Bill Staples

Bill Staples is the CEO of GitLab, the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. He is passionate about developers and has spent nearly 30 years building developer platforms and tools for them as customers. He is an execution-focused leader who loves to build and scale businesses. Staples believes we’re still in the early stages of a software transformation, and AI will accelerate how software changes the human experience in the coming decade. He believes there has never been a better time in history to be in the software business and serve developers, helping improve their work and lives and ultimately reaching billions of people around the world in profound ways.

Before joining GitLab, Staples served as CEO of New Relic, where he significantly increased the company’s value by accelerating revenue and driving increased profitability while making New Relic one of the most broadly adopted platforms in its category. During his time at Microsoft, he served as corporate vice president, Azure application platform, where he incubated and launched dozens of Azure services for developers and scaled them globally. As Adobe’s Vice President, Experience Cloud, Staples led the global technical organization and drove the roadmap strategy and execution for multiple product lines with a combined $3 billion in annual revenue while transforming the engineering culture to be cloud-first, agile, and DevOps. He successfully led transformative product, culture, and technical innovation evolutions at Microsoft and Adobe, helping both companies expand multi-billion dollar cloud portfolios with developers and IT as the customers.