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GitHub is a collective of interplanetary futurenauts. We work and play around the clock to build the best collaboration tools in the universe.

Octonaut About Text Behold, our planet Space, the final frontier

The Company

Originally founded by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett and Tom Preston-Werner as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by nearly a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.

Code is about the people writing it. We focus on lowering the barriers of collaboration by building powerful features into our products that make it easier to contribute. The tools we create help individuals and companies, public and private, to write better code, faster. Ship it!

GitHub is headquartered in San Francisco with team members working remotely from all around the world. We operate in a culture based on personal responsibility, rather than management, by hiring great people and treating them accordingly. You can meet the team below or around your town at a meetup!

Box of Fact™

  • Home BaseSan Francisco
  • Company Founded2008
  • Hubbernauts Employed33
  • Delicious Beers On Tap4
  • VC Funding$0.00

The Team

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Tom Preston-Werner

CTO
San Francisco
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Chris Wanstrath

CEO
San Francisco
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PJ Hyett

COO
San Francisco, CA
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Scott Chacon

VP of R&D
San Francisco, CA
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Tekkub

Support
Denver, CO
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Melissa Severini

Business Operations
San Francisco, CA
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Kyle Neath

Designer
San Francisco, CA
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Ryan Tomayko

Developer
San Francisco
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Zach Holman

Developer
San Francisco, CA
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rick

Developer
sf
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Corey Donohoe

Developer
Potrero, SF
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Tim Sharpe

System Operations
Sydney :: Australia
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Brian Lopez

Developer
San Francisco, Ca
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Petros Amiridis

Support
Thessaloniki, Greece
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Bryan Veloso

Designer
Los Angeles, CA
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Jeff King

Developer
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Cameron McEfee

Designer
San Francisco
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Corey Johnson

Developer
San Francisco
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Tim Clem

Developer
San Francisco, CA
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Simon Rozet

Developer
Brussels, Belgium
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Aman Gupta

Developer
San Francisco, CA
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Josh Abernathy

Developer
Seattle, WA
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Beth Newland

Shipper
San Francisco, CA
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Kevin Sawicki

Developer
Redwood City, CA
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Alex Malinovich

Sales
San Francisco, CA
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Vicent Martí

Developer
Mainly Europe
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Joshua Peek

Developer
Chicago, IL
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Ben Bleikamp

Designer
San Francisco, CA
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Jason Costello

Designer
San Francisco, CA
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Ben Burkert

Developer
SF
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Heather A. Baldry

Office Manager
San Francisco, CA
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Kami

Community Manager
San Francisco, CA
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Matt Todd

Developer
San Francisco, CA

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}
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