Wayne Haber

Director of Engineering - Growth and Fulfillment

GitLab Inc.

Mar 2021 - current

Wayne leads two departments at GitLab. The first department is the growth department, which focuses on a data collection framework that allows GitLab to make informed product decisions, improve customer experience, promote conversion, adopt key stages, and increase the user base. The team validates ideas with data across teams focused on activation, adoption, conversion, and expansion. The second is the fulfillment department responsible for the infrastructure between the systems that affect the user purchasing process and the primary caretakers of the purchasing and licensing systems. Wayne also is a security advisor at the company and leads initiatives to measure and improve company-wide engineering productivity.

Director of Engineering - Threat Management and Growth

GitLab Inc.

Sep 2019 - Mar 2021

Wayne led two departments at GitLab: The first is the threat management department which he founded. This departent builds security features used by customers into the GitLab product, including container security and vulnerability management. These features allow customers to "shift security to the left" when building and maintaining their applications while enabling them to detect, prevent, prioritize, and resolve security issues with the lowest effort and highest effectiveness. The second department is the growth department, which focuses on a data collection framework that allows GitLab to make informed product decisions, improve customer experience, promote conversion, adopt key stages, and increase the user base. The team validates ideas with data across teams focused on activation, adoption, conversion, and expansion. Investigates and leads initiatives to measure and improve company-wide engineering productivity. Represents the company and speaks at customer conferences (GitLab Commit) and industry activities (including the CNCF Security Special Interest Group and the PlatoHQ mentoring program). Founded and co-leads the generational differences team member resource group.

Senior Director of Engineering

Dell Secureworks

Jan 2002 - Oct 2019

A key member of the leadership team that guided Secureworks from a startup through acquisition to eventual spin-off/IPO. Led multiple teams on company-wide initiatives including identity services, KPI, SRE, CI/CD, security engineering, performance engineering, capacity management, availability management, agile best practices, problem root cause analysis, and documentation/training. Led software development teams of employees and offshore contractors that develop software components, including user authentication, secret management, encryption, and metric tracking.