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GitLab Appoints Siva Padisetty as Chief Technology Officer

What happened

GitLab Inc. hired Siva Padisetty as Chief Technology Officer on Jan 15th '26.

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GitLab appoints Siva Padisetty as Chief Technology Officer. San Francisco, CA - January 12, 2026 - All-Remote - GitLab Inc., the most comprehensive intelligent DevSecOps platform, today announced the appointment of Siva Padisetty as Chief Technology Officer, effective January 15, 2026. Padisetty 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. He succeeds Sabrina Farmer, who stepped down from her role and will remain in an advisory capacity through January 31, 2026, to ensure a seamless transition. "We are thrilled to welcome Siva to GitLab," said Bill Staples, GitLab chief executive officer. "Siva is the engineer's CTO. He's spent his career building and scaling some of the most critical infrastructure platforms in the industry, including systems that manage millions of instances and foundational tools that enterprises rely on every day. That experience will be invaluable as we continue building GitLab into a generational company and delivering on our vision of intelligent orchestration for DevSecOps." "Siva brings deep technical expertise and a track record of building platforms at scale," said Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab co-founder and executive board chair. "He's built systems that developers actually want to use while meeting...

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Event
Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
Siva PadisettyChief Technology Officer
Takes effect
Jan 15, 2026
Location
San Francisco, California, United States

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  • Siva PadisettyChief Technology Officer · Named in the story

Details

Category
Hires

Topics and mentions

Asset tags

  • research and development

Job title tags

  • general technology
  • engineering

Extraction

Confidence
55%
Detected
Jan 12, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
hires

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