GitLab Appoints Sabrina Farmer as Chief Technology Officer
January 18 2024 - 4:05PM
All Remote - GitLab Inc., the most comprehensive AI-powered
DevSecOps platform, today announced the appointment of Sabrina
Farmer as its chief technology officer (CTO).
Farmer will lead GitLab’s software
engineering, operations, and customer support teams to execute the
company's technical vision and strategy and oversee the development
and delivery of GitLab's products.
She joins GitLab after a 19-year
career at Google where she most recently served as vice president
of engineering, core infrastructure. During her tenure with Google,
she was directly responsible for the reliability, performance, and
efficiency of all of Google's billion-user products and
infrastructure.
A long-time advocate for women in
technology, Farmer earned a B.S. in Computer Science at the
University of New Orleans, where she established two scholarships
to help level the playing field for inclusion and empowerment in
technology.
Supporting Quotes
“Sabrina is a seasoned technology
leader with an incredible track record of building and scaling
teams, processes, and technologies that power the world’s most
successful applications that billions of people rely on every day,”
said Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO, GitLab. “I am confident
that Sabrina’s leadership will continue to inspire our team members
as we innovate our AI-powered DevSecOps platform to enable
customers to boost speed and efficiency without sacrificing
privacy, security, and compliance.”
“Developers and the wider user
community love GitLab because it streamlines the development
process, and enterprises look to GitLab to consolidate tools,
reduce integration costs, and increase productivity,” said Sabrina
Farmer, CTO, GitLab. “From GitLab’s culture of transparency to
defining the DevSecOps category, I’m thrilled to join at such an
exciting time in the company’s trajectory and look forward to
working with the engineering team and leaders across the company to
deliver technology that enables our customers to build and deliver
secure software faster.”
About GitLabGitLab is
the most comprehensive, scalable enterprise DevSecOps platform for
software innovation. GitLab enables organizations to increase
developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce
security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital
transformation. More than 30 million registered users and more than
50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure
software faster.
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