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Michelle Gill
Sr Director of Engineering, Core DevOps, GitLab
Michelle Gill is an accomplished technology leader with over twenty-five years in application development and more than a decade leading high-performing engineering teams. Her career has spanned diverse industries, including payments, medical, automotive, and education—where she discovered her passion for DevOps as VP of Linux Academy, a cloud-training platform which helped change lives by teaching DevOps practices. Since 2012, she has focused on building and scaling engineering organizations, where she experienced firsthand the transformative power of modern development practices. For the past six years, she has driven engineering excellence and organizational transformation at GitLab, a leading DevOps platform company, overseeing AI, ML, Data Science, Platform Engineering, and Feature Development teams.
Newest · 2025
Lead for the Long Game
In an era where AI capabilities advance monthly rather than yearly, mid-level enterprise leaders face an impossible choice: move fast and risk catastrophic failure, or move cautiously and become obsolete.
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