GitHub is a developer platform that hosts Git code repositories and enables software collaboration for more than 180 million developers and 4 million organizations worldwide. Founded in 2008 in San Francisco by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P.J. Hyett and Scott Chacon, it was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for $7.5 billion in stock. It offers AI developer tools (GitHub Copilot, GitHub Models, GitHub Spark), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), cloud development environments (Codespaces) and code security solutions (GitHub Advanced Security). The company is led by CEO Thomas Dohmke (since November 2021).
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American developer who co-founded GitHub in 2008; creator of the Jekyll static-site generator and TOML configuration language.
American developer, co-founder of GitHub and its CEO from 2014 to 2017.
American developer, co-founder of GitHub in 2008.
American developer, co-founder of GitHub and author of the "Pro Git" book; founder of GitButler.
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