Dev Sub-department

Vision

Enable engineers across the world by having top notch planning and issue tools for managing their work, awesome tools to organize their code and evolve their codebase through the best code review and online editing experience. Support organizations to have an easy entrance level to use GitLab by having great import capabilities, a great documentation experience and administration tools.

We thrive for ownership of the things that we built by having a clear view on its performance and stability in production. We constantly challenge ourselves to build a better, faster and more robust application.

Mission

The Dev sub-department is taking care of the first part of the DevSecOps Lifecycle with the following stages and the specific groups:

Who we are

Foundations

Foundations:Design System

Name	Role
Sam Beckham	Engineering Manager, Foundations:Design System, Foundations:Personal Productivity
James Rushford	Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Design System
Mark Florian	Staff Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Design System
Scott de Jonge	Senior Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Design System
Vanessa Otto	Senior Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Design System

Foundations:Import and Integrate

Name	Role

Foundations:Personal Productivity

Name	Role
Sam Beckham	Engineering Manager, Foundations:Design System, Foundations:Personal Productivity
Lukas Eipert	Staff Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Personal Productivity
Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt	Senior Frontend Engineer, Foundations:Personal Productivity
Thomas Hutterer	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Foundations:Personal Productivity

Plan

Plan:Project Management

Name	Role
Donald Cook	Engineering Manager, Plan:Project Management
Alexandru Croitor	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Agnes Slota	Backend Engineer
Senior Frontend Engineer	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Deepika Guliani	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Fernanda Toledo	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Heinrich Lee Yu	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Kushal Pandya	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Mario Celi	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Marc Saleiko	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Simon Knox	Staff Frontend Engineer, Plan:Project Management
Stefanos Xanthopoulos	Backend Engineer

Plan:Product Planning

Name	Role
Vladimir Shushlin	Engineering Manager, Plan:Product Planning and Acting Engineering Manager, Plan:Knowledge
Alisa Frunza	Backend Engineer
Anastasia Khomchenko	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Brett Walker	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge
Eugenia Grieff	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Himanshu Kapoor	Staff Frontend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge
Jack Chapman	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Janis Altherr	Senior Fullstack Engineer, Plan:Knowledge
Kassio Borges	Staff Backend Engineer , Plan:Product Planning
Matt D'Angelo	Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Naman Jagdish Gala	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge
Nicolas Dular	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Backend Engineer	Backend Engineer
Piotr Skorupa	Backend Engineer, Plan:Knowledge
Rajan Mistry	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Product Planning
Vedant Jain	Fullstack Engineer

Plan:Optimize

Name	Role
Brandon Labuschagne	Fullstack Engineering Manager, Plan:Optimize
Amr Taha	Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Alex Pennells	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Ezekiel Kigbo	Senior Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Felipe Artur	Senior Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Pavel Shutsin	Staff Backend Engineer, Plan:Optimize
Rudy Crespo	Frontend Engineer, Plan:Optimize

Plan:Knowledge

Name	Role
John Hope	Senior Manager, Engineering, Plan
Vladimir Shushlin	Engineering Manager, Plan:Product Planning and Acting Engineering Manager, Plan:Knowledge

Create

Create:Code Review

Name	Role
André Luís	Senior Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review
François Rosé	Engineering Manager, Create:Code Review
Phil Hughes	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Code Review
Stanislav Lashmanov	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Code Review
Thomas Randolph	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Code Review

Create:Code Creation

Name	Role
Matt Nohr	Backend Engineering Manager, Create:Code Creation
Allen Cook	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Backend Engineer	Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
James Fargher	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Jan Provaznik	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Missy Davies	Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Omar Qunsul	Senior Backend Engineer, Cells Infrastructure
Pam Artiaga	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Shola Quadri	Associate Backend Engineer
Tian Gao	Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Vitali Tatarintev	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Wanderson Policarpo	Senior Backend Engineer

Create:Editor Extensions

Name	Role
Kisha Mavryck Richardson	Engineering Manager
Andrei Zubov	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Anna Springfield	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Code Creation
Bohdan Parkhomchuk	Backend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Dylan Bernardi	Associate Backend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Elwyn Benson	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Erran Carey	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Jean-Gabriel Doyon	Backend Engineer
John Slaughter	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Juhee Lee	Fullstack Engineer
Karl Jamoralin	Backend Engineer
Laura Ionel	Senior Backend Engineer
Michael Angelo Rivera	Fullstack Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Mohammed Osumah	Fullstack Engineer
Olena HK.	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Tomas Vik	Staff Fullstack Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions
Tristan Read	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Editor Extensions

Create:Remote Development

Name	Role
Adebayo Adesanya	Engineering Manager
Ashvin Sharma	Backend Engineer
Chad Woolley	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Cindy Halim	Fullstack Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Daniyal Arshad	Backend Engineer
Enrique Alcántara	Staff Frontend Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Joseph Fletcher	Associate Frontend Engineer
Safwan Ahmed	Backend Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Vishal Tak	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Remote Development
Zhaochen Li	Backend Engineer, Create:Remote Development

Create:Source Code

Name	Role
André Luís	Senior Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review
Emma Park	Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code Backend
Fred Reinink	Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code Backend
Gavin Hinfey	Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Jerry Seto	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Javiera Tapia	Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Jacques Erasmus	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Joe Woodward	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Kerri Miller	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code Backend
Chaoyue Zhao	Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Pranav Jain	Associate Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Olaoluwa Oluro	Senior Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Paulina Sedlak-Jakubowska	Senior Frontend Engineer, Create:Source Code
Vasilii Iakliushin	Staff Backend Engineer, Create:Source Code, Systems:Gitaly API

Stable Counterparts

The following members of other functional teams are our stable counterparts:

Name	Role
Andrejs Cunskis	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
Chloe Liu	Staff Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
Dan Davison	Staff Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
David Dieulivol	Senior Backend Engineer, Development Analytics
Emilio Salvador	VP, Dev Relations and Community
Abhinaba Ghosh	Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Development Analytics
Ievgen Chernikov	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
Jay McCure	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Create
John Coghlan	Director, Developer Advocacy
Kalyani Yerraguntla	Learning & Development Program Manager
Lauren Cairns	Senior Learning & Development Program Manager
MQ Gillespie	Senior Learning & Development Program Manager
Nivetha Prabakaran	Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Manage
Pranshu Sharma	Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Analytics
Richard Chong	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Developer Experience:Feature Readiness
Lohit Peesapati	Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Analytics

How we work

Error Budgets

Error budgets are one of the Dev sub-department/section’s performance indicators. They’re vital in determining how reliable services within Dev are over any given timeframe. The budget is spent any time user-facing services experience a percentage of errors or latency breaching their defined thresholds. We track our error budgets using Grafana dashboards.

Engineering Managers in Dev focus on the 7-day timeframe of their error budget. An example dashboard can be found here.

Reporting your groups error budget, reliability, and security status

Every week, engineering leaders meet to discuss topics including the error budgets across the entire Engineering Division.

Dev engineering leaders use this Google document to track our error budget status week-over-week, which are then reported on in these meetings by senior leadership.

Engineering Managers are advised to report up to their managers, or self-report the status of their group on Monday’s using the above document to ensure we have an accurate weekly snapshot of the sub-department’s error budget status, outstanding reliability issue status, and past due security issues.

Automating a weekly check-in on your error budget

One way that groups can keep error budgets in mind is by automating a weekly reminder in Slack to check on their error budget.

A Slack workflow can be created that allows any member of the team to provide a quick update on the current error budget status.

Common Links

Issue Tracker
Slack Channels
- #sd_dev_engineering
- #s_manage
- #s_plan
- #s_create