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Customer Support Operations

GitLab Customer Support Operations

Purpose

The purpose of Customer Support Operations is to enable GitLab to provide delightful customer experiences by:

  • equipping the Customer Support team with knowledge, tools, and data to optimize productivity and efficiently solve customer problems.
  • equipping our customers and wider GitLab with the data, knowledge, and insights to prevent customer problems before they occur.
  • delivering delightful experiences to both our own internal and external customers.

Meet the team

Name Role
Carlo Curato Director, Business Technology Operations
Michael Beltran Sr. Manager, IT
Jason Colyer Fullstack Engineer, Customer Support Operations
Nabeel Bilgrami Customer Support Operations Specialist
Alyssa Villa Customer Support Operations Specialist
Dylan Tragjasi Customer Support Operations Specialist
Sarah Cole Customer Support Operations Specialist
Rene Verschoor Customer Support Operations Specialist

Working with us

Or you can reach out to us in Slack via #support_operations.

Issue flowchart

graph TD;
  Start--> Triage;
  Triage--> Type;
  Type-->|Bug| BugDevelopment
  Type-->|Feature| FeaturePlanning
  BugDevelopment--> BugValidation
  BugValidation--> BugValidated
  BugValidated-->|No| BugDevelopment
  BugValidated-->|Yes| Implementation
  FeaturePlanning--> FeatureScheduling
  FeatureScheduling--> FeatureIsItTime
  FeatureIsItTime-->|No| FeatureQueued
  FeatureIsItTime-->|Yes| FeatureDevelopment
  FeatureDevelopment--> FeatureValidation
  FeatureQueued--> FeatureIsItTime
  FeatureValidation--> FeatureValidated
  FeatureValidated-->|No| FeatureDevelopment
  FeatureValidated-->|Yes| Implementation
  Implementation--> Completion
  Completion--> End
  Start(Issue created)
  Triage(Triage stage)
  Type{Request type?}
  BugDevelopment(Development stage)
  BugValidation(Validation stage)
  BugValidated{Was it validated?}
  FeaturePlanning(Planning stage)
  FeatureScheduling(Scheduling stage)
  FeatureIsItTime{Is it being worked in the current iteration?}
  FeatureQueued(Queued stage)
  FeatureDevelopment(Development stage)
  FeatureValidation(Validation stage)
  FeatureValidated{Was it validated?}
  Implementation(Implementation stage)
  Completion(Completion stage)
  End(Issue closed)

Team member licenses
Support Operations policies page for team member licenses
GitLab
Documentation on GitLab
Calendly
Documentation on Calendly
Handovers
Documentation on team handovers
Incidents
Documentation on incidents
Support Logic
Documentation on Support Logic
Token management
Documentation on token management
Transcend
Documentation on Transcend
Change management
Documentation on change management
Contacting third parties
Documentation on contacting third parties
Criticalities
Documentation on change and system criticalities
Pagerduty
Documentation on Pagerduty
Resources
Documentation on Customer Support Operations resources
System checkers
Documentation on system checkers
Zendesk-Salesforce Sync
Documentation on Zendesk-Salesforce sync
Audits
Documentation on Customer Support Operations audits
FAQs
Frequently asked questions for Customer Support Operations
Salesforce
Documentation on Salesforce
Slack
Documentation on Slack
Workato
Documentation on Workato
Zendesk
Documentation on Zendesk
Incident.io
Documentation on Incident.io
Last modified January 21, 2026: Revamp CustSuppOps handbook (7d49549f)