GitLab Inc. announced the appointment of Jessica Ross as chief financial officer, effective January 15, 2026. Ross succeeds Interim CFO James Shen, who will return to his role as vice president of finance. Ross will oversee GitLab's global finance, accounting, and investor relations functions as the company accelerates DevSecOps innovation for enterprises worldwide.
Ross brings more than 25 years of experience in finance, accounting, and operational leadership across public and private companies. She most recently served as senior vice president and CFO of Frontdoor Inc. Before Frontdoor, Ross spent three years in senior executive roles at Salesforce. Earlier in her career, she served as vice president and chief accounting officer at Stitch Fix and held finance leadership positions at Kaiser Permanente and The Gymboree Corporation, following 12 years in public accounting at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.
Ross holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
GitLab Inc. provides DevSecOps Platform, a single application that brings together development, operations, information technology, security, and business teams. The DevSecOps Platform is built on a single codebase, unified data model, and user interface. The Company allows organizations to deploy the DevSecOps Platform as a self-managed offering in their own hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments, and as a software as a service offering, it is hosted in either the public cloud or in a private cloud based on the customerâs preference. The DevSecOps Platform enables its customers to move their DevOps workflow across any hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Its DevSecOps platform is used by teams of all sizes across a range of industries. It offers the DevSecOps Platform in three different subscription tiers, namely Free, Premium and Ultimate. It also offers an automated cloud-native application security testing solution to help customers identify and resolve application-layer risks.
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