Meet Our Team

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Andrew is a self-taught Linux nerd who loves to find ways to make technology work better for people. Before GitLab, he was working in retail. He uses his newfound flexibility in remote work to play video games (on Linux!) and ride his bicycle all around Chicago.

Projects:

• http-router-deployer
  • reviewer

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Before joining GitLab Aaron was leading Cloud Center of Excellence teams, bringing a wealth of experience in DevSecOps, SRE and Event Driven Automation practices. His background in these fields has shaped his expertise in creating resilient, secure, and automated infrastructures. Outside of work, Aaron is a foster parent, dedicated to making a meaningful impact on children’s lives.

Projects:

• switchboard
  • maintainer backend

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Aysegul likes to help people with her knowledge and experiences both in normal and work life. She graduated from Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2018 and started her career as a Support Engineer in 2019. She learned about face recognition technologies, cameras, Linux and so on. Outside of work, she likes sports, painting, photography, watching movies, travelling and many other things.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer backend

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Aakriti is an Indian expat living in south Germany, who loves Korean food, slipping in several languages in one sentence and photographing absurd things. She enjoys weight lifting. She is an open source enthusiast, who has been building and using open source software for several years. Most of her recent work is in Ruby.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • reviewer UX
• gitlab-design
  • maintainer

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Anthony Baer enjoys helping customers throughout their DevOps journey to optimize processes using automation. With 20+ years of experience within the software development lifecycle, Anthony has experienced the changes and innovation that has occurred in this realm. Going forward, every day brings a new opportunity to improve. In his spare time, Anthony enjoys urban hiking, motorcycling, travel, and learning. Anthony lives with his wife, two children, and two cats.

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Very passionate about sales, tech, sports and travel. Artem is living Berlin for about 30 years, was born in the Ukrain and has a sales background with over 7 years experience.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
  • maintainer database

Projects:

• customers-app
  • reviewer frontend
  • reviewer backend
• gitlab
  • reviewer frontend
  • reviewer backend

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For Abhay, building software is more than just a job; it’s a passion. He enjoys getting his hands dirty and creating tools to solve his own problems, while making life easier for others. He enjoys reading blogs, experimenting with what’s hot in the industry, and solving chess puzzles.

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Abhilash loves building smart, scalable marketing systems that connect people, data, and technology. With experience across automation, lead management, and analytics, he enjoys turning complexity into clarity. Outside of work, he’s usually running by the waterfront, at an electronic show, camping, or practicing yoga.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • trainee_maintainer backend
• labkit-python
  • maintainer

Projects:

• iglu
  • maintainer

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Ashwin is an Engineering Manager who loves working on hard problems with smart, kind people.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • trainee_maintainer backend

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Ayush has over 7 years of experience building web apps with Ruby and Go. He enjoys tackling challenges that help him learn and grow. Plus, he loves sharing his thoughts on software development on LinkedIn!

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As a software engineer, Andreas has been straddling the line between development and infrastructure roles in startup environments. Before joining the Scalability group, he focused on database engineering and worked from GitLab’s database group in development and as a Database Reliability Engineer for GitLab.com. Away from the keyboard, you’ll find him in a dockyard refitting a steel cruising ketch (a sailboat), welding in his workshop or cooking in the kitchen. He enjoys being around water on a sailboat, as part of the deck crew on a German tall ship, in a kayak or when diving.

Projects:

• merge-train
  • maintainer

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Akinyele is dedicated to creating tools that simplify life for fellow developers and is deeply interested in the software side of DevOps, always striving for continuous improvement. In his free time, he enjoys travelling, meeting new people, playing video games, listening to lots of music, and baking.

Projects:

• ai-gateway
  • maintainer ai_gateway

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Alexander is passionate about machine learning and distributed computing. Prior to joining GitLab, Alexander worked on UnReview, a code reviewer recommendation system, as an engineer and co-founder. Alexander is excited to join GitLab and help the team integrate UnReview capabilities into the GitLab platform. Outside of work, Alexander enjoys reading, hiking, and skiing.

Projects:

• cng
  • reviewer
• gitlab-omnibus-builder
  • reviewer
• omnibus-gitlab
  • reviewer build
• public-image-archive
  • reviewer

Projects:

• ai-gateway
  • maintainer ai_gateway
• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
• repository-x-ray
  • reviewer

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Allen has worked in software for several years, enjoys making stuff, telling stories and learning new things.

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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.

Projects:

• engineering-productivity-infrastructure
  • maintainer
• gitlab
  • maintainer qa
  • maintainer pipeline
• gitlab-build-images
  • maintainer
• gitlab-crystalball
  • maintainer
• gitlab-qa
  • maintainer
• quality-pipeline-common
  • maintainer

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Andrejs enjoys crafting all kinds of tools around testing and development productivity. He is also keen on contributing to open source projects. In his free time he enjoys adrenaline packed activities like racing motorcycles or freeride skiing.

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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.

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Adam is an experienced backend web developer with many years of experience in customer success and technical account management. Prior to joining GitLab, he provided technical advisory service to enterprise customers as they used Drupal and other open source technologies to build their digital experiences, all while maintaining a steady stream of development work by building internal tools to help improve his team’s efficiency. All of this combined led to a love of DevOps, which in turn led to GitLab. Outside of work, Adam enjoys woodworking and jazz trombone.

Projects:

• secure-SAST-clangsa
  • reviewer
• secure-SAST-kics
  • maintainer
• secure-SAST-kubesec
  • maintainer
• secure-SAST-pmd-apex
  • maintainer
• secure-SAST-security-code-scan
  • maintainer
• secure-SAST-semgrep
  • maintainer
• secure-SAST-sobelow
  • maintainer
• secure-SAST-spotbugs
  • maintainer
• secure-SAST-tracking-calculator
  • reviewer
• secure-common-command
  • reviewer
• secure-common-report
  • maintainer
• secure-common-ruleset
  • reviewer
• secure-container-scanning
  • maintainer
• secure-dependency-scanning
  • maintainer
• secure-integration-test
  • maintainer
• secure-license-db-advisory-processor
  • reviewer
• secure-license-db-deployment
  • reviewer
• secure-license-db-license-exporter
  • reviewer
• secure-license-db-license-feeder
  • reviewer
• secure-license-db-license-interfacer
  • reviewer
• secure-license-db-license-processor
  • reviewer
• secure-license-db-schema
  • reviewer

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Before joining Gitlab, Adam 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.

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Adam has spent his entire career in technical support. Outside of work Adam enjoys photography, running, volunteering, travelling, and has recently taken up woodworking.

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Adarsh brings a decade of security research expertise from his role as Senior Product Security Response Engineer at VMware, where he specialized in hypervisor escape vulnerabilities. Outside of work, he pursues his passion for skydiving.

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After starting her career as a software developer for the DoD, Aleesha decided to get back to her passion of teaching and become customer-facing, acting as a trusted advisor for her clients. In her free time, Aleesha likes to spend time traveling with her husband or staying home with her four pets.

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She loves seeing people succeeding at solving complex technical problems. Self motivated, curious and relentless until a problem is addressed with an optimal solution. She loves working with diverse, multicultural teams.

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Raised in Toronto, Canada and now living in Whistler. The last decade of my life has been in the sales world in different capacities. From my point of view it’s all about being Client-Centric. Getting a 360-Degree understanding of an organizations needs & challenges and providing solutions to enable efficiency, growth & innovation. When I am not working I am spending time with the loves of my life, my hubby Jon and my daughter Arielle. We love to snowboard, surf, being in nature, and in the company of our family & great friends.

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I am a customer-centric, data and quality-driven professional who strives for optimal customer experience. Over the last two decades, I have accumulated expertise in system administration, software engineering, and DevOps practices. I help organizations leverage DevOps practices increasing their efficiency in achieving their business goals. I believe technology is essential, but we can’t achieve ambitious goals without fostering respectful and inclusive human interactions.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
  • reviewer clickhouse

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Arthur is a Professional Services Manager based in France. Before joining GitLab, he has worked in the video game industry and in the enterprise automation space. In his daily work, Arthur tries to keep the bigger picture in mind at all time. When not working, he enjoy sports, practicing a new skill, or playing games of all kind.

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Agnes is a dual qualified attorney in both civil law and common law legal systems with substantial international experience in both private practice and in-house. She grew up in Hungary where she became a bar qualified lawyer before moving to Dublin, Ireland in 2010. She is a practicing solicitor in Ireland, and an SRA admitted solicitor in the United Kingdom, and she also studied law in Italy. Agnes has a passion for languages - she’s bilingual English/Hungarian and she’s a qualified translator and interpreter in Italian. She has over 15 years of experience negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, having worked for the last nearly 10 years as in-house counsel in the software and technology sector. Agnes is mother to three young daughters and she loves spending time with her family, staying active together and occasionally carve out some time for crafts and drawing or listening to audibooks. Agnes is a remote-work advocate and she’s an avid supporter of empowering women in tech roles.

Projects:

• contributors-gitlab-com
  • reviewer
  • maintainer
• triage-ops
  • reviewer

Projects:

• gitlab-exporter
  • maintainer

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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.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
• gitlab-cli
  • maintainer
• gitlab-components
  • maintainer
• gitlab-web-ide
  • maintainer
• release-cli
  • reviewer
• secure-SD-secrets
  • maintainer

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Ahmed started tinkering with computers at a young age, and he hasn’t stopped since. He has 7+ years of experience building and delivering software at scale, and working in agile and fast paced environments. He spent most of that time focusing on backend, infrastructure and data topics. In his spare time, you can find him explaining a technical concept to a friend, reading an article about politics/economics, savouring some tasty plate, or riding an e-moped around Berlin. He also likes reading comics, cooking lasagne (whenever possible), and playing video games.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer backend

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Aaron strives to leverage his 20+ years of software development experience to make other developers’ lives a little easier. He enjoys programming as a hobby, as well as writing, speaking, singing and woodworking.

Projects:

• customers-app
  • maintainer backend
  • reviewer documentation
• gitlab
  • reviewer backend

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Aishwarya is a homegrown backend engineer, mediocre chef and a self-appointed food plating designer. She is deeply invested in contributing to open source software and has been involved with multiple Rails Girls chapters in the past. She loves to travel, write travelogue, play outdoor sports and grow veggies in her backyard. When she has the time, she volunteers at Embracing the world.

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I have built security products and teams over the last several years with a focus on user authentication and authorization.

Projects:

• peopleops-compensation-calculator
  • maintainer
• peopleops-employment-automation
  • maintainer
• peopleops-nominator-bot
  • maintainer
• peopleops-splinter-pto
  • maintainer

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer frontend

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Anastasia is a frontend software engineer. Prior to GitLab she worked at Xanadu Quantum Technologies, bringing quantum educational platforms to life. If she is not coding, she is probably gaming, reading, crocheting, having a cuddle with her cat Cleo or going out with some friends.

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I lead the content program within GitLab’s Public Relations team. Before joining the team at GitLab, I worked on the agency side, where I helped companies in tech and VC bring their stories to life.

Projects:

• secure-container-scanning
  • reviewer
• secure-dependency-management-orchestrator
  • reviewer
• secure-dependency-management-updater
  • maintainer

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In my current role, I specialize in designing and executing full-funnel lifecycle marketing programs that enhance the customer experience and maximize lifetime value. I am passionate about leveraging data-driven insights to optimize campaigns and achieve measurable results. I enjoy learning new recipies, traveling, hiking, and exploring the outdoors. You can find my dog, Kira, on the GitLab Pets Page!

Projects:

• ai-gateway
  • maintainer ai_gateway
• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
• gitlab-shell
  • reviewer

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From Venezuela, 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.

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Technology enthusiast, Alejandro started his career as a networking and systems support engineer. Always striving towards finding and solving the next problem. On his free time he enjoys reading on philosophy, psichology, sci-fi or anything Tolkien-related; learning new things, gaming and feeding his always-hungry cat.

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Joined in October 2019 (^o^)/

Projects:

• gitlab
  • reviewer UX
• gitlab-design
  • maintainer

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Alex is a product designer with over ten years of experience crafting consumer and enterprise products for leading brands. With a deeply rooted belief that human experiences drive business transformation, Alex helps co-create exceptional product experiences that transform brands at scale by making a meaningful impact on businesses and their customers.

Projects:

• chef-repo
  • maintainer
• config-mgmt
  • maintainer
• gitlab-cookbooks
  • maintainer
• infra-mgmt
  • maintainer

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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.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
  • reviewer database

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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. When AFK Alex enjoys spending time with his family, exercise, bouldering, and nerding out on business and finance.

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Alexander loves securing software at every step of the process and making security frictionless for other engineers. In his free time, he enjoys building wireless community networks, running Tor relays, and working on obscure personal projects.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer frontend

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Alexander grew up in Wisconsin and has lived in Atlanta, San Francisco, and now Denver. He is classically trained as a physicist, but has dumped all that knowledge in favor of building cool things on the web. 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 and tries to build his tolerance to spice.

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Allie joins GitLab with a background in lifecycle marketing, demand generation, and personalization. Allie enjoys working out, going on long walks, baking cookies, traveling, and trying new restaurants.

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Before Gitlab Alex was working as an Account Manager for fews years at Wrike a citrix company. Outside work Alex is spending his time with his family and friends doing outdoor activities and photography.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer backend

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Alex Buijs has over 15 years of experience creating web applications. He enjoys using the latest techniques and a diversity of frameworks. He takes pride in creating beautiful and minimal code. He has a master’s degree in AI. Besides programming, he is father of an adolescent daughter, practices zen meditation on a daily basis, loves making electronic music, watching movies, skying and paragliding.

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Alex specializes in Technology Risk Management with a background in project management and performing external/internal IT audit services. Prior to joining Gitlab, Alex worked for KPMG where he focused on performing SOX Consulting Services as well as IT Audit and SOC 1 & 2 engagements. In his free time he enjoys playing golf, skiing, and cooking BBQ on his deck.

Projects:

• gitlab

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With his strong passion for devops, Alex found his way to GitLab after 2 years of sporadic community contributions. In his spare time Alex likes building custom keyboards (for typing), spending time with his kid and numerous pets, and judging beer as a certified homebrew judge.

Projects:

• ai-gateway
  • reviewer ai_gateway
• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
  • reviewer authentication
• gitlab-cloud-connector
  • maintainer

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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.

Projects:

• merge-train
  • maintainer
• release-tools
  • maintainer

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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.

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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.

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Allison is a lifelong learner and Frontend Engineer who is passionate about using code and technology to improve the lives of our users and solve challenges. Outside of work, you’ll usually find Allison with her nose in a book, playing video games, or exploring new recipes and great food.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
  • trainee_maintainer database
  • maintainer verify
• gitlab-cli
  • reviewer

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Allison is a backend engineer who enjoys making nice experiences for users. Outside of work, Allison enjoys outdoor activities like hiking, biking and snowboarding as well as reading and cooking.

Projects:

• ai-gateway
  • reviewer duo_workflow_service
  • reviewer ai_gateway
• customers-app
  • maintainer database
• gitlab
  • maintainer backend
  • reviewer frontend
  • maintainer database
• gitlab-experiment
  • maintainer
• gitlab-web-ide
  • reviewer
• iglu
  • maintainer
• version.gitlab.com
  • maintainer backend
  • maintainer database

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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.

Projects:

• customers-app
  • maintainer backend
  • reviewer documentation
• gitlab
  • reviewer backend

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Aman has worked across the tech-stack in a variety of domains and is passionate about problem solving, and coffee. When he is not trying to brew his own coffee or talking about Star Wars, Aman loves traveling, especially out to the ocean/sea/discernibly large water bodies.

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Alvin enjoys solving problems and helping people. In his spare time, he likes reading and hiking. He also volunteers with the STEM Wana Trust in Tauranga to help engage young people in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • reviewer UX

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Alyssa spent her career as a technical support specialist. She has a passion for helping others and sharing her knowledge as much as possible. She is naturally inquisitive and she enjoys learning new things. Outside of work, she loves cooking, traveling and exploring new places & cuisines. She’s also into travel and food photography.

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Amanda is a native Californian, born and raised in the LA Area and currently resides in Half Moon Bay, CA. She’s passionate about all things events especially swag, menus, working with vendors, and finding interesting speakers. Prior to GitLab, Amanda was in the wealth management industry working on client and internal training events. In her free time, Amanda can be found walking on the beach with her pup, trying new restaurants, working out, and playing board games with her boyfriend.

Projects:

• gitlab
  • maintainer security

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Amie Bright has dedicated her professional career to advancing the data capabilities of organizations. She believes that decisions and strategies should be based on data. Ensuring the integrity and quality of data by developing effective data management aligned to appropriate data usage is essential for confident and decisive decision-making.

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Adam has learned that the best ideas, and the best work, come from accepting challenges that every initiative holds. He strives to continually harness and embrace the ambiguity of the creative process in order to achieve the most effective and efficient outcomes, all while finding the common goal that unites others from different disciplines and talents to work together. When Adam isn’t working on the latest and greatest brand initiative you will find him spending time with his family at the beach or completing his next DIY project.

Projects:

• environment-automation
  • maintainer
• gitlab-cli
  • reviewer

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Andy has spent years working remotely in all sorts of places across the country before landing in Baltimore, MD He lives in a 140+ year old rowhome with his wife and son. He has no formal engineering training but does have a Masters degree in Anthropology. He started out in backend engineering after school but when he got involved in operations work the philosophy of SRE ignited his passion for automating operations (and everything else!). When not building out automation in the cloud Andy enjoys brewing craft beer, cooking, video games, building/painting miniatures, and drinking copious amounts of tea. 🫖🇬🇧

Projects:

• customers-app
  • maintainer frontend
  • reviewer documentation
• gitlab
  • reviewer frontend

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Outside work I enjoy coffee, sourdough baking, video games, and personal development pursuits. I value continuous learning and strive for excellence in my work.

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Amy is originally from Santa Cruz, CA but now lives in New Jersey with her husband and shih tzu dog. She has spent her career leading Regional, Field, and Customer Marketing for multiple tech companies. When she isn’t working, you can usually find her on a run, seeing a Broadway show, or traveling somewhere new.

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Amr Zaher is a professional with a strong background in SaaS customer success. Passionate about building lasting relationships and helping clients achieve their goals and business objectives, Amr leverages his expertise to drive customer satisfaction and retention.Amr enjoys exploring diverse cuisines, staying active with Taekwondo, and experimenting with new fitness routines