Siva Padisetty
CTO at GitLab
- Role
- Chief Technology Officer at GitLab
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Siva Padisetty
Strong technical leader obsessed with innovation and delivering high customer value. Built platforms and services ground up that transformed the industry.• Played key role in many companywide transformations at Microsoft (fault-tolerant applications, distributed automation, manageability), AWS wide initiatives at Amazon.• Over 25 years of experience in building and operating scalable, multi-user, distributed, and highly available systems. Being highly technical helps with attracting and developing world-class technical leaders.• Proven track record with 20+ years of leading world-class, diverse, multi-discipline, and global teams. Built teams from the ground up and pushed high-performing teams even further.• Not afraid of rolling up my sleeves and getting my hands dirty to help the team during crises.• Strong eye to see the big picture and execute incrementally. This helps in taking small but sure steps towards the vision.• Consistent high performer with increasingly impactful roles from school to my current Amazon work.• Systems programmer at heart with deep knowledge of software fundamentals. Worked on diverse technologies – Cloud, Windows & UNIX internals, Network & IPC, Database internals, Web, C/C++, C#, Java.NET, SQL Server, Win32, ASP.NET, Azure, Ruby, Puppet, Chef, AWS etc• Lots of patents both at MS/Amazon (AWS).
Experience
Chief Technology Officer
Jan 2026 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Education
Anna University Chennai
BS, Mechanical Engineering
1986 — 1990
Anna University Chennai
MS, Computer Science
1991 — 1993
Skills
- C#
- .net
- Software Engineering
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Unix
- Xml
- Cloud Computing
- Integration
- C++
- Sql
- Databases
- C
- Windows Server
- Asp.net
- Technology Leadership
- Agile Methodologies
- Soa
- Testing
- Enterprise Architecture
- Scalability
- Test Automation
- Enterprise Software
- Distributed Systems
- Architecture
- Operating Systems
- Tcp/Ip
- Saas
- Devops
- Paas
- Iaas
- Scrum
- Software Development
- Architectures
- Manageability
- Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
- Software as a Service (Saas)
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