GitLab

About Me

• Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab since April 2018.
• I work in the Engineering Productivity team, focusing on improving our GitLab Development Kit (GDK).
• I value:
  • Being honest and genuine, always.
  • Showing gratitude, always.
  • Using manners, always.
  • Lending a hand, when I can.

GitLab values that especially resonate with me

🤝 Collaboration

• Say thanks
• Say sorry
• No ego
• Short toes
• It's impossible to know everything

📈 Results

• Dogfooding
• Give agency
• Bias for action

⏱️ Efficiency

• Boring solutions
• Be respectful of others' time
• Managers of one
• Freedom and responsibility over rigidity
• Embrace change

🌐 Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

• Bias towards asynchronous communication
• Quirkiness
• See Something, Say Something
• Family and friends first, work second

👣 Iteration

• Don't wait
• Start off by impacting the fewest users possible
• Embracing Iteration
• Make small merge requests

👁️ Transparency

• Public by default
• Single Source of Truth
• Say why, not just what

Links

• My GitLab profile
• My GitHub profile

You can learn more about me in my personal README. 😄