Thomas Dohmke is the new CEO of GitHub – Market Research Telecast

GitHub has a new CEO. As the company announced, Thomas Dohmke, who has been with the company since 2018 and previously Chief Product Officer, will take over on November 15. Nat Friedman, GitHub CEO since 2018 and involved in the takeover by Microsoft together with Dohmke, will remain with the company as Chairman Emeritus and will advise his successor. As usual with GitHub, both old and new CEOs have published their motivations in a blog post.

Thomas Dohmke comes from Germany and, as he writes in his article, learned programming on a Robotron KC 87 and a Commodore 64. At the Technical University of Berlin he had first contact with Linux and the open source world. He later made his living programming in various industries, for insurance and the automotive industry. In 2011 he founded HockeyApp, a company that offered a platform for app tests.

He sold this idea to Microsoft and ended up working as an employee in Redmond and later at GitHub. During his time as product manager at GitHub, there were numerous large projects: The takeover of Dependabot, npm, and Semmle and new projects such as Codespaces, the revision of the issues, and the AI programming assistant Copilot. With the Archive Program GitHub also wants to ensure that open source code is preserved for future generations.

The time for the Change from Friedman comes as a surprise. On October 27th, GitHub opened its virtual developer conference Universe, where it presented numerous innovations in issues, discussions and copilot that would be an opportunity to announce the handover in a live stream in front of the assembled user community.

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