Gitlab, Go, and Opportunity with Philippe Charrière

Ardan Labs Podcast

Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 20 min

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Episode description

Philippe Charrière is a Customer Success Engineer at Gitlab who helps customers with the technical aspects of Gitlab adoption and usage. GitLab is an open source code repository and collaborative software development platform for large DevOps and DevSecOps projects. In this episode, Philippe takes us through his journey from windsurfing to programming in Go and Java and finally landing at Gitlab.

00:00 Introduction

02:30 What is Philippe Doing Today

10:00 First Memory of a Computer

15:30 Interests around High School

24:50 Pursuing a Career in Tech

28:40 “Bouncing” Jobs

41:00 From Managing Tech to Customer Success

44:30 Gaining a Technical Team’s Trust

54:40 Starting at Gitlab

1:00:35 Sales in Tech

1:11:00 Thoughts on A.I in Gitlab

1:16:34 Contact Info