Manuel Grabowski

Hey there! 👋

I'm Manuel, the Engineering Manager for the Pipeline Authoring group. I've been in this role since September 2025, after performing it in acting capacity for a few months prior.

Before taking on that role, I worked as a Staff Support Engineer in our amazing Support team. I originally joined that team in December 2021, after having been a happy GitLab user for many years before. A few of those years I was not just user but also customer – administrating the self-hosted GitLab instance at my former job. It was from that role that I had to reach out to GitLab Support myself – and that experience was so overwhelmingly positive that I ended up joining GitLab myself as a result. I've told the slightly longer version of that story in this interview a while ago.

My passion for CI/CD shaped my focus areas as a Support Engineer, and I served as the Support Stable Counterpart for our various Pipeline-related product teams for several years. When Pipeline Authoring needed a new EM, the connection I had developed with the people on that team through my stable counterpart work motivated me to take on this new challenge.