#105 - Trust & Accountability in Remote Teams feat. Sabrina Farmer // CTO @ GitLab
Description
Find out how to build trust and accountability in a fully remote team in this CTO podcast featuring Sabrina Farmer, CTO @ GitLab. You will also hear how Sabrina draws on her experience in AI, DevSecOps, and her 19 years at Google to rethink the developer experience.
Listen to find out:
How Gitlab's CEO Challenge encourages developers to innovate and automate away historic challenges (e.g. Log4js)
Why DevOps is just problem-solving 🕵️‍♀️ at all levels of the stack
How to use AI to create teaching moments đź’ˇ in the developer workflow
How GitLab onboards quicker with detailed documentationđź“ť (no tribal knowledge)
Listen here
Timestamps:
(00:00 ) Introduction to the Alphalist Podcast
(00:43 ) Meet Sabrina Farmer: GitLab's CTO
(02:33 ) Remote Work at GitLab
(03:39 ) Trust and Accountability at GitLab (Part 1)
(04:49 ) ReadMe at GitLab
(06:04 ) Problem Solving and Computer Science
(09:40 ) Having an Impact: The Appeal of DevTools
(11:27 ) Helping People Go Beyond Their Limits
(13:03 ) AI Strategy
(16:25 ) Monolith vs. Microservices?
(18:19 ) What is DevSecOps
(21:50 ) Creating Teaching Moments for Developers Using AI
(25:05 ) Future of Security in the Next 5 Years
(25:30 ) More Data Privacy Aware
(27:44 ) GitLab's CEO Challenge: Encourage Developers to Innovate and Automate Away Historic Challenges Like Log4js
(31:43 ) Choosing AI Models
(33:35 ) Getting Developer Buy-In with AI
(37:29 ) Use AI to Free You Up So You Can Think Strategically
(37:48 ) Use AI Responsibly - Do Due Diligence
(39:59 ) Trust and Accountability at GitLab (Part 2)
(44:02 ) Satya Nadella as Inspiration