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 Today10:00 First Memory of a Computer15:30 Interests around High School24:50 Pursuing a Career in Tech28:40 “Bouncing” Jobs41:00 From Managing Tech to Customer Success44:30 Gaining a Technical Team’s Trust54:40 Starting at Gitlab1:00:35 Sales in Tech1:11:00 Thoughts on A.I in Gitlab1:16:34 Contact InfoConnect with Philippe: Twitter: https://twitter.com/k33g_orgMentioned in today’s episode:Github: https://github.com/Gitlab: https://about.gitlab.com/Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses : https://ardanlabs.com/education/ Live Events : https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ Blog : https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog Github : https://github.com/ardanlabs