Job Van Der Voort is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building product-led companies and scalable developer tools, currently serving as CEO while hosting the Remote Work Podcast. He played a pivotal role at GitLab as VP of Product during hypergrowth from 5 to 450+ employees and helped shepherd the single-application product to unicorn status. Technically hands-on earlier in his career, he contributed to the Omnibus GitLab project as a DevOps engineer, focusing on dependency stability and release reproducibility for core GitLab components. With an academic background in cognitive neuroscience and psychonomics, he brings a user-centric, research-informed perspective to product strategy and distributed work.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Amsterdam
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Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:64 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Job's primary contribution was pinning specific versions of GitLab components, primarily `gitlab-rails`, `gitlab-ci`, and `gitlab-shell`, within the Omnibus GitLab project. These pins target specific versions and release candidates, indicating an active role in ensuring the stability and compatibility of GitLab releases. The changes involve modifying configuration files to lock down dependencies, ensuring the build process uses the intended versions of GitLab components. The work appears to be focused on managing the build environment and release process for GitLab.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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