Let alone engineering, someone with background in communication and journalism studies can be a programmer also. So, I think someone with mechanical engineer background have a potential to be a better programmer than someone with communication studies. They only have to keep learning, passion in what they do (coding) and have persistence.

Gitlab has built in CI/CD and also container repository for docker. That is a huge win for me.

I dont know about others. But for me, I'm using gitlab because they have other feature/service that I don't know if it exist on github. Like built in CI/CD and container repository for docker. It helps for managing repo or project. Free private repo in github makes me happy since I have other options to store project, but I don't know if github have the same feature like on gitlab.

very excited to heard about open sourcing the code!!

I like to watch football (Liverpool FC), playing games (hearthstone) and watching youtube video or go to the movie