Founder Profile
Dmitriy Zaporozhets
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Dmitriy Zaporozhets?
Dmitriy Zaporozhets is a founder of GitLab Inc., which was founded in 2011 with Valery Sizov and Sid Sijbrandij.
- Company founded
- GitLab Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Valery Sizov and Sid Sijbrandij
Background
Software developer in Kharkiv, Ukraine, who wrote the first version of GitLab in Ruby on Rails in 2011 and later served as GitLab's CTO and engineering fellow.
Founding Story
Dmitriy Zaporozhets created GitLab in 2011 with Valery Sizov because he wanted a self-hosted, open-source tool for collaborating on Git repositories. After Sid Sijbrandij began commercializing the project in 2012, Zaporozhets joined the company full time, led engineering as CTO and later became an engineering fellow before stepping back from day-to-day work around the time of the 2021 IPO. Dmitriy Zaporozhets was born in 1987.
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