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GitLab , the popular developer and security political platform , hasnameda new CEO , Bill Staples , effective now .
Staples , who has also been name to the fellowship ’s board of directors , follow CEO Sid Sijbrandij , who ’s battling a uncommon form of cancer . Sijbrandij will transition to executive chair of the board .
“ I believe [ Bill ’s ] passion for software , dedication to customers , and firm racecourse criminal record make him the right somebody to lead the company going forwards , ” Sijbrandij said in a instruction . “ This is the right sentence to rivet on my cancer handling and wellness . ”
Staples was previously the chief executive officer at New Relic , the web trailing and analytics firm . Prior to his term of office there , Staples headed Microsoft ’s Azure software political platform , where he help incubate products like the rain buckets infrastructure that once powered Azure and Office 365 video services . Staples was also an Adobe VP for several years , spearheading the exploitation of cloud services and analytics tooling .
