Courtney Wilburn is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading DevOps, Platform, SRE, and Productivity teams across media, data, and research-focused companies. She has driven large-scale operational improvements—at Elastic she revamped a monolithic SaaS release process into an automated three-week cadence and led cloud product release and incident response operations. Known for coaching distributed teams and aligning cross-functional stakeholders, she has managed both individual contributors and other managers while building integrations, automations, and bespoke tooling. Currently at GitLab, she brings deep operational rigor and a track record of improving reliability and deployment velocity. Outside of work she’s active in the engineering community (mod at WeAllJS) and balances technical leadership with disciplined pursuits like powerlifting, reflecting a pragmatic, endurance-oriented approach to long projects.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physical and Biological Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physical and Biological Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College
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