennifer has 2 school age boys, and remote work allows her to work full time, and to take care of everything her kids could possibly need, including getting them to Karate classes and seeing their school plays, making award ceremonies, getting to all doctors appointments, and of course keeping them home any time they're sick, while still managing a complete work schedule!  Prior to GitLab Jennifer worked partially remotely, but spent half the week ~3 hours a day commuting across Atlanta, which allowed a lot of time to catch up on Audiobooks, but was terrible on gas costs and the environment, and took away from valuable time she could be spending with her children and partner.  Remote work makes balancing life easier, as everything fits more smoothly and seamlessly together.  It's the GitLab way!

- slug: patrickderichs
  type: person
  name: Patrick Derichs
  start_date: 2019-01-17
  locality: Bochum
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Project Management
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: pderichs.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: pderichs
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Project Management BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |

- slug: reuben-pereira
  type: person
  name: Reuben Pereira
  start_date: 2018-10-15
  locality: Goa
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: engineering-manager-monitor-apm
  picture: reubenpereira.jpg
  twitter: reubii
  gitlab: rpereira2
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM BE Team
    - Monitor:APM
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Joined 2018-10-15

- slug: ryan-cobb
  type: person
  name: Ryan Cobb
  start_date: 2019-03-04
  locality: Bellingham, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: engineering-manager-monitor-apm
  picture: ryancobb.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rcobb
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM BE Team
    - Monitor:APM
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Ryan is a software developer who enjoys building things and solving problems. He loves to create, travel and spend time outside.

- slug: vladimir-shushlin
  type: person
  name: Vladimir Shushlin
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Moscow
  country: Russia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Release:Release Management</a>
  reports_to: release-management-engineering-manager
  picture: vladimirshushlin.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: vshushlin
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Release BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
    gitlab-pages: maintainer
  story:  |
          Vladimir is a software engineer with a bit of management experience. He loves to code and enjoys helping other people with any problem.

- slug: sara-a
  type: person
  name: Sara Ahbabou
  start_date: 2019-01-17
  locality: Sunnyvale, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas West)</a>
  reports_to: ronnie-alfaro
  picture: sahbabou.jpg
  twitter: theberbie
  gitlab: sahbabou
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
    <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
    <li><a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Acting Support Engineering Manager</a></li>
  story:   |
        Sara is a big fan of open source projects, and empowering communities through knowledge. She likes to spend time with her dog Petra, and her cat Zara, volunteer when needed, travel and contribute to cool projects.

- slug: mattkasa
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  name: Matt Kasa
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  start_date: 2019-07-22
  locality: Reno, NV
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Configure</a>
  reports_to: nklick
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  twitter: matthewkasa
  gitlab: mattkasa
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Matt started working on open source projects in 2004, and is an
          advocate for DevOps and software development best practices. Matt
          spends weekdays working, with a dog named Myka, and on the weekends
          enjoys making espresso, going to the dog park, hiking, or to the
          lake, working on house repairs, making furniture, and tinkering with
          electronics and home automation projects.

- slug: alishan
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  name: Alishan 'Ali' Ladhani
  start_date: 2019-07-29
  locality: Toronto
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Global Search</a>
  reports_to: cliu
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  gitlab: ali-gitlab
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Global Search BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
    Alishan has been a technology geek for as long as he can remember. He has been a software engineer since 2014, and
    has helped build the technological foundation at two startups. A passion for open-source software drew his
    attention to GitLab, where he now works on improving integration with serverless platforms. In his spare time,
    Alishan enjoys watching movies, listening to electronic music, and perusing Hacker News.

- slug: alexives
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  name: Alex Ives
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: St. Paul, MN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Geo</a>
  reports_to: nick-nguyen
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Geo BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          After advocating a move to GitLab CI at one job, and Auto DevOps at another, Alex realized his passion
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          keyboards (for typing), spending time with his numerous pets, and judging beer as a certified homebrew judge.

- slug: magdalenafrankiewicz
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  name: Magdalena Frankiewicz
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Manage:Spaces</a>
  reports_to: liam-m
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  twitter: madziafff
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Access BE Team
    - Manage:Compliance BE Team
    - Manage:Spaces BE Team
  story:  |
          Magdalena is a professional software developer since 2015. She has a background in Psychology and Cultural Studies,
          plus an adventure with Neuroscience on top. She mastered her coding craft working in startups and in technology consulting,
          where she sharpened her skills with numerous tech stacks and programming languages. She believes that software is made by people
          for people, and that great code is built together. In her spare time, she loves hiking, reading, sailing, and pickles.

- slug: atroschinetz
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  name: Amy Troschinetz
  start_date: 2020-02-03
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Release:Progressive Delivery</a>
  specialty: <a href="/features/gitlab-ci-cd/">GitLab CI/CD</a>
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  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Release Team
    - Progressive Delivery Group
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  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Amy learned to use a computer before she learned to read and later taught herself to program by
          hacking away at the nibbles qbasic program she found one day on her home tandy. Today she fights
          a never ending war against software in an attempt to make the lives of other developers better.
          In her free time she plays a lot of Magic: The Gathering in addition to hundreds of other board
          games. She can almost speedrun Mega Man X, but other things like hiking, biking, and taking care
          of her snake babies keep getting in the way.

- slug: jaimemartinez
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  name: Jaime Martínez
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Release:Release Management</a>
  reports_to: release-management-engineering-manager
  picture: jaimemartinez.jpg
  twitter: jimbart098
  gitlab: jaime
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Release BE Team
  story:  |
          Jaime is a software engineer who has been working with Go writing backend applications for the last 5 years. He enjoys mentoring others and spreading the Go love.
          In his spare time, he can be seen playing video games, walking his dog and going to concerts with his partner!

- slug: sanad-liaquat
  type: person
  name: Sanad Liaquat
  start_date: 2018-08-06
  locality: Karachi
  country: Pakistan
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Senior Software Engineer in Test</a>, Manage:Access (primary) & Manage:Spaces (secondary)
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  picture: sanadliaquat.jpg
  twitter: sanadliaquat
  gitlab: sliaquat
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Dev QE Team
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/engineering/quality/#self-managed-usecase">GitLab self-managed usecase</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer qa
    gitlab-qa: maintainer
  story:  |
    Sanad enjoys writing all kinds of software and is passionate about automation and testing tools development.
    Over the past 10 years, Sanad worked as a consultant at ThoughtWorks and Modus Create where he helped multiple
    companies with their test automation needs.
    Sanad has also done a startup where he built an e-commerce platform with Ruby on Rails and also wrote the accompanying
    iOS and Android apps.
    In his free time, Sanad focuses on his physical and spiritual health and well being.

- slug: tomislavnikic
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  name: Tomislav Nikić
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Schwechat
  country: Austria
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Software Engineer in Test</a>, Create:Knowledge
  reports_to: ramya-authappan
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  twitter: tmslvnkc
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Dev QE Team
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    gitlab: reviewer qa
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
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          Tomislav is a passionate developer and quality enthusiast that has found the one thing that can make work not feel like work.
          Automation was always a thing for him, even before test automation. He would try to automate and script almost anything that he didn't want to do.
          He currently lives with his wife and daughter Pia in the small town of Schwechat right next to Vienna.
          Like a true Austrian there is no better sport for him than skiing but the Croatian in him feels a summer not at the ocean is no summer at all.

- slug: zeffmorgan
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  name: Zeff Morgan
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Versailles, Kentucky
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Senior Software Engineer in Test</a>, Verify:Testing
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  twitter: zeffer
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Ops & CI/CD QE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer qa
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
  story:  |
          Zeff has been programming off and on since he bought his first Commodore in elementary school. As a former business systems analyst,
          he stumbled across Ruby and has been a fan ever since. A long time quality advocate, he finally combined his interests in Ruby, DevOps,
          and quality at GitLab. As a former Montessori teacher, he loves volunteering his time to support education. He enjoys even more spending
          time with his family doing volunteer work, enjoying the outdoors, and playing and creating music.

- slug: walmyrlima
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  name: Walmyr Lima e Silva Filho
  start_date: 2019-03-04
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Senior Software Engineer in Test</a>, Plan:Project Management (primary) & Plan:Portfolio Management (secondary)
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  twitter: walmyrlimaesilv
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    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Dev QE Team
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    gitlab: maintainer qa
    gitlab-qa: maintainer
  story:  |
          Walmyr is a passionate software developer and quality assurance engineer who loves learning and sharing his learnings with others.
          He cares about the users and his teammates, he loves challenges, and he always sees space for improvements in whatever he does.
          In his free time, he likes reading, studying, listening music, cycling, skateboarding, kayaking, cooking, and of course having fun with his family.

- slug: tiffanyrea
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  name: Tiffany Rea
  start_date: 2019-11-25
  locality: Milpitas, California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Software Engineer in Test</a>, Verify:Continuous Integration
  reports_to: joanna-shih
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  twitter:
  gitlab: treagitlab
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Ops & CI/CD QE Team
    - CI/CD Section
  story:  |
          Tiffany is a passionate software developer and quality assurance engineer. She loves creating small little tools that can help tidious
          routine tasks a tad faster and enjoyable. Tiffany always enjoy learning new skills, that can be career related or simply to pickup a new
          hobby. In her free time, she enjoys a cup of tea, caring for the succulents, working out, crochetting cute little animals or playing video
          games. Before GitLab, Tiffany had successfully developed an automated intergration test system for her team at NCSA. She always looks forward
          to having more opportunities to create amazing things that can help make a difference.

- slug: sofiavistas
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  name: Sofia Vistas
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Vilnius
  country: Lithuania
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Software Engineer in Test</a> Monitor:APM (primary) & Monitor:Health (secondary)
  reports_to: joanna-shih
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  twitter: anasofiavistas
  gitlab: svistas
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Ops & CI/CD QE Team
  story:  |
          Sofia is passionate about automation. An avid traveler, music maker and food experimenter. Currently committed to learn one of the oldest languages in the world - Lithuanian.

- slug: grantyoung
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  name: Grant Young
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Aberdeen, Scotland
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Senior Software Engineer in Test</a>, Enablement:Memory
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  twitter:
  gitlab: grantyoung
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Secure & Enablement QE Team
    - Enablement Sub-department
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer qa
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
  story:  |
          Grant is an enthusiastic developer who specializes in Test Automation and DevOps.  He's driven by solving problems in the development cycle as well as making it easier for others.
          In his spare time he's likely to be hanging out with his girlfriend, friends or family.  He also enjoys gaming, watching TV or movies and avoiding exercise at all costs (although he knows he'll have to do it sometimes).

- slug: jennie-louie
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  name: Jennie Louie
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Daly City, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Software Engineer in Test</a>, Enablement:Geo Replication
  reports_to: tanyapazitny
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  twitter:
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  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Secure & Enablement QE Team
    - Enablement Sub-department
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer qa
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
  story:  |
          Jennie is a Toronto native and former environmental engineer. She aims to build useful tools and make sure they work smoothly. She enjoys competitive cooking shows, crochet, escape rooms, and donuts.

- slug: nailiaiskhakova
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  name: Nailia Iskhakova
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  locality: Kazan
  country: Russia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Software Engineer in Test</a>, Enablement:Distribution
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  twitter:
  gitlab: niskhakova
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Secure & Enablement QE Team
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Ecosystem QE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer qa
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
  story:  |
         Nailia has a great passion for QA and its various challenges. She loves to bring order out of chaos, enjoys her work and strives to become better every day. In her free time, she likes skating on a longboard, riding BMX, reading books, and playing videogames.

- slug: erickbanks
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  name: Erick Banks
  start_date: 2019-11-11
  locality: Portland, Oregon
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Senior Software Engineer in Test</a> Enablement:Search
  reports_to: tanyapazitny
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  twitter:
  gitlab: ebanks
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Secure & Enablement QE Team
    - Enablement Sub-department
  story:  |
          Professionally my goal is to act as an advocate for the end user and help deliver a great user experience. In my free time I like to tinker with cars and motorcycles, dance, travel, cook, and play games.

- slug: albert-salim
  type: person
  name: Albert Salim
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: Singapore
  country: Singapore
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-productivity">Senior Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity</a>
  reports_to: kyle-wiebers
  picture: albertsalim.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: caalberts
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Engineering Productivity Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
    gitlab-docs: maintainer backend
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
    triage-ops: reviewer
    gitlab-triage: reviewer
    gitlab-styles: reviewer
  story:  |
          Albert's experience spans across software engineering and consulting. Having seen how teams benefit from a strong collaborative culture, he is now driven to help others work more effectively.
          Outside of work, he enjoys bouldering indoor (hope to venture outdoor soon), as well as swimming, cycling and running occassionally.

- slug: craig-barrett
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  name: Craig Barrett
  start_date: 2018-07-16
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: asandoval
  picture: craigbarrett.jpg
  twitter: ctbarrett
  gitlab: craig
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
  story:  |
          Craig is passionate about the power of invisible infrastructure, and loves building systems &amp; tools that excel at getting out of their users' way. When he's not digging into a new technology, coding, or automating all the things, look for him on a sailboat, on his bicycle, running, or curled up with his nose in a book.

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  type: person
  name: John T Skarbek
  start_date: 2018-07-16
  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Delivery</a>
  reports_to: em-delivery
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  twitter:
  gitlab: skarbek
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Delivery Team
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  story:  |
          John loves building Infrastructure and herding servers.  It's a passion that started when he was playing with computers at a young age.  In his free times he's playing a few board games and video games, dabbling in Astronomy, cycling, and learning other technologies in a wide variety of realms.

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  type: person
  name: Cameron S McFarland
  start_date: 2019-01-21
  locality: Cary, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: dave-smith
  picture: cameronmcfarland.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cmcfarland
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  story:  |
          Cameron loves solving problems. He enjoys RPGs, board games, computer games, Hurricanes hockey, and spending time with his family.

- slug: tom-atkins
  type: person
  name: Tom Atkins
  start_date: 2018-07-23
  locality: Cork
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Senior Support Engineering Manager (Interim)</a>
  reports_to: tom-cooney
  picture: tomatkins.jpg
  twitter: keybits
  gitlab: tatkins
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Tom likes to help people get useful things done with computers, so helping our customers get the most from GitLab makes him happy! I enjoy running and cycling in the beautiful West Cork landscape where I live.

- slug: will-chandler
  type: person
  name: Will Chandler
  start_date: 2018-07-30
  locality: Columbus, OH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Senior Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
  picture: willchandler.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: wchandler
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Will spent many years in support in the enterprise world and loves a good puzzle.  He spends his non-screen time chasing after and being herded by his wife, three sons, two cats, and dog.

- slug: muhamed-huseinbasic
  type: person
  name: Muhamed Huseinbašić
  start_date: 2018-07-30
  locality: Sarajevo
  country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
  picture: muhamedhuseinbasic.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: mhuseinbasic
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Muhamed joins GitLab with a background in support engineering and system administration. He enjoys understanding complex systems and loves efficient solutions. When not in front of the screen, you may find him swimming, running, hiking or just reading a good book.

- slug: jgragnola
  type: person
  name: Jackie Gragnola
  start_date: 2018-08-15
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/manager-marketing-programs/">Manager, Marketing Programs</a>
  reports_to: evanw
  picture: jackiegragnola.jpg
  twitter: jackiegrag
  gitlab: jgragnola
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing Programs
  story:  |
          Jackie joins GitLab with a background in marketing automation, demand generation, customer marketing, and marketing analytics.
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- slug: zbadgley
  type: person
  name: Zac Badgley
  start_date: 2019-07-15
  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-program-manager/">Marketing Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: jgragnola
  picture: zacbadgley_copy.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: zbadgley
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing Programs
  story:  |
          Zac joins GitLab with a diverse background in digital marketing, with a focus in lead generation, lead nurture, and marketing automation.
          Zac enjoys traveling, hiking, golfing, working out, and playing guitar.

  remote_story: |
        The all-remote and asynchronous culture was a major factor in joining GitLab. I used to spend my mornings rushing to eat breakfast, walk my dog, and getting on the road to hopefully beat traffic, which was rarely a success. The culture has blown me away with how connected I feel, using web-cams on all meetings and having designated time to get to know colleagues without even bring work into the discussions. I have a healthier, life changing balance that allows me to schedule work and life in an equally fair manner.

- slug: tye-davis
  type: person
  name: Tye Davis
  start_date: 2018-11-05
  locality: Sacramento, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/technical-marketing-manager/">Technical Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: dan-gordon
  picture: Tye_Davis_Profile.JPG
  twitter: TyeD19
  gitlab: davistye
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Technical Marketing
  expertise:  |
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing, Agile</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing, SCM (acting)</a></li>
  story:  |
          Tye joins GitLab with a background in product marketing, solution architecture, business analytics and customer marketing.
          Tye loves to golf and travel with his family of three.

- slug: mark-robinson
  type: person
  name: Mark Robinson
  start_date: 2018-08-13
  locality: Alexandria,VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/federal-channel-manager/">Federal Channel Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: cnovello
  picture: markrobinson.jpg
  gitlab: mrobinson
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Mark has been selling to Channel partners and Systems Integrators in the Federal marketplace for over 20 years at the same time leading several sales teams. Mark enjoys the outdoors, food & wine tastings. Fluent in French and loves international travel and sports like track and field and soccer. Has large family of 5 grown children and 3 grandchildren-living the life!

- slug: hendrik-meyer
  type: person
  name: Hendrik Meyer
  start_date: 2018-11-01
  locality: Hamburg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: dave-smith
  picture: hmeyer.jpg
  twitter: t4cc0re
  gitlab: T4cC0re
  departments:
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    - Infrastructure Department
  story:

- slug: jayson-s
  type: person
  name: Jayson Salazar
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Heidelberg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Security Engineer, Security Operations</a>
  reports_to: kylesmith
  picture: jsalazar.png
  twitter: jdsalaro
  gitlab: jdsalaro
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Jayson has a passion for security, automation and playing with data. Before becoming a Security Engineer at Gitlab he worked as a software engineer and a penetration tester. In his free time he likes to practice all kinds of sports, cook and travel. Originally from Colombia, Jayson currently lives in Heidelberg, Germany.

- slug: paul-harrison
  type: person
  name: Paul Harrison
  start_date: 2019-01-02
  locality: Winnipeg
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer">Staff Security Engineer, Security Operations</a>
  reports_to: kylesmith
  picture: pharrison.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: pharrison
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Paul is an open source geek with a passion for security and protecting people's data. When he's not working, Paul loves to spend time with his wife and dog, cooking, playing games, and traveling.

- slug: muhammad-dewji
  type: person
  name: Muhammad Dewji
  start_date: 2019-08-01
  locality: Vancouver, BC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Security Engineer, Security Operations</a>
  reports_to: kylesmith
  picture: muhammaddewji.png
  twitter: emmwhydee
  gitlab: mdewji
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          To learn more about Muhammad Dewji, check out <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmwhydee/">his LinkedIn bio here</a>.

- slug: corey-mccarty
  type: person
  name: Corey McCarty
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Security Operations</a>
  reports_to: kylesmith
  picture: coreymccarty.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cmccarty
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          To learn more about Corey McCarty, check out <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/corey-mccarty-a5729135">his LinkedIn profile here</a>.

- slug: marley-riser
  type: person
  name: Marley Riser
  start_date: 2020-03-16
  locality: Baltimore
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Security Engineer, Security Operations</a>
  reports_to: kylesmith
  picture: marleyriser.png
  twitter: mkr_ultra
  gitlab: marleyr
  departments:
    - Security Operations
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Marley is a strong advocate for bridging the gap between traditional IT roles and information security, focusing on resiliency, accountability, and understanding. They try very hard to ask themselves what either Mr. Rogers or Captain America would do in most situations. In their spare time, they love to lift heavy things quickly and repeatedly, boulder, bake, do crosswords, and geek out about all things space-related.

- slug: alexander-dietrich
  type: person
  name: Alexander Dietrich
  start_date: 2018-09-03
  locality: Hamburg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Automation</a>
  reports_to: stevemanzuik
  picture: alexanderdietrich.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: adietrich
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Alexander loves securing software at every step of the process and
          making security frictionless for other engineers. In his free time,
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          boardgaming.

- slug: greg-johnson
  type: person
  name: Greg Johnson
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality:  Atlanta, GA
  country:  USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Red Team</a>
  reports_to: stevemanzuik
  picture: gregjohnson.png
  twitter:  code_emitter
  gitlab:  codeEmitter
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Greg is a tangibly enthusiastic builder and destroyer of software systems whose objectives are to raise awareness and show impact.  In his free time,
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- slug: chrismoberly
  type: person
  name: Chris Moberly
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Melbourne, Victoria
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Red Team</a>
  reports_to: stevemanzuik
  picture: chrismoberly.jpg
  twitter: init_string
  gitlab: cmoberly
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Chris is a hacker with over twenty years of professional experience
          in information technology. He enjoys breaking the things he loves,
          like Linux distributions and open-source software, in an effort
          to make them stronger. Chris grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area
          and now lives with his family in beautiful Melbourne, Australia.

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  type: person
  name: Frederic Loudet
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  locality: Palmela
  country: Portugal
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Red Team</a>
  reports_to: stevemanzuik
  picture: fredericloudet.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: floudet
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Frederic has been in offensive security for quite some years, in multiple areas, enjoying the discovery of security issues, coding necessary tools and exploiting/chaining issues in pragmatic ways. In his spare time, he likes hiking and traveling with his wife and kids, observing nature and participating to eco-friendly projects.

- slug: stevemanzuik
  type: person
  name: Steve Manzuik
  start_date: 2019-07-29
  locality: Las Vegas, NV
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-management/">Security Manager, Red Team</a>
  reports_to: jan-urbanc
  picture: stevemanzuik.png
  twitter: hellnbak_
  gitlab: smanzuik
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Steve Manzuik has 30 years experience in Information Security ranging from security administration, penetration testing, red teaming, compliance and vulnerability research. Steve is a published author and has spoken at multiple security conferences.

- slug: david-planella
  type: person
  name: David Planella
  start_date: 2018-08-20
  locality: Cologne
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/director-of-community-relations/">Director of Community Relations</a>
  reports_to: tbarr
  picture: davidplanella.jpg
  twitter: dplanella
  gitlab: dplanella
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Community Relations
  story:  |
          David is passionate about Open Source as a means to bring free and
          accessible computing to everyone. Prior to GitLab, he led the
          Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical and had been a contributor to
          multiple Open Source projects. When not behind a computer, you will
          find him dancing Lindy Hop, swing DJing, rock climbing or fixing
          err... driving his vintage VW bus.

- slug: beauregard-j
  type: person
  name: Jenny Chapman
  start_date: 2018-09-10
  locality: Wilmington, DE
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: ramonaelliott
  picture: jennybeauregard.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Jennychapman
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Jenny is an opera singer as well as sales professional. She grew up in Massachusetts and enjoys music, hiking, reading, travel and learning.

- slug: winters-s
  type: person
  name: Shawn Winters
  start_date: 2018-09-17
  locality: Santa Maria, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, Acceleration</a>
  reports_to: mmalcolm
  picture: shawnwinters.jpg
  twitter: shawnruu
  gitlab: ShawnWinters
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Shawn's core value is honesty with himself and others. Shawn's family, friends and 4 year old son are most important to him and he works hard to maintain those relationships. Shawn loves being in sales because he gets the opportunity to meet a lot of new people from various backgrounds and expertise.

  remote_story: |
                All-remote has given me the freedom and flexibility to travel more than I ever have, reconnecting with loved ones and exploring new locales all over the United States. GitLab allows me to enjoy the days that I’m given. Instead of being confined to an office, I can take a breather and go for a walk on a beautiful day. Being empowered to structure my work around my life has led to a dramatic increase in time spent with family, and being able to pick my son up from daycare is simply invaluable.

- slug: jerasmus
  type: person
  name: Jacques Erasmus
  start_date: 2018-09-17
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Static Site Editor
  reports_to: jeanduplessis
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  twitter: rassiejakes
  gitlab: jerasmus
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Static Site Editor Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab-docs: maintainer frontend
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
    www-gitlab-com:
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  story:  |
          Jacques enjoys the daily challenges of being a programmer and engaging in projects that require him to work outside of his comfort zone. Outside of work he enjoys the outdoors and spending time with his wife and daughter.

- slug: strat-acc-leader1
  type: person
  name: Woosang Lee
  start_date: 2019-08-19
  locality: Seoul/Suwon
  country: South Korea
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: anthony-mcmahon
  picture: woosanglee.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: woosang.lee
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Woosang is passionate into solving customer's business issues leveraging the newest technology. He is father of 2 kids and loves taking a walk with family.

- slug: sharky
  type: person
  name: Sarah 'Sharky' Orell
  start_date: 2018-07-16
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: anthony-mcmahon
  picture: sarahkorell.jpeg
  twitter: sarah_harkness
  gitlab: Sharkness
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Sharky is a cloud technology-addicted sales leader who is  passionate about tools that democratise our work lives. She likes to spend everyday making people's jobs and lives easier by implementing the right tools that promote collaboration, creativity and doing your best work. She has two babies and a dog named Wilson.
- slug: tad
  type: person
  name: Tad Murakami
  start_date: 2020-02-10
  locality: Tokyo
  country: Japan
  role: Japan Country Manager
  reports_to: anthony-mcmahon
  picture: tadmurakami.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tmurakami
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Good corporate culture and eager to impact the lives of millions!
          I am all excited to be a member of GitLab and look forward to impacting the lives of millions

- slug: rhueston
  type: person
  name: Rob Hueston
  start_date: 2018-08-12
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: anthony-mcmahon
  picture: RobHueston.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: rhueston
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Enjoining the remote culture and lifestyle whilst helping Gitlab to deliver value to enterprsie and government clients.

- slug: danny-petronio
  type: person
  name: Danny Petronio
  start_date: 2018-08-12
  locality:
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  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: anthony-mcmahon
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: DPetronio
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Joined August 12th

- slug: sal
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  name: Hugh Christey
  start_date: 2018-10-01
  locality:
  country:
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: jburghart
  picture: hughchristey.jpg
  twitter: hughchristey
  gitlab: hchristey
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Hugh is an international sales specialist who loves the challenge of building a region for innovative software products. He also has four kids and a dog called Murry and he spends his spare time getting kids playing rugby.

- slug: shaun-mccann
  type: person
  name: Shaun McCann
  start_date: 2018-11-12
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Support Engineering Manager (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: tom-cooney
  picture: shaunmccann.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: shaunmccann
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Shaun loves solving problems while supporting a team of passionate people. When not accidentally breaking things with rusting skills, he can be found at his local CrossFit box (it's not a cult! Maybe it's a cult...), reading, travelling, being indecisive about what game to play on which console and experiencing all the joys that Australia has to offer. Especially the coffe, beaches and food, not necessarily in that order.

- slug: david-c
  type: person
  name: David Coy
  start_date: 2018-10-11
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: jason-colyer
  picture: davidcoy.jpg
  twitter: obsidianspork
  gitlab: dcoy1
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          David is a software developer with a passion for backend engineering,
          automation, learning and teaching others. Prior to GitLab, he worked in
          several roles ranging from front-line support to infrastructure engineering. In
          his free time, he likes to code/develop (primarily in Ruby and Go), cook,
          spend time with his family, hike, and play video games.

- slug: heinrich-lee-yu
  type: person
  name: Heinrich Lee Yu
  start_date: 2018-11-19
  locality: Cebu
  country: Philippines
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Project Management
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: heinrichleeyu.jpg
  gitlab: engwan
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Project Management BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Heinrich loves building software that solves user problems. He likes Ruby and has used it
          for most of his career but is also passionate about functional programming languages like Elixir.
          In his free time, he likes tinkering with Arduinos and other embedded systems.

- slug: acroitor
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  name: Alexandru Croitor
  start_date: 2019-02-11
  locality: Chisinau
  country: Moldova
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Project Management
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: alexandrucroitor.jpg
  gitlab: acroitor
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Project Management BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Alexandru's passion for software development started in high school, where he was introduced to
          Borland Pascal. That continued with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and a career in
          Software Development. In spare time he loves to spend time outdoors with his wife and two boys,
          fishing, playing sports or just taking walks.

- slug: arueda
  type: person
  name: Amanda Rueda
  start_date: 2018-10-01
  locality: Guanajuato
  country: Mexico
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Product Manager</a>, Growth:Fulfillment
  reports_to: hilaqu
  picture: amandarueda.jpg
  twitter: amandamrueda
  gitlab: amandarueda
  departments:
    - Product Management
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html">CI/CD</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/README.html">API</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Amanda is a mom, a fixer and a helper who loves to learn and to make things easier wherever possible.

- slug: kike-adio
  type: person
  name: Kike Adio
  start_date: 2018-10-22
  locality: Lagos
  country: Nigeria
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/candidate-experience">Candidate Experience Specialist</a>
  reports_to: april-h
  picture: kikeadio.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: Kikeadio
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Kike loves to create environments where people can do their best work.

- slug: chantalrollison
  type: person
  name: Chantal Rollison
  start_date: 2019-05-27
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Junior Technical Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: cyndi-walsh
  picture: chantalrollison.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: crollison
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Chantal is a lifelong learner with a background in
          accounting, engineering, and nearly a decade of experience as a veterinary
          nurse. She has a strong desire to help others, and is happiest when
          partaking in community service. In her free time, she can be found
          hiking, cooking, or doing a puzzle.

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  name: Lea Dynah Hanopol
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  country: Philippines
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  twitter:
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  type: person
  name: Taharah Nix
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  locality: Philadelphia, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/candidate-experience">Candidate Experience Specialist</a>
  reports_to: april-h
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Joining July 22nd

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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
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  twitter: kellyhair
  gitlab: khair1
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Husband and father of two awesome kids. While not being a geek, Kelly enjoys photography, tinkering & aspiring to be a lumberjack.

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  name: Todd Barr
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/chief-marketing-officer/">Chief Marketing Officer</a>
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  twitter: tbarr
  gitlab: tbarr
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    - Marketing
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         Todd has (quite unexpectedly) carved out a career as a marketer of open source software. Todd was fortunate to be at Red Hat when Red Hat Enterprise Linux was launched in 2002, kicking off a vibrant industry for open source enterprise solutions that changed the technology world. Since then, Todd has led teams at great open source companies like Alfresco, Ansible, Red Hat (again) and now GitLab. Todd loves spending time at the beach and watching Tar Heel basketball with his wife and two teenage sons, and is grateful to be able to work in North Carolina because of GitLab’s all-remote team.

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  name: David Hong
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  country: USA
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  reports_to: mike-mcbride
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  departments:
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          Originally from Canada, a Seattle native and a Bay Area transplant of 18+ years.  David has spent most of his career helping companies scale both Field Teams and GTM functions.  He enjoys the challenge of intersecting sales, process and systems.  In his free time, David hangs out with his family mostly as the family Uber/Task Rabbit/Sherpa all the while attempting to stay cool to his 3 kids.

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  name: Carol Teskey
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  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
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  reports_to: sid
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  twitter:
  gitlab: cteskey
  departments:
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          Carol is Director, People. Before joining Gitlab, Carol worked in a variety of HR roles in eBay, Ancestry.com and more recently MongoDB.  Carol is passionate about enabling an environment where employees feel they belong and can develop themselves to their full potential.

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  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-operations-manager/">Marketing Operations Manager</a>
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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    - Marketing Operations
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          Nichole comes with a background in marketing automation, market development, demand generation, and marketing operations. Her focus is partnering with the SDR organization. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family, reading, playing ESO, and hiking.

- slug: vwegner
  type: person
  name: Vanessa Wegner
  start_date: 2019-03-25
  locality: New Hampshire
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/content-marketing/">Content Marketing Manager, Security</a>
  reports_to: erica-l
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  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Content Marketing
  story:  |
          Vanessa comes to GitLab from Forrester, where she worked in marketing and research, and spent a year as the CEO's research associate. When not learning or writing, Vanessa dedicates most of her time to triathlon training and coaching, playing her violin, reading, or spending time with her two cats, Greyson and Moukie.

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  name: Minsu Han
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  locality: Seoul
  country: South Korea
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  reports_to: jthomasburrows
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  twitter:
  gitlab: minsuhan
  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Minsu's mission is to help Korean SMBs to achieve more using Gitlab. In his free time he enjoys reading and playing with his cat.

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  name: Josh Weatherford
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  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
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  picture: joshweatherford.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Weatherford
  departments:
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing
    - SDR
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          Josh is the Neil deGrasse Tyson of intuition with a thirst for sales. After university he moved from the deep south to Portland for work, but stayed for the great weather. When he's not in the office you can catch him on the flip side shredding the gnar on Mt. Hood. Let's talk music, whiskey and travel.

- slug: ademblin
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  name: Alexander Demblin
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  locality: Vienna
  country: Austria
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  twitter: ademblin
  gitlab: ademblin
  departments:
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    - Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
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  locality: Boston, MA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
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  twitter:
  gitlab: aglidden
  departments:
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    - Marketing
    - SDR
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          Andrew is a sales rep bringing expereince from IBM, Splunk, and his own start up. He is passionate about ocean technologies and meaningful conversations with DevOps and Software professionals a voracious reader and avid traveler. In his free time he loves anything ocean. Find the next hurricane and you might find him out on the nearest point break.

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  name: Jesse Muehlbauer
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  locality: Seattle, Washington
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hannah-s
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  twitter:
  gitlab: jmuehlbauer
  departments:
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    - Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |


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  name: Megan O'Dowd
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  locality: Raleigh, North Carolina
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Manager, Onboarding and Enablement</a>
  reports_to: evanw
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  twitter: MeganODowd8
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  departments:
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    - Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Prior to working at GitLab, Megan was enabling Market Development Reps on tools and processes at Red Hat. In her free time, she loves to run, travel, hike, ski, kayak, and bake!

- slug: mmalcolm
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  name: Matt Malcolm
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  locality: Durham, North Carolina
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/senior-sales-development-manager-acceleration/">Senior Manager, Sales Development, Acceleration</a>
  reports_to: evanw
  picture: MattMalcolm.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mmalcolm
  departments:
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joins July 29th

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  reports_to: jordan-bushong
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joins June 17th

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  name: David Fisher
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, Acceleration</a>
  reports_to: mmalcolm
  picture: davidfisher.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: dfishis1
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          David is a sales professional that has a strong passion for hunting and driving new business. He enjoys being active going on hikes, fishing, bodyboarding, and playing with his dog.

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  name: Kelsey Steyn
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: lturner
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  twitter: steynkelsey
  gitlab: Kelsey.steyn
  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          I have been working in technology sales for a few years now. In my down town time I enjoy hiking, hanging out with my two dogs, and traveling.

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  name: Pierre-Adrien Attouche
  start_date: 2019-07-15
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  locality: London
  country: UK
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  reports_to: gronk
  picture: pierreattouche.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: pierre_adrien
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Pierre is originally from France, but he has been living abroad for almost ten years. Spending time in Canada and in the UK where he’s living now. He has joined from Puppet where he was a Sales Engineer. Outside of work, he enjoys gaming, exploring the London food scene and running. He and his wife are avid hikers and look forward to summiting many more mountains - plans that are likely on hold as they are expecting their first baby in December!


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  type: person
  name: René Hoferichter
  start_date: 2019-06-01
  locality: Augsburg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: jburghart
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  twitter:
  gitlab: reneho
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Once a developer himself René is interested in what customers do and achieve by using GitLab.
          He is also keen to understand the strategy and challenges of the individual customer.

- slug: tbosshard
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  name: Thomas Bosshard
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Greater Zürich Area
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: jburghart
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Thomas helps customers to bring their ideas into production faster.

- slug: julian-t
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  name: Julian Thome
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  country: Luxembourg
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  reports_to: todd-s
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  departments:
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    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Julian has a keen interest in security testing. Before joining GitLab, he worked at ShiftLeft Inc. in the
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          context of static analysis and symbolic execution. In his spare time, Julian loves traveling, hiking and cooking.

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  name: James Johnson
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  twitter: d0c_s4vage
  gitlab: d0c-s4vage
  reports_to: todd-s
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  locality: Carlsbad, CA
  country: USA
  departments:
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    - Security Department
  story: |
    James comes from a career performing security consulting, vulnerability
    research, and software development. Prior to joining GitLab, James worked
    at a number of security-focused companies, including BreakingPoint
    (now Ixia), Endgame, Accuvant/Optiv, and Exodus Intelligence. James has
    a passion for open source software, data parsing/generation/manipulation,
    and tool development. In his spare time, James enjoys hiking with his
    family, maintaining his open source projects, and staying active.


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  reports_to: todd-s
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    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  locality: Yokohama, Kanagawa
  country: Japan
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    Isaac has been working in information security professionally since 2000. Starting in network penetration testing,
    then moving into application testing in early 2000's when he joined @stake in Cambridge, MA. He moved to Japan in 2005
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- slug: kevin-vogt
  type: person
  name: Kevin Vogt
  start_date: 2019-05-28
  locality: Rochester, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer</a>
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  gitlab: kvogt1
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Kevin is an Infrastructure Engineer with a background in Cloud Technologies. He came to GitLab from the healthcare space where he's worked for hospitals and EMR companies. In his spare time he enjoys video games and camping with his family.

- slug: glen-miller
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  name: Glen Miller
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Bellevue, Washington
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
  picture: glenmiller.jpg
  gitlab: glen_miller
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Glen is a devops engineer based in Bellevue, Washington, USA.  His career has included work
          in test, development, program management, and IT operations for companies such as Microsoft and
          Nordstrom. Glen is a big fan of "what needs to be done?" and is willing to step into any role as
          the need arises. In his off time, Glen enjoys hiking, gaming with friends (board and video), hanging out
          with his pups, and volunteering at the Seattle Humane Society.

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  name: Jonathan Schafer
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#defend">Backend Engineer, Defend</a>
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  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  departments:
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    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend BE Team
  story:  |
          Born and raised in San Antonio, TX, Jonathan has developed all kinds of software from embedded avionics
          to full stack web applications. When he's not writing code, he loves spending time with his wife, two boys,
          and his little girl - playing games, golfing, coaching football, tubing the Comal, and trying interesting
          restaurants.

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  name: Arthur Evstifeev
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Christchurch
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#defend">Backend Engineer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: thiagofigueiro
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  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend BE Team
  story:  |
          Arthur is a backend engineer interested in web development,
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  type: person
  name: Zamir Martins Filho
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#defend">Backend Engineer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: thiagofigueiro
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  pronouns: he/him
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  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend BE Team
  story: |
         Zamir holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Calgary and
         has been working for over ten years as a software engineer. When he is not coding, he
         enjoys playing soccer, learning other cultures and training dogs.

- slug: lilymai
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  name: Lily Mai
  start_date: 2020-02-18
  locality: San Francisco
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/operations-analyst">Operations Analyst, Development</a>
  reports_to: christopher-l
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  gitlab: lmai1
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
  expertise: |
    <li>Recruiter: Eva Petreska</li>
  story: |
         Lily holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley
         and has been working as a data analyst since she graduated from college. Outside of work,
         she enjoys spending quality time with family and friends, spending hours in the kitchen,
         and traveling.

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  type: person
  name: Mehmet Emin Inac
  start_date: 2020-04-01
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#defend">Backend Engineer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: thiagofigueiro
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  gitlab: minac
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend BE Team
  story: |
         Mehmet started programming in high-school with scripting languages and decided to get degree
         in Computer Science. Since then he has worked with many languages in many different areas of
         the discipline but decided to focus only on backend stuff long time ago. Writing software to
         enable fellow developers is the thing which makes him more than happy therefore he has been
         contributing to different opensource projects like Rails framework and constantly reading the
         source of Ruby language to take the relay when it's his turn.
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  type: person
  name: Alan (Maciej) Paruszewski
  start_date: 2020-03-01
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#defend">Backend Engineer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: thiagofigueiro
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  locality: Wrocław
  country: Poland
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend BE Team
  story: |
         Alan is an experienced backend engineer passionate about Security, API and Integrations.
         In his spare time he loves to spend time with his family (lovely wife, daughter and adorable dog)
         and enjoys cooking, learning new languages and travelling.

- slug: samihiltunen
  type: person
  name: Sami Hiltunen
  start_date: 2020-03-01
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#gitaly">Backend Engineer, Gitaly</a>
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  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitaly Team
  story: |
    Originally from Finland, Sami has been moving around and experiencing new places until finally ending up in Berlin.
    Simplifying complex problems drives him professionally and he firmly believes that there is always a chance to delete
    some code. Outside of tech, he enjoys expanding his cooking and piano repertoires, playing games with friends (especially
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- slug: evanw
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  name: Evan Whelchel
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: Chapel Hill, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/senior-director-of-revenue-marketing/">Senior Director of Revenue Marketing</a>
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  twitter: Whekl
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  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
    - Field Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
  story:  |
          Evan is no stranger to open source software sales and marketing having been fortunate enough to be a part of Ansible’s explosive growth and subsequently Red Hat's acquisition of the company.   Thanks to his experience with several startups, Evan is a bit of a jack of all trades in sales, lead generation and marketing tools and is excited about using those developed skill to lead the Revenue Marketing team at GitLab.  In his free time he coaches lacrosse, plays guitar, fly fishes and does anything goofy or fun with his wife and three kids.

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  name: John-Mason Shackelford
  start_date: 2020-03-02
  locality: Cleveland, OH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Principal Product Manager</a>, Manage:Analytics
  reports_to: jeremy-w
  picture: jshackelford.jpg
  twitter: jpshackelford
  gitlab: jshackelford
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story: |
          An XP enthusiast since 2002, John-Mason has been practicing, teaching, leading and building products in the Lean, Continuous Delivery and DevOps space for nearly two decades and has worked with some of the world's most successful companies in education, finance, healthcare, entertainment, telecommunications and technology.  When he is not visiting with customers to co-create new products and capabilities, or collaborating with design and engineering to bring inventions to life, John-Mason is most likely to be found at home with his wife and seven children. He and his family love backpacking & camping, board games, reading, and history.

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  name: Fabian Zimmer
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Münster
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Geo
  reports_to: dir-of-product-enablement
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  twitter:
  gitlab: fzimmer
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Enablement PM Team
  story:  |
          Fabian has a background in Bioinformatics where he analyzed large amounts of genomic and transcriptomic data. He is passionate about building products that solve interesting problems and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. In his free time, Fabian can be found cycling, swimming, cooking and playing Dota2.

- slug: OritG
  type: person
  name: Orit Golowinski
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Tel Aviv
  country: Israel
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Release:Progressive Delivery
  reports_to: jasonyavorska
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  twitter: GO_Orit
  gitlab: ogolowinski
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
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    - Product Management
  story:  |
          Orit has a passion for details and learning new things. She has background in different roles such as QA, Automation, DevOps, Competitor analysis, Project Management and Product Management. She has finally found her niche in product management where she feels that she can help translate customer needs into live features in the product. Orit studied in a culinary school and is a certified pastry chef (and also a computer engineer). In her spare time she spends time baking and decorating different deserts. When she is not gaining calories from eating cakes and cookies, she enjoys burning them off in the gym.

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  name: Robert Nalen
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  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/legal/director-contracts-legal-ops">Director, Contracts and Legal Operations</a>
  reports_to: robin-schulman
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  twitter:
  gitlab: rnalen
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Rob joins GitLab as the Director of Contracts and Legal Operations. With over 8 years of negotiating, creating and leading teams related to contracts for the sale of Software, he will contribute to GitLabs continuing growth. Rob was previously with Red Hat, Inc. where he oversaw operations for the Management Portfolio, and prior to that he helped build Ansible, Inc. as the Director of Operations and Legal Affairs. In addition to his legal work, he has built end-to-end operational infrastructures from start-ups to billion dollar companies. He will use this experience to ensure operational success for GitLabs legal processes across various groups. Rob resides in Raleigh, N.C. He enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf, and watching their young puppy “Hamilton” grow up.

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  type: person
  name: Julie Braughler
  start_date: 2019-07-22
  locality: Pittsburgh, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/legal/contract-manager">Contract Manager</a>
  reports_to: robertnalen
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  twitter:
  gitlab: jbraughler
  departments:
    - Legal
  story:  |
          Julie joins GitLab as a Contracts Manager in the Legal Department. With over 25+ years of contracting experience with start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, Julie has drafted and negotiated pretty much every type of contract out there but is still refusing to review any contract on a cocktail napkin. With her previous employer, Wombat Security Technologies, Julie was the team lead for the Contracts Department and the co-chair for the company's compliance with the EU's GDPR initiative. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and children. In the event she has some "me" time she enjoys biking, kayaking, meeting up with friends for dinner or a game night, and reading.

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  name: Dara Warde
  start_date: 2019-05-09
  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/director-marketing-operations">Director of Marketing Operations</a>
  reports_to: tbarr
  picture: dara.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Dara
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Marketing Operations
  story:  |
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  type: person
  name: Kris Reynolds
  start_date: 2018-08-26
  locality: Holly Springs, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/program-manager-field-enablement/">Senior Program Manager, Technical Sales Enablement</a>
  reports_to: david-somers
  picture: kristenreynolds.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: kreynolds1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Kris is a dynamic program manager involved in technical training solutions, with a passion for cultivating a culture of curiosity and helping field associates create a seamless customer experience. She lives outside of Raleigh, NC with her husband, two boys, and 3 dogs. She enjoys cooking, traveling, and writing.

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  type: person
  name: Eric Brown
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Culpeper, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/program-manager-field-enablement/">Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Sales Enablement</a>
  reports_to: david-somers
  picture: ebrown.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ejbrown71
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Eric is a program manager in enterprise sales enablement. He has over 12 years of experience training counterintelligence agents for various government agencies. He lives in Virginia with his two sons and enjoys horseback riding, traveling, and creative writing.

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  type: person
  name: Eli Kastelein
  start_date: 2019-04-29
  locality: Vancouver, BC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-analyst/">Data Analyst</a>
  reports_to: ktam
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  twitter: captain_eli
  gitlab: eli_kastelein
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    - Business Operations
    - Data
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          Data analyst loving life in Canada. I can dunk.

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  reports_to: ktam
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  gitlab: iweeks
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - Data
  story:  |
          Israel is an energetic, data analytics professional who loves to execute the data analysis process from soup to nuts. He has a strong background in finance having served in the banking industry. Israel is passionate about providing excellent service to his teammates and clients. In his free time, he enjoys training kickboxing and jiu-jitsu, serving as a youth counselor, and traveling the world having adventures.

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  name: Aakif Nazir
  start_date: 2018-11-05
  locality: EMEA
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
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  twitter:
  gitlab: anazir
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
        Experienced problem-solver and self-proclaimed science nerd with a strong background in customer relations and support.
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- slug: jlack
  type: person
  name: Jeff Lackey
  start_date: 2018-12-10
  locality: Georgia
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market, Southeast</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Joined Dec 10th, 2018


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  name: Chris Rennie
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  locality: Charleston, SC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader - DoD - Navy/Marines</a>
  reports_to: KeithBarnes
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  twitter: ChrisLRennie
  gitlab: crennie
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Chris, a former United States Marine joins Gitlab from BCF Solutions, Inc. where he served as the Operations Manager for the Charleston, SC Office. While at BCF, Chris was responsible for developing a DevOps for Business Development Process to be employed across the company. Aside from that, he was charged with crafting the strategy to develop BCF's systems engineering, software development/integration, and cybersecurity expertise. Prior to his time with BCF, Chris served as the Government Technical Lead and led a large Navy Software Development Team through a DevOps transformation process. Chris also spent 20 years working with the Marine Corps' Global Command and Control System Tactical Combat Operations (GCCS-TCO) Program in various capacities. His career with GCCS-TCO started as the end-user Marine, then he worked as a contractor for CSC, Eagan McAllister Associates, SAIC, and Booz Allen Hamilton. Chris ended his tenture with GCCS-TCO as the Government's Integrated Product Team Technical Lead and Joint Tactical Common Operational Picture (COP) Workstation (JTCW) Product Lead at Navy Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic - Charleston (formerly Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center). In his free time, you can find Chris spending time with kids, watching Clemson Football, partaking in a few Fantasy Football Leagues, as well as enjoying Charleston's festivals, craft beer scene, and outsanding restraurant selections with family and friends.

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  type: person
  name: Robert Van Leer
  start_date: 2019-07-15
  locality: San Jose, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: alan-cooke
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
        Joins July 15th

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  type: person
  name: Akeela Logan
  start_date: 2018-10-24
  locality: Atlanta, Georgia
  country:  USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/billing-specialist/">Billing Specialist</a>
  reports_to: rev-rec-dir
  picture:  Akeela_Logan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: AkeelaLogan
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Akeela joined GitLab with a strong background in corporate billing and accounting. She is a problem solver with a record of managing customer concerns quickly and effectively.

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  type: person
  name: Anthony Seguillon
  start_date: 2018-11-20
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: mmalcolm
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  twitter:
  gitlab: aseguillon
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          "Anthony is passionate about innovation and sales, coming form an SDR background in the Big Data space. He will be supporting the French speaking regions in EMEA. His hobbies are: music production, sports, new technology and travel."

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  name: Matt Nguyen
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  locality: San Luis Obispo, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/digital-marketing-programs-manager/">Digital Marketing Programs Manager, Digital Marketing Specialist</a>
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  gitlab: mnguyen4
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
  story:  |
          Matt is a digital marketing geek with nearly a decade of experience, primarily in search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and programmatic display advertising. Being from an agency background for much of his career, Matt comes to GitLab with a wealth of knowledge in helping grow enterprise level companies through digital marketing efforts. Matt is a lover of the outdoors, often hiking and surfing along the Central Coast of California. A self proclaimed beer nerd, Matt is also a beer enthusiast who often seeks out rare beers to add to his "never big enough" beer collection.

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  type: person
  name: John Coghlan
  start_date: 2018-12-10
  locality: New York, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/evangelist-program-manager/">Senior Evangelist Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
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  twitter: john_cogs
  gitlab: johncoghlan
  departments:
  - Marketing
  - Community Relations
  - Merge Request buddy
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
  story:  |
          John leads GitLab's evangelist program. Want to give a tech talk or start a meetup in your hometown? He can help. John learned the secrets to helping people tell their stories and building great communities as founder of a coworking space in Brooklyn and as tech evangelist for Gilt and Grubhub. He stays busy by spending time with his family, going to concerts, and surfing - yes, you can surf in New York.

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  type: person
  name: Adrian Waters
  start_date: 2018-11-05
  locality: Newbury
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: gronk
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  twitter: aw412
  gitlab: awaters3
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Access Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Compliance Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Import Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Analytics Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Spaces Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  Adrian is passionate about enabling quality across the full software lifecycle.  Outside of work he enjoys family life (including dog!), sport, and is involved in a children's educational charity.

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  type: person
  name: Emily Cook
  start_date: 2018-11-12
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/community-advocate/">Senior Community Advocate</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
  picture: emilycook.jpg
  twitter: BestEmilyCook
  gitlab: ecook1
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Community Relations
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Emily worked as a CI/CD software developer with a focus on automation. She lives with her husband Cameron and little dog Peanut. In her spare time, she loves to watch movies, play video games and board games, and practice the piano.

- slug: joseph-valeriano
  type: person
  name: Joseph Valeriano
  start_date: 2018-11-19
  locality: Castle Rock, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: joel-k
  picture: joseph_valeriano.jpg
  twitter: ValerianoJoseph
  gitlab: jvaleriano
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Joseph is passionate about enabling others to take control of their work through common sense applications that align business needs with individual creativity. He is a Systems Engineer by trade and an Agile project management nerd through formal/informal training. For fun, he loves any outdoor activity with his family.

- slug: ana-desai
  type: person
  name: Ana Desai
  start_date: 2019-03-27
  locality: Ashburn, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: kristen-l
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  twitter:
  gitlab: adesai1
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |

- slug: phil-mckenzie-smith
  type: person
  name: Phil McKenzie Smith
  start_date: 2018-12-17
  locality: Mary Tavy, Devon
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: robertbyrne
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  twitter: AgilePhil
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story: |
          Phil has been helping companies across Europe and the Middle East adopt Lean & Agile practices at scale since 2009.
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  type: person
  name: John Cai
  start_date: 2018-12-17
  locality: Diamond Bar, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Gitaly</a>
  reports_to: zj
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  twitter:
  gitlab: johncai
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitaly Team
  expertise: |
              <li>Go Programming Language (GoLang) <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story: |
          John comes from a background in distributed systems. Loves designing and writing fast software. Outside of work he enjoys cooking, basketball, and spends alot of time mentoring students as part of a campus ministry.

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  type: person
  name: Brian Cupini
  start_date: 2018-12-17
  locality: San Diego, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: john-woods
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  twitter:
  gitlab: bcupini
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
    - Package Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Brian’s career in technology jumpstarted when he moved to San Jose in 1998, and spent over 15 years working at small dynamic startups, large enterprise companies, and everything in between.  He moved to San Diego in 2016 and in his free time he enjoys riding motorcycles, planning trips around the world, and cooking.

- slug: april-h
  type: person
  name: April Hoffbauer
  start_date: 2019-01-02
  locality: Seward, NE
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-operations/">Manager, Recruiting Operations</a>
  reports_to: dave-g
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  twitter:
  gitlab: Ahoffbauer
  pronouns: she/her/hers
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          April is passionate about people and helping them to enjoy life more, usually through technology. At GitLab you’ll find her searching for ways to make things more efficient and a better place to contribute! April loves to travel internationally, hanging out with family, movies, music, cooking, staying active and the old school Muppets. Her secret (not so secret) obsession is her dog; she shares their adventures on the dog’s Instagram account. Check out her [README](/handbook/people-group/readmes/ahoffbauer/)

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  name: Dave Gilbert
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/vp-recruiting/"> VP Of Recruiting</a>
  reports_to: sid
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  twitter:
  gitlab: davegilbert
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          My professional jam is scaling founder-led companies (GitLab is my fourth such gig!).  I'm based in the suburbs of Denver with my wife Orly and identical twin daughters Amanda & Eliza.  Outside of work I'm passionate about music (mediocre drummer myself and love attending live shows), road cycling, and poker.

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  type: person
  name: Stefanie Haynes
  start_date: 2019-01-02
  locality: Broomfield, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/executive-business-administrator/">Senior Executive Business Administrator</a>
  reports_to: tbarr
  picture: stefaniehaynes.JPG
  gitlab: shaynes13
  departments:
    - Marketing
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Stef is really passionate about the outdoors and animal rescue. In her spare time, you will find her hiking in the mountains, skiing, competing in marathon races and enjoying time with her labradoodle. Stef loves to travel, spend time with friends and family, partake in anything outdoors and learn new things.

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  type: person
  name: Bruno Lazzarin
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Buenos Aires
  country: Argentina
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, LATAM</a>
  reports_to: ramonaelliott
  picture: brunolazzarin.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: blazzarin
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Bruno is a Business professional that was raised between Brazil and Argentina. Besides of his passion for music, he loves to travel, to live new experiences with new people and to learn languages.

- slug: monicawilliams
  type: person
  name: Monica Williams
  start_date: 2019-01-09
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
  picture: monicawilliams.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mwilliams2
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Monica comes to GitLab with experience in various software development roles where she has worked with customers, support, development, and product. She takes pride in finding solutions and empowering others with information to do the same. Monica enjoys spending time with her family and travelling.

- slug: jrector
  type: person
  name: Josh Rector
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Buford, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: adam-j
  picture: joshrector.jpg
  twitter: joshua_rector
  gitlab: jrector
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Josh has spent 17 years in IT learning and helping others in multiple capacities.  Josh enjoys helping customers with their DevOps and Digital Transformation journeys by leveraging best of breed tools with real world enterprise experience.  Josh is originally from Baton Rouge, LA and is a die-hard LSU Tigers fan!  When not helping customers, Josh enjoys Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu and scuba diving with his wife and 3 kids.

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  type: person
  name: Robert Kohnke
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-analyst/">Marketing Operations Data Analyst</a>
  reports_to: darawarde
  picture: robertkohnke.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rkohnke
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Marketing Operations
  story:  |
          Robert is a by-the-numbers guy, which is why he loves spending his days looking at, tweaking, and improving marketing numbers and metrics. He finds great joy in seeing a plan or a spreadsheet come together. When the work day is over, Robert finds himself traveling, exploring the outdoors, tinkering in his garage, and pursuing an eclectic grouping of other hobbies.

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  type: person
  name: Sarah Yasonik
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: crystalpoole
  picture: sarahyasonik.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health BE Team
    - Monitor:Health
  projects:
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  story:  |
          Though originally from Wisconsin, Sarah considers herself a world citizen, intentionally surrounding herself with people of varied backgrounds and travelling to new places. In addition to her work as a software engineer, Sarah is also hobby-hopper: always creating something new. She enjoys painting, singing, baking, cooking, sewing, sculpting, knitting, etc.

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  name: Paul Okstad
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Huntington Beach, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Gitaly</a>
  reports_to: zj
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  twitter:
  gitlab: pokstad1
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitaly Team
  expertise:  |
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  story: Paul has worked a career spanning defense, fitness mobile apps, and mobile edge computing. Today, he is obsessed with writing idiomatic Go code in the pursuit of simple and elegant solutions for developers. A Southern California native, Paul lives near the beach with his wife, two children, and fur baby Toby. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, minimalist functional fitness, and practicing mixed martial arts.

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  name: Matt Allen
  start_date: 2019-01-28
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Senior Technical Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: cyndi-walsh
  picture: mattallen.jpg
  twitter: mattallenatx
  gitlab: mallen001
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Matt has over 10 years of technical Recruiting experience at companies like Uber, HomeAway (VRBO), and Rackspace. As someone who enjoys BBQ, Tex-Mex, and live music - it makes sense that he calls Austin home. The weather doesn't hurt either. Well, unless you forget sunscreen. Matt is originally from Chicago, and enjoys following his hometown teams.

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  type: person
  name: Cyndi Walsh
  start_date: 2019-03-25
  locality: Bulverde, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Recruiting Lead, Engineering - Non-Development</a>
  reports_to: liammcnally
  picture: cyndi-walsh.jpeg
  twitter: loowho11
  gitlab: cwalsh11
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
        Cyndi is a native Texan who enjoys camping in the Texas hill country and coastline, she also loves live music; current favorite genres include red dirt, americana, roots rock, folk rock, reggae, and dub. Cyndi and her family also love Costa Rica and try to get there at least every other year.  Cyndi has been in Recruitment for over 11 years where she has done technical recruitment and sourcing, she has also lead and built teams and has an affinity for finding ways to streamline and automate through systems, tools, and processes that improve the experience for everyone involved in the recruitment experience (candidates, hiring managers, recruiters, etc.). Cyndi loves to help people find their next opportunity (even if they did not know they were looking), building teams of highly engaged high performers, and being an advisor and partner with hiring teams.

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  name: Betsy Church
  start_date: 2019-01-28
  locality: Charlotte, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/employment-branding-specialist/">Senior Talent Brand Manager</a>
  reports_to: dave-g
  picture: betsy.JPG
  twitter: betsy_church
  gitlab: bchurch
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Betsy lives in Charlotte, NC, and is responsible for bringing our talent brand to life for candidates and GitLab team members. Coming from a journalism background, Betsy is passionate about talent branding because it perfectly connects her love for storytelling with projects that have a business impact. Prior to GitLab, she spent 6 years doing employment branding for Red Hat. When she’s not at her laptop, Betsy loves to paint, watch UNC Tar Heel basketball, drink red wine, visit friends and family, go to the beach (or anywhere on the water), and spend time with her fiancé, Dan, and their Golden Retriever, Sadie.

- slug: jamesmcgrew
  type: person
  name: James McGrew
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Beaverton, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas West)</a>
  reports_to: ronnie-alfaro
  picture: jamesmcgrew.png
  twitter: dectala
  gitlab: jemcgrew
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/high_availability/">High Availability</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">Expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          James is a software developer based in Oregon, USA. Before GitLab he worked for several web hosting companies, and most recently, with Intel. He is an avid fan of empathy and transparency and loves to include that in his work. When not working, he's likely playing D&D or spending time with his wife and son.

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  type: person
  name: Mike Lindsay
  start_date: 2019-01-28
  locality: Beaverton, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
  picture: mlindsay.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mlindsay
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Mike is a devops engineer based in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. He has worked at many interesting organizations
          through out his career, including Nike, Enron, and the Trailblazers. Mike likes to be a team player by being useful;
          whether thats through coding, mentoring, doing the needful, or just being a friend. Outside of the 'office', he
          loves to spend time with his family and friends, play video and board games, ride motorcycles, and hack stuff
          in his shop.

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  type: person
  name: Denys Mishunov
  start_date: 2019-01-21
  locality: Tønsberg
  country: Norway
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: roman-kuba
  picture: dmishunov.jpg
  twitter: mishunov
  gitlab: dmishunov
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Editor FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: maintainer frontend
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/">Web IDE</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
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          Denys is a developer, sometimes <a href="https://speaking.mishunov.me/">a public speaker</a> and occasionally <a href="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/denys-mishunov/">a writer</a>. Being 2-in-1: an art school graduate and an engineer, Denys is passionate about psychology, physics, history, drawing. In his day-to-day job he enjoys getting to the heart of the matter of things and processes. Originally from “CSS side”, for the last years Denys has been building Javascript applications, still breaking CSS, abusing HTML and working with performance optimisations of pretty much all aspects of the front-end toolset.

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  type: person
  name: Samantha Ming
  start_date: 2019-05-15
  locality: Vancouver, BC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: andre-l
  picture: samanthaming.png
  twitter: samantha_ming
  gitlab: sming-gitlab
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Samantha is a Frontend Engineer. Her career switch from business to programming has made her a huge advocate for inspiring others to get into tech. She shares her web programming knowledge in her weekly Code Tidbits series. Her success has led her to become a Google Developer Expert and a writer for DailyJS.

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  type: person
  name: Justin Boyson
  start_date: 2019-05-20
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: andre-l
  picture: justinboyson.jpg
  twitter: unclejustin
  gitlab: jboyson
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Justin started building websites back when Y2K was a really big problem. He bounced around a handful of corporate gigs as a .NET person before jumping to the pirate ship that is javascript development and hasn’t looked back since. He loves all things development-y and runs the Austin Vue Meetup group. In his spare time, he plays music way too loud, spends way too much money on coffee and doesn’t spend nearly enough time with his amazing wife.

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  type: person
  name: Himanshu Kapoor
  start_date: 2019-07-29
  locality: Delhi
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: roman-kuba
  picture: himanshukapoor.jpg
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  gitlab: himkp
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Editor FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer frontend
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          Himanshu has been writing JavaScript since it was popularly known as DHTML and had an alternative language VBScript to code in. He has written server-side JavaScript with classic ASP, Windows Scripting Host (WSH), HTML Applications (HTA), and more recently in the browsers for large-scale applications and on the backend using Node.js. In his spare time, he likes to create video games. He created <a href="https://sheepingaround.com/" target="_blank">Sheeping Around</a> - a multiplayer card game about grazing and stealing sheep. He also likes to <a href="http://fleonus.daportfolio.com" target="_blank">do illustration</a> and travel to places.

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  type: person
  name: Thomas Randolph
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Aurora, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: andre-l
  picture: thomasrandolph.jpg
  twitter: rockerest
  gitlab: thomasrandolph
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab:
      - reviewer frontend
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          <a href="http://resume.thomasrandolph.info" target="_blank">Thomas</a> has been doing web development for 16 years with about half of that spent diving as deeply as possible into the front end. He is excited about a lot of JavaScript, web browsers, and web technology standards. Over the last few years, Thomas has been working his way closer and closer "to the metal," which is how he got interested in and so excited by native Web Components. Thomas loves dogs, black coffee, sour beer, and absurdist humor. He's an expert swimmer, an avid motorcyclist, and an aspiring pilot.

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  type: person
  name: Tom Quirk
  start_date: 2019-10-28
  locality: Katherine, Northern Territory
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Knowledge
  reports_to: roman-kuba
  picture: tomquirk.jpg
  twitter: tom__quirk
  gitlab: tomquirk
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Knowledge FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab:
      - trainee_maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Tom lives in the Australian outback and is a lover of Javascript and the Web. He is passionate about working on software that matters and has experience across the software stack in a variety of technologies. Tom enjoys rock climbing, hiking, photography, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamping">glamping</a>, and is obsessed with all things music.

- slug: sophie-pouliquen
  type: person
  name: Sophie Pouliquen
  start_date: 2019-01-24
  locality: Cincinnati, Ohio
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: sophiepouliquen.jpg
  twitter: spouliquen
  gitlab: spouliquen1
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
    - Source Code Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Knowledge Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Static Site Editor Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Editor Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Gitaly Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Gitter Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Ecosystem Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Sophie is a passionate problem solver who never turns down a challenging task. Her love for technology coupled with a team driven mentality results in a fierce Technical Account Manager. When not in front of her computer, you will most likely find Sophie throwing weights around at the gym, cooking or learning something new.

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  type: person
  name: Kevin Chasse
  start_date: 2019-01-24
  locality: Millersville, Maryland
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Federal Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: robertclark
  picture: kevinchasse.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: kevinchasse
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Kevin has been working in technology for nearly 20 years in various roles and his passion for working with people and technology drew him to the Technical Account Manager role.  When not working, Kevin likes playing Magic the Gathering, chess, and coaching youth baseball.

- slug: hugoazevedo
  type: person
  name: Hugo Azevedo
  start_date: 2019-01-28
  locality: Erie, Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: HugoAzevedo.png
  twitter: hugodazevedo
  gitlab: hugoazevedo
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
    - Acquisition Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Conversion Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Expansion Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Retention Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Fulfillment Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Telemetry Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          A passionate solutions consultant exploring all the possibilities that a more collaborative,
          transparent, and trusting way of work can bring to teams and organizations. Brazilian by birth, Hugo has chosen Colorado as a
          place to call home. Previously, Hugo was a member of the Rally Software and CA Technologies' team where he brough
          his agile experience to Latin America. As a GitLab team-member, Hugo will be using his cultural/language skills and previous experience
          to spread the love to customers all over the Americas.

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  type: person
  name: Melissa Smolensky
  start_date: 2019-01-28
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/director-corporate-marketing/">Senior Director of Corporate Marketing</a>
  reports_to: tbarr
  picture: melissasmolensky.jpeg
  twitter: melsmo
  gitlab: melsmo
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Melissa is a native Texan living in San Francisco. She loves to tell stories and create movements around technologies and companies changing the face of the future. From OpenStack to CoreOS to Kubernetes, Melissa is always trying to push the industry forward to a more open and secure world. In her space time, she enjoys tex-mex, margaritas and impromptu dance parties.

- slug: christielenneville
  type: person
  name: Christie Lenneville
  start_date: 2019-02-02
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-management/#ux-director">UX Director</a>
  reports_to: eric-j
  picture: christielenneville.jpg
  twitter: clenneville
  gitlab: clenneville
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
  story:  |
          After graduating with a psychology degree in the late 90s, Christie quickly realized her passion was technology. That was before "UX" was really a thing, so she went back to school to get a Software Engineering degree. Luckily, UX is really the intersection of Psychology/Technology, so she landed in the right place. When she's not working or taking care of her two little kids, she likes to read sci-fi and perform (vocals and piano) with local jazz bands.

- slug: erichwegscheider
  type: person
  name: Erich Wegscheider
  start_date: 2019-02-18
  locality: Boulder, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-operations/">Recruiting Program Analyst</a>
  reports_to: april-h
  picture: erich.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: ewegscheider
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Erich is a data-driven People Ops specialist in pursuit of organizational efficiency and simplicity. Outside of work, he enjoys working out, traveling, photography, reading, and learning German.

- slug: sr-corp-events-mgr
  type: person
  name: Lauren Conway
  start_date: 2019-02-18
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/corporate-events-manager/">Senior Corporate Events Manager</a>
  reports_to: emily-k
  picture: Laureneconway__1_.JPG
  twitter: elcontotheway
  gitlab: Lconway
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story: |
          After spending nine years producing events for Yelp, Lauren joins the GitLab Marketing Team eager to help expand GitLab's brand reach.  She is currently trading in the Arizona desert for the mountains with a move back to Denver, CO.  When not hunting for unique Instagram backdrops for an event Lauren can tell you... how to order all the things on Amazon Prime, where her favorite airports are, why she doesn't like mosaic hops and the latest transfer rumors for MUFC.

- slug: chrissiebuchanan
  type: person
  name: Chrissie Buchanan
  start_date: 2019-02-18
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/content-marketing/">Content Marketing Manager, Ops</a>
  reports_to: erica-l
  picture: chrissiebuchanan.jpg
  twitter: the_chrissie
  gitlab: cbuchanan
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Content Marketing
    - Ops Section
  story:  |
          Chrissie is a writer and marketer with a predilection for fact-checking and nitty-gritty details. Before joing GitLab, Chrissie was a content marketer in the fintech space. She has a corgi named Potato, a cat named Mouse, and a shelter dog named Millie.

  remote_story: |
                Atlanta is an amazing city except for the traffic. The long commute was zapping my energy and, even though I liked my job, I was absolutely drained at the end of every day. Since joining GitLab I'm more productive, I'm spending more time with friends and family, and I wake up every morning excited to work.


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  type: person
  name: Enrique Alcántara
  pronouns: he/him
  start_date: 2019-02-18
  locality: Santo Domingo
  country: Dominican Republic
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer</a>, Create:Static Site Editor
  reports_to: jeanduplessis
  picture: enrique-alcantara.jpg
  twitter: enriquecastl
  gitlab: ealcantara
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Static Site Editor Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
    gitlab-ui: trainee_maintainer frontend
    www-gitlab-com:
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  story:  |
          Enrique is passionate about design, developing software in a kind environment, and achieving high user satisfaction with his work. In his free time he enjoys cooking, writing, and relaxing on the beach with his partner.

- slug: cnovello
  type: person
  name: Chris Novello
  start_date: 2019-02-18
  locality: Round Hill, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/federal-channel-manager/">Federal Channel Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: paul-a
  picture: chrisnovello.jpeg
  gitlab: cnovello
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Chris has over a decade of Public Sector Channels experience and is eager to implement the best practices of what he has learned to make GitLabs channel the best in the business.

- slug: michael-scarnato
  type: person
  name: Michael Scarnato
  start_date: 2019-10-7
  locality: Leesburg, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/federal-channel-manager/">Public Sector Channel Manager</a>
  reports_to: cnovello
  picture: mscarnato.jpeg
  gitlab: mscarnato
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
    - Channel
  story:  |
          I've been selling to the federal market for about 20 years and in channel sales for the past 14 years. I live outside of the Washington, DC area with my wife, son and our dog, Sparky. In my free time I enjoy traveling and spending time with my family.

- slug: vladbudica
  type: person
  name: Vlad Budica
  start_date: 2019-02-18
  locality: Bucharest
  country: Romania
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: gronk
  picture: vladbudica.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: vladbudica
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Vlad's DevOps journey began with reading The Phoenix Project and The DevOps handbook, previously he had roles as a Customer Support , Ops  and as a Solutions Engineer. He is based in Bucharest, Romania, in his free time he is a mountainbiker and kettlebell enthusiast.

- slug: cassianagudgenov
  type: person
  name: Cassiana Gudgenov
  start_date: 2019-02-19
  locality: Durham, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-operations">People Operations Specialist</a>
  reports_to: nadia-v
  picture: cassianagudgenov.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cgudgenov
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
    - People Operations Team
  expertise:  |
             <li>Country Conversions <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li>Employee Engagement <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
             <li>BambooHR <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  remote_story: |
                At my previous employer, a small tech startup, we had the flexibility of working remotely one day per week. As an introvert, this was a great way for me to see how much more productive I could be in a comfortable, distraction-free location. I love GitLab's truly remote and asynchronous working philosophy. I've been extremely grateful to be able to work anywhere, be it in countries where I have family (Canada, Brazil, Bulgaria, New Zealand) or my cozy office with a cup of tea and a cat on my desk! I also always have social opportunities, including daily video meetings and chats, as well as meeting colleagues in person while traveling and at Contribute.
  story:  |
          Cassiana lives in Durham, NC, and is responsible for supporting GitLab team members, be it through converting them from PEO to entity, helping them with relocating to other countries, or through gleaning action items from engagement survey data. Cassiana is passionate about working on the People Team because it perfectly aligns with her love of helping all team members feel heard, understood, and supported. Cassiana loves seeking out new vegetarian food adventures, listening to comedy podcasts, re-watching all the rom-coms, crying to pet rescue videos, and traveling the world. She also believes that laughing, especially with family & friends, is curative & healing.

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  type: person
  name: Giuliana Lucchesi
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-operations">People Operations Specialist</a>
  reports_to: nadia-v
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  twitter:
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  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
    - People Operations Team
  expertise:  |
  story:  |
          Based in Chicago, Giuliana contributes to the People Operations team at GitLab. Forward thinking and people passionate, she is energized by technology, human development, and business strategy. She loves all things Italian, photography, writing, language, and immersing herself in different cultures. A curious traveler, she has lived in four countries (so has her cat) and traveled to over thirty.
  remote_story:  |
    When I entered the workforce, geography became one of the biggest pain points for me. I found myself in a position in which I needed to choose between the opportunity to work abroad and being based close to my family, which in and of itself is difficult as my family is spread between the US and Italy. GitLab's 100% remote environment has given me complete geographical freedom to spend time with my family and friends globally, all while being a part of an incredible organization. For me, there is truly nothing more valuable!

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  name: Marcus Carter
  start_date: 2019-02-25
  locality:
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  reports_to: kellymurdock
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  twitter:
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    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Joined February 25th

- slug: spoon
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  name: Simon Poon
  start_date: 2019-09-03
  locality: Singapore
  country: Singapore
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Senior Sales Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: kellymurdock
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  twitter: spooner_555
  gitlab: simon_poon
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  Simon is based in sunny Singapore and has been doing technology recruitment for more than 10 years. He is responsible for sales recruitment for APAC in GitLab. Outside of work, Simon enjoys watching TV shows, travelling and social gathering


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  name: Steph Sarff
  start_date: 2019-07-29
  locality: portland, or
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  reports_to: dave-g
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Steph is responsible for helping grow our Marketing team here at GitLab. She lives in Portland, OR and loves the food scene, the rain, and the fact that she gets to wear flannels and beanies for the majority of the year. When she's not working she's usually trying her best at a dance class, traveling new places, reading books about design, buying a new plant, or adventuring with her cutie of a pup, Freddie Girl.

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  type: person
  name: Debbie Harris
  start_date: 2019-08-06
  locality: Cork
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Senior Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: kellymurdock
  picture: debbie-harris.jpg
  twitter: harrisdebbie
  gitlab: DebbieHarris
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Debbie Harris is based in South West Ireland with her family. Involved in recruitment and HR for more than 10 years, she is passionate about finding the best talent and creating a great candidate experience. Her interests include books, plays and beaches!

- slug: markloveless
  type: person
  name: Mark Loveless
  start_date: 2019-02-25
  locality: Arlington, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Security Research</a>
  reports_to: ethan-strike
  picture: markloveless.png
  twitter: simplenomad
  gitlab: mloveless
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Mark is located in Arlington, TX. A security researcher at heart, he enjoys breaking things and putting them back together. In his spare time he fights his wife for piano time, plays prog metal music, and enjoys woodworking.

- slug: braddowney
  type: person
  name: Brad Downey
  start_date: 2019-03-25
  locality: Laguna Beach, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (Southern California)</a>
  reports_to: james-roberts
  picture: bdowney-sq.jpeg
  twitter: TechBradD
  gitlab: bdowney
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
        Brad Downey began his career in 1999 as a Network Engineer, building and maintaining customer networks.
        Over the years Brad has worked with many different types of organizations from Small Business, Large Enterprise,
        Government and Education, and Service Providers. Brad has a passion for technology and sharing it with others.

        Outside of work, Brad enjoys spending time with his beautiful family -- A caring wife named Ana,
        a rambunctious boy named Luka, a bouncing baby girl named Luna, and a goofy looking French Bulldog named Rio.

- slug: colinfletcher
  type: person
  name: Colin Fletcher
  start_date: 2019-03-20
  locality: Pflugerville, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Manager, Market Research and Customer Insights</a>
  reports_to: ashish-k
  picture: colinfletcher.jpg
  twitter: colinwfletcher
  gitlab: cfletcher1
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Market Research and Customer Insights
  story:  |
          Colin is all about helping GitLab develop and build on the market insights and customer relationships that ensure real, sustained, and mutual success. He’s lived several previous professional lives, but the last two were doing the Gartner industry analyst and strategic marketing things. When not on the job he is playing video games, supporting independent film, listening to rad music, pondering existentialism, or otherwise catering to his cat’s whims.

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  name: Danielle Morrill
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  reports_to: sid
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter: DanielleMorrill
  gitlab: dmor
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Serial startup person, as a founder, executive, employee, and investor. Self-taught software engineer.

- slug: heathersimpson
  type: person
  name: Heather Simpson
  start_date: 2019-02-25
  locality: Pittsburgh, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-analyst/">Senior External Communications Analyst, Security</a>
  reports_to: johnathan-h
  picture: heathersimpson.jpg
  twitter: Heatherswall
  gitlab: hsimpson
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
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          Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Heather is passionate about building and engaging audiences through digital marketing and collaborative communications tools. Prior to joining GitLab, Heather spent over a decade in marketing and communications roles at CSC and DXC Technology. She's in love with coffee, books and all things dogs.  Any time not working is spent with her two daughters, husband and two dogs. She's trying to get into running and completed the Pittsburgh half-marathon last year, but really, she'd rather be reading.

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  twitter:
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          Usha specializes in information security compliance with a background in operations and management. Prior to GitLab she was the Senior Information Security Officer at the State of New Jersey managing and leading federal security audits ensuring data privacy, governance, risk and compliance.  She has also worked as management consultant specializing in cloud migrations, security implementations and disaster recovery. She enjoys, long walks, cooking and gardening with her husband and daughter. In her spare time, she teaches indian classical dance to her neighborhood kids.

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  country: Poland
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
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          Gosia is a backend developer who loves constant challenges in programming. In her free time she reads or plays boardgames with friends. A fan of colorful socks.

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  locality: Minsk
  country: Belarus
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
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    Pavel is a Ruby developer with strong thirst of making fast, stable, secure and flexible software. As a hobby Pavel does snowboarding, plays basketball and drives racing karts.

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  name: Kevin McKinley
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  locality: Los Angeles, CA
  country: USA
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  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
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  story:  |

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  country: USA
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
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  story:  |
          Aashish is a former sports talk show host at ESPN Radio in Nashua, NH. After working in the media industry for five years, he's now enjoying the exciting world of sales development. In his spare time Aashish likes to travel, binge-watch his favorite TV shows, and spend time with family.

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  name: Bartek Marnane
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  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
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    - Development Department
    - Growth Section
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          Bartek is an experienced IT executive with a passion for growing and developing highly effective software engineering teams in order to build amazing products across a diverse range of languages and frameworks.

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  country: USA
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  reports_to: hannah-s
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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  story:  |

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  country: Ireland
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  gitlab: sdelea
  departments:
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         Hi there! I have been recruiting for a variety of roles within the Tech industry for over 4 years. I thoroughly enjoy helping teams scale and driving top notch candidate experience. Outside of work I love to cook, travel as much as I can, attempt to do yoga and pet any dog I see.

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  name: Morgen Smith
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  locality: Nashville, TN
  country: USA
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  twitter:
  gitlab: msmith6
  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Hi I am Morgen. Originally from Memphis, TN but now a Nashville native with a house full of rambuntious children. In my freetime I love to travel and eat different kinds of foods.

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  name: Catarina Ferreira
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  country: Ireland
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  twitter:
  gitlab: cferreira1
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         Hi! I’m Catarina and I have been recruiting for Tech for the past 4 years. I am from Portugal but I’m living in Dublin for the past 3 years. I have been helping Engineering teams to scale out and I am super excited that I joined GitLab as a Technical Recruiter!

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  name: Ryan Demmer
  start_date: 2020-02-03
  locality: San Antonio
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Senior Technical Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: liammcnally
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  twitter:
  gitlab: RDemmer
  departments:
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  story: |
        Ryan has been recruiting for over 10 years and thrives on helping others find their next dream job!  He has recruited in the auto, oil and gas and tech industries across the entire United States. He’s a native Texan from San Antonio and attended Texas A&M University.  In his spare time Ryan enjoys spending time outside camping, hiking, coaching baseball and spending time with his wife and three boys.

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  name: Clinton Sprauve
  start_date: 2019-02-25
  locality: Fort Worth, Texas
  country: USA
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  reports_to: brian-w
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  twitter: Clint_II
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  departments:
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  story:  |
          Clint first joined Gitlab with the product marketing team in 2019 as a competitive intellience specialist. Currently, he is an Enterprise Solutions Architect in the US central region.  He was previously with Sauce Labs as the Director of Product Marketing
          for mobile. Clint lives in Fort Worth, Texas and  enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife and walking their labradoodle.

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  name: Jean du Plessis
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
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  reports_to: tim-z
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  twitter:
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Static Site Editor Team
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          <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
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          Jean started out as a backend developer but over the years fell in love with all things JavaScript and now focuses on fullstack development.
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  name: Chad Woolley
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Tucson, Arizona
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/fullstack-engineer">Senior Fullstack Engineer</a>, Create:Static Site Editor
  reports_to: jeanduplessis
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Static Site Editor Team
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    gitlab: reviewer frontend
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      - maintainer frontend
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          Chad has been doing coding, sysadmin, and ops for 30+ years, since the dawn of the web and before - from mainframes to the cloud. He has contributed to and created several open source projects. His hobbies include traveling, volunteering, learning languages, listening to and making music, and weightlifting/natural bodybuilding. Chad joined GitLab because their values are closely aligned with his own. He is an avid user of the GitLab product for his own personal projects.

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  name: Vasilii Iakliushin
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  country: Germany
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  reports_to: jeanduplessis
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Static Site Editor Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
    www-gitlab-com:
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  story:  |
          Vasilii is a software developer based in Berlin, Germany. He likes building software solutions that can be useful for other people. He started contributing to open-source projects several years ago and realized that is what he wants to do. Apart from being a software developer, he likes traveling and cycling.

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  name: Viktor Nagy
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
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  reports_to: kevinchu
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  departments:
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    - Ops Section
    - Configure
  story:  |
          Viktor spends most of his free time with the Fontanus Research Center. At the Center, they are building an amazing community around games, health, and philosophy. He actively participates and supports spreading the Center's innovations, like Balance<sup>2</sup>, Water Skyball, and Castle of Mind. He joined GitLab because he always wanted to work on developer tooling and believes in GitLab's vision.

- slug: samkerr
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  name: Sam Kerr
  start_date: 2019-07-29
  locality: West Lafayette, IN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Principal Product Manager</a>, Secure:Attack Surface
  reports_to: ddesanto
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  twitter:
  gitlab: stkerr
  departments:
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    - Secure PM Team
    - Secure Section
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          Sam has spent his career in security, as an analyst, a software engineer, and most recently as a product manager. With a foundation in Computer Science from Purdue University, Sam is passionate about helping others secure themselves against attacks and develop their apps. Originally from Ohio, Sam is a big fan of Cincinnati-style chili. Give it a shot if you've not tried it! When he's not working Sam enjoys playing video and board games with his wife, walking his long-haired chihuahua, Oreo, and baking.

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  name: Tim Hey
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: New Boston, New Hampshire
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Principal Product Manager</a>, Growth:Expansion
  reports_to: hilaqu
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  twitter: _timhey
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  departments:
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  story:  |

- slug: jennytiemann
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  name: Jenny Tiemann
  start_date: 2019-05-07
  locality: Las Vegas, NV
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-program-manager/">Senior Marketing Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: jgragnola
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  twitter:
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    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing Programs
  story:  |
          Jenny brings her passion for driving marketing results to the Gitlab Team.  Her experience spans several areas of marketing with a focus in demand generation, marketing automation, and analytics. In her free time, Jenny volunteers with local animal rescue groups, reads, cooks (but is definitely not a baker), and tries to get to the beach as often as possible.

- slug: alex-groleau
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  name: Alex Groleau
  start_date: 2019-03-11
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Automation</a>
  reports_to: stevemanzuik
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  twitter: awgneo
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  departments:
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    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Before GitLab I coded, scrum-mastered, and lead several projects at Salesforce, specifically for their Pardot B2B marketing automation platform. On the side and for fun, I am pretty involved with the blockchain and distributed computing landscape, having completed an Ethereum Dapp (Seedom) and the business development for a co-owned co-living project known as Haven. Most of the stress in my life comes from me presiding over my 130 unit condo building in downtown ATL. I chose to work at GitLab to continue to learn how successful open source projects operate with regards to monetization, decentralization, and, of course, security. In my spare time, I love to continue to research state-of-the-art distributed computing techniques, such as Holochain, travel and listen to tons and tons of Bassnectar.

- slug: melissarodriguez
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  name: Melissa Rodriguez
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Senior Security Engineer, Automation</a>
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  departments:
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    - Security Department
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          Melissa joined GitLab because she loves the product, team, culture and open source. Her background spans work in systems administration, security engineering and software development. Her passions include video games, gardening, hiking, reading and enjoying vegan food.

- slug: Keith Snape
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  name: Keith Snape
  start_date: 2019-03-25
  locality: Assiniboia, Saskatchewan
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/it-operations-system-engineer/">IT Operations System Administrator</a>
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  story:  |
          An experienced IT professional with over twenty years working with linux.  A passionate autodidact, located in Central Canada with family and pets.

- slug: john-orvos
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  name: John Orvos
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  twitter:
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    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Joining August 19th

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  name: Tim Kuper
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  locality: Royal Oak, MI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
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  gitlab: gt1230
  departments:
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    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          An IT professional with over 10 years experience deleloping sales territories within emerging markets.  A passionate outdoor enthusiast, located in Southeast Michigan with family and pets.

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  name: Chris G.
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  name: Mathieu Peychet
  start_date: 2019-06-24
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
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    - Business Operations
    - Data
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          Data geek. Music junkie. Outdoor enthusiast. Cheese lover

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  name: Hailey Pobanz
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Sales Development Manager, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
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  departments:
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    - Sales NQR
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          Based in Amsterdam, Hailey started her career in tech in San Francisco and jumped the pond in 2015. A self taught tech nerd, Hailey spent time as a Sales Engineer before moving into account leadership. When not gitlabbing, you can find Hailey on the yoga mat (both as student and teacher) or in the park with her dog Bowie.


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              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
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          Nicole started her love for security during gradeschool, and has been attending hacker conferences ever since. Most recently she is a volunteer at The Diana Initiative and SkyTalks. During her career she has tried many different roles in the software development space, including systems administrator, before coming to find Product Management. She came to GitLab after some time as the technical product manager for the Rackspace public cloud control panel and was excited to transition to a role that merged her passion for security with her career in Product Managment.
          She is often hard to pin down geographically, as she loves to travel. When she is not traveling she dabbles in homebrewing, blogging about tea, and gaming. Her favorite flavor of games are role playing games like dungeons and dragons, although lately you can find her playing Pokemon Go. Here's a link to Nicole's <a href="https://gitlab.com/NicoleSchwartz/readme">README</a>.

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  name: Taylor McCaslin
  start_date: 2020-01-27
  locality: Austin, Texas
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Secure:Static Analysis
  reports_to: ddesanto
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  departments:
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    - Secure Section
    - Secure PM Team
  story:  |
          Taylor McCaslin is a multi-disciplinary Investor, Product Manager, and Technologist living in Austin, Texas. He brings his passion for creating delightful developer experiences and usable security tools to Gitlab. Taylor also founded and runs Product Trust Investments, an angel fund focused on impact investing with companies that build ethical products that customers trust. Previously he has worked at hyper growth enterprise technology companies including: New Knowledge, Duo Security, WP Engine, and Indeed.com. Taylor is an advocate and defender of privacy, consent, and inclusion. <a href="https://www.taylormccaslin.com/" target="_blank">Learn more about Taylor</a>.

- slug: derekferguson
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  name: Derek Ferguson
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Richardson, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Secure:Dynamic Analysis
  reports_to: ddesanto
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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    - Secure Section
    - Secure PM Team
  story:  |
          Derek comes to GitLab with a background in Product Management and Software Development. He has been both a frontend and backend engineer, an Engineering Manager, and a Product Manager. Derek started programming when he was 8 years old and loved taking apart electronics to learn how they work. He found his passion when an opportunity presented itself to move into Product Management. Figuring out the problems that people are facing, coming up with a plan to fix those problems, and working to implement those plans drives him in all aspects of his life. With a degree in Linguistics and Communications, Derek is passionate about languages and culture and always enjoys learning new things about people. In his spare time, he enjoys playing with his two amazing kids, playing guitar and bass, and doing pretty much anything with his wonderful wife.

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  name: Dov Hershkovitch
  start_date: 2019-08-26
  locality: BeerSheba
  country: Israel
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Monitor:APM
  reports_to: kevinchu
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  twitter: dov0211
  gitlab: dov0211
  departments:
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    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM
  story:  |
          Dov joins GitLab with a background in Product Management, Demo Solutions, and Technical marketing.
          He brings strong capabilities around Observability solutions which includes Logs, Metrics and APM.
          In his spare time Dov enjoys running, attending soccer matches, and spending quality time with his wife and 3 kids.

- slug: sarahwaldner
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  name: Sarah Waldner
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Monitor:Health
  reports_to: kevinchu
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  twitter: sarahwaldner25
  gitlab: sarahwaldner
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
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    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health
  story:  |
          Sarah began her career as a Chemical Engineer in Oil & Gas, building underwater infrastructure for offshore rigs. Craving more creativity and innovation in her day-to-day work, she made the transition to technology by teaching herself to code. Since changing trajectories, Sarah has spent the last few years building incident management software for DevOps teams.  When she’s not building products or backpacking the world, you can find Sarah bombing new trails on her mountain bike, hosting dinner parties, and reupholstering furniture in her home.

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  name: Samuel White
  start_date: 2020-01-20
  locality: Lindon, UT
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Senior Product Manager</a>, Defend:Application Infrastructure Security
  reports_to: ddesanto
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  twitter:
  gitlab: sam.white
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Defend Section
    - Defend PM Team
  story:  |
          Sam launched straight into a Product Management career after completing a degree in Business Management and has worked in Product ever since.  Outside of work, he can be found spending time with his family, writing code to run on his Raspberry Pi, or out hiking in the Utah mountains.

- slug: mattwilson
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  name: Matt Wilson
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Georgetown, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Senior Product Manager</a>, Defend
  reports_to: ddesanto
  picture: mattwilson.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: matt_wilson
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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    - Defend Section
    - Defend PM Team
  story:  |
          Matt has spent his entire career working with technology.  With a background in Electrical Engineering, he promptly ignored that and became a web developer.  Almost a decade ago, he transitioned into Product Management and never looked back.  Outside of work, his two kids (1 boy, 1 girl) and two large dogs keep him and his wife busy.  What little bits of free time he can find, Matt is usually fixing something broken, doing a home improvement project 5x slower than he estimated, or (rarely) spending time in his workshop.

- slug: jamesheimbuck
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  name: James Heimbuck
  start_date: 2019-08-26
  locality: Arvada, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Verify:Testing
  reports_to: kencjohnston
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  twitter: jheimbuck
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    - CICD Section
  story:  |
          James started his career at an antispyware software company working in threat research but quickly realized Product Management was where he belonged. Since then he has worked in various industries most recently at Twilio SendGrid as a Product Manager for the Dev Ops and InfoSec teams. Outside of work you can find James spending time with his wife and daughter, cooking up something new in the kitchen or brewing and sampling beer around the Denver area.

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  type: person
  name: Thao Yeager
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Georgetown, TX
  country: USA
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  reports_to: jasonyavorska
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  twitter: thaoyeager
  gitlab: thaoyeager
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - CICD Section
  story:  |
          Thao spent the past 15 years working in product management. She enjoys spending time with family and friends. Her favorite hobby is playing golf with her husband who is also her golf instructor, swing coach, full-service caddy and biggest fan.

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  type: person
  name: Tim Rizzi
  start_date: 2019-04-10
  locality: Los Angeles
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Package
  reports_to: jasonyavorska
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  twitter: tim_rizzi
  gitlab: trizzi
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - CICD Section
  story:  |
          Tim has spent the past ten years working in product management. As a product manager he has helped grow companies from concept to acquistion. Before that, he spent five years as a technical project manager, helping companies like MySpace and Edmunds with big data and infrastructure projects. Prior to that, he spent five years working in operations for a leading market research company. When he is not at work, you can find Tim trying to learn a new language, walking his dog or baking bread.

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  type: person
  name: Jackie Meshell
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Release:Release Management
  reports_to: kencjohnston
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  twitter:
  gitlab: jmeshell
  departments:
    - CICD Section
    - Product Management
  story:  |
         Jackie joins GitLab from a background in SaaS Program and Release Management in Austin, Texas where she managed teams to support Enterprise customers with their software solutions. She is excited to join the CI/CD team in the Release Stage as a Senior Product Manager. A self-proclaimed Texan, Jackie enjoys spending time at her family ranch on the weekends, boxing competitively in the South, and training to be a better athelete.

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  type: person
  name: Darren Eastman
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: North Caldwell, New Jersey
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Verify:Runner
  reports_to: jasonyavorska
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  gitlab: DarrenEastman
  departments:
    - CICD Section
    - Product Management
  story:  |
          Darren grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and developed his passion for computing technology, software development, entrepreneurship, and innovation while living and working in Austin Texas during the mid-1990s through 2011. Darren has held various commercial software product management roles over the last 11 years. At Dell software, he managed various SaaS products and most recently worked on Nike Digital’s Cloud Acceleration team building out a CI/CD platform coupled with curated pipelines.  He is now on the east coast and is excited to be part of the GitLab team. He is an advocate for work-life balance and spends his free time hanging out with his family, running, watching sports or pottering around in the garden.

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  name: Sid Reddy
  start_date: 2019-09-01
  locality: Austin, Texas
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager/">Senior Product Manager</a>, Growth:Telemetry
  reports_to: hilaqu
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  twitter:
  gitlab: sid_reddy
  departments:
    - Product Management
  expertise:    |

  story:  |
          Sid is a Senior Product Manager at GitLab on the Growth team. Sid grew up in New York City and currently resides in Austin, Texas. In his free time he loves reading, exercising and coding. Sid’s passion is building great products around the world’s most valuable resource, Data.

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  name: Adrien Kohlbecker
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: The Hague
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
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  twitter:
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  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM BE Team
    - Monitor:APM
  story:  |
          Joined June 3rd, 2019

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  type: person
  name: Vitali Tatarintev
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health BE Team
    - Monitor:Health
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Vitali loves developing software and playing with different technologies.
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- slug: allisonbrowne
  type: person
  name: Allison Browne
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: Acton, Massachusetts
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: crystalpoole
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  gitlab: allison.browne
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health BE Team
    - Monitor:Health
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Allison is a backend engineer who enjoys making nice experiences for users. Outside of work, Allison has a dog and enjoys outdoor activities as well as indoor climbing, reading and cooking.

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  type: person
  name: Sean Arnold
  start_date: 2019-08-12
  locality: Wellington
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: crystalpoole
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  twitter:
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health BE Team
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  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  expertise:  |
    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Sean is a backend engineer living in Wellington, New Zealand. He loves writing Ruby,
          but is comfortable across a variety of languages and platforms. Outside of coding, Sean
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  name: Mikołaj Wawrzyniak
  start_date: 2019-10-17
  locality: Wrocław
  country: Poland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: engineering-manager-monitor-apm
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  gitlab: mikolaj_wawrzyniak
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM BE Team
    - Monitor:APM
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Mikołaj is Ruby on Rails enthusiast since 2014, with a passion for solving challenging problems.
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- slug: kirstiecook
  type: person
  name: Kirstie Cook
  start_date: 2019-08-23
  locality: Pensacola, FL
  country: US
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: engineering-manager-monitor-apm
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  twitter:
  gitlab: k_cook
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:APM BE Team
    - Monitor:APM
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Kirstie is a backend developer living in Pensacola, Florida, USA. Outside of work, she enjoys spending
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  type: person
  name: Michal Wasilewski
  start_date: 2019-01-21
  locality: Warsaw
  country: Poland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Site Reliability Engineer</a>
  reports_to: asandoval
  picture: michalwasilewski.jpg
  gitlab: mwasilewski-gitlab
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  story:  |
          Michal is an open source enthusiast who is very excited about contributing full-time. He is passionate about building infrastructure and scaling distributed systems. When he is not working, he can be found swimming, sailing, travelling, trying new food and occasionally playing the guitar.

- slug: weimeng
  type: person
  name: Wei-Meng Lee 李伟明
  start_date: 2019-02-11
  locality: Singapore
  country: Singapore
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Senior Support Engineer (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: weimenglee.png
  twitter: weimeng
  gitlab: weimeng
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Wei Meng is passionate about helping people and organisations be more effective at what they do. Prior to GitLab, he worked in journalism, web development and software product management. When not chasing random trivia down rabbit holes, you can find Wei Meng tinkering with electronics, playing video games or creating websites... about random trivia.
  expertise: |
    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/">Omnibus</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/service_desk.html">Service Desk</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>

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  type: person
  name: Julian Paul Dasmariñas
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Marikina City
  country: Philippines
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
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  gitlab: jdasmarinas
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Julian is a system administrator and also enjoys programming. He is a fan of open source software. In his free time, he loves reading manga, manhua, and webtoons.

- slug: engineering-manager-monitor-apm
  type: person
  name: Matt Nohr
  start_date: 2019-05-28
  locality: White Bear Lake, Minnesota
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: samgoldstein
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  twitter: matthewnohr
  gitlab: mnohr
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor BE Team
    - Monitor:APM
  story:  |
          Matt is an engineering manager with a background as a software engineer. He is originally from Wisconsin (Go Pack Go), and now lives in Minnesota with his wife and three kids. In the summer he enjoys camping, hiking, and spending time by one of Minnesota’s 10,000 (actually 11,842) lakes. In the winter he spends his time snowshoeing and curling.

- slug: drewcimino
  type: person
  name: Drew Cimino
  start_date: 2019-03-18
  locality: New York, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Verify:Testing</a>
  reports_to: rickywiens
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  twitter:
  gitlab: drewcimino
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
    verify-codequality: maintainer
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:Testing BE Team
  story:  |
          Drew's around, and into the whole brevity thing.

- slug: trevorknudsen
  type: person
  name: Trevor Knudsen
  start_date: 2019-03-28
  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/executive-business-administrator/">Executive Business Administrator</a>
  reports_to: carol-teskey
  picture: trevorknudsen.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Tknudsen
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Trevor loves to help others, and spends most of his free time exploring theme parks, and making the best of life. He also enjoys traveling, spending time with his dog, and watching broadway shows.

- slug: desireechevalier
  type: person
  name: Désirée Chevalier
  start_date: 2019-04-08
  locality: Florida
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Software Engineer in Test</a>, Manage:Import
  reports_to: ramya-authappan
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  twitter:
  gitlab: dchevalier2
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Dev QE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer qa
    gitlab-qa: reviewer
  story:  |
          Désirée loves to save time by automating tasks. She is also always on the hunt for bugs whether they be in code or the garden.

- slug: fabiopitino
  type: person
  name: Fabio Pitino
  start_date: 2019-04-23
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Verify:Continuous Integration</a>
  reports_to: darby-frey
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  twitter: fabiopitino
  gitlab: fabiopitino
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:CI BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Fabio is originally from Sicily (Italy) and lives in Dublin. He started programming in Turbo Pascal in 1998, when he was 13 and since 2009 he has been in love with Ruby. He's passionate about clean code, DDD and finding appropriate terms on Thesaurus. In his spare time he loves playing and composing music, landscape photography, reading books and cooking his favourite dishes.

- slug: mbobin
  type: person
  name: Marius Bobin
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Bucharest
  country: Romania
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Verify:Continuous Integration</a>
  reports_to: darby-frey
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  twitter: mariusbobin
  gitlab: mbobin
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:CI BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          A lifelong tinkerer, likes to take things apart, see how they work
          and how can be improved or automated.

- slug: ramonaelliott
  type: person
  name: Ramona Elliott
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Austin
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Senior Manager, AMER Sales Development</a>
  reports_to: evanw
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  twitter:
  gitlab: monaelliott
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Ramona, aka Mona, has been in business/sales development for almost ten years, passionately managing teams remotely for the past 4. For "chill time", she's either screaming loudly at her kids sporting events (soccer,basketball and wrestling) or catching a happy hour with her husband.

- slug: furkanayhan
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  name: Furkan Ayhan
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Istanbul
  country: Turkey
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Verify:Continuous Integration</a>
  reports_to: darby-frey
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  twitter: furkanayhn
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:CI BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Furkan has been working on web applications using Ruby on Rails and different frontend frameworks for more than 6 years. He loves playing video games and watching TV shows.

- slug: erickbajao
  type: person
  name: Erick Bajao
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Manila
  country: Philippines
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Verify:Testing</a>
  reports_to: rickywiens
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    gitlab: reviewer backend
    verify-codequality: maintainer
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:Testing BE Team
  story:  |
          Erick has been building web applications using Ruby on Rails and a bunch of different frontend frameworks for almost a decade now. A strong proponent of Test Driven Development and clean code design, he is passionate about always improving his craft, learning the best practices for any type of work he is doing. When he's not writing code, he is always on the lookout for new coffee shops, exploring different types of single origin coffee. His favorite dripper is the Hario V60.

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  name: Christopher Timberlake
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: Southern Tennessee
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
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  twitter:
  gitlab: ctimberlake1
  departments:
    - Professional Services
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Chris joins GitLab after spending 4 years working at Red Hat on OpenShift and Containers. Prior to Red Hat he owned his own consulting firm. He comes with a background in Mobile Development, Consulting, Kubernetes, Containers, Web Development, and Embedded Development.

- slug: maximeorefice
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  name: Maxime Orefice
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality: Montreal, QC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Verify:Testing</a>
  reports_to: rickywiens
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    gitlab: reviewer backend
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Verify:Testing BE Team
  story:  |
          Max is a human being and maker of products. He likes to help people solving hard problems.

- slug: fpotter
  type: person
  name: Francis Potter
  start_date: 2019-01-07
  locality: Valencia, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Senior Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: shannonmason
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  departments:
    - Customer Success
  picture: francispotter.jpg
  story:  |
          Francis started coding at age 10 and had his first paying client at 16. Since then, he's helped dozens of companies and organizations around the world transform themselves with great technology and process. He's elated to be a part of GitLab.

- slug: ethanurie
  type: person
  name: Ethan Urie
  start_date: 2019-08-21
  locality: Rochester, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Security Engineering</a>
  reports_to: stevemanzuik
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  twitter:
  gitlab: eurie
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  departments:
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Ethan has been writing software professionally for over 15 years. In that time he's worked in many languages, like Java, Ruby, Erlang, Scala, and Clojure. Additionally, over that time he's worked in a variety of industries like language learning (Rosetta Stone), real-time ad bidding, orthodontic practice management, and online coding courses. He's enjoys learning new languages and technology as much as possible. Outside of work, he enjoys playing boardgames with his wife, downhill skiing (when there's snow), traveling, tinkering with 3-d printing, and watching movies.

- slug: jschneeweisz
  type: person
  name: Joern Schneeweisz
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-engineer/">Staff Security Engineer, Security Research</a>
  reports_to: ethan-strike
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  twitter: joernchen
  gitlab: joernchen
  departments:
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Before joining Gitlab Joern was a Security Consultant for over a decade. He first touched base with GitLab in <a href="/2013/11/14/multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-in-gitlab/index.html">2013</a> and was a happy GitLab user and hacker ever since.

- slug: charlieablett
  type: person
  name: Charlie Ablett
  start_date: 2019-03-25
  locality: Motueka
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Portfolio Management & Plan:Certify
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  gitlab: cablett
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Portfolio Management BE Team
    - Plan:Certify BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab:
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  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql">GraphQL</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
              <li><a href=“/company/team/structure/#mentor”>Mentor</a> - Development (Ruby/Rails), External and Internal to GitLab</li>
  story:  |
          Charlie's time is split between writing excellent software, spending time with family, growing things, and making things out of wood.
  remote_story: |
                I live offgrid in a rural valley and have worked remotely as a contractor for over 15 years. Many companies allow remote situations
                but the heart and soul of the company is still in an office and remote folks miss out on "meatspace" conversations and social events.
                Even for an all-remote company, GitLab does it well - leveraging appropriate technologies and good process to ensure as much as possible is
                accessible to everyone, no matter their location or time zone. Personally, I'm grateful to be able to homeschool my children,
                tend to my 94 fruit trees, and pursue my hobbies... and still get heaps of work done in a richly connected social environment.

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  name: Eugenia Grieff
  start_date: 2019-05-07
  locality: Manchester
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Plan:Project Management
  reports_to: tim-z
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  twitter: euggrie
  gitlab: egrieff
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Plan:Project Management BE Team
  story:  |
          Eugenia became a software developer after a brief career in chemistry. She started working with RoR in 2015 and Ruby and open source quickly became her passions. Prior to working at GitLab, she worked writing Ruby code on a variety of projects. She's a life-long learner and cat enthusiast that enjoys travelling and drinking dark beers.

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  type: person
  name: Todd Stadelhofer
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#director-of-engineering">Director of Engineering, Secure</a>
  reports_to: christopher-l
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  twitter:
  gitlab: tstadelhofer
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Secure Section
  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab, Todd worked in software security, totaling over 20 years of experience. Todd has worked on several types of security products including Application Control, AV, DLP, EDR, Firewalls, HIPS, NGAV, NAC, RSD and VPNs. When not working Todd enjoys the outdoors and can be found Biking, Hiking and playing Disc Golf.

- slug: waynehaber
  type: person
  name: Wayne Haber
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#director-of-engineering">Director of Engineering, Defend</a>
  reports_to: christopher-l
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  twitter:
  gitlab: whaber
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
  story:  |
            Prior to joining GitLab, Wayne was a Senior Director of Engineering at a security company for 15+ years.  GitLab is Wayne's 3rd startup.  Wayne's interests include security, agile software development best practices, coaching engineers and engineering leaders, video games and reading.
  remote_story:  |
            GitLab's values make working remotely amazingly effective.  Having previously worked remotely at a different company for a number of years, I have experienced both the good and the bad.  What works quite well includes highly encouraging video during meetings, recording meetings and writing extensive notes for those who cannot attend live, a daily company meeting for announcements/kudos, a daily group social breakout meeting, distributing documents in advance of discussions so attendees can be prepared and informed, and most importantly asynchronous communication (written discussions in GitLab issues, discussions in docs, Slack, etc). are key.  Plus, I love to brag to my friends in Atlanta about my 15-second commute from bedroom to office vs. their 60+ minute commute.

- slug: fe-mgr-fulfillment
  type: person
  name: Chris Baus
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Lake Tahoe, NV
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager, Fulfillment and Telemetry</a>
  reports_to: growth-eng-director
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  twitter: baus
  gitlab: chris_baus
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Growth Section
    - Fulfillment FE Team
    - Telemetry FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
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    license-app: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Chris spent most of his career working on full-stack web applications, but now focuses on JavaScript and frontend development. Outside of work, Chris enjoys skiing, snowboarding, and hiking near his home in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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  type: person
  name: Jerome Ng
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Vancouver, BC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management/">Engineering Manager</a>, Growth:Acquisition and Conversion and Telemetry
  reports_to: growth-eng-director
  picture: jeromeng.jpeg
  twitter: jeromezng
  gitlab: jeromezng
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Growth Section
    - Acquisition Team
    - Conversion Team
    - Telemetry BE Team
  story:  |
          Jerome's passion is building simple and powerful products that users love. On the technical front, he's a full-stack developer and has led multiple product and engineering teams to build isomorphic web applications, enterprise-grade data pipelines, and scalable cloud infrastructure. On the business front, his passions lie in problem solving, making big bets, and growing new ideas. He's founded and scaled companies - most recently, helping grow CTO.ai from 5 to 70 team members. Prior to this, he sat on both sides of the investment table, as an entrepreneur raising a seed round and as an investor helping launch 500 Startups Canada. In his spare time he loves finding cheap eats, watching documentaries, and exploring new cities.

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  type: person
  name: Craig Gomes
  start_date: 2019-05-28
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager, Memory</a>
  reports_to: chun-d
  picture: CGomes.jpeg
  twitter: craiggomes
  gitlab: craig-gomes
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Memory BE Team
  story:  |
          In my professional life I enjoy working on tools and software that benefit software developers.  In my personal life I enjoy spending time with my family, outdoor activities and tinkering with technology.

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  type: person
  name: Maxwell Power
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Edmonton, AB
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
  picture: maxwellpower.jpg
  twitter: maxtpower
  gitlab: mpower
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          For more than 15 years Max has worked to manage customer relationships and support technology solutions for large enterprises.

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  type: person
  name: Holly Reynolds
  start_date: 2019-09-03
  locality: Roswell, Georgia
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer, Plan:Project Management</a>
  reports_to: mikelong
  picture: hreynolds.png
  twitter: caspergrl
  gitlab: hollyreynolds
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:  |
          Holly has 15 years of experience designing web and mobile apps for everything from startups to enterprise. She is passionate about solving problems and spends her free time reading, writing, baking and relaxing with her husband and German Shepherds.

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  type: person
  name: Nick Post
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer, Manage:Analytics</a>
  reports_to: mikelong
  picture: nickpost.jpg
  twitter: ncspost
  gitlab: npost
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:  |
          Nick is passionate about building cool things and helping his teams to become more human-centred. His approach encompasses research, strategy and design. Coming from a background in Chemical Engineering, his path to UX is by no means typical. However, he believes that it is his unorthodox background that gives him a unique perspective.


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  type: person
  name: Daniel Mora
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer, Manage:Import</a>
  reports_to: mikelong
  picture: dmora-headshot.jpg
  twitter: dmora_berlin
  gitlab: dmoraBerlin
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:  |
          Daniel came to GitLab from working on AI projects in enterprise systems. He has been working in the tech industry for nearly 20 years, across various fields such as government, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. Daniel lives in Berlin along with his cat which he rescued from an animal shelter in Texas, and on the weekends he works as a bartender.

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  type: person
  name: Alexis Ginsberg
  start_date: 2019-03-04
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer, Plan:Portfolio Management</a>
  reports_to: mikelong
  picture: alexisginsberg.png
  twitter: uhlexsis
  gitlab: uhlexsis
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:  |
          Alexis thinks people are fascinating - evidenced by her background in Advertising and Cultural Anthropology. She is a problem solver at heart and loves being able to leverage her interest in psychology and business strategy when designing solutions for users. Collaborating with teammates and employing a human-centered approach in order to build products and experiences that have a positive and meaningful impact on the lives of others is what drives her to get up for work each morning. In her free time she can be found crafting something weird (ie a “Austin, TX” themed perfume), going to concerts and events, or at a coffee shop trying to drink the city of Chicago out of coffee. If you don’t see her out and about then she is most likely in bed napping while half watching The Golden Girls.

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  type: person
  name: Kyle Mann
  start_date: 2019-03-04
  locality: Washington D.C.
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Senior Product Designer, Secure</a>
  reports_to: valerie
  picture: kylemann.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: kmann
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Secure UX Team
  story: |
         Kyle is driven to create products that are useful, accessible, no-nonsense, and measurably effective. His design process is inspired through an anthropological engagement: objectively understanding the human problem. Then, he is passionate about evolving the simplest solution. He embraces uncertainty, tinkering, diverse perspectives, flânerie, and humor. Outside of work you’ll find him making friends with cats and forgetting why he went to the supermarket.

- slug: camellia
  type: person
  name: Camellia X. YANG
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Senior Product Designer, Secure</a>
  reports_to: valerie
  picture: camelliaxueyiyang.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: cam.x
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Secure UX Team
  story:  |
           Camellia is a design generalist: She is curious about human behaviours and the human mind. She creates stuff when it is necessary; when she creates them, they must be easy to use; after all, she makes them beautiful ;)

- slug: beckalippert
  type: person
  name: Rebecca 'Becka' Lippert
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: valerie
  picture: Becka_headshot.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: beckalippert
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Secure UX Team
  story:  |
          Becka grew up in California and earned her BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia, not knowing what would come next. Fast forward a few years (and career categories), and she was ever so lucky to land in UX, at the intersection of Psychology and Design. When she's not designing you can find her doing other art and craft-related activities, watching tons of movies, hiking with her dog, watching live music or soccer games, traveling, practicing mindfulness, and doing kickboxing or yoga.

- slug: nickbrandt
  type: person
  name: Nick Brandt
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Plan:Certify</a>
  reports_to: mikelong
  picture: nickbrandt.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: nickbrandt
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:  |
          Nick has a passion for designing products that solve real problems for everyday people. With 10 years of experience, he's worked on a wide range of products spanning various industries. Having some of his early career crossing into front-end development, he gained some added perspective in making sure his designs are not only providing value, but also feasible from a development perspective. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking with his wife and golden retriever, checking out local breweries, and renovating his home in Colorado.

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  type: person
  name: Juan J. Ramirez
  start_date: 2019-09-03
  locality: Austin, TX.
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Senior Product Designer, Verify</a>
  reports_to: nadiaudalova
  picture: juanjramirez.png
  twitter: whoisjuan
  gitlab: jj-ramirez
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops UX Team
    - Verify and Release UX Team
    - Ops Section
  story:  |
          Juan is a UX Designer and Product Professional with a proven track record of designing and shipping high-value software solutions. He has 9 years of experience helping   different companies to define and create their products. He is deeply passionate about creating amazing developer experiences by leveraging a human-centered design approach. On his free time, Juan enjoys drinking industrial quantities of coffee and tea, taking long walks with his dog, traveling and coding pet projects to automate his life.

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  type: person
  name: Nadia Sotnikova
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Warsaw
  country: Poland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Monitor</a>
  reports_to: uxmanager-ops
  picture: nadiasotnikova.png
  twitter: nadia_sotnikova
  gitlab: nadia_sotnikova
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops Section
    - Ops UX Team
    - Package, Configure and Monitor UX Team
    - Monitor:APM
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          My remote experience has started back in college when I landed an internship at an all-remote company. At the time I was already working on campus and taking 18 credits at a uni, so the only way for me to do an internship in my field was to find something very flexible. I gained valuable experience while working early in the morning, in-between classes, during my lunch breaks, and I gotta admin, somestimes even during lectures... I fell in love with remote work and have been working remotely ever since! In fact, I've never had a full-time job in a co-located environment. :) Throughout the years I lived in several countries including the US, Portugal, Hungary, Indonesia, Thailand, Poland, Spain, and traveled to many others, all thanks to remote work. A couple years ago I met my soulmate at a co-working space in Bali, which wouldn't be possible without the freedom of remote work. I can safely say that I can't imagine my life any other way.

  story:  |
          Nadia creates simple, usable and beautiful software. Her background in business and arts as well as great empathy for the user helps her approach design problems from a unique perspective. In her free time Nadia travels, paints, reads books about space, and cooks paleo meals with her partner in crime. When offline, there's a high chance Nadia is surfing in Bali or skiing somewhere in Europe.

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  type: person
  name: Matthew Nearents
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Oceanside
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Senior Product Designer, Create:Knowledge</a>
  reports_to: mvanremmerden
  picture: matthew-nearents.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mnearents
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
    - Dev Section
  story:  |
          Matthew is a product designer who is passionate about solving problems for developers. While studying psychology, Matt found his passion in human-computer interaction and began his career as a UX designer. Outside of work Matt enjoys riding dirt bikes, coding, restoring cars, playing music, video games, fantasy football and hanging out with his wife, three kids, and Boston Terrier.

- slug: iaincamacho
  type: person
  name: Iain Camacho
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/"> Senior Product Designer, Package</a>
  reports_to: uxmanager-ops
  picture: iaincamacho.jpg
  twitter: iaincamacho
  gitlab: icamacho
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Ops Section
    - Ops UX Team
    - Package, Configure and Monitor UX Team
    - Package:Package
  story:  |
          Iain is a dedicated UX-er with a passion for understanding and solving real user problems. After starting in creative marketing, Iain fell in love with the product design process and champions the user wherever he goes. Outside of work, you'll find Iain at the movies, playing a video game, or traveling the globe.

- slug: mvrachni
  type: person
  name: Maria Vrachni
  start_date: 2019-08-06
  locality: London
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer, Configure</a>
  reports_to: uxmanager-ops
  picture: mvrachni.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mvrachni
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Package, Configure and Monitor UX Team
    - Ops Section
    - Configure
  story:  |
          Having a background in Computer science and Artificial Intelligence, Maria has a  passion for learning, problem solving and designing in highly technical fields. What she loves about her work is the challenge of designing intuitive experiences for complex tasks. She is an advocate of the users and always tries to involve them in her design process so that each piece of information, task and interaction is designed based on their needs. In her free time she likes to spend time with friends, travel, go to concerts, cook, chase the sun back home in Greece and philosophise.

- slug: kcomoli
  type: person
  name: Kevin Comoli
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Growth:Conversion</a>
  reports_to: jackibauer
  picture: kevincomoli.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: kcomoli
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Growth UX Team
  story:  |
          Kevin is a multidisciplinary designer focused on user experience and interaction design. Over the past 6 years, he had the opportunity to work for various companies, from local start-ups to worldwide e-commerce websites. He deeply believes that Design is at the service of the people. When he’s not working you can find him carefully crafting pasta, reading, meditating, planning his next trip.

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  type: person
  name: Amanda Hughes
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Senior Product Designer, Manage:Spaces</a>
  reports_to: mikelong
  picture: amandahughes.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: amandakhughes
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:  |
          Amanda has a deep understanding of what it takes to bridge the gap between human intuition and technology. With a user-centered approach to complex problems and a background designing for enterprise software, Amanda strives to create productive and consumable tools for our users. She’s a plant connoisseur, a sun devotee, and a Wu-Tang fan. In her free time, she trains her mini dachshund to compete in the K9 sport of barn hunting. “Keep Austin Weird” is her city's motto, and that’s just what she’s doing.

- slug: sunjungpark
  type: person
  name: Sunjung Park
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Geo/Distribution</a>
  reports_to: jackibauer
  picture: sunjung.png
  twitter: sunjung_ux
  gitlab: sunjungp
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Enablement UX Team
  story:  |
          Sunjung is a Product Designer who is passionate about finding and solving problems by crafting user experience. She was born and lived in Seoul but was eager to step out of her comfort zone, so she quit her job in Korea and moved to Berlin with her partner for a new challenge. Outside of work, she loves to walk around the park, travel, and take care of furry friends.

- slug: emilysybrant
  type: person
  name: Emily Sybrant
  start_date: 2019-07-29
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Product Designer, Growth:Acquisition</a>
  reports_to: jackibauer
  picture: emilysybrant.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: esybrant
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Growth UX Team
  story:  |
         As a designer, Emily is a passionate advocate for design systems, accessibility, and a collaborative approach to design. In her free time, she's an avid traveler and caretaker of 2 cats and 85+ houseplants. She's logged over 500 unique craft beers on Untappd, and she once got attacked by an ostrich. She's weirdly passionate about the differences between em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens&mdash;ask her about it!

- slug: liborvanc
  type: person
  name: Libor Vanc
  start_date: 2019-11-25
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/">Senior Product Designer, Ecosystem:Integrations</a>
  reports_to: mvanremmerden
  picture: liborvanc.jpg
  twitter: liborvanc
  gitlab: lvanc
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:  |
          Libor has years of experience designing digital products and services for a variety of company types and sizes. He is always looking for new ways to either reimagine or improve upon any experience. In his free time, he enjoys being outdoors, reading, listing to jazz and spending time with his family.

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  type: person
  name: M.L.
  start_date: 2020-04-06
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer, Create:Static Site Editor</a>
  reports_to: mvanremmerden
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:

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  name: A.R.
  start_date: 2020-06-01
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/product-designer/#senior-product-designer">Senior Product Designer, Manage:Compliance</a>
  reports_to: mikelong
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
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    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Dev UX Team
  story:

- slug: loriewhitaker
  type: person
  name: Lorie Whitaker
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Irving, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-researcher/">Senior UX Researcher, Release and Verify & Enablement</a>
  reports_to: ux-manager-research
  picture: loriewhitaker.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: loriewhitaker
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - UX Research Team
    - Ops Section
    - Ops UX Team
    - Verify and Release UX Team
  story:  |
          Lorie began her career in education and spent 5 years teaching kids and teachers how to use badly designed technology. She kept thinking there had to be another way! Then she signed up to be a user participant at Microsoft. During the next few sessions, she researched the researchers and within a few weeks, went back to school and to earn a Master's Degree in Human Centered Design and Engineering. She enjoys researching problems and helping the responsible teams to make things easier to use and enable users to achieve their goals. When she's not UXing, she loves to travel, bake, knit, play with her cat Fergus, and dye yarn. Sometimes she even sells her dyed yarn to other crafters!

- slug: tali-lavi
  type: person
  name: Tali Lavi
  start_date: 2019-04-08
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-researcher/">UX Researcher, Secure</a>
  reports_to: ux-manager-research
  picture: talilavi.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tlavi
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - UX Research Team
  story:  |
          Originally from Israel and currently based in Ireland, Tali is a UX researcher with a background in UX design and learning technologies. When she's not busy striving to better understand user needs and behaviours, Tali enjoys traveling around beautiful Ireland with her family, growing veggies, and adoring her mineral collection while softly whispering "my precious...".


- slug: jeff-crow
  type: person
  name: Jeff Crow
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-researcher/">Senior UX Researcher, Growth</a>
  reports_to: ux-manager-research
  picture: jeffcrow.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jeffcrow
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - UX Research Team
  story:  |
          Jeff strives to make complex processes friendly and easy to understand. After doing academic research on accessibility and novel methods of interaction, he migrated to industry, studying people and systems across all sorts of businesses. His free time is spent mostly with his wife and daughter and their poorly behaved dog.

- slug: andrej-kiripolsky
  type: person
  name: Andrej Kiripolský
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Brno
  country: Czech Republic
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/ux-researcher/">UX Researcher, Ops and Package</a>
  reports_to: ux-manager-research
  picture: AndrejKiripolsky.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: akiripolsky
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - UX Research Team
    - Ops Section
  story:  |
          Andrej is a UX researcher with a background in computer science and sociology. Before GitLab his work was mostly talking to people about flying in airplanes – either as passengers or pilots. Now he talks to people who do the Ops part in the DevOps cycle. When he is not working, Andrej either spends time with his wife and daughter or struggles to increase his rank in Dota 2.

- slug: bernadett-gal
  type: person
  name: Bernadett Gal
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/candidate-experience">Senior Candidate Experience Specialist</a>
  reports_to: april-h
  picture: BettiGal.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: bgal
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Betti is passionate about connecting with people and innovation. She is coming from a Big Data Company where she was making magic as a recruiting and engineering operations coordinator. All her free time is devoted to her dog, traveling, running, gastronomy, fashion and socializing.

- slug: alyssabelardi
  type: person
  name: Alyssa Belardi
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
  picture: alyssabelardi.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: abelardi
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Alyssa is an enthusiastic collaborator and ambitious self-starter. Her professional passion is listening to customers to provide value and amazing results. Her personal passion is to learn about different cultures through travel abroad, staying active and to (hopefully one day soon!) become a doggy mom.

- slug: sameer-k
  type: person
  name: Sameer Kamani
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: Ashburn
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: joel-k
  picture: sameerkamani.jpg
  twitter: Sam80902065
  gitlab: skamani
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          With a background in AI and Software Engineering, how in the world was I not here before?  Oh, that's right, prior to GitLab I was a Security Solutions Architect selling Application Security Software to the US Federal, State and Local governments and Higher Education Institutions.  That was fun too. In my free time, I like to read and watch SciFi (the non-scary, more futuristic stuff like CyberPunk stuff), Build model ships, tinker with computers and electronics.  All that when my two kids let me have time to myself.



- slug: tomasvik
  type: person
  name: Tomas Vik
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: Liberec
  country: Czech Republic
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Gitter</a>
  reports_to: tim-z
  picture: tomasvik.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: viktomas
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitter Team
  projects:
    gitter-webapp: maintainer
  story:  |
          I am from a small town at the north of Czech Republic surrounded by mountains. I love software design and never stop to be puzzled how these lines of code can get so complex so easily. In my free time I love drinking coffee (consequence of living in Melbourne for 5 years), reading and sports - ideally if they give me adrenalin rush.

- slug: liammcnally
  type: person
  name: Liam McNally
  start_date: 2019-01-14
  locality: Sydney
  country:
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    - Recruiting
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          Originally from the UK and now living in Australia for quite some time, I have been in the recruitment game for nearly 9 years now and continue to learn and grow in the field.

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  type: person
  name: Stephanie Kellert
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  locality: Washington D.C.
  country: USA
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  reports_to: kellymurdock
  picture: stephaniekellert.jpg
  twitter: stephssk
  gitlab: StephSK
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          I am from the Washington D.C. Metro Area. I have lived here for 20 years and enjoy wondering to all of the sites that it has to offer. I am very into health and fitness. I have 2 beautiful daughters that are my world and a loveable dog named Roxy who is a Shar-pei.

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  name: James Harrison
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/director-sales-operations/">Senior Director of Sales Operations</a>
  reports_to: dhong
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab, James helped lead sales operations at Zuora from 100 employees to a succesful IPO. James enjoys finding puzzles in the form of business problems, and solving them in the simplest way possible. When not at work, James enjoys anything outdoors, spending time with his family and reading political news.

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  type: person
  name: Jeff Beaumont
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  locality: California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-operations/">Senior Manager of Customer Success Operations</a>
  reports_to: jamesharrison
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  twitter: jdbeaumont
  gitlab: jdbeaumont
  departments:
    - Sales
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  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Jeff created and led Customer Success teams at two startups to enrich retention, develop voice of the customer programs, improve CX, and scale teams. Jeff loves gardening, baking, and being part of a vineyard co-op — all of these are terrific metaphors of nurturing and caring. He's married and has three amazing kids who keep him very, very busy.

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  type: person
  name: Candace Byrdsong Williams
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  country: USA
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  twitter:
  gitlab: cwilliams3
  departments:
    - People Team
  expertise: |
              Diversity and Inclusion
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          10+ year HR and Diversity and Inclusion professional with specialized experience in IT and Open Source
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  type: person
  name: Christen Dybenko
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Boulder, CO
  country: USA
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  twitter: x10
  gitlab: cdybenko
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Christen lives and breathes design with a passion for product management. She has a background in user experience at Apple and several years as a full stack engineer. She's Canadian, an early adopter, a biohacker and an interior design enthusiast.

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  type: person
  name: Shiloh Barry
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  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
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  reports_to: april-h
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  twitter:
  gitlab:
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  story:  |
          Shiloh is a Candidate Experience Specialist based in San Antonio, TX. In my free time I enjoy traveling, working out, and adventuring with my puppy Callie.

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  type: person
  name: Ashley Jones
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  country: USA
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  reports_to: april-h
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  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Ashley is a Candidate Experience Specialist based in Lansing, MI. She enjoys taking her two dogs - Monica + Chandler - for walks, anything involving wine, and hanging out with her family and friends.

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  type: person
  name: Larissa Lane
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  country: USA
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Enablement PM Team
  story:  |
          Originally from Tasmania, Larissa currently lives in beautiful Portland, Oregon. She has been working in DevOps for six years. She enjoys building great software that is a pleasure to use and makes us more efficient so we can all work smart and play hard. Larissa is a passionate sailor and spent four years sailing around the world. Other passions include cooking and all things outdoorsy, especially if they involve a little adrenaline.

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  name: Gabe Weaver
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  locality: Lookout Mountain, TN
  country: USA
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  reports_to: justinfarris
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  gitlab: gweaver
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  departments:
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    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Gabe is motivated by solving really hard problems and building products that fundamentally change the world for better.
          He is relentlessly focused on continuous improvement and regularly speaks at conferences about product management, organizational theory, and building with agility.
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  type: person
  name: Kai Armstrong
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Bulverde, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Product Manager</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: james-r
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Kai kicked off his career in Product Management as the first hire of a Managed WordPress Hosting startup. From there he continued to work on products that helped developers manage workflows and deliver web projects to clients easier and faster. Outside of work, Kai enjoys getting away and glamping with his wife and two children. He can also be found brewing or sharing the beer he makes.

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  name: Patrick Deuley
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  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
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  reports_to: ericbrinkman
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  twitter: patrickdeuley
  gitlab: deuley
  departments:
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    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          I'm a seasoned technologist with a passion for creating amazing software for people who create amazing software. I'm interested in everything digital--from datacenter hardware to consumer gadgets, and the whole spectrum of things in-between. I'm always ready with an opinion, but especially when it comes to video games and computing.

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  type: person
  name: Keanon O'Keefe
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Plan:Portfolio Management
  reports_to: justinfarris
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
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          As a Senior Product Manager at GitLab I strive to discover oppritunities and create value for our customers where ever possible. Based out of Denver, CO you can often find me driving the back trails, camping out in the wilderness, or reading a book on the porch of our family cabin.

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  name: Mark Wood
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  locality: Upstate, New York
  country: USA
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  reports_to: justinfarris
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  twitter:
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Dev PM Team
  story:  |
          Mark spent the first 18 years of his career working in the aerospace industry, where he was responsible for everything from writing real-time operating systems for flight control computers, to assissting with the certification of full fly-by-wire control systems. His goal at GitLab is to leverage his unique background and experience to improve how others develop and integrate software. When not working, Mark likes to backpack with his family, hone his photography skills, and explore new recipes both in the kitchen and on the grill.

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  name: Jensen Stava
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  twitter:
  gitlab: jstava
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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  story: |
          I am a Senior Product Manager for GitLab. On my personal time, I love road biking, running, and swimming. I mostly code in Nodejs and React, and I love exploring new ways of storing manipulating and visualizing data.

- slug: sam-awezec
  type: person
  name: Sam Awezec
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Boston, MA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Growth:Conversion
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  story:
          Sam is a senior product manager at GitLab on the growth team. Outside of work he can be found cylcing              and fishing in the summer and on the slopes snowboarding in the winter.

- slug: danielcroft
  type: person
  name: Daniel Croft
  start_date: 2019-04-29
  locality: San Diego, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#engineering-manager">Engineering Manager, Package</a>
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  pronouns: he/him
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Package Group
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              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
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          Daniel is a people focussed engineering manager who is always looking to learn from every experience.
          By investing in our team, we achieve our best results.
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  name: Sheetal Jain
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  reports_to: pao-jf
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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          Sheetal joins GitLab with extensive experience in Internal Audit, SOX Audit and Fraud Investigation. She is very excited to bring her experience to GitLab and do her part in continuing to build a world class internal audit team!  She lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband and a beautiful daughter.

- slug: lorilamb
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  name: Lori Lamb
  start_date: 2019-03-11
  locality: Garner, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/accounts-payable-specialist">Senior Accounts Payable Specialist</a>
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  picture: lorilamb.jpg
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  gitlab: llamb
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Lori is a Senior Accounts Payable Specialist living right outside of Raleigh, NC. She has over 10 years’ experience in AP and is excited to be a part of the GitLab team. Lori has 2 beautiful daughters, and in their free time they love taking weekend trips to the mountains and North Carolina Beaches with friends and family.

- slug: TiffanySaunders
  type: person
  name: Tiffany Saunders
  start_date: 2019-11-11
  locality: Harrisburg, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/accounts-payable-specialist">Accounts Payable Specialist</a>
  reports_to: cindynunez
  picture: tiffanysaunders.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tsaunders
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Tiffany joined GitLab as an Accounts Payable Specialist. She has an extensive background in Accounts Payable and is excited to bring her expertise to the company. She resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with her twin boys and two wonderful dogs PJ and Shade. In her spare time, she enjoys writing and binge watching on old Molly Ringwald movies.

- slug: viren
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  name: Virendra Rana
  start_date: 2019-03-25
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  locality: Pune
  country: India
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  twitter: werainrana
  gitlab: vrana3
  departments:
    - Recruiting
    - People Team
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/4203895002">Application Link</a></li>
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          Joined March 25th

- slug: Alina
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  name: Alina Moise
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  locality: Bucharest
  country: Romania
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-sourcer/">Senior Sourcer</a>
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  twitter:
  gitlab: amoise
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Recruiting
    - People Team
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/4203895002">Application Link</a></li>
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          01 May 2019

- slug: ChrisCruz
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  name: Chris Cruz
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Los Angeles, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-sourcer/">Senior Sourcer</a>
  reports_to: anastasia-p
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  departments:
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    - People Team
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          Chris has close to 10 years in the technical recruiting world. Prior to joining GitLab, he has recruited for other top engineering companies including Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Capital One. He is dedicated to expanding inclusion in tech and has volunteered his time to local professional development organizations. Outside of GitLab, he is an 8x Pub Trivia Champion; 1x failed comedy writer; and an aspiring basketball rec league benchwarmer.

- slug: Kanwal
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  name: Kanwal Matharu
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  country: India
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  twitter:
  gitlab: kmatharu
  departments:
    - Recruiting
    - People Team
  story:  |
          Hi there! I have been recruiting for Non-Tech for the past 8 years. I am a traveller, explorer and a photographer! In my spare time, I love playing with my dog and run her instagram account.

- slug: kylesmith
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  name: Kyle Smith
  start_date: 2019-04-01
  locality: Reno, NV
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/security-management/">Security Manager, Security Operations (Interim)</a>
  reports_to: jan-urbanc
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  twitter:
  gitlab: kyletsmith
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Kyle is passionate about finding ways to improve security while reducing friction. When not busy working Kyle spends most of his free time with his wife and two children playing games or enjoying the wonderful outdoor opportunities found all over Northern Nevada and California.

- slug: bglanz
  type: person
  name: Brian Glanz
  start_date: 2019-08-12
  locality: Seattle
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Product Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: john-jeremiah
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  twitter: brianglanz
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    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, Agile</a></li>
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, SCM</a></li>
  story:  |
          Brian is a longtime open source contributor who lives GitLab's mission that "everyone can contribute." He's been a leader in the open science community since helping start it in the 1990s. As a former frontend web developer, Brian endured the early years before git and agile, then happily joined those revolutions while consulting for clients in science, technology, government, media, and marketing.

- slug: valerie-s
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  name: Valerie Silverthorne
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: Boston
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/editor/">Senior Content Editor</a>
  reports_to: rebecca-d
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    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Editorial
  story:  |
          I used to write about the business of application development as a journalist. Now I get to live it.



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  name: Jim Bernstein
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Ft. Myers, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (Atlanta)</a>
  reports_to: tom-plumadore
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Joined May 6th

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  name: Qingyu Zhao
  start_date: 2019-06-05
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  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Senior Backend Engineer, Memory</a>
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Memory BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Qingyu has diversified experience in software development, testing, management, and research. He enjoyed to solve problems to generate business value.
          He likes reading and is also a regular badminton player.

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  type: person
  name: Aleksei Lipniagov
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Moscow
  country: Russia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Senior Backend Engineer, Memory</a>
  reports_to: craiggomes
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Memory BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Aleksei started his career in bioinformatics and was always searching for challenging problems to solve and new areas to explore.
          He values self-explanatory, modular code and likes helping others to learn and improve.
          In his spare time, he enjoys black coffee, books, traveling, and narrative video games.

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  type: person
  name: Nikola Milojevic
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Nis
  country: Serbia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Senior Backend Engineer, Memory</a>
  reports_to: craiggomes
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  gitlab: nmilojevic1
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Memory BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Nikola is a passionate software engineer from Serbia. He has been writing software
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  name: Andreas Brandl
  start_date: 2018-01-29
  locality: Hamburg
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Staff Backend Engineer, Database</a>
  specialty: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#database">Database</a>
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  departments:
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    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Database BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: maintainer database
  story:  |
          Andreas is a passionate software engineer with a DevOps mindset and focus on database
          related topics. He has worked in various engineering positions in software development,
          data engineering and infrastructure teams. In his free time he enjoys sailing,
          maintaining boats, kayaking and diving. He works as an ordinary seaman on a traditional
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  name: Matthias Käppler
  start_date: 2019-10-01
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Senior Backend Engineer, Memory</a>
  reports_to: craiggomes
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Memory BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Matthias has been working with computers since he first made ASCII based treasure maps as a kid in the mid-80s.
          Realizing that there's no career in treasure maps, he started to direct his attention to more promising pursuits,
          such as mobile application development, backend development, and a personal video game that he is unlikely to ever finish.
          Outside of work he likes to go on walks, watch Netflix with his wife and cat, and play Xbox.

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  name: Patrick Bair
  start_date: 2020-01-20
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Senior Backend Engineer, Database</a>
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Database BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer database
  story:  |
          Patrick has spent most of his career working as a backend developer, with a focus on building data processing systems.
          He enjoys studying programming language design, with the eventual goal of writing a compiler and runtime for his own language.
          Outside of work, he likes to read, watch movies, cook and bake, hike, garden, and spend time with his family.

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  name: Yannis Roussos
  start_date: 2018-04-23
  locality: Athens
  country: Greece
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Database</a>
  specialty: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#database">Database</a>
  reports_to: chun-d
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Database BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer database
  story:  |
          Yannis loves building stuff that work. Some are tech related and some are not.
          But all of them work. He loves working with people and enjoys a good laugh.
          When he is not travelling, hiking or doing random walks with his kid,
          he loves to take the day off and work.

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  name: Mitchell N.
  start_date: 2020-04-06
  locality: Fort Lauderdale, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#distribution">Backend Engineer, Distribution</a>
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  twitter:
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
    - Distribution BE Team
  story:  |
          Joining April 6th

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  name: Matt Smiley
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Portland
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</a>
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          Shreyas (Shree) has been working in software development for 12 years and has been enjoying it to the core. When not getting his hands dirty with Ruby on Rails he explores Javascript and its inner beauties. When not in front of a computer he loves playing Play-doh with his daughter or cooking unhealthy Indian food. He also believes we are living in the Matrix and is waiting for Morpheus to come and give him the RED pill.

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          Melody is excited to join GitLab in the US after spending the last five years living with her family in Costa Rica. During her time there, she worked as an Accounting Manager in shared service centers.  Prior to living in Costa Rica, she started her career in public accounting with PricewaterhouseCoopers before moving to Grant Thronton and ultimately becoming an Assurance Manager.  She also has experience as a Controller / Financial Reporting Manager with a public company in Tulsa, OK.  Melody currently lives on her parents cattle farm in northwest Arkansas - she traded the beach life for the farm life - with her two children.  They enjoy spending time outside with the farm animals, going to the movies, and cooking.

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          A self-described builder (and breaker) of things that enjoys being outdoors, Charl likes helping keep the internet a little safer while trying to ensure that our customer has a good experience.

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    - Engineering Function
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          I like solving problems, helping people, and open source. In my spare time I enjoy reading, playing guitar, exploring nature, and learning new things.

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          Hailing from the south of India, Rama is passionate about technical accounting and motorcycling. When not cracking complex accounting issues, Rama resorts to long distance touring on his motorcycle or practicing on the local racetrack.

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  name: Vlad Stoianovici
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  country: Romania
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    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
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             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
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          Vlad is a senior support engineer with previous experience in Object Storage and DevOps. He tries to make the most of the wonderful mountainous settings around Brasov, Romania with his wife Iulia and son Toma. Outside of work, when he is not snowboarding, skiing, hiking or mountain-biking he is probably somewhere around beaches and water with his family or travelling somewhere new.

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          Phil is a longtime nerd who has previously worked as a technical writer and web developer. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife and two cats, and enjoys reading, cooking, hiking, and messing around on the internet.

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          Born and raised in Atlanta, Kaley has three years of experience in the IT and cybersecurity space, where she prides herself on management consulting and business development. Prior to joining GitLab, Kaley acquired most of her experience working for a global MSSP, where she dedicated her time to managed security and professional services. Outside of work, you can find Kaley at OrangeTheory Fitness or on her yoga mat, skateboarding(still a work in progress), expanding her music library or hanging out with friends and family.

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          and falling in love with Rails and web development, relocating to Silicon Valley for new opportunities. Outside
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          Ragnar has been building products for web and mobile since his school days. He's always excited about shipping improvements to the end user, and will sometimes obsess over vanity metrics. While not working he frequents cafés, which does not help his caffeine addiction.

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          Ammar is a frontend engineer, who enjoys wrangling frontend and backend. He give a lot of attention to details and code styles. Usually he can be found at his desk working, practicing calligraphy or playing video games. He also like petting pets, specially birds and cats.


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          Pete joins GitLab from AWS to manage all things AWS for GitLab.  He has been working in the DevOps space for close 6 years.  While he wishes he could write about all the cool things he has coded, that is not really within his wheelhouse. Outside of work he can be found cooking, golfing, skiing or just hanging out with his wife, two kids, and dog.

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  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: St. Louis, MO
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    - Development Department
    - Enablement Sub-department
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  story:  |
    Zack is an aspiring Full-Stack Engineer with a heavy focus on Frontend Development.  Zack lives in St. Louis with his amazing wife Kelly and their two adorable cats Mikah and Luna.  Zack spends the constructive part of his free time creating websites as a hobby and helping individuals get their ideas up and running!  Zack's interests include trying and making craft beer, traveling the United States to different NBA basketball stadiums, and playing video games.

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  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management/">Engineering Manager</a>, Growth:Expansion and Retention
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      - reviewer frontend
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          Jackie has been a part of building and launching multiple successful startup web applications over the last 13 years.  When not programming or spending time with her son, she can normally be found rock climbing or training for rock climbing.

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      - reviewer frontend
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      - reviewer frontend
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      - reviewer backend
      - reviewer frontend
    customers-app:
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      - reviewer frontend
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          Alex Buijs has over 10 years of experience creating web applications. He enjoys using the latest
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      - reviewer frontend
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      - reviewer backend
      - reviewer frontend
    customers-app:
      - reviewer backend
      - reviewer frontend
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          Nicolas is passionate about building products with an excellent user experience. He has been writing and selling his own software since his school days and cares deeply about clean and maintainable code. In recent years, he has been building frontend-heavy web applications with backends written in Elixir and Ruby. When he is not coding, you will find him on his road bike, playing drums or (most likely) eating ice cream.

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  country: USA
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  twitter: jayswain
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    - Growth Section
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      - reviewer frontend
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      - reviewer backend
      - reviewer frontend
    license-app:
      - reviewer backend
      - reviewer frontend
    customers-app:
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      - reviewer frontend
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          Jay has served as a Software Engineer for SAAS-based startups for over 10 years. He’s no stranger to the freelance world, and has co-founded a few ideas as well. Jay holds a Bachelor of Science in Media Arts from Platt College, San Diego. When not on the keys, he enjoys Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing and Backcountry or Resort Snowboarding.

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      - reviewer frontend
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      - reviewer frontend
    customers-app:
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      - reviewer frontend
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          Alper has a passion for open source software, and startups. He's worked for enterprise software companies and cofounded several startups where he worked in engineering, growth and product teams. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, and Physics as well as an MBA. He enjoys swimming, running, hanging out on HN with an interest on AI/ML.

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  type: person
  name: Darva Satcher
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  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Knowledge BE Team
    - Create:Editor BE Team
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          Darva started her career as a Computer Engineer designing microprocessors. Early on in her career, she transitioned to software engineering and has not looked back.  She has a diverse programming background with expertise in languages including Java, JavaScript, C#, VB.Net, Drupal, and of course Ruby.  For the last several years she has sharpened her Remote Management skills managing a team of developers working remotely.  In her spare time, she enjoys going on road trips with her husband and two children, going to the theatre and reading.


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  name: John Hope
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
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    - Plan:Certify BE Team
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    gitlab: reviewer backend
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          John wrote his first bug at a young age in Commodore 64 BASIC and has been producing them
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          a journalism technology company. As well as being an enthusiast for open source and functional
          languages, when not working he's usually travelling, playing guitar or hiking offline in the
          Mourne mountains.

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  country: Germany
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Gitaly Team
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          Patrick is a software engineer with a love for open source software
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          tinkering around with components in the low-level userspace and
          bending operating systems to his will, often until they break. In his
          free time, he regularly visits fitness and bouldering gyms, plays
          badminton or goes for a swim.

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  name: Michelle Gill
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  locality: Dallas, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Engineering Manager</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: tim-z
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code BE Team
  story:  |
          Michelle is an engineering manager who became interested in development as a child. Since then, she's continued to stay passionate about creating scalable, useful, and amazing applicatons - though her passion has evolved to encouraging and motivating others to continue this passion.

- slug: danjensen
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  name: Dan Jensen
  start_date: 2019-08-26
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Engineering Manager, Manage</a>, Manage:Analytics & Manage:Compliance
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Analytics BE Team
    - Manage:Compliance BE Team
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          Dan is an engineering manager with a background in consulting, startups and Fortune 5 companies.  He believes in healthy work environments and elegant software.  He loves swimming, swing dancing and, for some reason, economics.

- slug: robert-may
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  name: Robert May
  start_date: 2019-12-16
  locality: Cardiff, Wales
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: michellegill
  picture: robertmay.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Rob is a backend engineer with wide experience in various languages, but particularly in Ruby. He particularly enjoys solving interesting problems and making things go fast. In his spare time he's a serial hobbyist, particularly in the realms of folk music, woodworking, DIY, videogames, and too many others to list. Currently banned from mountain-biking after destroying his collarbone.

- slug: david-kim
  type: person
  name: David Sincheol Kim
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Adelaide
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: michellegill
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  twitter: dkim501
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  pronouns: he/his
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          David has over 10 years of web development experience and enjoys working on any part of the web application stack, but has stronger backend development experience in Ruby. He loves working on projects where he can excercise his product development thinkings as opposed to just coding waterfall requirements. He has been recently dabbling into growing things out of soil which is as much satisfying as development when the thing that comes out is what he expected!


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  name: Roman Kuba
  start_date: 2019-12-04
  locality: St. Pölten, Lower Austria
  country: Austria
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineering-manager/">Frontend Engineering Manager</a>, Create:Knowledge & Create:Editor
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Knowledge FE Team
    - Create:Editor FE Team
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    gitlab: reviewer frontend
  story:  |
          Roman is a passionate developer from beautiful Austria and a Vue Community Member. You can find him at various conferences around Europe, or hit him up on Twitter. Before GitLab, Roman worked at CodeShip and CloudBees where he helped shaping the CI/CD developer space. If not working, he loves to spend time with his family or do some projects around his house.

- slug: kimstithem
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  name: Kim Stithem
  start_date: 2019-03-18
  locality: Rio Rancho, NM
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/accounting-manager/">Senior Accounting Manager</a>
  reports_to: cindynunez
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  twitter: 1kstithem
  gitlab: kstithem
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- slug: russelldickenson
  type: person
  name: Russell Dickenson
  start_date: 2019-03-18
  locality: Brisbane
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Senior Technical Writer</a>, Enablement, Growth
  reports_to: tech-writing-manager-1
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  twitter: rjdickenson
  gitlab: rdickenson
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
    - Ecosystem TW Team
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    gitlab: reviewer docs
    gitlab-docs: reviewer
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  story:  Russell changed careers to technical writing after more than 20 years as a sysadmin. He is an advocate for open source software. When not enjoying family time, he enjoys gardening.

- slug: chrisloudon
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  name: Chris Loudon
  start_date: 2019-04-15
  locality: Middlesborough
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hailey-p
  picture: chris-loudon.jpeg
  gitlab: Chris.loudon
  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
         Keen traveller, supporter of Middlesbrough Football Club and Netflix addict.

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  name: Sarah Daily
  start_date: 2019-03-01
  locality: Pagosa Springs, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-operations-manager/">Marketing Operations Manager</a>
  reports_to: darawarde
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  twitter:
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  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
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    - Marketing Operations
  story:  |
          Sarah loves building seamless digital experiences for customers through marketing technology, strategy, and operations. She enjoys various outdoor pursuits including hiking and camping, playing video games, and playing guitar and singing by the campfire.

- slug: jessicareeder
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  name: Jessica Reeder
  start_date: 2020-03-02
  locality: Washington, DC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/all-remote-marketing/">All-Remote Integrated Campaign Manager</a>
  reports_to: darrenmurph
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  twitter: jessicareeder
  gitlab: jessicareeder
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  departments:
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    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Jessica is a linguist and a global communicator who is passionate about learning, travel, and nature. Having worked remotely her entire career, she is ready to lead the way for all people and organizations willing to leave the office behind. Jessica has written or ghostwritten five books, and is proud to say she has friends on every continent - even, occasionally, Antarctica.

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  name: Brandon Lyon
  start_date: 2019-07-22
  locality: Paso Robles, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-web-developer-designer/">Marketing Web Developer/Designer</a>
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  pronouns: he/him
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    www-gitlab-com:
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          Remote life is the ultimate expression of freedom. I can work wherever, whenever, and however I want. I can work from my perfect office or I can work from the beach. I can be where my friends and family are. I can study at the library. I can be quiet and contemplative in my garden or I can play loud & fast music. I pick my own tools. Everything in my work environment helps me be productive and happy.
  story:  |
          Brandon started off with a degree in architecture, moved into graphic and industrial design, and then ended up as a self-taught frontend web developer who specializes in UX. In his spare time he plays around with the latest gadgets such as mobile, AR/VR, wearables, IoT, and voice interaction. When he isn’t gardening or hiking he’s probably disc-golfing or playing video games.

- slug: stephenkarpeles
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  name: Stephen Karpeles
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-web-developer-designer/">Marketing Web Developer/Designer</a>
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  twitter: stephenkarpeles
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Stephen joined Gitlab on September 9, 2019. Prior to working at Gitlab, he spent 12+ years in the digital marketing world, specializing in web development, web design, and strategic marketing. He's worked with digital agencies both large and small, and started his own agency in 2014. He has a passion for excellent design, simple user experiences, and creating digital products that people actually enjoy using.

- slug: Sheila-Walsh
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  name: Sheila Walsh
  start_date: 2019-08-19
  locality: Boston
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Area Sales Manager (US East)</a>
  reports_to: mark-r
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  twitter:
  gitlab: sawalsh
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
        Happy to be at GitLab

- slug: matt-petrovick
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  name: Matt Petrovick
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: adam-o
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  twitter:
  gitlab: Matt.Petrovick
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Matt has been working with SDLC and DevOps for the last decade. He has two cats who have traveld the US living in Boulder, CO, Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh, NC, and now Austin, TX.

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  name: Shannon Mason
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  locality: Denver
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Manager of Solutions Architects (Enterprise-West)</a>
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  twitter: maseonagile
  gitlab: GitLabMase
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    - Customer Success
  expertise:  |
              <li>Lean and Agile Practices</li>
              <li>Product Management</li>
              <li>Enterprise/Scaling SDLC</li>
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Shannon works with an amazing team of Solutions Architects supporting our largest customers in the western United States. In her free time, she guides people through asana and meditation, works on her own application, and reads as much as she possibly can. Her favorite read of 2018 was Dietrich Dörner's <i>The Logic of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations</i>, an amazing dive into human decision-making, our tendency to focus only on break/fix mentalities, and short term gains versus long term benefits.

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  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager-public-sector/">Senior Product Marketing Manager, Public Sector/Regulated Industries  </a>
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  twitter: tracirobinsonwm
  gitlab: trobinson
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
  expertise: |
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, Regulated Industries/Public Sector</a></li>
          <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Traci loves to travel, particularly places with great cuisine and wines, and gets especially excited about opportunities to learn about other cultures, people, and traditions. As a technology go-to-market strategist, she specializes in bringing teams together to execute innovative ways to approach industry challenges. After working in tech and consulting for over two decades, she sees team potential outside of traditional methods and practices. When she isn't teaching her five grown children how to ‘adult’, she dreams of a professional career as a beach critic and sand goddess.

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  name: Christine Saah
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality: Reston, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/public-sector-inside-account-representative/">Public Sector Inside Sales Representative</a>
  reports_to: brent-c
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  twitter:
  gitlab: csaah
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
           I am a sales professional with over 20 years spent focused on ensuring my customers' success, and helping them solve critical business issues live in Virginia just outside of DC. In my spare time, I love being outside!

- slug: james-roberts
  type: person
  name: James Roberts
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Denver, Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Area Sales Manager, Enterprise - AMER West</a>
  reports_to: area-sales-mgr-west3
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jroberts3
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joins May 6th

- slug: alan-cooke
  type: person
  name: Alan Cooke
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Corte Madera, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Area Sales Manager, Enterprise - AMER West</a>
  reports_to: area-sales-mgr-west3
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: acooke
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joins May 6th

- slug: AmyBrandenburg
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  name: Amy Brandenburg
  start_date: 2019-07-15
  locality: Denver, Colorado
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/alliances/alliances-manager/">Technology Partner Manager</a>
  reports_to: vp-alliances
  picture: amybrandenburg.jpeg
  twitter: amymburg
  gitlab: abrandenburg
  departments:
    - Alliances
  story:  |
          Joining July 15th

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  type: person
  name: Rachel Hill
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Dallas, TX, USA
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Field Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
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  twitter:
  gitlab: rachel_hill
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
        Rachel is a Field Marketing Manager for West, Nor/SoCal & Rockies. Outside of work, you’ll find Rachel attending music festivals, traveling, and hanging out with her significant other and English Bulldog, Tito.

- slug: jvs
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  name: Jake Sorensen
  start_date: 2019-04-29
  locality: US East/Central
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Field Marketing Manager, US East </a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
  picture: jsorensen.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
          Resident of Salt Lake City, Utah with my partner of eight years, Tia, and our two Chihuahuas, Dory and Minnie.
          I have a degree in environmental science, aspirations for Shakespearean acting, and am a fluent French speaker and Francophile.
          My passions include my family, music, and spending my weekends paramotoring and teaching Japanese swordsmanship and watching Akira Kurosawa films.

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  type: person
  name: Chris Willis
  start_date: 2019-05-28
  locality: Hook, Hampshire
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: chrisanderton
  picture: chris_willis.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cwillis
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Chris joined GitLab following 5+ years at Red Hat, as a Territory Account Manager he developed and grew the Commercial Sector business. Chris enjoys assisting customers to solve business problems with innovative open source software. Chris lives with his partner and son, along with 2 dogs in Hampshire. During his spare time he enjoys following football & formula 1, and spending his weekends with his family.

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  type: person
  name: Israa Mahros
  start_date: 2019-06-03
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  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: chrisanderton
  picture: IsraaMahros.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: imahros
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          DevOpSales passionate, spreading the GitLab word in France, Middle-East, Africa and Eastern Europe.
          When Israa is not working she is probably on a plane or with her cat - or both.

- slug: jennykline
  type: person
  name: Jenny Kline
  start_date: 2019-06-24
  locality: Atlanta
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
  picture: jennykline.jpg
  twitter: jenny_kline
  gitlab: jennykline
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Jenny grew up in Maryland and moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 2012 learning and growing within the tech industry. When Jenny is not working, you will find her at the gym, with her dog, traveling and spending time with friends in the city.

- slug: rashadbartholomew
  type: person
  name: Rashad Bartholomew
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: rashadbartholomew.jpg
  twitter: rashadb
  gitlab: rbartholomew
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Rashad enjoys building and Gitlab has a lot to build internally via git and externally through the value they provide to devops practioners. Exciting times. When Rashad isn't working, he enjoys philosphical conversations over a glass a wine with friends, music festivals and hit boxing workouts. Rashad resides in Oakland, CA.


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  type: person
  name: Anthony Ogunbowale - Thomas
  start_date: 2019-05-21
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: chrisanderton
  picture: IMG_4276.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: anthonyot
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Joined May 21st



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  type: person
  name: Sharif Bennett
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
  picture: sharifbennett.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: SharifATL
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Originally hailing from the New York metro area, Sharif moved to Atlanta in 2015 after spending time in NYC, Chicago and Virginia. Sharif is an avid sports fan who spends too much of his time concerning himself with the ups and downs of NY Yankees baseball. Prior to joining GitLab, Sharif gained experience in in both the world of Cybersecurity and Application Performance Monitoring. When he is not working or concerning himself with the Yankees, you can find Sharif reading, binging out on the latest and greatest tv show or spending time with family and friends.

- slug: scott-larson
  type: person
  name: Scott Larson
  start_date: 2019-05-15
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: scottlarson.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: scottlarson1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          When my wife and I aren't walking our two schnauzers, you can find us camping, hiking and traveling.

- slug: christopherchiappe
  type: person
  name: Christopher Chiappe
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: chrischiappe.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cchiappe
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Chris is a software professional currently residing in San Francisco, CA. Chris loves to help and socialize with others and has a passion for learning new technologies. When he is not working, he is often found traveling with his girlfriend, working out or BBQing.

- slug: douglasrobbin
  type: person
  name: Douglas Robbin
  start_date: 2019-08-19
  locality: San Diego, California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: douglasrobbin.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: drobbin
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Doug joins GitLab after 6 years at Cisco/Meraki. Doug is extremely passionate about everything automotive and can often be found in the garage working on his 1967 GTX or in the canyons riding his motorcycles.  When not playing with his "toys" he enjoys time at the beach, traveling, snowboarding, golfing, working out and hikes with his girlfirend.

- slug: stevexu
  type: person
  name: Steve Xu
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
  picture: stevexu.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: steve_xu
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Steve grew up in Houston but has lived across both coasts of the United States (from sea to shining sea) learning and growing within the tech industry. When Steve is not working, you will find him swimming, running, hiking, investing, and consuming all types of media like Medium, Hacker News, HoopsHype, Motley fool, etc. Today, Steve resides in Austin, TX with his wife, baby boy, and pug where you will most likely find him out and about with at least one of the family members mentioned above.

- slug: danielparry
  type: person
  name: Daniel Parry
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: New Orleans, Louisiana
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
  picture: dparry.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dparry
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          "I enjoy traveling, pickup basketball, reading and chess."

- slug: romerg
  type: person
  name: Romer Gonzalez
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Jersey City, NJ
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive, LATAM</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
  picture: romerg.jpg
  twitter: romergune
  gitlab: romerg
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          Romer has been in Technology and Software Sales for 10+ years with special focus on Open Source Software and the Latin America region. He is a baseball fan. He enjoys being with family and friends, going to the cinema and constantly learning something new.

- slug: marsjajones
  type: person
  name: Marsja Jones
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive (US West)</a>
  reports_to: mthennessy
  picture: marsjajones.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: marsjajones
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Marsja's superpower is connecting with people. She prides herself on truly listening to customer's needs. In her spare time she loves yoga and cooking for friends and family.

- slug: tony-feldman
  type: person
  name: Tony Feldman
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality: Boston
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: mthennessy
  picture: LinkedIn_Photo.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tonyfeldman
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story: Tony is a dedicated sales professional that always takes a customer first approach to solving issues. Prior to joining GitLab, he spent time at a monitoring and analytics company working in the commercial space. Outside of work, Tony enjoys traveling to new places, eating new types of food, and playing golf.

- slug: matt-kreuch
  type: person
  name: Matt K.
  start_date: 2019-08-19
  locality:
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  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader; Treasury, SEC, FDIC</a>
  reports_to: JKS
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joining August 19th

- slug: jvpotter
  type: person
  name: Jacob Potter
  start_date: 2019-05-08
  locality: Raleigh, North Carolina
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Area Sales Manager, AMER - Mid-Market East</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: jpotter1_PHOTO.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jpotter1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Joined May 6th

- slug: mthennessy
  type: person
  name: Madeline Hennessy
  start_date: 2019-09-11
  locality: Longmont, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Area Sales Manager (SMB)</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: mhennessy-gl-photo.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: mhennessy
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story: |
         Prior to joining GitLab I was with Splunk, and before that an innovative 3D mapping and virtual tour company. I like to spend my time enjoying the beautiful mountains in Colorado; skiing, hiking, biking. I also do a lot of Yoga, nearly every day and spend time with my St. Bernard/Golden Retriever mix, Salty Dogg.

- slug: robert-hyry
  type: person
  name: Robert Hyry
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality: Los Angeles
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (Los Angeles)</a>
  reports_to: james-roberts
  picture: RobertHyry.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rhyry1
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joined July 8th.

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  type: person
  name: Chris Mayer (Pacific Northwest Area)
  start_date: 2019-12-02
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  locality: Snohomish, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (Pacific Northwest Area) </a>
  reports_to: area-sales-mgr-west3
  picture: chrismayer.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cmayer1
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Chris began his time in sales dialing for dollars at a local Dell and HP reseller. His career took flight at Chef Software and most recently Cloudbees. Chris is a terrible salesman! He can't lie, always takes the customer's side and is a total sucker. He is a fantastic advocate, however, and enjoys solving customer challenges with valuable products. Chris loves working at a company with values that echo his own and that builds product with purpose and vision. Look for him trying to stay dry in Seattle or wandering some trail with his wife and kids.

- slug: katieevans
  type: person
  name: Katie Evans
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Richmond, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (Mid-Atlantic)</a>
  reports_to: tom-plumadore
  picture: Katie-evans.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: kevans1
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Based in Richmond, VA.  Started career at CloudBees.  Enjoys traveling and cooking.

- slug: ross
  type: person
  name: Ross Mawhinney
  start_date: 2019-06-24
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: hmason
  picture: Ross_Mawhinney.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rmawhinney
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Ross started his career in Red Hat where he soon discovered his passion for Open Source technologies.  Since then, Ross has continued to assist businesses across EMEA in understanding the value of ‘Open Source’ and enabling them to harness its potential.  Ross believes the sales process should help the customer make an efficient decision that will ultimately solve a valid business problem and lead to their team producing amazing results.  Ross continues to share his incredible enthusiasm for the open source community with GitLab customers and GitLabbers alike.

- slug: kalenegodoy
  type: person
  name: Kalene Godoy
  start_date: 2020-01-15
  locality: San Antonio,Texas
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/candidate-experience">Candidate Experience Specialist</a>
  reports_to: april-h
  picture: kgodoy.jpeg
  gitlab: Kgodoy
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Kalene is a Candidate Experience Specialist based in San Antonio, Tx. She loves a good adventure and meeting new people. If she isn't at home enjoying tacos, she's probably out exlporing a new place.

- slug: morgan-wilkins
  type: person
  name: Morgan Wilkins
  start_date: 2019-04-22
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/total-rewards/">Total Rewards Analyst </a>
  reports_to: brittany-r
  picture: morganwilkins.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mwilkins
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
  story:  |
          Morgan has a background in Economics and Mathematics that has led her to develop a passion for the analytical, data part of Human Resources. She is excited by continuously learning both within the field of HR and other aspects of life. Outside of work, she can be found in the mountains of Colorado, seeing a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and rescuing another animal (she currently has 3: Willy, Henry, and Typhon).

- slug: julie-samson
  type: person
  name: Julie Samson
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/total-rewards/">Total Rewards Analyst</a>
  reports_to: brittany-r
  picture: Julie_Samson.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: julie.samson
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - People Team
  story:  |
          With her background in Psychology and fascination with technology, Julie dedicated her HR career working for start-ups that shared her passion with bringing the human back in Human Resources. Apart from being a Total Rewards Analyst, she is also a devoted Yogi, a proud Foodie, an inspiring Wanderluster and a passionate Life Coach.

- slug: leighmotheral
  type: person
  name: Leigh Motheral
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Denver
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market, Northwest</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: LeighMotheral.jpeg
  twitter: leighmere
  gitlab: lmotheral
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Sales NQR
    - Commercial Sales
  story: |
         Leigh is based out of beautiful Denver, CO and has been in SaaS sales and consulting for 10 years. She worked at an early stage FinTech startup and in the Agile space prior to joining GitLab. She loves skiing and spending time in the mountains with her dog Stella, seeing live music, and watching football in her free time.

- slug: hansfrederiks
  type: person
  name: Hans Frederiks
  start_date: 2019-07-03
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Account Executive, Mid-Market, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: chrisanderton
  picture: Frederiks_HansMFF_3216.jpg
  twitter: hfrederiks
  gitlab: hfrederiks
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story: |
          Hans is based out of Dublin, Ireland and has worked in technology for over 10 years. He loves the outdoors and is passionate about mountain biking, surfing and finding the most remote  spot in the west of Ireland to go camping with our campervan. 1st-time dad to a beautiful baby girl.

- slug: rwilson
  type: person
  name: Russell Wilson
  start_date: 2019-04-29
  locality: Denver CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader, Denver CO </a>
  reports_to: jim-riley
  picture: RussellWilson.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab:  rwilson3
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story: |
         Russell joins GitLab from F5 and is excited to help Federal customers solve business problems and increase productivity with Gitlab

- slug: lorna-webster
  type: person
  name: Lorna Webster
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-business-partner/">People Business Partner, Sales</a>
  reports_to: carolyn-b
  picture: lornawebster.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: lwebster
  departments:
    - People Team
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/">GitLab Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group</a> member</li>
  story:  |
          I'm excited to be a GitLab team-member and love that I'm part of such a unique work team! As a People Business Partner, my goal is to be of value to the Sales team through communication and collaboration. I enjoy travelling and have lived in a few countries outside the US. But my real passion is learning new languages! I'm currently learning Amharic. But at the end of the day, people remember more how you treat them, not what you say to them, so I'm all about making the human connection.

- slug: Liz-Corring
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  name: Liz Corring
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality:
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  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (NYC) </a>
  reports_to: Sheila-Walsh
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joining July 1st

- slug: abosnic
  type: person
  name: Aleksandar Bosnic
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality: EMEA
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: jburghart
  picture: Aleksandar_Bosnic.png
  twitter: Aco63
  gitlab: abosnic
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Before Joining Gitlab, Aleks worked several year within the Enterprise Content and Process Software Industry. Located in the UK "Maidenhead" he loves Rugby and supporting ASM Clermont because he is born is Clermont Ferrand in France. He loves Martial Art (Black-belt in Shotokan Karate), married and a child of 5 years old.

- slug: kdusek
  type: person
  name: Kurt Dusek
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: Conifer, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: shannonmason
  gitlab: kdusek
  twitter: original_kurt
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  picture: kurtdusek.jpg
  story:  |
          Since first laying hands on a Commodore64 as a young lad, Kurt has been hooked on all things technology. After studying Computer Science in college and spending a few years working for various dot-coms; Kurt ended up in technology consulting where he developed a passion for facilitating business transformation through software and automation. Outside of technology, Kurt's interests are automobiles, aviation, and the outdoors. He's a darn good cook too.

- slug: yu-chenhsueh
  type: person
  name: Yu-Chen Hsueh
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Senior Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: shannonmason
  gitlab: yhsueh
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  picture: Yu-Chen_Hsueh.jpg
  story:  |
          Yu-Chen has spent most of his adult life in California, alternating between the SF Bay Area and Southern California, although at heart he is still the same little kid who grew up romping through the countrysides of Mid-Missouri and North Texas. Yu-Chen currently resides in Rancho Santa Margarita with his beautiful wife Jaymmie and two kids, twins Jayden and Jasmine. While Yu-Chen's educational background comprises of an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and a graduate degree in Business Administration, he has worked in the software industry his entire career and has keen interest in CI/CD, OSS, and application security. When not parked in front of his computer or on his couch, Yu-Chen can be found fishing, snowboarding, gardening, or participating in motorsports. Yu-Chen's son Jayden has a case of high impact choreoathetoid cerebral palsy, and Yu-Chen also spends much of his free time volunteering for a non-profit which seeks to improve the quality of life and future outcomes of children with cerebral palsy.

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  type: person
  name: Nasser Mohunlol
  start_date: 2019-07-15
  placeholder: true
  locality: Rotterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (EMEA) </a>
  reports_to: jburghart
  picture: nassermohunlol.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: NasserNL
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Nasser is based out of Rotterdam and the Strategic Account Leader for the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. He has almost 15 years of experience in Software and Technology sales, especially in the area of Open Source solutions. He is passionate about technology innovations and a true supporter of Digital Transformation. In his spare time he enjoys playing soccer, loves to travel & explore new places with his wife & three kids and regularly meets up with friends and family for some good food, drinks and conversations.

- slug: Challis
  type: person
  name: Steve Challis
  start_date: 2019-07-24
  placeholder: true
  locality: Winchester
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (EMEA) </a>
  reports_to: robertbyrne
  picture: stevenchallis.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: SChallis
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:    |
            Prior to GitLab I worked within the DevOps space and focussed on Value Stream Management for software delivery. I live              in Winchester UK with my wife and two young children. In my spare time I enjoy good food, sports and spending time with             my family.

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  type: person
  name: Vadim R
  start_date: 2019-07-24
  placeholder:
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  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (EMEA) </a>
  reports_to: jburghart
  picture: vadimrusin.png
  gitlab: V_Rusin
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:    |
            Hi all, I am delighted to be at the fastest company I've ever experienced so far!
            Based in London, coming from Splunk and Intel, my previous focus has been in software development tools, IT security and big data, building out international sales from the UK.
            I spend my spare time with family, and we both (plus Thor the German shepherd) love tennis, downhill skiing, travel and languages.  I've done an RTW (round-the-world trip) but there are still places to explore!

- slug: AnjaLoether
  type: person
  name: Anja Loether
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  placeholder: true
  locality: London
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (EMEA) </a>
  reports_to: robertbyrne
  picture: Anja.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Anja_L
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joining July 1st

- slug: cbaker
  type: person
  name: Cal Baker
  start_date: 2019-07-29
  placeholder:
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/deal-desk/">Deal Desk Analyst</a>
  reports_to: jrabbits
  picture: CalBaker.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: calbaker
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |

- slug: mgilgalindo
  type: person
  name: Meritxell 'Meri' Gil Galindo
  start_date: 2019-08-12
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  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/deal-desk/">Senior Deal Desk Analyst</a>
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  picture: Meri_gil_galindo.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Meri is Spanish but she is based in Ireland and has worked in the tech industry for the last 4 years. In her spare time she loves learning new languages and cooking.

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  name: Jesse Rabbits
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/deal-desk/">Manager, Deal Desk</a>
  reports_to: jamesharrison
  picture: jrabbits.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jrabbits
  departments:
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    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Jesse lives in New York City with his rescue cat Ripley.

- slug: KeithBarnes
  type: person
  name: Keith Barnes
  start_date: 2019-05-01
  locality: Ashburn, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Federal Area Sales Manager DOD</a>
  reports_to: paul-a
  picture: keithbarnes.jpg
  twitter: keithbarnes1
  gitlab: kbarnes1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Joined May 1st

- slug: vten
  type: person
  name: Vladimir Ten
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Bozeman, MT
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: john-woods
  picture: vladimirten.png
  twitter: Sunrostern
  gitlab: vten
  departments:
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    - Technical Account Managers
    - Health Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Vladimir is passionate about great experiences as they play an important role in everyone's life. He enjoys harmonizing art and technology to bring delight to people.
          When not learning new things or creating something fun, he ventures forth on a quest to explore the world and share the journey with amazing human beings.

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  type: person
  name: Roos Takken
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-business-partner/">People Business Partner, Engineering</a>
  reports_to: julie-a
  picture: roostakken.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rtakken
  departments:
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  story:  |
          I'm passionated about innovative People processes and learning new things every day. From September 2019 I joined GitLab as People Business Partner supporting the Engineering teams. Before GitLab I worked at two Dutch startups: bunq and 3D Hubs, as Head of HR and Recruitment. When I'm not working on HR projects or learning new things, you can find me doing Soulcycling or going out for dinner. I'm very excited to be onboard and to make my contribution to GitLab!

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  name: Katie Rogel
  start_date: 2019-05-20
  locality: Charleston, SC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Field Marketing Coordinator, NE/SE/Public Sector</a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
  picture: katierogel.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:  krogel
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
          Throughout her career, Katie has always been passionate about client and vendor relationship building and has developed that experience with her background in sales, the hospitality industry, government contracting, and now field marketing. Outside of work, Katie enjoys spending time with friends and family and staying active with hiking, spin and yoga. She has also been a foster for local animal rescues for many years and especially enjoys caring for young kittens. Katie loves to travel and hopes to live internationally in the future.

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  type: person
  name: Lillie Phillips
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Field Marketing Coordinator, West & East-Central</a>
  reports_to: dir-fld-mktg
  picture: LilliePhillips.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: lilphil
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
    - Field Marketing
  story:  |
          Lillie is a Field Marketing Coordinator, West at GitLab. Outside of work, you’ll find Lillie hiking, exploring National Parks, traveling, and hanging out with her husband and 2 cats, Tony & Wally.

- slug: laurenbarker
  type: person
  name: Lauren Barker
  start_date: 2019-09-03
  locality: Cayucos, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-full-stack-developer/">Fullstack Engineer - Website</a>
  reports_to: shanebouchard
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  twitter:
  gitlab: laurenbarker
  departments:
    - Corporate Marketing
  projects:
    www-gitlab-com:
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  story:  |
          Lauren is a Fullstack Engineer from Cayucos, California. She has a background in Graphic Communication, Mathematics, and JAMstack development. While not coding, Lauren can be found surfing remote waves on the central coast, competitively racing outrigger canoes, or snowboarding on powder days.

- slug: tech-actg-mgr2
  type: person
  name: Makesh S.
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/accounting-manager/">Technical Accounting Manager</a>
  reports_to: stam-rh
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  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Joining September 2nd

- slug: can-exp-specialist-hf
  type: person
  name: Heather Francisco
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Tampa, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/candidate-experience">Candidate Experience Specialist</a>
  reports_to: april-h
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  twitter:
  gitlab: HFrancisco
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Heather is a Candidate Experience Specialist based in Tampa, FL. She has a passion for channeling her energy towards helping people succeed. Heather is a self-proclaimed foodie that loves traveling internationally, spending quality time with loved ones, and binge-watching shows on Netflix with her fur child by her side.

- slug: corinnesapolu
  type: person
  name: Corinne Sapolu
  start_date: 2019-10-28
  locality: Fresno, California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/candidate-experience">Candidate Experience Specialist</a>
  reports_to: april-h
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  twitter:
  gitlab: csapolu
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
        Corinne is a passionate HR Professional who has experience in a variety of different industries including hospitality, government, and manufacturing. She loves to travel and spend time with her family, friends, and her dog, Khaleesi. If you can't find her, she's most likely at a football game!

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  type: person
  name: Gábor Zaparkanszky
  start_date: 2019-05-06
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  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hailey-p
  picture: Gabor.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Gzaparkanszky
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joined May 6th

- slug: ragimab
  type: person
  name: Rahim Abdullayev
  start_date: 2019-06-17
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  locality: EMEA
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: panosr
  picture: rahimabdullayev.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ragimab
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          "A rambler who lived in 11 cities over the last 5 years and recently settled down in Berlin. Worked for Applause (uTest) and Amazon (Kindle Publishing team) previously, also did internships in business dev and sales fields here in Germany. Had my first experience with open source while running a small NGO called PCs4KIDs (donating used PCs in rural areas and orphanages working on Linux and free open source education software). In my free time I enjoy playing drum machine, learning bass guitar, reading books, listening to podcasts, going to music festivals & concerts, travelling and volunteering."

- slug: dlewis
  type: person
  name: Dave Lewis
  start_date: 2019-07-15
  locality: Folsom, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager">Public Strategic Account Leader, State and Local</a>
  reports_to: fed-area-sales-mgr-sled
  picture: dave_lewis.png
  twitter: SLED_Dave
  gitlab: dlewis2
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Dave is excited to help State and Local government customers solve business problems and increase productivity with GitLab.  Prior to coming on board, he           supported State, Local, & Education customers at Okta, Gigamon, and Dimension Data.  Dave holds a Master of Science degree in Information Security from             the University of London and an MBA in Finance & Marketing from Sacramento State University.  When he’s not working he enjoys traveling, hiking, and                kayaking with his wife.

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  type: person
  name: Pranav P.
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: India
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/sox-compliance-analyst/">SOX Compliance Analyst</a>
  reports_to: sheetal
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Joins June 17th

- slug: swethakashyap
  type: person
  name: Swetha Kashyap
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-commissions-manager">Sales Commissions Manager</a>
  reports_to: mbenzaquen
  picture: swetha.kashyap.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Swethakashyap
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Swetha is a Sales Commissions Manager based out of Union City, California. With more than a decade of sales commission and analysis experience her last stint was at Box Inc where she helped calculate and administer sales incentive plans. In her free time she enjoys hiking and spending time with her family.

- slug: AmberStahn
  type: person
  name: Amber Stahn
  start_date: 2019-07-16
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-operations/">Sales Operations Analyst</a>
  reports_to: lschoenfeld
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  twitter:
  gitlab: Astahn
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Amber loves Sales Operations and helping people do their job better. She also loves mountain biking, dogs and gardening.

- slug: EmilyChin
  type: person
  name: Emily Chin
  start_date: 2019-06-10
  locality: San Diego, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/corporate-events-manager/#production-manager/">Senior Production Manager, Corporate Events</a>
  reports_to: emily-k
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  twitter:
  pronouns: she/her
  gitlab: echin
  departments:
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Marketing
  story:  |
          Emily is a native Californian, born and raised in the SF Bay Area and located in sunny San Diego. She’s passionate about great storytelling and elevating brands through user voices. Previously, Emily was at Sift in SF wearing any hat that needed a head. Her past experiences include lecturer and researcher, public diplomacy specialist, and experiential marketer. In her free time, Emily can be found petting her dog, surfing with her husband, and playing trivia.

- slug: natashawoods
  type: person
  name: Natasha Woods
  start_date: 2019-06-03
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  locality: California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/pr-manager/">Senior Manager, Corporate Communications</a>
  reports_to: melissasmolensky
  picture: natashawoods.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: nwoods1
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Natasha Woods has built strong campaigns and programs with media and analyst relations as their cornerstones. Her close and lasting relationships with top tier business, technology and dev-focused media have garnered numerous articles including WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, ZDnet, Software Engineering Daily, etc. Natasha is also a Certified Industry Analyst Relations Professional (CIARP) and has created close relationships with influential analysts at Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Redmonk, among others. Natasha specializes in Cloud Native with experience in cloud, big data, IoT, and enterprise IT. Natasha previously lead integrated communications for Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), helped to launch the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) and was the communications lead for Kubernetes 1.9, 1.10, 1.14 releases.

- slug: darrenmurph
  type: person
  name: Darren Murph
  start_date: 2019-07-01
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  locality: North Carolina
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/all-remote-marketing/">Head of Remote</a>
  reports_to: melissasmolensky
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  twitter: darrenmurph
  pronouns: he/him
  gitlab: dmurph
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/parental-leave-buddy/">Parental Leave Reentry buddy</a></li>
              <li><a href="/handbook/general-onboarding/mr-buddies/">Merge Request buddy</a></li>
              <li><a href="/company/team/structure/#mentor">Mentor</a> - Remote Work, External and Internal to GitLab</li>
  story:  |
          Darren holds a Guinness World Record in publishing. He has over 12 years of experience recruiting and leading globally distributed teams in media, communications and marketing. He's an explorer at heart, having traversed nearly 50 countries and all 50 US states, becoming a Delta Million Miler along the way. He's passionate about enabling remote work for all and advocating for adoption.
  remote_story: |
           My wife and I experienced the beautiful and transformative journey of adoption because I worked for an employer that trusted me to excel from a place I needed to be to see it through. I’ve met countless GitLab team members who have never been happier, more fulfilled, or more engaged with their family and community, all because they’re empowered to work remotely.

- slug: darwinsanoy
  type: person
  name: Darwin Sanoy
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Philadelphia, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Senior Solutions Architect, Americas (Mid Market)</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
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  twitter: DarwinTheorizes
  gitlab: DarwinJS
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Darwin is a tool maker at heart. He has enjoyed many years in multiplatform and cloud deployment automation. His current professional passions are DevOps, the Cloud and CI/CD Automation. When he isn't on the trail trying to break his mountain bike, he's in the garage fixing or tuning it - using tools ;)

- slug: taylormedlin
  type: person
  name: Taylor Medlin
  start_date: 2019-07-31
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, Americas (Mid Market)</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
  picture: taylormedlin.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Taylor is a teacher and consultant who is passionate about enabling her customers.

- slug: joerandazzo
  type: person
  name: Joe Randazzo
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, Americas (Mid Market)</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
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  twitter:
  gitlab: jrandazzo
  departments:
    - Customer Success

  story:  |
          Joe is a Solutions Architect with a software engineering background in mobile and DevOps. He enjoys solving customer challenges and building out automation. Joe has also recently expanded his studies in Mechanical Engineering to research sustainable solutions for our planet. In addition to contributing to GitLab, he enjoys backpacking, snowboarding, crossfit, or running with his Australian Shepherd.

- slug: timpoffenbarger
  type: person
  name: Tim Poffenbarger
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Normal, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, Americas (Mid Market)</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
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  twitter: poffey21
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  pronouns: He/him
  departments:
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    - Configure Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Tim is a Solutions Architect with a background in Software Engineering, DevOps, System Administration and Data Warehousing. He loves to help identify ways to shift IT culture to be more focused on automation, metrics-gathering, and sharing measurements and processes in the hopes to accelerate the rate at which business partners realize value from the solutions developed. While he's not out promoting the idea that everyone can contribute, Tim tries to get as much time with his family.

- slug: chesternwachukwu
  type: person
  name: Chester Nwachukwu
  start_date: 2019-06-17
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  reports_to: patrick-h
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  departments:
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    - Technical Account Managers
    - Configure Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Chester has over 6+ years in the tech industry supporting clients in A.I, financial services, and the defense sector. Outside of working with interesting technology companies he enjoys listening to unique podcasts, watching interesting documentaries, and keeping up with his nieces and nephews whose pop culture references make him feel really old.

- slug: jrreid
  type: person
  name: Jamie Reid
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Calgary, AB
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (Enterprise)</a>
  reports_to: john-woods
  picture: jrreid.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
    - Continuous Integration Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Runner Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          An electrical engineer by education, Jamie has held roles in development, systems engineering, architecture, and sales. Collaborating with customers to solve tough problems, create mutual success, and build strong relationships is his jam.
          He loves spending time outdoors, good coffee, craft beer, and gaming.

- slug: carlosbazan
  type: person
  name: Carlos Bazan
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
  picture: carlosbazan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cbazan
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Carlos has over a decade of experience partnering with customers as an extension to their team. He enjoys helping his customers maximize their investments and achieve their goals. Outside of work, Carlos enjoys playing sand volleyball, watching movies at the Alamo Drafthouse, and traveling.

- slug: simon-uhegbu
  type: person
  name: Simon Uhegbu
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  locality: Rochester
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tammgr-michael-le
  picture: simonuhegbu.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: suhegbu
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Simon enjoys helping clients and colleagues alike with business and technical issues. Having spent years in both development and SaaS companies, he found that his passion is helping to make the complex seem simple, whilst building long lasting relationships and partnerships across all parts of a business. Outside of work, he is a keen traveller and has a love of sci-fi, sports and hot sauce.

- slug: bradleyandersen
  type: person
  name: Bradley Andersen
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  locality: Basel
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager EMEA</a>
  reports_to: tammgr-michael-le
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  gitlab: elohmrow
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
    - Container Security Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Threat Insights Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Coming Soon!

- slug: tam-enterprise
  type: person
  name: Brian Collins
  start_date: 2019-07-29
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  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (Enterprise)</a>
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  picture: briancollins.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: brian.collins
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Brian has made a career out of delighting customers at every opportunity.  Some would even call him fanatical about customer success.  He has had his head in the Clouds for more than a decade advising customers on everything from scaling OpenStack infrastructure best practices to adopting Cloud Native technologies such as Kubernetes.  When he’s not working you can find him traveling with friends and family, fly fishing or competing with his BBQ cook-off team.  Challengers accepted.

- slug: stephengraham
  type: person
  name: Stephen Graham
  start_date: 2019-08-07
  placeholder: true
  locality: Los Angeles Metro, California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (Enterprise)</a>
  reports_to: john-woods
  picture: stephengraham.jpg
  twitter: sg3524
  gitlab: sgrahamgl
  pronouns: He/him
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Steve is a broad based technologist whose career has spanned Network Engineering, Systems Integration and Engineering, LAMP Architectures, and Programming.  Steve has built and maintened both the infrastructure and code bases used for some of the largest and most scalable websites in existence.  He decided to join GitLab due to the intense support for custom collaborative workflows, CI/CD, and well developed cloud scaling architectures.  GitLab is a thought leader in many well established engineering categories, something that Steve was drawn to.

          In his spare time, Steve prototypes loudspeakers, speaker wave guides, passive audio crossover networks, plays a little guitar, and loves attending live Jazz performances.


- slug: nupursharma
  type: person
  name: Nupur Sharma
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  locality: Utrecht
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, EMEA (Mid Market)</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
  picture: nupursharma.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: nsharma2
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Nupur is a Solutions Architect with the background in development, architecture and business development roles. She is passionate about closing the gap between business problems and their technology solutions to ensure client satisfaction.
          Outside of work she enjoys travelling, hiking and doing cross-fit.


- slug: johnfeeney
  type: person
  name: John Feeney
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: gronk
  picture: johnfeeney.jpg
  twitter: johncfeeney
  gitlab: jfeeney
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          John has enjoyed various IT roles throughout his career and loves nothing more than to use software to overcome challenges and meet business objectives. Outside of work he enjoys soccer (watching and playing), playing guitar and exploring new food ideas.

- slug: soln-arch-emea
  type: person
  name: S. Srirangan
  start_date: 2019-08-01
  placeholder: true
  locality: EMEA
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: gronk
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  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
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    - Health Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Container Security Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Threat Insights Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Joining August 1st
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  type: person
  name: Kristof Goossens
  start_date: 2019-09-02
  location_factor: 0.7
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  locality: Wemmel
  country: Belgium
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: gronk
  picture: kristofgoossens.png
  twitter: kgoossens
  gitlab: kgoossens
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Kristof loves to laugh, usually with his own (bad) jokes. However, I'm probably not the funniest in the house since I've got a lot of competition from my sons, Cas & Jeff and my wife, Sofie. And sometimes even our cat, Toulouse, is hard to beat at being funny.
          In my spare time I like to play with the kids (Lego finally!), volunteer at <a href="https://coderdojo.com">CoderDojo</a> or play World of Warcraft, if theres any time left...

- slug: vdzalbo
  type: person
  name: Vladimir Dzalbo
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: gronk
  picture: vdzalbo.png
  twitter: voffk
  gitlab: dzalbo
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Continuous Integration Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Runner Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Vladimir has 10+ years of hands-on experience in IT and Business technology consulting, where he helped organizations to develop new capabilities and drive operational improvements. Prior to joining GitLab, Vladimir worked as a Solutions Architect in the IoT and AutoID domains. Passionate about bridging Business and IT.
          In his spare time he loves travelling and is slowly working towards the goal of visiting every country on the Planet.

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  type: person
  name: Chris Weber
  start_date: 2019-08-21
  locality: Leesburg, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Federal Area Sales Manager, SLED</a>
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    Chris has over a decade of Public Sector sales experience and is passionate about building teams to help customers address challeges that many organizations face as they modernize technology.

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  name: Vladimir Klevko
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  locality: The Hague
  country: The Netherlands
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  reports_to: david-sakamoto
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  gitlab: vklevko
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
    Vladimir loves absolutely everything that has two wheels along with the motor. Except for that, he enjoys being around his family spending time with his lovely wife and two sons.
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  name: Steffen Heininger
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: New Braunfels, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
            Steffen is an passionate advocate for Open Source projects within the Cloud and has more than a decade of experience helping customers on their own journey through Cloud Native technologies.  When not managing containers you'll likely find him getting his hands dirty in the workshop or chasing around his small flock of backyard chickens.

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  name: Corina Patachia
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  reports_to: david-sakamoto
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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  story:  |
            Corina is a Solutions Architect who enjoys teaching customers using her full stack development background.

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  name: Jeff Martin
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/demo-systems-engineer/">Sr Demo Systems Engineer</a>
  reports_to: joel-k
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  gitlab:
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  story:  |
          Jeff enjoys building hands-on labs and demos for showcasing software products to customers and automating cloud infrastructure to solve complex business problems. When not spending time in the lab, you'll find him spending time with family and friends, camping, cooking, gardening, and playing occasional video games.

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  name: Haseeb Ullah Khan
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  country: Pakistan
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  name: James Sandlin
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect (US West Enterprise)</a>
  reports_to: shannonmason
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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          Prior to the term DevOps, James lived Service Transition in the ITIL world; Build Systems, Change Management, Process Automation, and Infrastructure as Code have been his passion for 15+ years. In his free time he enjoys his two wonderful teenagers, four miniature dachsunds, 3D Printing, Eurogames, carpentry, and the beautiful PNW.

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  name: Ron Koster
  start_date: 2019-08-19
  locality: Windham, NH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab Ron worked at DBmaestro and Quest Software where he supported DevOps for Database, change management, application performance monitoring and other systems management products in Solutions Architecture, Consulting and Customer Success roles.
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  type: person
  name: Karen Kwentus
  start_date: 2019-11-15
  locality: Nashville, TN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Progressive Delivery Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Release Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Karen has been automating build and deploy for a long time, happy to try and continue to use these powers for good.

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  name: Aleshia Hansen
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  locality: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/procurement-manager/">Senior Procurement Manager</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
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  twitter:
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  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
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    - Procurement
  story:  |
          Aleshia has a procurement leadership background from the public sector and enjoys working in the always evolving technology space. She has a passion for the value purchasing can bring to enable strategic initiatives for the business. Outside of work, she spends time with her two children, renovating her 1990’s salt-box home, hitting the slopes on her snowboard in the winter, and boating on one of Minnesota’s many different lakes in the summer.

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  name: Ross Hendrick
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  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-operations/">People Operations Specialist</a>
  reports_to: nadia-v
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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    - People Operations Team
  story:  |
          Based in Dublin, Ireland, Ross is a memeber of the People Operations Team. Ross gains his energy from people interaction and is passionate about creating an amazing people experience for our team members. Ross is incredibly excited to expereince remote working and GitLab's exciting future. Outside of work, Ross loves spending time with familiy and travelling to new and exciting countries.

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  type: person
  name: Ken McKnight
  start_date: 2019-04-08
  locality: San Jose, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: shannonmason
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  twitter: violaken
  gitlab: kmcknight
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Ken graduated from Santa Clara University with a BSEE.
          He has more than 30 years of experience working as an engineer, first with hardware and chip design, then eventually moving into software,
          including over 20 years of build automation and CICD work.
          In his spare time he plays viola in several groups around the Bay Area, including <a href="http://www.missionchamber.org/">Mission Chamber Orchestra</a>.
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  type: person
  name: Sara Kassabian
  start_date: 2019-04-29
  locality: Oakland, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/editor/">Content Editor</a>
  reports_to: rebecca-d
  picture: SaraKassabian.jpeg
  twitter: sarakassabian
  gitlab: skassabian
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Editorial
  story:  |
          Sara is a journalist with a background in health and science communications.
          Before joining GitLab, Sara worked as the marketing and communications manager for a San Francisco-based tech start-up, and as social media manager for the Public Library of Science, the largest open access publisher of scientific research.
          When not writing or editing, Sara enjoys hiking Bay Area trails with her dog, and traveling as much as possible.

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  type: person
  name: Alex Kalderimis
  start_date: 2019-05-02
  locality: Cambridge
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Knowledge
  reports_to: engineering-manager-create-ds
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  twitter: involans
  gitlab: alexkalderimis
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Knowledge BE Team
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      - trainee_maintainer backend
  story:  |
          Alex is a UK based software engineer who has worked on both front and back end
          code in fields ranging from bioinformatics, to ed-tech and banking. This gives him
          an insight into the common challenges facing developers in small start-ups, scientific
          collaborations and large corporate enterprises.

          Alex cares about writing tools that solve problems, perform well and are simple to use,
          but above all ones that make the world a better place. He is an advocate of simplicity in
          software, which is something he credits to his work with functional programming
          and its emphasis on data-driven design.

          Outside the office, you are most likely to find him on a bike, or sniffing out
          a new café.

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  type: person
  name: Pete DiStefano
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Downingtown, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect (US East Enterprise)</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
  picture: petedistefano.jpg
  twitter: PeteD_DevOps
  gitlab: pfdistef85_git
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Pete graduated from Villanova University with a BS in Chemistry and also has a M Eng from Penn State.
          He has worked for several software companies in the Testing and DevOps space over the past 15 years in several different technical selling roles.
          He is an avid Villanova basketball fan and makes wine in his spare time so that he can say that he uses his chemistry degree.

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  type: person
  name: Laurie Howitt
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Barrie, ON
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect (US East Enterprise)</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
  picture: lauriehowitt.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: laurie_howitt
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Laurie has worked with numerous organizations in the Communications Service Provider and Enterprise
          industries providing technical sales in various capacities for several software companies over the past 20 years.
          He is an avid hockey fan, loves to golf, travel, cook, Formula 1, and a proud parent to his Son and Daughter and a grandfather.

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  type: person
  name: Camilo Villanueva Santiago
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Prague
  country: Czech Republic
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hailey-p
  twitter: camiloibg
  gitlab: cvillanueva1
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  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Camilo's first contact with an opensource project was back in 2017 and fall in love with the idea of community and                  contribution that it involves.

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  name: Shay Fleming
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Berlin
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hailey-p
  twitter: gitlabshay
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  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Shay originally hails from Dublin Ireland but has lived in numerous countries in the past few years. He is currently based in Berlin, Germany. Shay is passionate about business development and technology. In his free time, Shay loves to play soccer, travel and go to music festivals.

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  type: person
  name: Eric Rosenberg
  start_date: 2019-05-20
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: jason-colyer
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  gitlab: ericrosenberg88
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Eric lives in San Antonio, TX with his girlfriend Cassanda and their two dogs Rylie and Athena.
          He enjoys working on his jeep and learning new things.  When he is not working on something
          tech/computer related, he keeps his mind busy by doing tasks such as juggling, puzzles, and rubiks cubes.
          He also enjoys activities around water such as swimming, scuba diving, or taking care of his fish.

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  name: Marcel Amirault
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Kagoshima
  country: Japan
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Technical Writer</a>, Verify
  reports_to: tech-writing-manager-1
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  departments:
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    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
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    gitlab: maintainer docs
    gitlab-docs: maintainer
    omnibus-gitlab: maintainer docs
    gitlab-runner: maintainer docs
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          Marcel comes to GitLab after a long hiatus from the tech world, teaching English in Japan.
          He is using his mastery of English, along with his previous experience in support, to
          work on his newfound passion: documentation. He is kept busy with his two young kids, but
          in his free time, he is a DIY Guy trying to improve his house. He loves board gaming with friends,
          working on puzzles, and playing with his Rubik's cube collection. You can find him lurking in other
          people's MRs, pointing out grammar mistakes that no one wanted to hear about.

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  name: Nick Gaskill
  start_date: 2019-11-11
  locality: Urbana, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Senior Technical Writer</a>
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
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    gitlab: reviewer docs
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          Nick hails from the great flatlands of central Illinois, where he tries to remain upright
          despite the fierce wind. Following an education in the biological sciences, he entered the
          tech world where he has served as a project coordinator, technical writer, and sometime
          developer. Outside of work, Nick enjoys spending time with friends and family and pursuing
          interests in science, nature, and loud rock music.

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  locality: Warsaw
  country: Poland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Technical Writer</a>, Plan
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    - Technical Writing
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    gitlab-docs: reviewer
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    gitlab-runner: reviewer docs
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          Marcin has worked for several years as an English teacher. Then he found out he can play around with computers while also explaining complex matters to readers clearly as a technical writer.
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  name: Mike Jang
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  country: USA
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    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
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    gitlab: maintainer docs
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          Before moving into technical writing, Mike wrote technical books, mostly focused on Linux. Mike also helps out with meetups for Write the Docs. You'll find Mike speaking at conferences on occasion, including OSCON, Open Source Summit, Write the Docs, or API-related conferences.

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  name: Amy Qualls
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  locality: Portland, Oregon
  country: USA
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
    - Defend Section
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer docs
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          She shares a tiny condo, crammed full of books, with her husband and their astonishingly terrible house panther.
          She also reads constantly and voraciously, and adores everything from literary fiction to comic books.
          Amy has watched every Best Picture winner as part of her Oscar Project, and expects to have watched all the Best Screenplay winners by mid-2020.
          She can't quite admit she doesn't have time to knit, and she wishes she were a Ravenclaw, but she understands her hobbit destiny is Hufflepuff.

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  name: Mike Lewis
  start_date: 2018-04-26
  locality: Brooklyn, NY
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Staff Technical Writer</a>
  reports_to: susan-tacker
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    - Engineering Function
    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
  projects:
    gitlab-docs: maintainer
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          Mike's career in technical communication has brought him to roles in media, financial services,
          MarTech, and DevOps. He formerly ran a music media site and still tracks music obsessively.
          You can find himm at the next Write the Docs conference or local meetup.

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  name: Susan Tacker
  start_date: 2020-04-01
  locality: Raleigh-Durham, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writing-manager/">Senior Manager, Technical Writing</a>
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  departments:
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    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
  story:  |
          Coming soon!

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  name: C.N.
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  locality: Boston, MA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writing-manager/">Manager, Technical Writing</a>
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    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
  story:  |
          Coming soon!

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  name: Suzanne Selhorn
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/technical-writer/">Senior Technical Writer</a>
  reports_to: tech-writing-manager-1
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    - UX Department
    - Technical Writing
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    gitlab: reviewer docs
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          Suzanne likes chocolate pudding, the New York Mets, and making complex topics simple. When she's not at work, she's reading a memoir, attempting to play tennis, or dreaming of her next vacation in Crete.

- slug: khughes
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  name: Keven Hughes
  start_date: 2019-08-12
  locality: Michigan
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-Managed</a>
  reports_to: michael-dunninger
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  twitter: kevenhughes63
  gitlab: kevenhughes
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Joined Aug 12th, 2019

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  name: Jason Young
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  locality: Hillsborough, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas East)</a>
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  twitter: jasonadamyoung
  gitlab: jayo
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Jason's very first spoken word is rumored to be "why?" and that naturally led to a life-long insatiable curiosity and a passion for helping others discover the answers to their own questions. Jason can most often be found out on the hiking trails in North Carolina parks with his partner Sarah or travelling across the country to find the next great folk band.

- slug: robertclark
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  name: Robert Clark
  start_date: 2019-11-25
  locality: Alexandria, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Public Sector Manager - Customer Success</a>
  reports_to: kristen-l
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  gitlab: robclark14
  departments:
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    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Robert is a longtime member of customer success teams through a variety of emerging software companies focused on Cloud Native technologies. In his spare time, Robert plays guitar and tennis.

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  type: person
  name: Nilanka De Silva
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Negombo
  country: Sri Lanka
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: nilankadesilva.jpg
  twitter: nilankadesilva
  gitlab: ndesilva
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Nilanka is an enthusiastic engineer who's equally passionate about computers as he is about interacting with humans. He also loves to write, read, cliff dive, scuba dive, take part in competitive public speaking, and brew coffee in his spare time. With his thoughts geared towards becoming the deity of coffee making, he truly believes nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it!

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  name: Sameer Shaik
  start_date: 2019-12-20
  locality: Guntur
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: Sameer.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: s_shaik
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Sameer is passionate about computer science and loves to learn new things. He has been fascinated with technology and the way it shapes the future. During his free time he loves to watch Cricket.

- slug: calebwilliamson
  type: person
  name: Caleb Williamson
  start_date: 2019-09-03
  locality: Tulsa, OK
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
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  twitter:
  gitlab: calebw
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Caleb is passionate about technology, problem solving, and helping others. Before joining GitLab in 2019, he provided technical support in a number of roles within the Web Hosting industry. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time outdoors or being with friends.

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  name: Nathan Black
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  locality: Americas East
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Senior Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
  picture: nathanblack.jpg
  twitter: admiralboom
  gitlab: admiralboom
  expertise: |
    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/README.html#installing-gitlab-using-the-omnibus-gitlab-package-recommended">Omnibus</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  departments:
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    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Nathan has worked in a variety of Systems Engineering and Devops roles.  He enjoys working outside, listening to music and attending live music concerts.
  remote_story: |
          There is a simplicity when a walk to the office is to a different room.  I thought it might feel remote but our workflows are very collaborative (which is also one of our values).

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  type: person
  name: Ronan OConnor
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Support Engineering Manager (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
  picture: ronanoconnor.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ronanoconnor
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Ronan is a Support Engineering Manager for EMEA. He's a keen rugby fan and enjoys being on the terrace in the RDS with his friends at Leinster's home games.

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  type: person
  name: Silvester Wainaina
  start_date: 2020-03-02
  locality: Nairobi
  country: Kenya
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ronanoconnor
  picture: silvester_wainaina.jpg
  twitter: silvesterkw
  gitlab: swainaina
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Silvester is a Support Engineer with a passion for development, automation, machine learning and new emerging technologies. Prior to GitLab, he worked in several roles in the telecommunication field. In his free time, he likes to code, spend time with his family, swim and travel.

- slug: chris-nightingale
  type: person
  name: Chris Nightingale
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
  picture: chrisnightingale.jpg
  twitter: cnightingaleza
  gitlab: cnightingale
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Chris is a technology enthusiast from Cape Town South Africa. He has a bachelors degree from the University of South Africa, and spent most of his career as a Linux Systems Engineer for a web hosting company. There he developed a passion for diagnostics and troubleshooting and a deep love and respect for Linux and all things open-source. He lives with his wife, their 6 cats and a family of tortoises. When he's not tinkering on one of his many computers, he's playing rock music on his Fender guitar or playing games online.

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  type: person
  name: Anton Smith
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  placeholder: true
  locality: Dunedin
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: AntonSmith.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: anton
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
              <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/">Omnibus</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
              <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/geo/replication/">Geo</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Anton is one of our southernmost GitLabbers and is based in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has a Bachelor of Information Technology from Otago Polytechnic and has spent the majority of his career as a full stack web developer. Anton is all about enhancing the cyber world and loves IOT automation in the workplace, at home and beyond. His utmost passion is finding solutions for issues that clients face, and getting them back on track. Outside of work, you will find Anton doing cardio or weights at the gym, playing the latest video games or bringing his trivia brain to a pub quiz with friends.

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  type: person
  name: Vladimir Brodsky
  start_date: 2019-07-01
  locality: Polinka
  country: Czech Republic
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ronanoconnor
  picture: vladimirbrodsky.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: vbrodsky
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:   |
        Vlad is Application Support and Maintenance specialist with more than 10 years of experience in various environments. Supporting and helping others is simply Vlad's destiny :-). In his free time, Vlad enjoys working around the house, practising Natural Horsemanship and when time allows, travelling.

- slug: kaitlyn-chappell
  type: person
  name: Kaitlyn Chappell
  start_date: 2020-02-18
  placeholder: true
  locality: Philadelphia, PA
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
  picture: kaitlynchappell.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: kchappell
  pronouns: they/them
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Kaitlyn is a Support Engineer who loves helping others work through tough problems. They see each new challenge as an opportunity to learn something new, and delight in finding the best solution. After work they enjoy gardening, baking bread, and homebrewing cider.

- slug: ilia-kosenko
  type: person
  name: Ilia Kosenko
  start_date: 2019-09-01
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Support Engineering Manager (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
  picture: iliakosenko.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: Ikosenko
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Ilia found early on in his career that support and leadership are in his DNA. He was born in Russia, spent most of his youth in Israel and moved to the Netherlands in 2012. When not online - a rare occurrence - he is likely travelling or practising his photography and cooking skills.

- slug: donique-smit
  type: person
  name: Donique Smit
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  placeholder: true
  locality: Cape Town
  country: South Africa
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
  picture: doniquesmit.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: doniquesmit
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Donique lives in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. She has a background in performing arts and public relations, but soon discovered a love for technology. She's happiest when she's solving problems and helping people. When she's not working or studying, you can find her eating sushi or doing yoga.



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  type: person
  name: Catalin Irimie
  start_date: 2019-07-29
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  locality: Canterbury
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ronanoconnor
  picture: catalinirimie.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cirimie
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
             <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/geo/replication/">Geo</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Catalin is passionate about highly complex challenges, helping people and about almost everything related to technology. He is originally from Romania, now living in the UK, and in his free time he can be usually found in front of his PC, participating in some security competitions (CTFs), automating anything that is repeated more than once, playing some games, or when time and weather allows, outside flying drones and traveling.

- slug: ronnie-alfaro
  type: person
  name: Ronnie Alfaro
  start_date: 2020-02-03
  locality: San Jose
  country: Costa Rica
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Support Engineering Manager (LATAM)</a>
  reports_to: lyle-k
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  twitter:
  gitlab: ronniealfaro
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise:  |
  story:  |
          Ronnie lives in Curridabt, San Jose, Costa Rica. He is passionate with new challenges ,helping people succeed, technology and science.
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          scuba diving whenever possible.

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  type: person
  name: Michael Dunninger
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality: Americas North
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Support Engineering Manager (Americas North)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
  picture: MichaelDunninger.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mdunninger
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise:  |
  story:  |
          Mike is a passionate and experienced customer support professional, having served as a support engineer and manager for a couple of decades before joining GitLab as a Support Engineering Manager. He believes in the right of every customer to a great experience, and aims to help his teammates to deliver just that. Mike grew up in Michigan, got his computer science degrees at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, and has called Colorado his home since 1989. He adores his wife, with whom he has a blended family of four adult children. Mike loves food, and is probably happiest when he's cooking, baking, or traveling to new places and sampling local cuisine. He's pretty happy relaxing on a beautiful beach, too. Mike is also an avid puzzler (crossword, jigsaw, cryptoquote, ...), reader and theater patron. And he is a devoted fan and season ticket holder for the (American football) Denver Broncos.

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  name: Rehab Hassanein
  start_date: 2019-08-05
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  locality: Antalya
  country: Turkey
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ronanoconnor
  picture: rehab.jpg
  twitter: rehab_hassanein
  gitlab: rhassanein
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
  story:  |
          Rehab is Linux-obsessed and sometimes Linux-possessed.
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  type: person
  name: Nourdin el Bacha
  start_date: 2019-07-29
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  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ilia-kosenko
  picture: nourdinelbacha.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: nelbacha
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
             <li><a href="/handbook/on-call/">On-call</a> champion!</li>
  story:  |
          Nourdin enjoys to solve problems and develop new things. In his spare time you can find him staring at a chess position or playing guitar.

- slug: shem-gyll
  type: person
  name: Shem Gyll
  start_date: 2020-01-27
  locality: York
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ilia-kosenko
  picture: shemgyll.png
  gitlab: shemgyll
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise:
  story:  |
          Shem's entire career has been built on providing world-class customer success within tech industries. Always open and personable, he's a fan of open-source, walking in the countryside, cooking and coding websites.
  remote_story: |
                Everything about remote work is more streamlined, modern and accessible than traditional work. Even applying for remote roles these days is far easier and more productive! Working remotely allows me to focus more on my work without outside distractions in a zen-like trance where productivity just flows simply and easily. I like to walk a lot so working remote gives me opportunities to walk during my breaks or before work, sometimes even taking a long walk to somewhere peaceful before clocking in for the day.

- slug: godfrey-s
  type: person
  name: Godfrey Sullivan
  start_date: 2020-03-23
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/board-of-directors/board_member/">Board of Directors</a>
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  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Godfrey R. Sullivan has served as a member of the board of directors of Splunk, Inc., an enterprise software company, since 2008 and served as Chairman from 2011 to 2019. Mr. Sullivan previously served as the Splunk President and Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to 2015. Prior to joining Splunk, he served as President from 2001 to 2007 and Chief Executive Officer from 2004 to 2007 at Hyperion Solutions Corporation, a performance management software company (acquired by Oracle Corporation). He served as Hyperion's Chief Operating Officer from 2001 to 2004, and as a member of the board of directors from 2004 to 2007. Mr. Sullivan has served as a member of the board of directors of RingCentral, Inc., a provider of cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions, since 2019. Mr. Sullivan previously served on the board of directors of Informatica Corporation, a data integration software provider, from 2008 to 2013, and Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, from 2005 to 2018. Mr. Sullivan holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University.

- slug: ben-prescott
  type: person
  name: Ben Prescott
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: Bournemouth
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ilia-kosenko
  picture: benprescott.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: bprescott_
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Ben was previously a Unix Infrastructure Engineer at an insurer, university, and a bank before joining GitLab to provide support for customers' installations.
          Outside work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, getting tasty things to grow in the garden, cycling, reading, and photography.
          Ben's been in front of a computer keyboard since his childhood, when it had a cassette recorder built into it, and is still learning with Linux, and an installation of GitLab, at home.



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  type: person
  name: Nabeel Bilgrami
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality: Islamabad
  country: Pakistan
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-operations-specialist/">Support Operations Specialist</a>
  reports_to: tom-cooney
  picture: Nabeel_Bilgrami.jpg
  twitter: BilgramiNabeel
  gitlab: nabeel.bilgrami
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Nabeel loves resolving customer needs and optimizing business workflows.
          He lives with his wife and a daughter.
          In his free time, Nabeel loves to read, surf the technology news, enjoying new dishes and exploring new places.

- slug: jo
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  name: Jo Marquez
  start_date: 2019-06-03
  locality: Marysville, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
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  twitter:
  gitlab: jmarquez2
  departments:
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    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Jo is DevOps engineer with an extensive background in Linux. Located in Marysville Washignton USA.
          He has worked at many interesting places throughout his career such as AT&T
          (prior to becoming AT&T Wireless), Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Samsung Android Development
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          and working on his 1970 Chevy K20 pick up.

- slug: christina-hupy
  type: person
  name: Christina Hupy, PhD
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: West Lafayette, Indiana
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/education-program-manager/">Senior Education Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
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  twitter: ChristinaHupy
  gitlab: c_hupy
  departments:
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    - Community Relations
  story:  |
          Christina is passionate about innovation in teaching and learning and bridging the gap between industry and higher education. Christina spent a decade as a professor teaching geospatial technology (Ph.D. in Geography) before joining industry as a training and education leader. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters, who keep the family busy with their sports. They enjoy cooking together and outdoor adventures of all kinds.

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  name: Tanuja Paruchuri
  start_date: 2019-08-12
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/program-manager-field-enablement/">Senior Program Manager, Commercial Sales Enablement</a>
  reports_to: david-somers
  picture: TanujaParuchuri.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: tparuchuri
  departments:
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  - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Tanuja is a sales enablement professional who loves salespeople and understands their passion to make money while providing the best possible solutions to their customers. Prior to joining GitLab, she has worked in sales, sales operations, and sales enablement mostly in the technology industry. In her free time, Tanuja is borderline obsessive about holistic wellness and empowers others to heal themselves with nutrient dense foods. She also enjoys hiking and walking, the outdoors, national parks and hanging out with her friends and family.

- slug: nuritzi
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  name: Nuritzi Sanchez
  start_date: 2020-02-03
  locality: Sunnyvale, California
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/open-source-program-manager/">Senior Open Source Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
  picture: nuritzisanchez.jpeg
  twitter: 1nuritzi
  gitlab: nuritzi
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Community Relations
  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab, Nuritzi helped start a company making Linux-based computers for emerging markets, and led the GNOME Foundation as President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors during a period of historic expansion. In her free time, Nuritzi enjoys talking to new people about why Open Source is awesome, traveling, hiking, wine tasting, listening to audiobooks, and learning from podcasts like NPR’s The Hidden Brain and Invisibilia. You can reach out to her in English, Spanish, Italian, or German -- although her fluency is listed in order, so just saying “Hallo” for now is great if using German.

- slug: egonzalez
  type: person
  name: Eduardo Gonzalez
  start_date: 2019-07-03
  locality: Vancouver, BC
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: jordan-bushong
  picture: EGonzalez.png
  twitter: eg0nzalez
  gitlab: eg0nzalez
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joined July 3rd

- slug: todd-lauver
  type: person
  name: Todd Lauver
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality: Richmond, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive, Americas</a>
  reports_to: jvpotter
  picture: toddlauver.png
  twitter: LauverTodd
  gitlab: Tlauver
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Joined July 8th

- slug: maxim-chadliev
  type: person
  name: Maxim Chadliev
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Kansas City, MO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: lturner
  picture: Maxim_Chadliev.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mchadliev
  departments:
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Maxim is an experienced sales professional who has worked in a wide range of industries including pharmaceutical, blockchain, and healthcare. In his free time Maxim enjoys staying active, and throwing frisbee to his Australian Shepherd.

- slug: steventerhar
  type: person
  name: Steven Terhar
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality:
  country:
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  reports_to: robertclark
  picture: steventerhar.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: SteveTerhar
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Steve is an experienced account manager and consultant who has worked with a wide range of public sector, private sector, and nonprofit organizations. Outside of work, Steve enjoys traveling and spending time with his wife and son.

- slug: michael-bradley
  type: person
  name: Michael Bradley
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality: Herndon, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: chris-maurer
  picture: michaeljbradley.jpg
  twitter: Michael38929641
  gitlab: mjbatgitlab
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Michael is an experienced generalist with a broad range of skills and experience working in different industries and roles coupled with technology.  Most recently he was working with a small DC area software company called Coras, Inc., as a professional solutions consultant and solution architect helping them pivot from SharePoint to their own proprietary PaaS/SaaS offering focused on project and program management for Federal/DoD customers.

- slug: margaret-sheridan
  type: person
  name: Margaret Sheridan
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/public-sector-inside-account-representative/">Public Sector Inside Sales Representative</a>
  reports_to: brent-c
  picture: PegSheridan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: PegSheridan
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Joining July 8th

- slug: jennifermacvicar
  type: person
  name: Jennifer MacVicar
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality:
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/account-executive/">Mid Market Account Executive, Americas</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jmacvicar
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Joined July 8th

- slug: camille-dios
  type: person
  name: Camille Dios
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Nicosia
  country: Cyprus
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: panosr
  picture: camille.dios.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: c.dios
  departments:
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Before joining GitLab, Camille was working as a Channel Manager for a VoIP software. She likes human contact and is always happy when she can feel she is helping customers.
          In her free time, she likes to spend time with her beloved ones, go for horse riding and travel as much as she can.


- slug: jmahdi
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  name: JR Mahdi
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Georgia
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-analytics-analyst-jf">Senior Sales Analytics Analyst</a>
  reports_to: mbenzaquen
  picture: jmahdi.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: JMahd
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          JR is passionate about using data to make and improve decisions and processes.  When not obsessing over facts and figures, he's either spending time with his family or out in nature (or both!).


- slug: nperic
  type: person
  name: Nicki Peric
  start_date: 2019-07-15
  locality: New Jersey
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
  picture: NickPeric.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: nicki_peric
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Joining July 15th

- slug: ishanpadgotra
  type: person
  name: Ishan Padgotra
  start_date: 2019-07-08
  locality:
  country:
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  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: ipadgotra
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Joined July 8th

- slug: ktam
  type: person
  name: Kathleen Tam
  start_date: 2019-08-05
  locality: Herndon, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/manager-data/">Manager, Data</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: Kathleen_Tam.jpeg
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - Data
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    gitlab_data: maintainer
    data_chatops: maintainer
    gitlab-data-utils: maintainer
    snowflake_spend: maintainer
  story:  |
          Kathleen is passionate about building efficient data solutions and leading teams to success. She likes to view the world as a series of puzzles that people work together to solve and is interested in helping others throughout their career and in life. She lives with her husband and four cats.

- slug: jstark
  type: person
  name: Justin Stark
  start_date: 2019-09-03
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/manager-data/">Manager, Data</a>
  reports_to: bryanw-VP-IT
  picture: jstark_sq.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jjstark
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - Data
  projects:
    gitlab_data: maintainer
    data_chatops: maintainer
    gitlab-data-utils: maintainer
    snowflake_spend: maintainer
  story:  |
          a simple person who revels in complexity

- slug: susanhill
  type: person
  name: Susan Hill
  start_date: 2019-07-22
  locality: Minneapolis, MN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-sourcer/">Senior Sourcer</a>
  reports_to: anastasia-p
  picture: susanhill.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: susanhill
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Recruiting
    - People Team
  story:  |
          Susan has 10+ years of expertise within, unicorn hunting (sourcing), leading teams, implementing agile practices in HR & recruitment, onboarding strategies, performance management, and solving complex problems at start-ups and fortune 500 companies. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion, mentoring, and presenting on recruiting and sourcing topics to elevate the community. She most recently presented "Decluttering Your Recruiting Methods Marie Kondo Style" on a webcast for SourceCon/ERE.  Outside of GitLab, she enjoys spending time with her two daughters that are 2 & 9, rock climbing with friends, camping, hiking or just enjoying the outdoors.



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  type: person
  name: Wiam Aissaoui
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  country: Morocco
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  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  picture: wiamaissaoui.jpg
  story:  |
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          She who loves spending free time playing video games with her sisters, doing some yoga & meditation, reading self-development books, trying vegetarian dishes and hanging out with her friends. Her next goal is to visit at least one country per continent.

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  type: person
  name: Sean Hoyle
  start_date: 2019-10-18
  locality: San Antonio, Texas
  country: USA
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  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: seanhoyle.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: shoyle
  pronouns: He/him
  departments:
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    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Sean has spent the last 5 years in IT at Rackspace, LiquidWeb, and a software startup.  When not working you can find him seeing his favorite bands, hiking parks, running marathons, meeting new people and sometimes he thinks he can paint.


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  type: person
  name: Tom Houston
  start_date: 2019-07-16
  locality: Texas
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: jason-colyer
  picture: tomhouston.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tom.houston
  pronouns: He/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Tom is an experienced Linux administrator.  He is a computer nerd from back when he was a teenager in 1990 when his family got their first home PC.  He liked sci-fi, fantasy, reading, and comic books.  He is the proud father of 2 adult sons.

- slug: meganwieling
  type: person
  name: Megan Wieling
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/corporate-events-manager/">Senior Corporate Events Manager</a>
  reports_to: emily-k
  picture: meganwieling.png
  twitter: MeganWieling
  gitlab: meganwieling
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Located in Amsterdam, NL, Megan is passionate about events and has years of experience organizing them around the globe. She enjoys spending time traveling, watching football, walking her baby pug Shae, and studying for her Psychology Bachelor.

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  type: person
  name: Craig Miskell
  start_date: 2020-03-01
  locality: Dunedin
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/index.html.md#scalability">Site Reliability Engineer, Scalability</a>
  reports_to: rachel-nienaber
  picture: craigmiskell.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cmiskell
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Delivery and Scalability Section
    - Scalability Team
  story:  |
          Craig is an enormous and unrepentant nerd from Dunedin NZ.
          Years of working as a system administrator and devops engineer has made him a little cynical, but he's working on it, and still manages to keep a mostly cheerful outlook, as long as he's busy.
          He loves tech stuff (particularly FOSS), sci-fi, cooking/baking, music, and spending entirely too much time playing Factorio

- slug: gerir
  type: person
  name: Gerardo "Gerir" Lopez-Fernandez
  start_date: 2018-06-04
  locality: Valencia
  country: Spain
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/site-reliability-engineer/#engineering-fellow-infrastructure">Engineering Fellow, Infrastructure</a>
  reports_to: steveloyd
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  twitter:
  gitlab: glopezfernandez
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Ops Infra Stable Counterpart
  expertise:  |
  story:  |

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  type: person
  name: Andrei Stoicescu
  start_date: 2019-11-01
  locality: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj
  country: Romania
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Frontend Engineer, Monitor:APM</a>
  reports_to: clement
  picture: andreistoicescu.jpg
  pronouns: he/him
  twitter: 4stoic
  gitlab: astoicescu
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
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    - Frontend
    - Monitor:APM
  projects:
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  expertise:  |
  story:  |
          Andrei is an explorer of browser capabilities that make human communication more efficient through optimal user interfaces. When he’s not obsessing over the latest browser APIs and CSS specs, you can find him traveling, enjoying a good novel, sharing high oxytocin levels with his dog, or flexing his frustration tolerance in a retro platforming video game.

- slug: davistownsend
  type: person
  name: Davis Townsend
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Austin
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-analyst">Data Analyst, Infrastructure</a>
  reports_to: steveloyd
  picture: davistownsend.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: davis_townsend
  pronouns: He/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
  expertise:  |
  story:  |
          Davis is a professional with broad expertise in the Data & Analytics space. He graduated with his Masters in Business Analytics from UT Austin.
          From there, he worked at EA for 2 years where he built financial anomaly detection models for server metrics, executive reports for Multicloud Cost and Usage, and automated workflows to improve infrastructure allocation processes.
          Now he is looking to bring this same expertise to Gitlab to improve visibility, provide insight, and enable action on all infrastructure data.
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  name: Alberto Ramos
  start_date: 2020-03-30
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  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-infrastructure/">Engineering Manager, Reliability</a>
  reports_to: brentnewton
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  gitlab: https://gitlab.com/albertoramos
  departments:
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    - Infrastructure Department
    - Reliability Team
  story:  |
          Hands-on SRE manager with some good experience (and a pasion) in how to reliably run distributed production systems at scale in the cloud. Lived in several countries - now happily landed in Ireland. Worked before
          for companies like HP, Cadtech, Zendesk and Microsoft. I also love running, tennis, traveling and having a happy family!
  remote_story: |
          The current Coronavirus restrictions make my remote work feel very normal these days. I am hoping to learn many new ways of being efficient and enjoying my job as a result of that.

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  type: person
  name: Tucker Logan
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality:
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  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: joel-k
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  twitter: tuckcodes
  gitlab: tuckcodes
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          I'm an autodidact, coder, solutions architect, blockchain nutjob, musician, father, husband, and lover of life. I've traveled far and wide, toured with my six string, lived on boats, islands, RV's, and cars at times. I've been exalted. I've been humbled. I seek to make the world a better place by being a better person.

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  type: person
  name: Timm Ideker
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: North Oaks, Minnesota
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/regional-sales-director/">Regional Sales Director, US West</a>
  reports_to: mpyle
  picture: timmideker.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tideker
  departments:
    - Sales
  expertise:  |
  story:  |
          oft-bearded member of the Sales Leadership Team covering Enterprise West accounts.  I have spent the last decade positioning Infrastructure and Connectivity and now I get to enable all those Legos with GitLab.  Married to the exceptional Annie and loving the job of raising two amazing kids Tristan and Quinn.  I love to coach youth hockey, I enjoy cooking like I know what I am doing and I continue to enjoy all the spoils within the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

- slug: nicolo-maria-mezzopera
  type: person
  name: Nicolò Maria Mezzopera
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Package</a>
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  reports_to: danielcroft
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  twitter: DonNicoJs
  gitlab: nmezzopera
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Package Group
    - Package FE Team
    - Frontend
  projects:
    gitlab: trainee_maintainer frontend
  story:  |
          Nicolò Maria Mezzopera (Nico) is a passionate Vue.js developer, started
          as a full stack developer he decided to specialise in frontend only.
          Nico contributes actively to open source, and loves to spread knowledge and
          love for Vue.js. Outside of GitLab Nico likes to explore the world with his family.

- slug: bgreenwell
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  name: Brandon Greenwell
  start_date: 2018-12-03
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, Acceleration</a>
  reports_to: mmalcolm
  picture: Brandon_Greenwell.jpeg
  twitter: BrandonGreenwe5
  gitlab: bgreenwell
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - SDR
    - Revenue Marketing
  story:  |
          Brandon has a wealth of experience throughout all stages of the sales process and enjoys the challenge and satisfaction of helping to identify and solve his customers most urgent business needs. Brandon is married and has two beautiful little girls, Lily and Lucy. He spends the majority of his free time boating, camping and playing guitar.

- slug: datwood
  type: person
  name: Derek Atwood
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-analyst/">Data Analyst</a>
  reports_to: ktam
  picture: derekatwood.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: derekatwood
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - Data
  story:  |
          Derek is a former Physics junkie who loves untangling complexity. In his free time he enjoys exploring music history, art, and everything related to coffee.

- slug: nboctorsmith
  type: person
  name: Nout Boctor-Smith
  start_date: 2019-09-09
  locality: Durham, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-program-manager/">Senior Marketing Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: jgragnola
  picture: NoutBoctorSmith.jpg
  twitter: kittehluvs
  gitlab: nbsmith
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing Programs
  story:  |
          Nout (rhymes with "fruit") is an email marketing and process improvement nerd. She's a big fan of HTML and CSS and email templating. She enjoys antiquing, cooking, hanging out with friends, and her cats.

- slug: alexander-yoseph
  type: person
  name: Alexander Yoseph
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: michael-hamilton
  picture: ayoseph.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: ayoseph
  departments:
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Alex is a Economics major who enjoys working out, attending music events and watching football. Before gitlab Alex worked at several tech compnaies including appdynamics and splunk.

- slug: MPM-Megan-M
  type: person
  name: Megan Mitchell
  start_date: 2019-07-16
  locality: Charlotte, NC
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-program-manager/">Senior Marketing Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: jgragnola
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
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    - Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing Programs
  story:  |
          Joined on Sept 16th

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  type: person
  name: Cormac Foster
  start_date: 2019-10-1
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  locality: Newcastle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Sr Product Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: john-jeremiah
  picture: cormacfoster.jpg
  twitter: cormacfoster
  gitlab: cfoster3
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, Agile</a></li>
  story:  |
          Cormac is a former industry analyst who made the jump to Product Marketing and never looked back. He lived in Southern California long enough to hug Mr. T twice and use the word "stoked" to describe how he feels about the team at Gitlab. When he's not punching keys, Cormac is probably riding a bike or hanging with his fantastic wife and epic dogs.

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  name: Saumya Upadhyaya
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  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Sr Product Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: john-jeremiah
  picture: SaumyaUpadhyaya.jpg
  twitter:
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    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
    - Ops Section
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, Simplify DevOps</a></li>
  story:  |
          Prior to GitLab, Saumya has played multiple roles across Product Management, Marketing & Consulting at VMware, Micro Focus & HP. In her spare time, Saumya loves working out (including Crossfit, Boxing & Yoga) & doodling - sometimes a combination of the two.
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          Prior to GitLab, I spent over 1.5 hours (one way) on the road getting to work. That's 12.5% of my day on the road! With GitLab, I've earned back that time - giving me the ability to spend more time at work, pursuing my current interests & build new ones. And of course, more time with family!


- slug: sladgrove
  type: person
  name: Steve Ladgrove
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/it-helpdesk-analyst/">IT Helpdesk Analyst - APAC</a>
  reports_to: ITmanager-PeterK
  picture: sladgrove.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: sladgrove
  departments:
    - Business Operations
  story:  |
          Steve is an experienced IT professional who is passionate about helping others and automation. When Steve isn't at his desk you'll find him wrangling his 2 dogs and 2 cats, playing with his daughter Emily and drumming quietly to not wake up the neighbors


- slug: suzy-verdin
  type: person
  name: Suzy Verdin
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality: USA
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hannah-s
  picture: suzannaverdin.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: sverdin
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joined on June 17th

- slug: michael-major
  type: person
  name: Michael Major
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: USA
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: jordan-bushong
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: mmajor1
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joined on September 16th

- slug: gee-lee
  type: person
  name: Gee Lee
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Montreal, Quebec
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: lturner
  picture: geelee.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: gee_lee
  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Gee is passionate about finding the right solutions for her customers. Outside of work, you'd find her cycling, learning jazz guitar and French.

- slug: james-petr
  type: person
  name: James Petr
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality:
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  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/business-systems-engineer">Business Systems Engineer</a>
  reports_to: jackbrennan
  picture: jamespetr.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: jpetr
  departments:
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    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          A software engineer with lots of experience working on the Salesforce.com platform.

- slug: rick-gravel
  type: person
  name: Rick Gravel
  start_date: 2019-09-16
  locality: Williamsburg, Virginia
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader, Public Sector</a>
  reports_to: JKS
  picture: rgravel.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rickgravel
  departments:
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    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Enjoy playing in, watching, and hosting Hockey events, exporing new places and trying new challenges, Happy Hours, entrepreneurship, and problem solving.

- slug: christopher-graham
  type: person
  name: Christopher Graham
  start_date: 2019-06-17
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: tom-plumadore
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: crgraham87
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joined on June 17th

- slug: sascha-scholing
  type: person
  name: Sascha Scholing
  start_date: 2019-05-06
  locality: Cologne
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/channel-sales-manager/">Channel Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: michellehodges
  picture: sascha_scholing.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: SaschaScholing
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          In the industry since 1992, a big believer in partner business as a driver to company growth. In my free time I enjoy horse riding with my family.

- slug: mfanniszucs
  type: person
  name: Maria Fanni Szucs
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/deal-desk/">Deal Desk Analyst</a>
  reports_to: jrabbits
  picture: mariaszucs.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: maria_szucs
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Joined on September 23rd

- slug: kdsouza
  type: person
  name: Kriti D'Souza
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality: Pune
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/deal-desk/">Deal Desk Analyst</a>
  reports_to: jrabbits
  picture: kritidsouza.png
  twitter: kriitea_13
  gitlab: kdsouza2
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Based in Pune-India, trained and experienced with knowledge on System and Tools (CRM like SalesForce.com (SFDC), Oracle R11i & R12, Quoting Tools such as BMI (Big Machines), Zuora), ECMS (Enterprise Contract Management System) and Business Intelligence Tools & Applications with understanding of the database of Software and Cloud Licenses details in Oracle for global customers (License Management).

- slug: mgr-competitiveintelligence
  type: person
  name: Mahesh Kumar
  start_date: 2019-09-19
  locality: San Jose
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-management/#manager-competitive-intelligence">Manager, Competitive Intelligence</a>
  reports_to: ashish-k
  picture: maheshkumar.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: mskumar
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Competitive Intelligence
  story:  |
          Joined on September 2019-09-19

- slug: aleetabell
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  name: Aleeta Bell
  start_date: 2020-02-18
  locality: Atlanta, Georgia
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/technical-marketing-manager/#competitive-intelligence-specialist">Competitive Intelligence Mangaer</a>
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  picture: aleetabell.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: abell2
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Competitive Intelligence
  story:  |
          Aleeta joined Gitlab in early 2020.  She lives in Atlanta, Ga.  In her free time she loves cooking and reading.

- slug: laura-shand
  type: person
  name: Laura Shand
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: World
  country: Remote
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  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: Laura.Shand.JPG
  twitter: LauraShand0812
  gitlab: lshand
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    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
          Based in beautifual San Francisco, with over 10 years in sales who enjoys fixing business problems and helping her customers find success with Gitlab. Loves traveling the world and experiencing new adventures with her friends and family.

- slug: loredana-iluca
  type: person
  name: Loredana Iluca
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  locality: Bucharest
  country: Romania
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-sourcer/">Sourcer</a>
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  picture: Loredana.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: LoredanaIluca
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
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     - People Team
  story:  |
          Loredana is passionate about people and that is why she started to work in recruitment. She has 3 years of experince in this domain, being in charge with filling mainly Sales roles. All her free time is devoted to her dog, loved ones and reading news from fashion.

- slug: fernando-diaz
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  name: Fernando Diaz
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/technical-marketing-manager/">Technical Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: dan-gordon
  picture: fern.jpg
  gitlab: fjdiaz
  twitter: awkwardferny
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Technical Marketing
  expertise:  |
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing, DevSecOps</a></li>
            <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing, GitOps (acting)</a></li>
  story:  |
          I'm a Technical Marketing Manager at Gitlab. Keeping Austin Weird 🌵 one cold-brew at a time.

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  locality: Americas/EMEA Timezones
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/technical-marketing-manager/">Technical Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: dan-gordon
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Technical Marketing
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing, SCM</a></li>
  story:  |
          Joins on April 6th, 2020

- slug: tmm-cesar-s
  type: person
  name: Cesar S
  start_date: 2020-04-20
  location_factor: 0.7
  locality: Americas/EMEA Timezones
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/technical-marketing-manager/">Technical Marketing Manager</a>
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  twitter:
  gitlab:
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    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Technical Marketing
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/technical-marketing/">Technical Marketing, TBD</a></li>
  story:  |
          Joins on April 20th, 2020

- slug: aletha-alfarania
  type: person
  name: Aletha Alfarania
  start_date: 2019-10-02
  locality: Taipei, Taiwan
  country: Taiwan
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, APAC</a>
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  twitter: AAlfarania
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joined in October 2019 \(^o^)/

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  name: Melia Vilain
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: Oakland, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-analytics-analyst-jf">Senior Sales Analytics Analyst</a>
  reports_to: mbenzaquen
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  gitlab: mvilain
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Melia has a background in business operations and using data analytics to drive business decisions. She enjoys finding the right answer, solving mysteries, and making the world a cleaner and more organized place. Melia lives with her husband and two young daughters in sunny California, where she loves being outdoors as much as possible.

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  type: person
  name: Linc Williams
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: Greenville, SC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: chris-maurer
  picture: lincwilliams.jpg
  twitter: balgroovephoto
  gitlab: lmwilliams
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          I am an accomplished Project Manager, Architect, Analyst, Strategist and solution-oriented person who thrives in challenging, fast paced environments where my performance directly impacts the bottom line.  I have a love of photography and specialize in Cosplay photography

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  type: person
  name: Darren Rivey
  start_date: 2019-10-10
  locality: Reston, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: chris-maurer
  picture: drivey1.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
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  type: person
  name: Ruben Govender
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Rochester Hills, Michigan
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (US Central)</a>
  reports_to: adam-o
  picture: rubengovender.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: rgovender
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  A passsionate salesperson who focuses on his customers needs and solving their immediate problems. His goal is to simplify business processes and make enterprises more effective. Outside of work, Ruben is a family man with a wife, two sons and dog. He enjoys golf, traveling and wildlife.

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  type: person
  name: Pilar Mejia
  start_date: 2019-10-01
  locality: Leesburg, Virginia
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/federal-channel-manager/">Federal Channel Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: cnovello
  picture: pilarmejia.jpg
  twitter: tinkerpil
  gitlab: pmejia
  departments:
    - Sales
  story: |
         Pilar is an enthusiastic wanderlust with a passion for channel excellence and learning new things. When she's not focused on creating strong partnerships she chases around her two toddlers, one rescue dog and gaming husband. Outside her two full time gigs she enjoys yoga, art, live music and all things adventure.

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  type: person
  name: Lien Van Den Steen
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Gent
  country: Belgium
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-ops-fullstack-engineer/">People Operations Fullstack Engineer</a>
  reports_to: nadia-v
  picture: lienvdsteen.png
  twitter: lienvdsteen
  gitlab: lienvdsteen
  projects:
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  departments:
    - People Team
  story: Lien likes automation and improving the lives of her colleagues through code. She’s a full-stack engineer and has enjoyed working primarily with Ruby the last five years. When she’s not behind her keyboard she can be found seeking sunshine, sipping a flat white, or at the gym.

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  type: person
  name: Becky Reich
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/awareness-campaign-manager/">Awareness Campaign Manager</a>
  reports_to: melissasmolensky
  picture: RREICH_TEAM.jpg
  twitter:
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  departments:
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   - Corporate Marketing
  story: brand, innovative tech, repeat

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  type: person
  name: Libby Schulze
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/corporate-events-manager/#corporate-events-manager-sales-events">Corporate Events Manager, Sales Events</a>
  reports_to: emily-k
  picture: LSTP.jpeg
  twittr: libschulze
  gitlab: libbyschulze
  departments:
   - Marketing
   - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Libby has a passion for planning events of all shapes and sizes which she has done for many years across various parts of the event industry. When she isn't working, she enjoys spending time with her family and going to the beach.

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  type: person
  name: Simon Mansfield
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Cardiff
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: gronk
  picture: simonmansfield.png
  twitter: siyfion
  gitlab: simon_mansfield
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Source Code Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Knowledge Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Static Site Editor Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Editor Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Gitaly Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Gitter Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Ecosystem Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Simon is an experienced lead engineer who switched to being a solutions architect, then never looked back. He lives somewhere close to Cardiff and though not Welsh, likes to pretend he is every once in a while. When he's not at his desk chatting away to customers and GitLab team-members, he can be found clinging onto exposed rockfaces, cycling, playing a board games with friends or, more likely, watching his favourite NFL team lose on TV. Simon has a beautiful wife, two bengal cats and a bump.

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  type: person
  name: Sokunrotanak Srey (Rotanak)
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Phnom Penh
  country: Cambodia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (APAC)</a>
  reports_to: shaun-mccann
  picture: sokunrotanaksrey.jpg
  twitter: ssrotanak
  gitlab: rotanak
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Rotanak likes to help people with technology problems since he got his first computer. He got his master degree in Food Science in 2014. He started his first job as an IT Technician at a non-profit organization. There he learned about Linux and CI/CD and realized how amazing it is that we can automate many processes in Linux including software deployment. When Rotanak is not busy helping people with technology issues, he likes to do a lot of different things such as playing computer games, reading, taking long walks, sketching, watching movies, trying different sports, and recharging with solo trip.

- slug: oheigre
  type: person
  name: Ove Heigre
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: San Jose, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: john-woods
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  twitter:
  gitlab: oheigre
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story: |
         Originally from Norway, Ove has lived in the US since 2000. He has spent nearly 20 years working with customers in various capacities. Ove enjoys making others succeed, and has focused a lot on mentoring and enablement while driving large scale enterprise transformation projects. Ove is a self proclaimed beer snob - always looking for that next favorite brew and brewery. In his spare time Ove enjoys traveling the world with his family and experiencing new places and cultures.


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  type: person
  name: Rohan Shah
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Mumbai
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (APJ)</a>
  reports_to: adriansmolski
  picture: rshah.png
  twitter: rmsrohan
  gitlab: rmsrohan
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Rohan is a Seasoned DevOps Engineer and System Administrat­or who is passionate about the customer experience. He has a proven track record in building, deploying and supporting infrastructure and applications using DevOps practices over multi-cloud platforms. Outside of work, He loves Hiking trips and involved in working over DIY projects using Raspberry Pi and Arduino.

- slug: dphelan
  type: person
  name: Daniel Phelan
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Cornwall
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hailey-p
  picture: dphelan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: dphelan
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Daniel is passionate about customer success, understanding more about the personal pains felt through the software development lifecycle and how they can be alleviated through innovative technology solutions. On a personal level, he has spent the previous 2 years travelling and working in Canada/USA, hobbies include getting outdoors whenever possible, rock climbing, hiking and most outdoor activities in general including a cold beer in the sun.

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  type: person
  name: Arianna Bellino
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Budapest
  country: Hungary
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hailey-p
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  twitter:
  gitlab: abellino
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
         Prior to working at Gitlab, Arianna was developing her sales skills at Cloudera.
         She is a technology sales development professional, passionate about helping companies deliver results and drive business value with new solutions.
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- slug: brettgadberry
  type: person
  name: Brett Gadberry
  start_date: 2019-10-14
  locality: Los Angeles, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
  picture: brettgadberry.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: bgadberry
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Brett is an experienced Technical Account Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He is skilled in AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Customer Service and Account Management. Brett is a strong engineering professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University.

- slug: daniel-marquard
  type: person
  name: Daniel Marquard
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Alexandria, Virginia
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Senior Public Sector Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: chris-maurer
  picture: danielmarquard.jpg
  twitter: danielmarquard
  gitlab: danielmarquard
  pronouns: he/him/his
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Daniel has more than a decade of development and DevOps experience working for both private sector startups and federal government contractors. Daniel comes to GitLab from a defense contractor where he architected DevOps pipelines for deploying cloud-agnostic, large-scale AI applications. As a Solutions Architect at GitLab, Daniel will consult Department of Defense customers as they adopt DevOps and agile cultures through their implementation of GitLab. Daniel's interests include traveling, fashion, and playing video games.

- slug: daryl-knopf
  type: person
  name: Daryl Knopf
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Falls Church VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: joel-k
  picture: darylknopf.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Daryl joined GitLab from the Cyber Security space supporting the Public Sector and Commercial Sales Initiatives. As a strategic technical pre-sales leader, he has focused his career bridging the gap between cutting edge technology and net new customers to large organizations. Daryl enjoys enabling customers to be more productive in the most efficient manner with innovative software. When not working, Daryl enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, golfing, and anything on the water!

- slug: brian-piscitelli
  type: person
  name: Brian Piscitelli
  start_date: 2019-10-22
  locality: Gainesville, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: chris-maurer
  picture: brianpiscitelli.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: bpiscitelli
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Brian joined GitLab with a cybersecurity, virtualization and networking background supporting the Public Sector team.  Brian was a prior service member serving in the United States Navy and is excited to contribute his knowledge and experience with the GitLab team.  When Brian is not spending time with his two kids and wife he enjoys playing video games, traveling, being a car enthusiast, renovating his house, and pretty much any outdoor activity.

- slug: josh-swann
  type: person
  name: Josh Swann
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Springfield, VA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Federal Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: joel-k
  picture: joshswann.png
  twitter: jswann7908
  gitlab: joshswann
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Josh has an extensive background in the design and development of web-based applications for Government and non-profit organizations. These expirences allowed Josh to leverage cutting edge technologies and processes to ensure reliable and repeatable successes. When Josh isn't following the latest technology trends you'll likley find him spending time with his family, playing golf or watching his West Virginia University Mountaineers.

- slug: kristen-s
  type: person
  name: Kristen Sundberg
  start_date: 2019-10-15
  locality: Boston, MA
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/social-marketing-manager/">Senior Social Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: wilspillane
  picture: kristensundberg.jpg
  twitter: kesundberg
  gitlab: ksundberg
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story: |
          I’m a social media guru with a knack for creating clever captions and hashtags.  A highly motivated Girl Boss who is passionate about digital marketing, events, and the technology space. Lover of alliteration, the Backstreet Boys, and true crime.

- slug: wilspillane
  type: person
  name: Wil Spillane
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Wilmington, DE
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/social-marketing-manager/">Manager, Social Marketing</a>
  reports_to: natashawoods
  picture: WilSpillane.jpg
  twitter: wichsp
  gitlab: wspillane
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  remote_story: |
                I've worked remotely, in some capacity, for over a decade. I was working from coffee shops around the country before I knew it was a lifestyle choice. Having been a part of a traveling television show, I was always connecting to the arena WiFi to get work done. These experiences shaped the way I want to work and live. I've learned how truly liberating remote work is for me, and how it can help us all create some of the best work of our careers together. But it's not just about doing great work, it's also about not doing work at all. The ability to visit friends and family, spend time with my partner and our cats, and eliminate some of the sacrifices we all make to have a successful career drove me to this place in my life and ultimately helped me land at GitLab.
  story:  |
          Wil builds the systems and practices around social media strategies at GitLab. When he's not building, Wil is a full time cat daddy and climate activist.

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  type: person
  name: Annie Huang
  start_date: 2020-03-16
  locality: Taipei
  country: Taiwan
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/community-advocate/">Community Advocate</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
  picture: AnnieHuang.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: annie_huang
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Community Relations
  story:  |
          Annie lives in Taipei, Taiwan, with 2 poodles, and her family. Annie is passionate about coding and design. She also finds her love of communicating with people and helping people to resolve technical difficulties. When Annie has free time, she likes to do things such as reading and meditating.

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  type: person
  name: Artur Salii
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Kyiv
  country: Ukraine
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: tom-atkins
  picture: artursalii.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: asalii
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
        Artur is passionate about helping people to resolve technical difficulties. He started his first job as a technical support engineer at Grammarly. There he learned more about different automation tools and realized how technilogies can make everyday tasks much simpler. When Artur has free time, he likes to do a lot of different things such as weight training, reading, watching movies, playing computer games, and travelling.

- slug: eldridgehenley
  type: person
  name: Eldridge Henley
  start_date: 2019-10-28
  locality: Fayetteville, AR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
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  twitter: EldridgeHenley
  gitlab: ehenley
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  expertise: |
    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/README.html#installing-gitlab-using-the-omnibus-gitlab-package-recommended">Omnibus</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/service_desk.html">Service Desk</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  remote_story: |
    Having my own personal environment to work in, and being able to make this space my own, really motivates me to do well. The freedom I have to make choices on how I approach things and at the same time, being empowered to communicate with others and adapt their approaches is insanely thought provoking. Even though everyone is remote, it's just like being in an office with everyone. It's so reassuring how motivated, caring, and diligent everyone is.
  story:  |
        Eldridge lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with his wife Stacey, and three children. His background is in Kubernetes, and holds a Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification. When not being as helpful as possible, he can be found in his local arcade or reading comics to his children. He also holds the self proclaimed "best beard" in support.

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  type: person
  name: Michael Lussier
  start_date: 2019-10-28
  locality: Fayetteville, AR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
  picture: michaellussier.jpg
  twitter: doombongo
  gitlab: m_lussier
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Support Department
  story:  |
        Michael lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he started using the web in 2000 by playing, talking and enjoying video games with people around the globe with the same passion. His passion for web development started in 2010 and continues today.

- slug: tabetha-chandler
  type: person
  name: Tabetha Chandler
  start_date: 2019-10-04
  locality:
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  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: marc-kriz
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Started October 4, 2019

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  type: person
  name: David Mack
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Connecticut
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-analytics-analyst-jf">Senior Sales Analytics Analyst</a>
  reports_to: mbenzaquen
  picture: DavidMack.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: davidmack00
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          With a background in Sales and Management Consulting, David has spent the majority of his career helping to re-shape Go-To-Market strategies for a wide range of Tech Companies across the globe.  With a passion for driving change in Sales Organizations with data driven insights, there isn't a challenge too big to tackle.  When he is not heads down in a spreadsheet, you can find him and his wife backpacking the wilderness, snowboarding various mountains, or dirt biking any trails worth exploring.

- slug: chsiao
  type: person
  name: Caesar Hsiao 蕭濤靜
  start_date: 2019-10-31
  locality: Singapore
  country: Singapore
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiting-sourcer/">Senior Sourcer</a>
  reports_to: anastasia-p
  picture: Caesar.jpeg
  twitter: hsiaocaesar
  gitlab: caesarh
  departments:
    - Recruiting
    - People Team
  story:  |
          Caesar's passion is to change the world and make positive impacts to the world. He has proven record in new business acquisition, end-to-end case delivery, key account management, bulk recruiting and international placement. Consultated at technology company and international recruitment firms, focus on scaling up the team and integrating the culture.

- slug: slee24
  type: person
  name: Samantha Lee
  start_date: 2019-10-28
  locality: Lakewood, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/community-advocate/">Community Advocate</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
  picture: samantha_lee.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: slee24
  departments:
    - Community Advocacy
    - Community Relations
    - Marketing
  remote_story: |
    Working on a remote team has created the opportunity for my work and personal life to coexist in a way that is both productive and healthy. The opportunity to work flexibly and from my own home allows me extra time each day to dedicate towards my own passions, family, and friends. All remote at GitLab makes me feel included, supported, and engaged, no matter what time zone I'm working from or where my team is located.
  story:  |
          Samantha is excited to join the Community Advocacy team. She brings a background in education and a passion for learning. Samantha is looking forward to opportunities to apply and grow her web development skills while working with the GitLab community.

- slug: niall-cregan
  type: person
  name: Niall Cregan
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Kerry
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/digital-marketing-programs-manager/">Growth Marketing </a>
  reports_to: shane-rice
  picture: niallcregan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ncregan
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Brand and Digital Design
    - Growth Marketing
  story:  |
          Niall joined GitLab following a number of years of succesfully developing and delivering strategies for SEO, Content and Consumer Research across a variety of industries. When not catching up on the latest digital trends, Niall enjoys the great outdoors. And when hiding from the unpredictable Irish weather, can be found deeply engrossed in the nearest available book.

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  type: person
  name: Gabriel Yoachum
  start_date: 2019-10-21
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas East)</a>
  reports_to: michael-dunninger
  picture: gabe.png
  gitlab: gyoachum
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Before joining Gitlab, Gabriel worked in a variety of technical roles for multinational companies in the
          video game industry, health services and telecommunications. He enjoys hiking, biking, traveling, cooking
          and spending time with family doing the aforementioned.

- slug: james-altheide
  type: person
  name: James Altheide
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality: Portland, Oregon
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hannah-s
  picture: jamesaltheide.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jaltheide
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          James is an enterprise SDR at GitLab.  Outside of bringing the concept of concurrent devops to the enterprise, James spends much of his free time staying active through trail running, weight lifting, and playing basketball.

- slug: amy-waller
  type: person
  name: Amy Waller
  start_date: 2020-02-24
  locality: San Luis Obispo, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-operations-manager/#senior-marketing-operations-manager">Senior Marketing Operations Manager</a>
  reports_to: darawarde
  picture: amywaller.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: amy-waller
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Marketing Operations
  expertise:  |
              <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/apply/senior-marketing-operations-manager-4392318002">Application Link</a></li>
  story:  |
          Amy is focused on partnering with teams that are responsible for campaigns and events. She has a healthy obsession with process improvements and efficiency. She is an avid Boston sports fan, enjoys playing soccer and softball, and traveling back and forth between California and New England.

- slug: brandonbrooks
  type: person
  name: Brandon Brooks
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Portland, Oregon
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative</a>
  reports_to: jordan-bushong
  picture: brandonbrooks.jpg
  twitter: bbm0n
  gitlab: brandonbrooks
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Brandon made his way to GitLab from defense contracting. As a program manager, he lead the deployment of a diverse array of highly technical solutions in support of the DoD and Intelligence Community ranging from electronic countermeasures, medium altitude UAVs, aerial sensors, ruggedized clustered computers, and orthomosaic mapping software. During this time he became fascinated with the development tools that enabled these innovative technologies and developed a passion for automation, open source systems, and the DevOps mindset. Naturally this led him to his home (literally) at GitLab. Brandon believes all organizations can benefit from embracing a collaborative approach to software development and he is on a mission to help all teams accelerate their software delivery. Originally from North Carolina, he has lived in the lush Pacific Northwest since 2009 and now calls Portland, Oregon his home. Outside of work, he’s always learning and he loves to tinker on the command line and click through every software application he can get in front of. When not in front of a computer he enjoys spending time with his amazing wife and partner, Kelsey. Chances are you’ll find them at the sushi bar. The salmon in PNW is the best!

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  type: person
  name: Blake Chalfant-Kero
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Seattle, WA
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative</a>
  reports_to: jordan-bushong
  picture: BlakeChalfantKero.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: bchalfantkero
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joins on Nov 4th

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  type: person
  name: Evan Mathis
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Atlanta, GA
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: ramonaelliott
  picture: Evan-Mathis.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: emathis
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Evan is excited to join the GitLab team as an SDR after 7 years as a fitness coach and gym manager. Working in the fitness space Evan was able to develop close relationships with people to help them solve problems and achieve their goals. Evan looks forward to taking that experience to help GitLab customers. Evan lives in Atlanta with his fiancé, Katie, and their cat, Nugget. On Saturdays in the Fall you will find Evan cheering on the University of Georgia Bulldogs!

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  type: person
  name: Aaron K. Young
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Earth
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative</a>
  reports_to: hannah-s
  picture: AaronKYoung.jpg
  twitter: yupthatsaaron
  gitlab: aaron.young
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Aaron is ecstatic to join the GitLab family with a background in cybersecurity and SaaS solution selling. Born in Hawaii, Aaron has made his way across the US and resides in Austin, TX. In his spare time, he is Marathon/OCR athlete, a musician, and foodie/traveler.

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  type: person
  name: Jada Rogers
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Atlanta, Georgia
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: ramonaelliott
  picture: Jada_Rogers.JPG
  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  Jada is elated to join GitLab as an SDR and she is also passionate about shortening your DevOps lifecycle! Outside of work Jada enjoys, teaching her dance fitness classes, painting new pieces of art or curling up to read a thought provoking book!

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  type: person
  name: Teagan Shurtleff
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Salt Lake City, Utah
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/corporate-events-manager/">Corporate Events Manager</a>
  reports_to: emily-k
  picture: teaganshurtleff.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tshurtleff
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Teagan is part of GitLab's corporate events team, with a passion for creating unique and memorable brand expiriences. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah she enjoys all things outdoors. In her free time she enjoys rock climbing, trail running and skiing, or if not outside, listening to live music.

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  type: person
  name: Jeffrey Smits
  start_date: 2019-11-01
  locality: Dusseldorf
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Senior Field Marketing Manager, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: antonio-m
  picture: jeffreysmits.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: JDSmits
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Field Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
  story:  |
          Jeffrey is a passionate Sales & Marketing innovator, always looking to learn and develop his skills and knowledge. Getting inspiration from travelling, climbing, cooking and other people; he will use his creativity and commitment to make a difference. Coming from a hospitality and MICE background, he has spend many years abroad discovering different cultures.

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  type: person
  name: Robert Byrne
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Area Sales Manager, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: jburghart
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: RobbieB
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joined Nov 4th

- slug: christinaweaver
  type: person
  name: Christina Weaver
  start_date: 2019-10-28
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/pr-manager/">Senior Public Relations Manager, Product</a>
  reports_to: natashawoods
  picture: christinaweaver.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: cweaver1
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Joined Oct 28th

- slug: siddharthmalik
  type: person
  name: Siddharth Malik
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Bangalore
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/financial-analyst/">Senior Financial Analyst</a>
  reports_to: frederick-kurniadi
  picture: Siddharth_Malik.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: sidmalik
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Joins Nov 4th

- slug: shanebouchard
  type: person
  name: Shane Bouchard
  start_date: 2019-04-22
  locality: Clermont, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/director-brand-and-digital/">Director of Brand and Digital Design</a>
  reports_to: tbarr
  picture: shanebouchard.jpg
  twitter: ShaneBouchard
  gitlab: sbouchard1
  departments:
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  pronouns: he/him
  story: Shane has 18+ years of design, marketing and product experience building high-performing teams, brands and products for companies of all types and sizes, from industry giants to award-winning digital agencies and lean SaaS startups. When he's not collaborating with others or glued to his laptop, he enjoys drawing and painting, traveling and the great outdoors.

- slug: vicbell
  type: person
  name: Vic Bell
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Durham
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/illustrator/">Senior illustrator</a>
  reports_to: luke-babb
  picture: vicbell.jpg
  twitter: vic_bell
  gitlab: vicbell
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story: Vic is an illustrator from the North East of England, she hopes to elevate Gitlab by bringing beautiful and informative artwork that will make users smile. When she isn't creating she enjoys spending time with her son, gaming and cooking.

- slug: mkulakowski
  type: person
  name: Michał Kułakowski
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Warszawa
  country: Poland
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect</a>
  reports_to: gronk
  twitter: m_kulakowski
  gitlab: mkulakowski
  picture: michal_kulakowski.png
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          I am passionate storyteller fascinated by the change technology brings to our lives. I have spent most of my career consulting and selling for other people, but I do have experience building and running SaaS company too. My background is DevOps and Application Security. Privately I enjoy non-fiction books and overland travel.

- slug: nitin
  type: person
  name: Nitin Upadhyay
  start_date: 2019-11-11
  locality: Delhi-NCR
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/total-rewards/">Total Rewards Analyst </a>
  reports_to: brittany-r
  picture: nitin_upadhyay.png
  twitter: nutaurus
  gitlab: nutaurus
  departments:
    - People Team
  story:  |
          A hands-on, people focused professional who has varied industry experiences viz., consumer durable (OEM & vendor), logistics, & IT startup. He is experienced in compensation & benefits, building teams, managing grievances and business processes. He cooks the way he loves to eat, write short stories and exploring non-tourist places.

- slug: nate-houston
  type: person
  name: Nate Houston
  start_date: 2019-09-23
  locality: Sandy Springs, Ga
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/public-sector-inside-account-representative/">Public Sector Inside Sales Representative</a>
  reports_to: brent-c
  picture: natehouston.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: nhouston
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story:  |
          Nate graduated from the Univerity of North Georgia with a Bachelor's Degree in Business, and a concentration in Finance. Before joining GitLab Nate worked on the VMware Team at Carahsoft Technology. He is very excited to be a part of the DevOps movement in a more customer facing capacity. In his free time he likes to travel, expecially on crusies, and he wants to visit all 7 continents. Nate also enjoys playing and watching sports.

- slug: Victor-b
  type: person
  name: Victor Brew
  start_date: 2018-09-30
  locality: Washington, DC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/public-sector-inside-account-representative/">Public Sector Inside Sales Representative</a>
  reports_to: brent-c
  picture: victorbrew.png
  twitter: N/A
  gitlab: Vbrew
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
  story: |
          Victor comes from Immix group, Gitlab's first distributor, he is an experienced sales professional that enjoys playing soccer, traveling and trying new foods.

- slug: lschoenfeld
  type: person
  name: Lindsay S.
  start_date: 2020-04-06
  locality: NJ
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-operations/">Senior Manager, Sales Operations</a>
  reports_to: jamesharrison
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Starting April 6th

- slug: tavscott
  type: person
  name: Tav Scott
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-operations/">Senior Sales Operations Analyst</a>
  reports_to: lschoenfeld
  picture: tavscott.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: tav_scott
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Tav is passionate about enabling technology Sales & Marketing teams, and finding new ways to leverage data to drive improved decision making. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, he enjoys spending time outside of work fly fishing and exploring the outdoors!


- slug: melindasoares
  type: person
  name: Melinda Soares
  start_date: 2020-03-09
  locality: Santa Maria, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-operations/">Senior Sales Operations Analyst</a>
  reports_to: lschoenfeld
  picture: Soares_Melinda.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: msoares1
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Melinda loves investigating, documenting and solutioning and everything about business analysis. Melinda also loves baking pies and spending time with her five sons and boyfriend.



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  type: person
  name: Vincy Wilson
  start_date: 2020-01-06
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  locality: Lower Gwynedd, PA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Quality Engineering Manager, Growth</a>
  reports_to: mek
  picture: vincywilson.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: vincywilson
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Growth QE Team
    - Growth Section
  story:  |
          Prior to joining GitLab, Vincy worked in many start up and enterprise companies primarily focusing on improving Quality in every step of software development for a successful delivery across multiple platforms - Web, Mobile, Backend. She is a strong advocate for quality engineering and has always worked towards implementing new tools and technologies to improve test automation. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to audible, outdoor activities, and spending quality time with her family and friends.

- slug: willmeek
  type: person
  name: Will Meek
  start_date: 2020-02-24
  locality: Saintfield, County Down, N.Ireland
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Senior Software Engineer in Test</a>, Secure:Composition Analysis (primary) & Secure:Exposure Analysis (secondary)
  reports_to: tanyapazitny
  picture: willmeek.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: willmeek
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Secure & Enablement QE Team
    - Secure Section
  story:  |
          William is a Software Engineer in Test who joined February 24th 2020. He hopes to make a difference, leveraging skillsets and experience, within the Quality team and GitLab generally. Prior to GitLab, he has worked in QA and software engineering roles at Deep Labs, Puppet, Cayan/TSYS, Navinet/Nanthealth, Intelliden/IBM and Craneware. He is an advocate for quality, and in previous roles has looked to introduce an appreciation for quality from the project analysis phase onwards. Outside of work, he spends time with his family including his 3 year old daughter and has an appreciation for motoring, video gaming, and has recently started a strength training programme to improve fitness.

- slug: anastasiamcdonald
  type: person
  name: Anastasia McDonald
  start_date: 2020-02-10
  locality: Auckland
  country: New Zealand
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Software Engineer in Test</a>, Create:Editor
  reports_to: ramya-authappan
  picture: anastasiamcdonald.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: a_mcdonald
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Dev QE Team
  story:  |
          Anastasia is passionate about quality and enjoys learning new skills. In her free time she likes travelling, listening to music and playing board games.

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  type: person
  name: N.W.
  start_date: 2020-04-01
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/software-engineer-in-test/">Senior Software Engineer in Test</a>, Enablement:Distribution
  reports_to: tanyapazitny
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
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    - Engineering Function
    - Quality Department
    - Secure & Enablement QE Team
    - Enablement Sub-department
  story:  |
          Joining April 1st!

- slug: mariagore
  type: person
  name: Maria Gore
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/recruiter/">Senior Recruiter - G&A</a>
  reports_to: dave-g
  picture: MGore.png
  twitter: RiaG37
  gitlab: m_gore
  departments:
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Joined GitLab on Nov 4th 2019 having gained a number of years experience working within SaaS and Tech in both HR and Recruiting. Interested in driving a proactive approach to recruitment and representing the employer brand as a key benefit to those joining. Mum of two girls and a furr-baby named Sid. Loves baking, horse riding and being at home!

- slug: richkahn
  type: person
  name: Rich Kahn
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Los Angeles, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/executive-recruiter/">Executive Recruiter</a>
  reports_to: dave-g
  picture: richkahn.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: r_kahn
  departments:
    - People Team
    - Recruiting
  story:  |
          Rich has over a decade of experience recruiting for some of the world’s fastest growing companies. Prior to GitLab, he was a top producer and leader in the recruiting agency world. Most recently, he led international executive recruitment for another rapidly scaling tech startup. Outside of work, Rich enjoys traveling, music (plays drums & guitar), hiking and working out.

- slug: hmason
  type: person
  name: Helen Mason
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: London
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Area Sales Manager (SMB EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
  picture: Helen_Mason.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: hmason
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story: |
         Helen is passionate about developing sales talent and ensuring customers get the best solution to enable their business growth. She has 15 years' experience in technology sales.

- slug: magalibressan
  type: person
  name: Magali Bressan
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: hailey-p
  picture: magali_bressan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: magalibressan
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joining Nov 18th

- slug: brentnewton
  type: person
  name: Brent Newton
  start_date: 2020-02-10
  locality: Amsterdam
  country: The Netherlands
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-infrastructure/#director-of-infrastructure-reliability">Director of Infrastructure, Reliability</a>
  reports_to: steveloyd
  picture: brentnewton.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: brentnewton
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Infrastructure Department
    - Reliability Team
  story:  |

- slug: pao-jf
  type: person
  name: Dale Brown
  start_date: 2019-10-01
  locality: Pleasanton, CA
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/pao-jf/">Principal Accounting Officer</a>
  reports_to: paul-m
  picture: dbrown.png
  twitter: dbrownpsucpa
  gitlab: daleb04
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Dale has had extensive experience in 3 successful IPOs, technical accounting issues, and all aspects of finance, accounting, stock, treasury, tax, and international management. He is looking forward to helping the accounting group be a vital part in accelerating the growth of Gitlab. In his spare time he loves to golf, study history, visit historical sites (Penn State and Pittsburgh,) sports, and travel to new places.  He lives in Pleasanton, California.

- slug: Toni Dominique
  type: person
  name: Toni Dominique
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Boston, MA
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/stock-administrator">Sr. Stock Administrator</a>
  reports_to: pao-jf
  picture: tonidominique.PNG
  twitter:
  gitlab: tdominique
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Toni has been working as a Stock Plan Administrator for many years, though mainly with public companies.  She really enjoys working with employees and helping educate them on the benefits of having equity.  She's very excited to join GitLab at this stage and being a part of growth.  In her spare time she likes to cook, spend time with her rescue dog Chevy, traveling with her husband enjoys being surrounded by friends and family.

- slug: kristinesetschin
  type: person
  name: Kristine Setschin
  start_date: 2019-11-11
  locality: Birmingham
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Senior Field Marketing Manager, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: antonio-m
  picture: kristinesetschin.JPG
  twitter: SetschinKB
  gitlab: KSetschin
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Field Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
  story:  |
          German "Vorsprung durch Technik" paired with Russian "soul". I don't sell, I don't market... I help. My passion lies within bringing the right people together for the maximum benefit for all parties. Seeing people succeed, is what really drives me. My other happy places that make me feel alive are dancing, attending live music gigs and travelling to new places.


- slug: katiegammon
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  name: Katie Gammon
  start_date: 2019-11-11
  locality: Napa, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/executive-business-administrator/">Executive Business Administrator</a>
  reports_to: cheri-holmes
  picture: katiegammon.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: kgammon
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Katie previously worked for ICONIQ Capital, and before that in North Carolina politics. She enjoys traveling, wine tasting, and anything she can bring her dogs to.

- slug: jordimon
  type: person
  name: Jordi Mon
  pronouns: he/him
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: London
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Senior Product Marketing Manager </a>, Dev
  reports_to: john-jeremiah
  picture: jordimon.jpg
  twitter: mordodemaru
  gitlab: jordi_mon
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
  expertise:  |
          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, SCM</a></li>
  story:  |
          Jordi is a product person interested in software development tooling and culture as well as meaningful and lasting design. Developer productivity, open source, DevOps and culture are some of his passions. Outside of work you'll find him reading (History, Economics and all sorts of boring stuff), attending concerts (not boring ones) and hanging out with friends and family. Will beat you at padel. Not really.

  remote_story: |
          I cannot conceive a single minute of commute in my life. It is a total waste of time plus, there is no better environment to work and live that one's own house. Working remote has allowed me to connect with more people from any where in the planet that huge offices in the language technology industry which, by definition, are pretty diverse.

- slug: edmondchan
  type: person
  name: Edmond Chan
  start_date: 2019-11-04
  locality: Toronto, ON
  country: Canada
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Senior Solutions Architect (US East Enterprise)</a>
  reports_to: brian-w
  picture: edmondchan.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: edmondchan
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Project Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Portfolio Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Certify Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Edmond is passionate about technology and is a fan of positive disruption that drives better results. He has worked with customers for over 20 years to deliver better software and IT services across all industries. A self admitted-foodie, he’s always on the lookout for his next vacation destination to sample new flavours.

- slug: AllisonMueller
  type: person
  name: Allison Mueller
  start_date: 2019-10-28
  locality: Washington, DC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader - DoD - US Army</a>
  reports_to: KeithBarnes
  picture: Allison_Mueller.jpg
  twitter: AllisonGershon
  gitlab: amueller327
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
    - Sales NQR
  story:  |
          Allison is a creative and passionate sales professional with over a decade of experience. For the six years prior to joining GitLab Allison was specifically focused on the DoD and US Army, introducing them to innovative technologies to enhance their productivity and mission readiness.  In her spare time, Allison enjoys cooking, doing yoga, traveling, trying new restaurants and spending time with friends and family.

- slug: lindsayolson
  type: person
  name: Lindsay Olson
  pronouns: she/her
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/community-advocate/">Senior Community Advocate</a>
  reports_to: david-planella
  picture: lindsayolson.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: LindsayOlson
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Community Relations
  story:  |
          Lindsay is a customer-centric community professional with a love for the tech industry. She is excited to be part of GitLab and feels confident that she will be able to connect with the team and GitLab's users. Lindsay lives on the Multnoma Channel near Portland Oregon with her spouse and pet cat. She stays active by teaching barre fitness, and owns an etsy shop where she sells art.

- slug: toddsteinwart
  type: person
  name: Todd Steinwart
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Carrboro, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/field-security-engineer">Senior Security Analyst, Field Security</a>
  reports_to: jeff-burrows
  picture: toddsteinwart.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: tsteinwart
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Security Department
  story:  |
          Joined 18-Nov-2019

- slug: michellehodges
  type: person
  name: Michelle Hodges
  start_date: 2019-11-22
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/vp-of-global-channels/">Vice President, Worldwide Channels</a>
  reports_to: mike-mcbride
  picture: michellehodges.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joined 22-Nov-2019

- slug: helenadixon
  type: person
  name: Helena Dixon
  start_date: 2019-11-25
  locality: Ennis
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/field-marketing-manager/">Field Marketing Coordinator, EMEA</a>
  reports_to: antonio-m
  picture: helenadixon.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: Helenadixon
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Field Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
  story:  |
          Joins on November 25th

- slug: craig-mestel
  type: person
  name: Craig Mestel
  start_date: 2019-11-20
  locality: Pleasanton, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/vp-finance">Vice President, Finance</a>
  reports_to: paul-m
  picture: craigmestel.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: cmestel
  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Craig is passionate about scaling businesses through strong data-driven decision making. Prior to GitLab, Craig built out the FP&A function at Upwork and led the company though its IPO. At Google, he built and led analytics and sales operations teams to help Google sell effectively to SMBs and Enterprise customers. Craig enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, doing logic puzzles, running, traveling, and attending concerts (especially jam bands).

- slug: parul-luthra
  type: person
  name: Parul Luthra
  start_date: 2019-11-26
  locality: Detroit, MI
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-analyst">Senior Data Analyst, People Team</a>
  reports_to: ktam
  picture: parulluthra.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: pluthra
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Data
    - Business Operations
    - People Team
  story:  |
          Passionate about all things related to people with a large scoop of data on top! Ice cream though is not really my thing, more of a cake enthusiast and keeping it in check with some challenging kettlebell workouts.

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  type: person
  name: Robin Schulman
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: TBD
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/legal/chief-legal-officer/">Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary</a>
  reports_to: sid
  picture: robin_schulman.png
  twitter: TBD
  gitlab: rschulman
  departments:
    - Executive
    - Legal
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          Robin Schulman has over a decade of experience running global legal affairs and scaling companies in both the private and public sectors. Most recently at Couchbase as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Schulman led Couchbase’s global legal affairs, public policy, and compliance operations. Prior to that, she established, scaled, and managed New Relic’s global legal, compliance, privacy, and corporate governance operations, from the ground up through IPO, to an established, mature $4B market cap public company that achieved profitability. Before that, Schulman led the legal function for a number of Adobe’s Marketing and Creative Cloud products. She received her law degree from the Rutgers University School of Law and has taught intellectual property law at Santa Clara Law School.

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  name: Sarah Chia
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Concord, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/legal/paralegal/">Junior Paralegal</a>
  reports_to: robin-schulman
  picture: sarahchia.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: schia
  departments:
    - Legal
  story:  |
          Sarah recently returned to the legal field where she started her first job way back in 1997. In the interim, she dabled in magazine feature writing and teaching English and linguistics to a diverse set of students, ranging from American middle schoolers to international CEOs. She then interned for GitLab in 2018 and subsequently obtained her paralegal certificate. Returning to legal work allows her to focus on her passions of research, organization, and rule following. When she's not using these skills for GitLab, she's creating intricate and outlandish plans for her family and pursuing access to justice through her relationship with non-profits that she supports. Her favorite pastime is quoting 90s movies and reliving inside jokes with her 3 kids and her husband.

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  type: person
  name: David O'Regan
  start_date: 2020-02-18
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer/">Senior Frontend Engineer, Monitor:Health</a>
  reports_to: clement
  picture: davidoregan.png
  twitter: oregand
  gitlab: oregand
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Monitor:Health FE Team
    - Monitor:Health
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    gitlab: reviewer frontend
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          David is passionate about words, code, JavaScript, solutions, optimization, functional programming and all things maths. Outside of programming he has a love for people, understanding why they do the things they do and how he can help. If he's not tinkering with a website, you can probably find him at the gym blowing off steam.

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  type: person
  name: Yvonne Zwolinski
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: james-roberts
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  twitter:
  gitlab: yzwolinski
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joined Oct 7th

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  type: person
  name: Michael Nevolo
  start_date: 2019-09-30
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: alan-cooke
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  twitter:
  gitlab: mnevolo
  departments:
    - Sales
  story:  |
          Joined Sept 30th

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  type: person
  name: Mark Williams
  start_date: 2019-11-25
  locality: Birmingham, AL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Public Sector Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: fed-area-sales-mgr-sled
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Public Sector
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  story:  |
          Mark feels it is a privilege to work with public sector organizations in helping them digitally transform to more effectively serve their citizens, students, and employees. Please see <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/111markwilliams/">his LinkedIn bio here</a>.

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  name: Ariah Curtis
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Austin, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: michael-hamilton
  picture: AriahCurtis.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ariahcurtis
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - SDR
    - Revenue Marketing
  story:  |
          Ariah is passionate about technology and helping customers find solutions through technology. As an SDR she is able to assist customers on the buyers journey to implementing better efficiencies in their organizations. Ariah enjoys new adventures and in her free time you can find her exploring, trying new restaruants, and spending time with family.

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  type: person
  name: Da'Neil Olsen
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: San Diego, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: michael-hamilton
  picture: daneilolsen.jpg
  twitter: daneilolsen
  gitlab: djolsen
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - SDR
    - Revenue Marketing
  story:  |
          Da'Neil is an innovative relationship builder who enjoys collaborating towards positive change with everyone he meets. He started his business development career in the Hybrid IT and Cybersecurity Solutions realm and leverages social media to connect with clients and colleagues on a deeper level. In addition to loving technology, Da'Neil is a Black Belt in Taekwondo, an accomplished tenor saxophonist, a competitive golfer, & an avid photographer.

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  type: person
  name: Phillip Knorr
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Raleigh, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: ramonaelliott
  picture: phillipknorr.jpg
  twitter: phillipknorr
  gitlab: pknorr
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - SDR
    - Revenue Marketing
  story: Phillip is passionate about Sales, Marketing, and helping people find solutions. He spent five years as a Content Marketing Producer in the broadcast television industry before going directly into Sales. Outside of being a "Labber," Phillip is a professional musician, an avid rock climber, a yogi, and is a marathon finisher.
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  type: person
  name: John Williams
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Oregon
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: james-roberts
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  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Joins on Dec 2nd

- slug: john-long
  type: person
  name: John Long
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: San Antonio, TX
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (Americas Central)</a>
  reports_to: jason-colyer
  picture: johnlong.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: john_long
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Support Department
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    <li><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/README.html#installing-gitlab-using-the-omnibus-gitlab-package-recommended">Omnibus</a> <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          John is enthusiastic about all things technology with a passion for learning and assisting others. Before GitLab, John worked in a technical support role, providing Linux system administration for a web hosting company. In his free time, John enjoys learning new things and spending time with family.

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  type: person
  name: Erika Graves
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: San Diego, CA
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/accountant">Senior International Reporting Accountant</a>
  reports_to: melodymaradiaga
  picture: ErikaGraves.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: egraves
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Joined on December 2nd, 2019

- slug: KathrynSteffenson
  type: person
  name: Kathryn Steffenson
  start_date: 2019-12-03
  locality: Phoenix, Arizona
  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/accountant">Senior International Reporting Accountant</a>
  reports_to: melodymaradiaga
  picture: kathrynsteffenson.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ksteffenson
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Kathryn loves to jump into a project and has passion for learning and traveling. Before GitLab, Kathryn worked in various accounting roles focused on financial reporting and special projects. When not crunching numbers, Kathryn enjoys spending time with family in the sunshine.

- slug: eirinipan
  type: person
  name: Eirini Pan
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: London
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-program-manager/">Senior Marketing Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: jgragnola
  picture: eirinipan.jpg
  twitter: eirinipan
  gitlab: eirinipan
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing Programs
  story:  |
          Eirini joins GitLab to drive marketing programs in EMEA, after spending several years in the ed tech and ad tech sectors doing all things marketing. She also has a soft spot for graphic and UX design. A Greek based in London, she enjoys travelling, playing board games, walking with a cup of coffee in hand, eating chocolate and pop corn (together) and trying all sorts of sports and fitness classes (from softball to aerial yoga).

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  type: person
  name: Beth Peterson
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-operations-manager/">Senior Marketing Operations Manager</a>
  reports_to: darawarde
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Marketing Operations
  story:  |
          Beth will be working with Nichole LaRue focused on partnering with the SDR organization.

- slug: garyholtz
  type: person
  name: Gary Holtz
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Chicago, IL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: michellegill
  picture: GaryHoltz.jpg
  twitter: garyholtz
  gitlab: garyh
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code BE Team
  projects:
    gitlab: reviewer backend
  story:  |
          Gary's love for computers started at 6 years old when he first
          played “Cookie Monster Count Up” on his parents’ Apple IIe. From
          there he made his way through making DOS batch files, mIRC scripts,
          actual programming training, Northwestern University, and finally -
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  type: person
  name: Marc S.
  start_date: 2020-05-04
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Source Code
  reports_to: michellegill
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Source Code BE Team
  story:  |
          Joining May 4th

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  type: person
  name: Carolyn Bednarz
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Boston, MA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-business-partner">People Business Partner, Sales</a>
  reports_to: carol-teskey
  picture: CarolynBednarz.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: cbednarz
  departments:
    - People Team
  expertise: |
              <li>Employee Relations, Total Rewards, Performance Management, Learning and Development, Coaching, Sales, Employee Engagement, Diversity and Inclusion <a href="/company/team/structure/#expert">expert</a></li>
  story:  |
          Carolyn loves to understand how people dynamics can help solve problems within a business. She is passionate about organizational design, leadership development and team effectiveness. She is also interested in learning more about scaling culture in an all remote environment. In her free time, she loves to spend time with her family and practice yoga.

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  type: person
  name: Farnoosh Seifoddini
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-operations/">Principal Product Manager</a>, Product Operations
  reports_to: evp-of-product
  picture: farnooshseifoddini.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: fseifoddini
  departments:
    - Product Management
  story:  |
          Farnoosh loves to do hands on work to build products as well as enable ownership of product throughout an organization.  She has over 10 years of experience in product development at startups, mature companies and agencies. Farnoosh believes happy people make happy products and strives to create environments that allow teams to have fun, be inspired and take the right risks toward success. In her spare time, Farnoosh enjoys yoga, creative writing and salvaging antique furniture.

- slug: jennamccarthy
  type: person
  name: Jenna McCarthy
  start_date: 2019-12-10
  locality: Nashville, TN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: JennaMcCarthy.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: JenMcCarthy
  pronouns: She/Her
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
          Jenna enjoys theoretical and abstract concepts. She has a deep passion for learning with a focus on science and technology. She loves exploring new experiences local and abroad.

- slug: jeanpeguero
  type: person
  name: Jean Peguero
  pronouns: he/him
  start_date: 2019-12-16
  locality: Santo Domingo
  country: Dominican Republic
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-analyst">Junior Data Analyst, Marketing</a>
  reports_to: ktam
  picture: jeanpeguero.jpg
  twitter: JeanDelRosari12
  gitlab: jeanpeguero
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Data
    - Business Operations
    - Marketing
  story:  |
          Jean is a very curious person, always looking for something new to learn. Has a deep passion for analytics, programming and stats topics. Also loves nature, sports and animals.

- slug: allison.walker
  type: person
  name: Allison Walker
  start_date: 2019-12-02
  locality: Granville, OH
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-project-manager/">Professional Services Project Manager</a>
  reports_to: srdirectorproserv-michael-l
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Professional Services
  story: Allison lives and breathes Project Management and comes with over 10 years of experience in Professional Services.  Outside of work, Allison travels with her family as much as possible (which includes lots of eating), loves to cook and bake, workout, and ride her scooter.  She can also knit a pretty mean scarf.


- slug: adriansmolski
  type: person
  name: Adrian Smolski
  start_date: 2019-12-09
  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/manager-customer-experience/">Manager, Customer Experience & Solutions Architecture (APJ)</a>
  reports_to: david-sakamoto
  picture: AdrianSmolski.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: adriansmolski
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Adrian works in an amazing region of the world, Asia-Pacific & Japan with a variety of different and amazing cultures. He is fortunate to have one of the most diverse teams he could have wished for. Adrian comes from an analytical coder background, having had the opportuity to work in early distributed database technologies as well as next-gen orchestration platforms. In his spare time he loves being a dad and husband as well as improving the house.

- slug: samerakkoub
  type: person
  name: Samer Akkoub
  start_date: 2019-01-06
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/solutions-architect/">Solutions Architect (APJ)</a>
  reports_to: adriansmolski
  picture: SamerAkkoub.png
  twitter: sakkoub
  gitlab: samer.akkoub
  departments:
    - Customer Success
  story:  |
          Samer lives in the beatiful Melbourne-Australia where he enjoys great coffee and pairing with customers across the APJ region. Samer is a seasoned Solutions Architect with 20 years of track record of success stories demonstrated throughout the Information Technology value chain starting from solution design and implementation, to technology advisory and enterprise architect, along with hands-on experience in cloud deployments & migration, DevOps lifecycle, and cloud native adoption programs.


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  type: person
  name: Jenn Leslie
  start_date: 2019-10-07
  locality: Livermore, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/pr-manager/">PR Manager, Content</a>
  reports_to: natashawoods
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Corporate Marketing
  story:  |
          Joins on ...

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  type: person
  name: Ricardo Amarilla
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality: Asunción
  country: Paraguay
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager</a>
  reports_to: tamdir-sherrod-p
  picture: ricardoamarilla.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ricardo.amarilla
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
            Ricardo is an enthusiastic person, a lover of technology, travel, football (soccer) and cycling. He has developed his career as a pre-sale and post-sales technical support for companies of different sizes during the last 8 years, including the most important telecommunications companies in Paraguay and management roles  in these fields. This experience has allowed him to acquire a customer-centric approach and a good inter-personal skills. Since January 2020 he joins the GitLab LATAM team as Technical Account Manager.

- slug: ashleycampbell
  type: person
  name: Ashley Campbell
  start_date: 2019-12-19
  locality: Burns, TN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/general-ledger-accountant/">General Ledger Accountant</a>
  reports_to: kimstithem
  picture: ashleycampbell.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ashcampbell
  departments:
    - Accounting
  story:  |
          Ashley spent the last six years as an accountant in the healthcare industry. She is excited to make the leap into the tech world. Outside of work, Ashley enjoys spending time with her family, taking improv classes, and watching most anything Bravo has to offer.

- slug: kelseyc-sdr
  type: person
  name: Kelsey C.
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality:
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: ramonaelliott
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Joins on Jan 6th 2020

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  type: person
  name: Shakarra McGuire
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Washington, D.C.
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Enterprise</a>
  reports_to: lturner
  picture: ShakarraMcGuire.JPG
  twitter:
  gitlab: samcguire
  pronouns: She, Her
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Shakarra is a connector. She is empowered by connecting people with information, value, and eachother to succeed in a rapidly changing world. Outside of sales, she splits her time between food, travel, advocacy on behalf of Black women and girls, and all things Beyoncé.

- slug: kevinchu
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  name: Kevin Chu
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/group-manager-product/">Group Manager of Product, Configure & Monitor</a>
  reports_to: kencjohnston
  picture: kevinchu.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: kbychu
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Ops Section
  story:  |
          Kevin started his career as a software developer before launching his own company and becoming a product manager. He cares about environmental issues and would like to do more to help. He lives in Portland, OR with his wife, 3 adorable kids, and a cockapoo named Chopito.

- slug: kaguilar
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  name: Kenneth Aguilar
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Taguig City
  country: Philippines
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/data-analyst">Junior Data Analyst, Engineering</a>
  reports_to: ktam
  picture: kennethaguilar.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ken_aguilar
  pronouns:
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Data
    - Business Operations
    - Engineering
  story:  |
          Ken is located in the Philippines. She has spent the last three years as an analyst. She loves creating dashboards and reports from large data. She hopes to travel the whole world someday.

- slug: belinda-singh
  type: person
  name: Belinda Singh
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, APAC</a>
  reports_to: jthomasburrows
  picture: belsingh.jpeg
  twitter: Belinda45595427
  gitlab: b.singh
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Bel is passionate about all things technology and enjoys the challenge of learning something new. In  her spare time, she enjoys yoga, cooking, travelling and the outdoors.

- slug: indrekryzeviciene
  type: person
  name: Indre Kryzeviciene
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Saffron Walden
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/marketing-program-manager/">Marketing Program Manager</a>
  reports_to: jgragnola
  picture: Indre_Kryzeviciene.jpeg
  twitter:
  gitlab: ikryzeviciene
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Digital Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - Marketing Programs
  story:  |
          Indre lives and breathes marketing, with over 10 years of experience in different areas of marketing (events, marcomms, digital marketing) and a true passion for strategy, data and analytics which helps create effective campaigns that drive ROI. Her main focus is delivering best in class customer experience across all customer touchpoints. Indre loves active sports, nature, travelling and spending time with her awesome family.

- slug: johanrosendahl
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  name: Johan Rosendahl
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Zurich,CH
  country: Switzerland
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, EMEA - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: panosr
  picture: johanrosendahl.png
  twitter:
  gitlab: jrosendahl
  departments:
    - Marketing
    - Revenue Marketing
    - SDR
  story:  |
          Johan is passionate about building strong and lasting relationships.Half Bahamian/Swedish, and living in Switzerland.I enjoy immersing myself in new languages and cultures.Endlessly curious/addicted to all things travel, music & food related.

- slug: bryanw-VP-IT
  type: person
  name: Bryan Wise
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Menlo Park, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/VP-Information-Technology/">VP, Information Technology</a>
  reports_to: paul-m
  picture: BryanWiseHSGL.jpg
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Finance
    - Business Operations
    - IT
  story:  |
          Joins on January 6th 2020

- slug: ricardoleite
  type: person
  name: Ricardo Leite
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: EMEA
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (EMEA)</a>
  reports_to: patrick-h
  picture: ricardoleite.jpg
  twitter: ricardodtleite
  gitlab: r.leite
  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
    - Customer Success
    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
            Ricardo is an IT enthusiast, passionate about traveling, sports and meeting new people. He graduated from software engineering and has worked in sectors such as banking, payments and security. When not helping customers, you may find Ricardo discovering new cities or cooking for friends and family.

- slug: pm-enablement-search
  type: person
  name: John M.
  start_date: 2020-04-01
  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/product/product-manager">Senior Product Manager</a>, Enablement:Global Search
  reports_to: dir-of-product-enablement
  picture: ../gitlab-logo-extra-whitespace.png
  twitter:
  gitlab:
  departments:
    - Product Management
    - Enablement PM Team
  story:  |
          Joins on April 1st

- slug: kendramarquart
  type: person
  name: Kendra Marquart
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Great Falls, MT
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-instructional-designer/"> Sr. Technical Instructional Designer, Customer Education</a>
  reports_to: christine-y
  picture: kendramarquart.jpeg
  twitter: kmarquart89
  gitlab: kmarquart
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
  story:  |
          Kendra has a passion for creating unique and engaging trainng experiences. Her expertise comes from 10 years in the Training and Development space where she focused primarily on building interactive e-learning and gamification. Her main passion is centered around proactively educating customers and employees for continuous improvement throughout their learning journey. Kendra lives in Great Falls, MT with her husband Kody and infant son Xander. On her days off, you will find her cooking a new exotic dish or playing a board game.

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  name: Bryan Miller
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  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Technical Account Manager (Enterprise)</a>
  reports_to: john-woods
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    - Technical Account Managers
    - Static Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Dynamic Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Composition Analysis Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Fuzz Testing Group CS Stable Counterpart
  story:  |
          Bryan is passionate about all things Open Source.  This include helping his customers achieve success
          through Open Source and, best of all, through using GitLab.  Bryan is active in AppSec and IAM and enjoys being
          out-of-doors when possible.

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  type: person
  name: Kaan Demircan
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Istanbul
  country: Turkey
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Senior Technical Account Manager - Enterprise EMEA</a>
  reports_to: tammgr-michael-le
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  gitlab: kdemircan
  departments:
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    - Technical Account Managers
  story:  |
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  type: person
  name: Michał Zając
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Wrocław, Poland
  country: Poland
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  gitlab: quintasan
  twitter: michal_q_zajac
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Defend</a>
  reports_to: thiagofigueiro
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Defend Section
    - Defend BE Team
  story: |
         While not programming Michał loves to try his hands at different things including (but not limited to) bartending, skateboarding, quantum cryprography, stock market, machine learning and many other things. Should you meet him somewhere on the streets he will probably be walking and reading at the same time.

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  name: Joanna Michniewicz
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  locality: Gdańsk
  country: Poland
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    - People Team
  story:  |
          Joanna is a Sourcer who joined GitLab on January 13th, 2020. She resides in the city of Gdańsk with her awesome cat Dakota. When she is not sourcing for the best talent worldwide, you can probably find her biking to the seaside, hiking in the woods, doing yoga or playing board games with her nerdy friends. GitLab allows her for the flexibility she always dreamed of in order to perform her work the best way she can while traveling the world. The most important thing in sourcing is a customer satisfaction!

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  name: Chris Anderton
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  locality: Winchester
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/area-sales-manager/">Area Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: ryan-on
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  gitlab: chrisanderton
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
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         Joined on December 2nd, 2019.

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  name: Rin Oliver
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  locality: Alexandria, LA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/digital-production-manager/">Digital Media Producer</a>
  reports_to: aricka
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  pronouns: they/them or she/her
  departments:
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    - Corporate Marketing
    - Global Content
    - Digital Production
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        Rin resides in Louisiana, having recently moved back to the USA after spending four years in New Zealand. They have an amazing wife, dog, and one-eyed cat, along with 20+ succulents and houseplants. Rin is an active Member of Kubernetes, particularly in the Contributor Experience SIG. They enjoy cross stitch, knitting, hiking, playing video games, and cooking in their spare time.

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  locality: Lexington, KY
  country: USA
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - CICD Section
    - Release BE Team
    - Progressive Delivery Group
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          Chase is an engineering leader who might be described as a biologist seduced by computers. He's passionate about contributing to open source and mentoring others. He found Ruby and the Kentucky Ruby community around 2008 and the rest is history as they say. When not working, Chase is often out and about with his wife and teenage daughter at a volleyball tournament, lifting heavy things, playing a stringed instrument, or trying to build something whimsical.

- slug: miguelsilva
  type: person
  name: Miguel Silva
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Lisbon
  country: Portugal
  role: <a href="/job-families/legal/contract-manager">Contract Manager</a>
  reports_to: robertnalen
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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  story:  |
          Miguel joined GitLab as a Contract Manager in the Legal Department. With almost a decade of contracting experience, Miguel has already drafted and negotiated a large number of all sorts of agreements, specially within the IT industry. Miguel lives in Lisbon with his wife and, when not working, he likes to hang out with his wife and friends, never says no to a good soccer match and he also loves to ride some waves with his boogie board.

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  name: Dan Samson
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  locality: Albany, NY
  country: USA
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    - Public Sector
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  story:  |
          Dan has spent over a decade working with state and local governments at both IBM and Google. He is passionate about helping clients transform and modernize government operations and he is excited to continue that work with GitLab. Outside of work, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and dog, as well as cooking and working on his cars.

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  name: Jordan NG
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  locality: Renton, WA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer</a>
  reports_to: david-tacheny
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  twitter:
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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    - Professional Services
  story:  |
          Jordan is an Embedded engineer with a long history working with CI/CD. Located in Renton, Washington USA.
          He has worked at several well known companies such as Wizards of the Coast, Microsoft, and Disney. Jordan
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  name: Leslie Stinson
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/digital-marketing-programs-manager/">Digital Marketing Manager</a>
  reports_to: evanw
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  twitter:
  gitlab: lstinson
  pronouns: she/her
  departments:
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    - Revenue Marketing
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  story:  |
          Leslie is a Digital Marketing Manager with experience in testing, optimization, and campaign management. She lives in Austin and enjoys cycling around the city, practicing yoga, hiking with her dog, collecting rocks & gemstones, and reading.

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    - Development Department
    - Ops Section
    - Configure FE Team
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          Emily has a passion for Vue.js and Rails Frontend.
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  name: Josh Downey
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  locality: Durham, NC
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Sales Development Representative, AMER - Commercial</a>
  reports_to: ramonaelliott
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    - Revenue Marketing
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  story:  Josh has a passion for helping companies run more efficiently, and uses his background in Sales to help people understand how beneficial GitLab is for the DevOps Cycle. In his spare time, Josh is a part-time Masters Student at Johns Hopkins, and loves to run, cycle, read, travel, and write/produce music.

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  name: Vijay Hawoldar
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  locality: Cardiff, Wales
  country: UK
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer</a>, Create:Editor
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  pronouns: he/him
  gitlab: vij
  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Create:Editor BE Team
  story:  |
          Vij has been solving problems and playing with Ruby for over 10 years and although he’s
          been known to venture off the beaten path with other languages over the years, Ruby is
          where he always returns. He loves hiking, trail running and exploring the world in
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  name: Parker Ennis
  start_date: 2020-01-13
  locality: Benson, North Carolina
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/product-marketing-manager/">Senior Product Marketing Manager </a>
  reports_to: john-jeremiah
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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    - Strategic Marketing
    - Product Marketing
    - CI/CD
    - Ops Product Marketing Counterpart
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          <li><a href="/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/pmmteam/">Product Marketing, CD</a></li>
  story:  |
          Parker loves all things open source and has a passion for injecting positivity into the workplace. He's delighted to join GitLab after working in the DevOps space for several years across multiple different roles. He enjoys rooting for NC State, banging on the drums and traveling with his partner to see Bassnectar, an American record producer/DJ, in his free time!

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  name: Carrie Nicholson
  start_date: 2020-01-06
  locality: Denver, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/smb-customer-advocate/">SMB Account Executive</a>
  reports_to: mthennessy
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  twitter: cknich5
  gitlab: cnicholson
  departments:
    - Sales
    - Commercial Sales
  story:  |
        Before moving to GitLab, Carrie worked at a small mapping tech company as a Client Success Manager and Training Coordinator. In her free time, Carrie enjoys trying new reatuarants, traveling, movies and being outdoors with her Malamute/Akita mix, Scooter.

- slug: tonyrighetti
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  name: Tony Righetti
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  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/senior-director-of-investor-relations/">Senior Director, Investor Relations</a>
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  gitlab: trighetti
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            Joined on January 6, 2020!

- slug: rdjohnson
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  name: Ryan D Johnson
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  locality: Portland, OR
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/sales-operations/">Senior Manager of Channel Operations</a>
  reports_to: jamesharrison
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Field Operations
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          Ryan D Johnson has spent his career enhancing operations departments.  He successfully navigated the integrations between Sun Microsystems and Oracle and then again when Aruba Networks merged with HPE.  He enjoys spending his free time on snowy mountains, usually strapped to a board or out and about enjoying various genres of live music.  He currently lives in Chicago with his wonderful wife Kate, and pup Sparkle Bear. 


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  type: person
  name: Philip Wieczorek
  start_date: 2020-01-20
  locality: Kansas City, MO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader (Midwest Area) </a>
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    Philip began his professional career on the technical infrastructure side prior to being lured over to the “dark side” of sales. He has spent the past 15 years in software and infrastructure sales at early stage startups and public companies.  He enjoys finding technologies that solve challenges and improve processes to help customers reach their goals. He works remotely from Kansas City where he lives with his wife and two daughters.  Philip’s true passion is his family...they love traveling, finding a new adventure, trying out new restaurants and foods, watching movies, wakeboarding/wakesurfing in the summer, and snowboarding in the winter. Go Chiefs!


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  name: Kasim Ahmad
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/alliances/alliances-manager/">AWS Business Development Manager</a>
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  story: Before joining Gitlab Kasim founded a startup, worked for the Venture Capital arm of Johns Hopkins University and is a Venture for America alum. He has 7 years of experience in business development and operations with software companies. In his free time he enjoys spending time with friends and family, enjoying live music and cheering on his favorite sports teams. He is currently based in Washington D.C. but is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio.

- slug: kassioborges
  type: person
  name: Kassio Borges
  start_date: 2020-01-20
  locality: Dublin
  country: Ireland
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Senior Backend Engineer, Manage:Import</a>
  reports_to: liam-m
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  departments:
    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Import BE Team
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    gitlab: reviewer backend
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          Kassio is a passionate software engineer who enjoys communication and solve the right problem. In his spare time, Kassio likes to travel, watch movies, cook and cut his backyard grass.
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          Remote work has enabled Kassio to enjoy his trips with his wife, who also works remote for another company, and cut his grass without wasting the weekend time.

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  name: Tan Le
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  locality: Melbourne
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/">Backend Engineer, Manage:Compliance</a>
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    - Engineering Function
    - Development Department
    - Dev Section
    - Manage:Compliance BE Team
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          Tan has always been fascinated by software engineering - a beautiful marriage of
          art and science. He loves elegant codes, simple systems and the magic of human
          collaboration. Outside of work, you probably find him tinkering with mechanical
          keyboards, tending his humble garden or learning the art of travelling with kids.

- slug: robyn-hartough
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  name: Robyn Hartough
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  locality: Sacramento, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/executive-business-administrator/">Sr. Executive Business Administrator</a>
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          Robyn has been partnering with executives to facilitate and amplify their efforts towards strategic business objectives for 15+ years. Robyn's ultimate goal is to leave things better than she found them. She is madly in love with her son, Knox, and her husband. The Hartough family lives in Sacramento, CA, where they enjoy hiking, swimming, BBQing and snuggling.

- slug: learning-dev-partner
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  name: Josh Z.
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  locality: Anywhere
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/learning-development-specialist/">Learning and Development Partner</a>
  reports_to: carol-teskey
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  gitlab:
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  story:  |
          Joining April 6th

- slug: priyan-sureshbabu
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  name: Priyan Sureshbabu
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  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer (APAC)</a>
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  twitter: Priyan_SS
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  pronouns: he/him
  departments:
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    - Support Department
  story:  |
          Priyan loves *nix and started his career as a Linux Server Engineer soon after completing his bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering. He likes to travel, swim, read, watch movies and wander for diverse food in his free time.

- slug: harinakshipoojary
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  name: Harinakshi Poojary
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  departments:
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          Harinakshi joins GitLab with extensive experience in Internal Audit, SOX/IFC testing and Investigation. She is very excited to bring her experience to GitLab! She lives in Thane, India. When not working, she enjoys travelling, photography and learning music instruments.

- slug: manuelkraft
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  name: Manuel Kraft
  start_date: 2020-02-01
  locality: Olpe, NRW
  country: Germany
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/technical-account-manager/">Senior Technical Account Manager (EMEA)</a>
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    - Technical Account Managers
    - Progressive Delivery Group CS Stable Counterpart
    - Release Management Group CS Stable Counterpart
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          Loves food & good coffee.

- slug: rick-Walker
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  name: Rick Walker
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  locality: Denver, Colorado
  country: Remote
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: james-roberts
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  story:  |
          Joined on January 6, 2020

- slug: ashleyjameson
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  name: Ashley Jameson
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  locality: Clarksville, TN
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-experience-associate/">People Experience Associate</a>
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  departments:
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    - People Experience Team
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          Joins on February 18, 2020

- slug: hellen-w
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  name: Hellen Wangui
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  locality: Nairobi
  country: Kenya
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/people-operations/">People Operations Specialist</a>
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  departments:
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  story: Hellen is a very good listener and has always known that she would pursue a career in People Management since she was 15. She loves dealing with people issues and helping out the best way she can.When not working, you will find Hellen spending time with family and friends.

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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/director-channel-programs-and-enablement/">Senior Director Channel Programs and Enablement</a>
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    - Channels
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          Ed’s professional passion is to create business value with channel and alliance partners.  He has held channel, alliances and marketing leadership positions at technology companies including Cisco Systems, LogRhythm, CareerBuilder and Gigamon.  He's helped develop business with partners of all types through partner enablement, automation, programs and marketing.  In his spare time, you'll find him on a bike, skis or a hiking trail, ideally with his family and friends.

- slug: AmeliaSeow
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  name: Amelia Seow
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  locality: Sydney
  country: Australia
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/channel-sales-manager/">Senior Channel Sales Manager</a>
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  departments:
    - Sales
    - Channels
  story:  |
        Joined 10-FEB-2020

- slug: MattJamison
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  name: Matt Jamison
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader</a>
  reports_to: ralph-k
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  gitlab: mjamison
  departments:
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    - Public Sector
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          Joined 10-FEB-2020

- slug: frederick-kurniadi
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  name: Frederick Kurniadi
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  locality: Dublin, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/finance/finance-business-partner-sales/">Director, Finance Business Partner - Sales</a>
  reports_to: craig-mestel
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  twitter:
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  departments:
    - Finance
  story:  |
          Frederick specializes in Sales Finance for SaaS companies. He enjoys partnering with his business partners to drive top-line growth. Prior to joining GitLab, Frederick led 4x company exits through acquisition and 2x built Finance team from the ground up. He and his wife enjoy hiking, watching movies, and reading books.

- slug: cathy-hilling
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  name: Cathy Hilling
  start_date: 2020-01-06
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/legal/contract-manager">Contract Manager</a>
  reports_to: robertnalen
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  twitter:
  gitlab: chilling
  departments:
    - Legal
    - Finance
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          Cathy joins GitLab as a Senior Contract Manager on the legal team. With over 20 years of experience negotiating contracts in the technology market, she is a seasoned professional with a multitude of skills to draw from. Cathy was with Cisco Systems, Inc. for six years in procurement and with Red Hat, Inc. for ten years supporting the sales team on the revenue side. Since she has negotiated both sides of the table; she brings a 360 perspective to her contribution to GitLab’s success. Cathy especially enjoys cross functional collaboration;  working with the finance, security, procurement and revenue teams in order to mitigate risks to GitLab, customers, partners, resellers and employees. She is very excited to be on the GitLab journey with you and to ensure success for GitLab and the ecosystem it creates.

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  name: Rebecca Spainhower
  start_date: 2020-03-23
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  country: United States
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-management/">Support Engineering Manager</a>
  reports_to: lee-m
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     building teams with strength and heart

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          Cleveland is passionate about technology and helping customers. In his free time, he is spending time with family, making music, gaming, and enjoy good eats in the Austin metro.

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  locality: Ashburn, Va
  country: USA
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         Patrick comes to GitLab with over 6 years experience providing technology solutions to the Public sector. Prior to joining GitLab, Patrick was at VMware supporting the US Navy and USMC, as well as Federal Healthcare. In his spare time, Patrick enjoys spending time with his 2.5 year old and 10 month old daughters, gaining an appreciation of Disney Princesses and ballet. When he gets time to himself, he enjoys playing soccer, working out, and reading. He also enjoys rooting for the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavs, and Ohio State Buckeyes.

- slug: Aidan-P
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  name: Aidan Pender.
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  country: Ireland
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  story: Aidan comes to Gitlab via DocuSign with over 10 years Finance experience both in Ireland & Australia. In his spare time Aidan enjoys walking his Pug cross Jeremy also 5 a side football, yoga and paddle boarding. He is currently just finishing his masters in Business Administration by the end of 2020.

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          Prior to joining in the capacity of People Operations Team Lead, Beverley spent the bulk of her career in both operations management and international recruitment.  After hours she enjoys hiking, reading and rustling up a feast for her family.

- slug: Alex-V
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  name: Alex Venter
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  country: South Africa
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  departments:
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          Prior to joining GitLab, Alex has spent most of her career focusing on developing her skill as a customer/team specialist. She enjoys helping people and has a huge passion for ensuring everyone has the best experience. After hours she enjoys building puzzles, spending time with friends and family and exploring all the beauty that Cape Town has to offer.

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  name: Rachel Appleby
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  locality: Durham
  country: United Kingdom
  role: <a href="/job-families/people-ops/internal-communications-director/">Internal Communications Director</a>
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  departments:
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            Rachel is passionate about inspiring people to do their best work every single day. With over fifteen years global Internal Communications experience, Rachel has a diverse industry background ranging from Financial Services to Social Media and is passionate about leading the way for Internal Communications for people who work All Remote. When she gets the chance, Rachel loves traveling the world.


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  name: Syeda Firdaus
  start_date: 2019-11-18
  locality: Bangalore
  country: India
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/professional-services-engineer/">Professional Services Engineer, APAC</a>
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  departments:
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          Firdaus is a DevOps practitioner since the start of her career i.e. 2014, having great experience working with tools and technologies that support collaboration and cross-team cooperation with an emphasis on automation using DevOps practices. Personally, she loves spending time with friends&family, listening to music, watch series(esp Netflix), drive to see places and cooking.

- slug: dan-foley
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  name: Dan Foley
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  story:  |
          Joining October 7th

- slug: stan-brower
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  name: Stan Brower
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  locality: Colorado Springs, CO
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader; USAF</a>
  reports_to: ralph-k
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  twitter:
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  departments:
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- slug: scott-mckee
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  name: Scott McKee
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  country:
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader; 4th Estate</a>
  reports_to: ralph-k
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  departments:
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          Scott is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in Sales, Account Management, Business Process, Storage, Cloud, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Databases, and IT Service Management. 

- slug: mike-sellers
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  name: Mike Sellers
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  story:  |
          Joining January 27th

- slug: john-mclean
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  name: John McLean
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  country:
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader; NSG</a>
  reports_to: jim-riley
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  story:  |
          Joining September 17th


- slug: matt-stamper
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  name: Matt Stamper
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  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Strategic Account Leader; SLED</a>
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          Joining October 28th

- slug: jodi-thomas
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  name: Jodi Thomas
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  country:
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/strategic-account-leader/">Federal Channel Sales Manager</a>
  reports_to: cnovello
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  gitlab:
  departments:
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  story:  |
          Joining September 16th

- slug: acceleration-goran-b
  type: person
  name: Goran Bijelic
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          Joined on February 3, 2020

- slug: christina-souleles
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  country: Greece
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-representative/">Acceleration SDR</a>
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  departments:
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          Christina joined Gitlab in March 2020 with a profound background in digital marketing, data analytics and business development. She is enjoying the sun along with her family in Athens, Greece.

- slug: david-forsch
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  name: David Forsch
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  locality: Tampa, FL
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/sales/channel-sales-manager/">WW Distribution Lead</a>
  reports_to: michellehodges
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- slug: stella-treas
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  locality: San Francisco, CA
  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/chief-executive-officer/chief-of-staff/">Chief of Staff to the CEO</a>
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  departments:
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- slug: vladlena-shumilo
  type: person
  name: Vladlena Shumilo
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  locality: Panama City
  country: Panama
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer">Backend Engineer, Fulfillment</a>
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  departments:
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    - Growth Section
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          Lena is a free soul engineer that runs on coffee and cares deeply about collaboration, clean code, testing and trust.
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- slug: davidwainaina
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  name: David Wainaina
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  country: Kenya
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/support-engineer/">Support Engineer, Self-managed (EMEA)</a>
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  departments:
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  story:  |
          David is a Support Engineer. Prior to GitLab, he worked in several roles in the telecommunication, database, cloud technologies. In his free time going to gym for crossfit, swimming and playing guitar

- slug: steveloyd
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  name: Steve Loyd
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  location_factor: 100.000
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/engineering/engineering-management-infrastructure/#vp-of-infrastructure">VP of Infrastructure</a>
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          Steve has enjoyed much of his career in various TechOps and DevOps leadership roles. He is excited to continue this leadership and also be part of driving future DevOps practices and tools as part of GitLab Engineering.  As the leader for the Infrastructure organization, he spends most days ensuring that all gitlab.com customer experiences are secure, reliable, and performant; and that our operations result in a valuable ongoing business for GitLab.
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          Steve enjoys the efficiency of the GitLab all-remote model and asynchronous communications methods. He lives with his family in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.  After 20+ years of commuting 3-4 hours a day to the South Bay and later San Francisco, he is delighted to just commute down the stairs.

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  name: Matthew Clyne
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  role: Senior Business Systems Administrator
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          Matt is originally from New York but lives in Chattanooga, TN with his wife, dog, and cat.
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  name: Hannah Bhattarai
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  country: USA
  role: <a href="/job-families/marketing/sales-development-manager/">Senior Manager, AMER Sales Development</a>
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- slug: vaibhav-kelkar
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          Vick has focused on Cloud Native initiatives and products for the last few years.
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- slug: Ian Moore
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  role: SAL
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