About Me
Hi, I am @ashtom. 👋 I am the CEO of @GitHub and love building products that make developers' lives easier. We’re always open to hearing your feedback so drop us a note (or your entire GitHub wishlist) in Discussions. I grew up in 🇩🇪, live in the Pacific Northwest of the 🇺🇸, and you may know me as the co-founder of HockeyApp. I’m also a LEGO enthusiast and love turning that GitHub contribution graph ⬇️ more green 🟩 in my spare time.
Public Speaking
- One, Integrated Platform. One Purpose. @ GitHub Universe 2022, San Francisco, USA
- Technology for the sake of happiness @ We Are Developers 2022, Berlin, Germany
In the News
2022
- Four years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub keeps doing its thing
- L'intelligence artificielle va faire gagner un temps fou aux codeurs (in French)
- Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot AI is making rapid progress. Here’s how its human leader thinks about it
- GitHub CEO's advice to founders: Big Tech isn’t smarter than you
- AI-Powered Coding Assistant Aims to Help, Not Replace Developers
- GitHub's New CEO Says He's 'All About Developer Happiness'
- KI ist der nächste Schritt für die Softwareentwicklung (in German)
2021
- GitHub gets a new CEO
- Microsoft’s GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down, product chief Thomas Dohmke will replace him
- Begonnen auf einem Robotron KC 87 (in German)
- GitHub Focuses on Security, Cloud, DevEx at Universe Event
- GitHub announces GitHub Codespaces CLI integration and SSH, GitHub Issues, and more
2020
- Deep-freeze data that will last 1,000 years
- Warum im ewigen Eis Open-Source-Codes fĂĽr die Welt von ĂĽberĂĽberĂĽbermorgen lagern (in German)
- Die neue Offenheit (in German)
- Microsoft storing world’s open source GitHub code in Norwegian archive vault for the next millennium
- World’s most essential open-source code to be stored in Arctic vault