Category: Update

Reflection: My eighth year at GitLab and working on Product Operations reporting to the Chief of Staff to CPMO

It’s about 2 months early for my 8 year work anniversary reflection. However, my work situation has changed, and it feels like the right time to be reflecting on the past (almost a) year.

It’s interesting that 8 years sounds like a long time, but since I’ve changed divisions a couple of times, it also doesn’t feel super long. Definitely hard to believe it’s been ~2.5 years since I left Support, but I still have coffee chats with all the new team members! (And I’m still waiting for that t-shirt.)

Also intriguing, there are still 65 at the company that started before me, so almost one quarter of the people from when I started. That’s quite good after 8 years.

If you want to know what happened in previous years, take a look at the other reflection posts. Continue reading “Reflection: My eighth year at GitLab and working on Product Operations reporting to the Chief of Staff to CPMO”

2025 Blog Year in Review + Brief Update

I’m a few days late with this post. Things have been busy with visiting family for the holidays, and we’ve been dealing with various house things since we moved. Of course, those are just excuses, since I’m managing to write this while I have a cold.

Some people may have noticed that I didn’t write a reflection post at the half-year mark. Since my position was made permanent, I’ve been working on more projects, some of which have been longer term. I just felt that there wasn’t enough for a standalone post, so I’ll write one in June.

In the meantime, here’s the blog year in review. Continue reading “2025 Blog Year in Review + Brief Update”

Reflection: Second half of my seventh year at GitLab and doing Strategy & Operations for Product (and Engineering)

This week is my seventh anniversary at GitLab, and it’s still a little hard to believe. At this point, there are 82 people who started before me and are still at the company. That’s actually pretty good, 7 years later, when there were about 275 people when I started, so about a third are still here.

If you want to know what happened in the first half of the year, check out my previous reflection post. Continue reading “Reflection: Second half of my seventh year at GitLab and doing Strategy & Operations for Product (and Engineering)”