 Hello, I'm Omar Fernandez director of strategy and operations and GitLab and today I'm with Mike and Andy Can you tell me where you work and what you do there? So I am the CTO at Chainstarters. I've been at Chainstarters now for about three years. We, you know, we build a platform as a service. It's a development platform and we are tightly integrated with GitLab We have a self-managed GitLab instance and we use it You know, every day we really enjoy it. So yeah, yeah, Mike, how about you? I'm the VP of engineering at Chainstarters and I started just around two years ago first as an intern then as effectively the senior back-end. How much do you personally use the GitLab product directly? And what is your interaction with the GitLab product itself rather than the infrastructure side of things? I spend I would say a good 15-20% of my day doing direct interactions with GitLab Obviously, you know, I'm developing API, developing infrastructure but a lot of what we've built, almost all of our repositories have, you know, our Chainstarters development repositories So the ones that are developed to build the platform itself Those ones are obviously in GitLab and they all have CICD with various levels of complexity What do you feel when you work on GitLab versus if you were forced to not work on GitLab? I feel relief when I work with GitLab. I mean, it's true I just feel that like I've got so much of the, I don't want to say complexity again but confusion, you know, is removed. It's so much easier to reason about The other thing about GitLab that I feel when I use them is I feel like I'm on the cutting edge You know, a lot of times in tech you can feel like you're using something and you know it's outdated I don't have that feeling with GitLab. When I'm using GitLab, I feel like, you know you really are pushing the boundaries in terms of what you think is the next thing that we need and making sure that we get it out soon enough and that kind of stuff How do you feel that you've personally benefited from using GitLab or advocating for the use of GitLab? GitLab itself is a part of my job that I could expect to work on the first time Basically from day one, we haven't had that problem It's pretty comforting in terms of, you know, as far as our clients are concerned the hosting of their code and the way that they interface with those repositories and the functionality that wherever that code is hosted, offers to them is sort of irrelevant insofar as it works It's nice to me that I don't have to worry about it working or not The functionality that GitLab provides at the level of all of the stuff that you guys have built is fantastic It's awesome. I love all that we've talked about, so thank you for taking the time