Individual Growth Plan: 2024-02-01 - 2025-01-31

Career Goals

• Become Staff Backend Engineer. The due date is 2028-09-13.
• Change Engineering Role from Backend Engineer to Fullstack Engineer.

Promotion to Senior Backend Engineer

• Complete promotion document

Database

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/database-team/team-tasks/-/issues/422+
• Review database changes as a Database Trainee Maintainer
  • Database Trainee Maintainer: Bogdan Denkovych (notes#6 - moved)
• Work on tasks that require database changes
  • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security/gitlab/-/merge_requests/3962+
  • Delete users unconfirmed secondary emails after... (gitlab-org/gitlab!151562 - merged)
  • Remove untrusted Bitbucket identities and relat... (gitlab-org/gitlab!155094 - merged)
  • Remove `index_identities_on_provider` DB index (gitlab-org/gitlab!155712 - merged)
  • Allow groups to disable password authentication... (gitlab-org/gitlab!160750 - merged)
  • Delete inactive groups and projects access toke... (gitlab-org/gitlab!163461 - merged)
  • Update "Iterating tables in batches" docs (gitlab-org/gitlab!165191 - merged)
  • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/488502+
  • Fix cron worker that deletes project_bot users ... (gitlab-org/gitlab!169012 - merged)
  • Add `counts.groups_with_enterprise_users` metric (gitlab-org/gitlab!169631 - merged)
  • Add "GET /groups/:id/enterprise_users" API endp... (gitlab-org/gitlab!172408 - merged)
• Read all guides about "Project maintainer process for gitlab-database"

Vue.js

• Learn Vue.js
  • Tutorial: https://vuejs.org/tutorial/
  • Guide: https://vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html
• Work on GitLab frontend issues

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-OKRs/-/work_items/6280+
• Make Authentication and Authorization code more maintainable, more open for external contributions and use
  • [FF removal] Remove group_managed_accounts FF a... (gitlab-org/gitlab#414421)
  • Remove block_password_auth_for_saml_users FF an... (gitlab-org/gitlab!160850 - merged)
  • Extract Microsoft Graph Mailer from the GitLab project into separate project as a Ruby gem
• Share knowledge with team members
  • Host "Lunch & Learn" session about "Cells 1.0 impact for authentication"
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FiYWDYphEBuj-D2LoSVmDppl9K6_MY-fjGrICcVR4SE/edit?usp=sharing
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9bKLUlGIi0
  • Host "Lunch & Learn" session about "Enterprise users"

Production Architecture and Monitoring of GitLab.com

• Read "Production Architecture"
• Read "Monitoring of GitLab.com"
• Read "Using Kibana"
• Read "Canary deployments"
• Read "ChatOps on GitLab.com"
• Watch "GitLab Architecture 101 for Support Engineers"
• Read and Watch "Tips & Tricks of Troubleshooting"