Dmytro Zaporozhets
Co-founder of GitLab
Dmytro Zaporozhets is a Ukrainian software developer who published the first version of GitLab with Valery Sizov in October 2011. He co-founded the company with Sid Sijbrandij, was its CTO from 2013 to 2018 and then an Engineering Fellow. He stepped away in November 2021, a month after GitLab listed on Nasdaq and ten years after he started the project.
GitLab
- Developer tools
- Open source
- Ruby on Rails
Y Combinator
- Also spelled
- Dmitriy Zaporozhets3
- Started GitLab
- October 20113
- Based in
- Ukraine1
- Languages
- Ukrainian, Russian, English1
In their words
Ruby developer, GitLab cofounder
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Experience
- Engineering Fellow2018 – 2021
Moved into the role in October 2018, when GitLab had grown too large for its CTO to keep writing code. Stepped away from it in November 2021.3
- CTO2013 – 2018
Worked on GitLab full time from 2013, at first with no formal title; CTO was his first official one.3
- Co-founder and original developer2011 – 2013
Started GitLab in October 2011 as a hobby project with Valery Sizov: open-source version control software people could run on their own server.3
Education
Bachelor's degree, Automotive Engineering Technology1
Recognition
Milestones
- Takes a job at the outsourcing company Sphere Software4
- Publishes the first version of GitLab, written with Valery Sizov, on October 84
- Starts working on GitLab full time3
- GitLab is registered as a company, GitLab B.V., with Sid Sijbrandij4
- GitLab goes through Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch2
- GitLab announces a $1.5 million seed round from Khosla Ventures, 500 Startups and others6
- GitLab begins operating as GitLab, Inc., a US company, with him as CTO5
- Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology7
- GitLab raises a $20 million Series C led by GV8
- Moves from CTO to Engineering Fellow1
- Helps ring the Nasdaq opening bell on October 14 as GitLab becomes a public company3
- Steps away from his Engineering Fellow role, ten years after he started the project3