Courtney Wilburn
Engineering Manager at GitLab
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCourtney Wilburn is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading DevOps, Platform, SRE, and Productivity teams across media, data, and research-focused companies. She has driven large-scale operational improvements—at Elastic she revamped a monolithic SaaS release process into an automated three-week cadence and led cloud product release and incident response operations. Known for coaching distributed teams and aligning cross-functional stakeholders, she has managed both individual contributors and other managers while building integrations, automations, and bespoke tooling. Currently at GitLab, she brings deep operational rigor and a track record of improving reliability and deployment velocity. Outside of work she’s active in the engineering community (mod at WeAllJS) and balances technical leadership with disciplined pursuits like powerlifting, reflecting a pragmatic, endurance-oriented approach to long projects.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physical and Biological Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physical and Biological Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College
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Github Skills (116)
ruby10
shell10
cli10
zsh10
homebrew10
oh-my-zsh9
linux9
lucky-framework9
panels9
python9
edtech9
cli-app9
docker9
php9
pixel9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cjwilburn/prince-nn
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
cjwilburn/cjw-resume
Sep 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 7 months
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