Founded in 2011 by Dmitriy Zaporozhets in Ukraine and later joined by Sid Sijbrandij in the Netherlands, GitLab started as an open-source project and grew into one of the largest open-source communities in the world with over 3,000 contributors. GitLab offers a single platform covering the entire DevOps lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD, security scanning, and monitoring. The company operates as a fully remote organization with over 1,500 team members across 65+ countries, making it one of the largest all-remote companies ever. GitLab went public on NASDAQ in October 2021, raising over $650 million.
Active Founders
Sid Sijbrandij
Founder / CEO
Sid Sijbrandij is the co-founder and CEO of GitLab. He discovered Dmitriy's open-source GitLab project online and reached out to help commercialize it. Sid pioneered the concept of the all-remote company and has been a strong advocate for remote work long before it became mainstream. He has written extensively about GitLab's radical transparency culture, where even the company's internal handbook is publicly available online for anyone to read.
Dmitriy Zaporozhets
Co-Founder / CTO
Dmitriy Zaporozhets is the original creator and co-founder of GitLab. He built the first version in 2011 as an open-source tool to help his team collaborate on code. A self-taught developer from Ukraine, his initial project quickly gained traction in the developer community and became the foundation of a multi-billion dollar enterprise. He continues to serve as a key engineering leader within the company.