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Manu Narayan

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Chief Information Officer at GitLab
📍 Los Angeles, California, United States

Manu Narayan is the CIO at GitLab, specializing in business transformation through technology adoption. With experience in over fifty acquisitions and scaling global teams, he focuses on leveraging hybrid cloud services and AI to enhance efficiency. He holds a Bachelors degree from UCLA and a Six Sigma Green Belt certification.

While his professional life is well-documented, details about his personal hobbies are not publicly available. As an alumnus of UCLA, it is possible he follows the universitys sports teams and maintains connections with the schools community.

In a previous role, he grew his global, multi-disciplinary team from just 7 to over 100 employees in four years.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Chief Information Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
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AI Transformation
He is actively building an internal AI Engineering function to drive an "AI-First transformation" at GitLab, reflecting his focus on leveraging emergent technologies.
Enterprise Systems
He is hiring leadership to drive the "backbone" of GitLab—its enterprise systems—to deliver solutions that support the company's strategy and growth.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Chief Information Officer
GitLab
2-2023
Advisor
Stitchflow
1-2025 - 8-2025
Vice President, Business Technology
Confluent
7-2023 - 2-2025
VP of IT, Data, & Business Operations
Confluent
5-2022 - 7-2023
Chief of Staff to the CFO & Head of BizOps
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Education
1999 - 2004
Bachelor's degree
UCLA
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