GitLab
Bill Staples is the CEO of GitLab, the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. He is passionate about developers and has spent nearly 30 years building developer platforms and tools for them as customers. He is an execution-focused leader who loves to build and scale businesses. Staples believes we’re still in the early stages of a software transformation, and AI will accelerate how software changes the human experience in the coming decade. He believes there has never been a better time in history to be in the software business and serve developers, helping improve their work and lives and ultimately reaching billions of people around the world in profound ways.
Before joining GitLab, Staples served as CEO of New Relic, where he significantly increased the company’s value by accelerating revenue and driving increased profitability while making New Relic one of the most broadly adopted platforms in its category. During his time at Microsoft, he served as corporate vice president, Azure application platform, where he incubated and launched dozens of Azure services for developers and scaled them globally. As Adobe’s Vice President, Experience Cloud, Staples led the global technical organization and drove the roadmap strategy and execution for multiple product lines with a combined $3 billion in annual revenue while transforming the engineering culture to be cloud-first, agile, and DevOps. He successfully led transformative product, culture, and technical innovation evolutions at Microsoft and Adobe, helping both companies expand multi-billion dollar cloud portfolios with developers and IT as the customers.
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GitLab
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GitLab is a single application with features for the whole software development and operations (DevOps) lifecycle. GitLab helps you automate the builds, integration, and verification of your code. With SAST, DAST, code quality analysis, plus pipelines that enable concurrent testing and parallel execution, your teams get quick insights about every commit so they can deliver higher quality code faster. With GitLab, every team in your organization can collaboratively plan, build, secure, and deploy software to drive business outcomes faster with complete transparency, consistency and traceability across the DevOps lifecycle GitLab gives you everything from value stream reporting to planning tools, registries, CI/CD, testing, and much more. You can use GitLab how and where you want to fit with your digital infrastructure. Choose what’s best for your organization: SaaS or self-managed. They can host and manage GitLab for you, or you can deploy your own GitLab instance on-premises or in the cloud. You can automate your security and compliance policies and you’ll get visibility and traceability to see who changed what, where and when across all DevOps functions. GitLab was built for Dev, Sec, Ops and everyone else who cares about your code — including business teams and non-technical stakeholders — to collaborate and keep moving projects forward. Because GitLab is built on open source software, you get the benefit of all the innovations that thousands of developers all over the world are continuously adding and refining — and you can contribute your own. Gitlab has been recognized for several awards such as best DevOps solution provider, 451 Firestarter, and leader in Forrester Wave.