Thomas Dohmke a GitHub CEO

Thomas Dohmke is taken over from Nat Friedman to become GitHub’s new CEO. Dohmke privided a service to help distribute beta versions of apps and get analytics and crash reports to solve some of his paint points as a developer.

Dohmke led the work to make private repositories free for all users. During time as a GitHub chief product officer, he launched new capabilities for products such as Code Issues, and Copilot that have solved more headaches for developers.

They will be working to support teams of all sizes and projects of all scopes—from students that are just learning to code, small and really big open source projects that span the globe, to the world’s largest enterprises.

Friedman steps down a little after years becoming CEO of GitHub. He will Chairman Emeritus at the company, which he says fulfills his “lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin.

GitHub Actions has become the CI service, Discussions is used by over half of the top 100 open-source communities on the platform and Sponsors to enabling developers to earn dollars for them contributions.

The products such as Code spaces and Copilot providing early at the future of software development while others GitHub Advanced Security and CodeQL, private repo secret scanning, Dependabot, and GitHub’s advisory database are helping to secure the software supply chain when it will never be more critical.

Friedman says that I am confident in the GitHub team and Thomas to meet every new challenge and opportunity ahead. And many many thanks for the energy and creativity you bring to work everyday which makes GitHub, I can’t wait to see what we build in the next coming years.