As a Senior Product Designer at GitLab, I oversaw numerous projects simultaneously across multiple
teams, including Product Analytics, Custom Models, MLOps, and Product Planning. As a 'manager of one,' I
was responsible for managing my own backlog, proposing and creating a design vision and strategy,
formulating and executing UX research and product/solution validation, and maintaining our existing
product through merge request reviews and direct feedback with our product and engineering teams.
The open-source nature of GitLab granted me a ton of incredible opportunities to work with both
customers and the public, and turned the collaboration dial up to 11. The work was incredibly technical
and complex, and greatly bolstered my design chops and ability to speak to what I'd designed. I've grown
leaps and bounds in my strategy and vision work, and especially as a connector of teams and resources
through my work at GitLab!
Originating from an engineering exploration, I was tasked with building a suite of tools that would bridge the existing DevSecOps core product to the world of data science. This became GitLab's MLOps offerings, Model Registry and Model Experiments. Our team of 6 was small but mighty, and accomplished something amazing!
My time in Product Planning saw me overseeing all Plan-oriented features and spaces across our core product offering. In the last few months, I conducted a massive competitive analysis and began designing the framework for a new tabular view that would allow for greater data manipulation in work item lists, and included nested item views and vast feature improvements!
With the advent of GitLab Duo - GitLab's agentic solution - the Custom Models team needed new control schema that would allow for customers to configure which AI features were active, and the models that drove them. This was a technically challenging project that allowed for some really exciting explorations and great customer feedback!