Marin Jankovski
Vice President Of Engineering at GitLab
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarin Jankovski is a seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at GitLab after a progressive series of leadership roles in infrastructure and platforms. He blends deep hands-on expertise as a former Ruby on Rails and DevOps contributor with strategic oversight of large-scale projects, operational maturity, and cross-functional teams. Marin has contributed directly to well-known open-source GitLab projects—improving CI, shell hooks, and access-control features—demonstrating a coder’s eye for reliability and security even in executive roles. Based in the UK, he thrives in remote-first environments and has consistently scaled distributed engineering organizations. His background in automation and systems control grounds a pragmatic approach to infrastructure resilience and delivery. Colleagues describe him as a process-minded builder who still dives into code and testing to unblock teams and drive measurable technical outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Automation and Systems control, BSc Automation and Systems control at Fakultet Tehnickih Nauka
Github Skills (24)
git10
ruby-rails10
apidoc10
gitlab-ci10
testing10
rails10
git-hooks10
ruby10
gitlab10
api10
ruby-on-rails10
performance-monitor9
security9
devops9
metric9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/omnibus-gitlab
Apr 2014 - May 2022
GitLab Omnibus Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4850 commits, 32 PRs, 8732 pushes in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marin's contributions focused on adding features and fixing issues related to the Gitlab CI system. Their commits involved working with Ruby on Rails to implement functionality for managing and handling the integration of runner and CI related logic and improving its testing. The user's work also includes the management of database functionality.
new-issuestrackergitlabgitlab-omnibusissue-tracker
gitlabhq/gitlab-shell
Sep 2014 - Dec 2017
Replacement for gitolite. This repo is a mirror of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-shell/
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 24 PRs, 1965 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marin primarily contributed to the GitLab shell project by modifying existing code and introducing changes related to hooks and post-receive operations. Their work involved modifying Ruby files, specifically dealing with hooks directories, ensuring custom hooks ran, and integrating performance metrics. The user also updated configuration and refactored some files related to Git LFS and Redis configurations.
gitoliteshellreplacementgitlab
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