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Siva Padisetty, with over 25 years of experience in building and operating scalable, distributed, and highly available systems, is the Chief Technology Officer at GitLab. Prior to joining GitLab, he served as Chief Technology Officer at New Relic, Inc., and before that held the role of General Manager, Management Tools at Amazon, where he played a key role in AWS-wide initiatives. Padisetty is a strong technical leader with a proven track record of building and leading world-class, diverse, and global engineering teams.
Who is the CTO of GitLab?
As the CTO at GitLab, Siva Padisetty brings over 25 years of experience in building and operating scalable, multi-user, distributed, and highly available systems. He is a strong technical leader obsessed with innovation and delivering high customer value, having built platforms and services from the ground up that transformed the industry.
Padisetty has played key roles in major company-wide transformations, including fault-tolerant applications, distributed automation, and manageability initiatives at Microsoft, as well as AWS-wide initiatives at Amazon. With more than 20 years of experience leading world-class, diverse, multi-discipline, and global teams, he brings both deep technical expertise and proven leadership to GitLab. A systems programmer at heart, he has worked across a wide range of technologies including Cloud, Windows and UNIX internals, databases, and numerous programming languages and frameworks, and holds patents from his tenures at Microsoft and Amazon.
Work History
- GitLab, Chief Technology Officer: January 2026 - Present
- New Relic, Inc., Chief Technology Officer: September 2022 - January 2026
- Amazon, General Manager, Management Tools: January 2017 - October 2022
- Tata Motors, Graduate Engineer: July 1990 - July 1991
Education History
Siva Padisetty studied Computer Science at Anna University Chennai. This technical foundation has underpinned a career spanning over 25 years, during which he has held senior engineering and leadership roles across the technology industry.
When did Siva Padisetty join GitLab?
Siva Padisetty assumed the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at GitLab in January 2026. In this position, he leads the company's technical vision and strategy, drawing on over 25 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and leading high-performing global engineering teams.
