With 33 years of experience in all aspects of Source Control Management, CI/CD and Application Lifecycle Management, I have contributed to the success of many large companies across the globe.
I co-founded GERRITFORGE 16 years ago, when I then join forces with Google, Qualcomm, SAP and the other Gerrit contributors to fuel innovation and drive the Gerrit Code Review open-source project. I play an active role in the OpenSource Community, contributing to several major projects.
I am a software engineer and architect with experience across various domains. Over time, I’ve seen how good architecture and thoughtful design choices directly influence the quality, maintainability, and long-term impact of a product.
I care about practical, scalable designs and clear separation of concerns. In my work, I focus on designing and maintaining systems that support change and are easy to reason about. I believe that during the implementation phase, code reviews are a crucial step - and making them as efficient as possible pays off.
Outside of work, I contribute to open source, particularly Gerrit Code Review, where I’m active as a developer, maintainer, and occasional speaker.
Yet another developer seeking to find the answer to “why” questions!
Gerrit maintainer and Release manager
Vasdev Gullapalli is a Senior Staff Engineer and Manager at Qualcomm, specializing in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering. With over 15 years of technology leadership, he architects and manages large-scale software delivery platforms, including GitHub, GitLab, and Gerrit, supporting over 100,000 engineers worldwide.
Fredrik is the Lead Architect at Meroton, focusing on improving developer experience by finding the bottlenecks in the build, test and bug-fixing flows. He has used Gerrit and Zuul since 2013, Bazel since 2017 and is a maintainer of Buildbarn.
I was the first person (along with Saša Živkov) to be appointed as a Gerrit maintainer by Shawn in 2011 while working for Qualcomm, and I have been contributing and working in the Gerrit ecosystem ever since. While working at NVIDIA, I also recently became a jgit committer and hope to contribute a lot more to both for another decade at least.
At Qualcomm I helped design many of the plugin extensions such as the ability to tie in plugin arguments to ssh commands and to add search operators and search output from plugins. I also did most of the development of the task plugin and designed most of the batch plugin. I significantly helped push many multi-primary technologies forward, including guiding how to make jgit accurate and performant on NFS in these situations. I helped reduced the memory consumption of cached index files to help servers scale better with thousands of repositories, and more recently I have helped significantly improve the performance of fetches and H2 caches.
Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin.
I have started contributing to Git and libgit2 more than 10 years ago and am nowadays one of the core Git contributors. I care deeply about the whole Git community and have contributed to large projects like the reftable backend and pluggable object databases, but also to countless other smaller projects. Nowadays I am employed by GitLab as engineering manager of the Git team, where I coordinate our upstream contributions into the Git project.
Hi, I'm Skyler (pronouns she/her)!
I'm a software engineer - working professionally to bring LibreOffice based office editing to your browser - which means I use both Gerrit (when writing LibreOffice) and GitHub (when writing Collabora Online) on a regular basis.
To me, code is inherently a collaborative endeavor - even my dotfiles are shared with friends(!) - so I care about high quality code review and crafting a commit history that is maximally useful to anyone reading my commits (be it my friends today or myself in the future...).