Microsoft’s GitHub CEO steps down

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down after three years on the firm. Friedman initially joined Microsoft after the corporate acquired Xamarin, which Friedman helped discovered. He then took over as the pinnacle of GitHub when Microsoft acquired GitHub three years in the past.

Friedman is now returning to his startup roots. “With all that we’ve accomplished in mind, and more than five great years at Microsoft under my belt, I’ve decided it’s time for me to go back to my startup roots,” says Friedman in a GitHub blog post at this time. “I’m moving on to my next adventure: to support, advise, and invest in the founders and developers who are creating the future with technology and tackling some of the biggest opportunities of our day.”

Thomas Dohmke, GitHub’s chief product officer, will now take over as GitHub CEO on November fifteenth, and GitHub will proceed to function as an unbiased Microsoft-owned enterprise. Dohmke will report back to Julia Liuson, who’s being promoted to president of Microsoft’s developer division.

That’s a change within the GitHub construction at Microsoft, as Friedman used to report back to Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Cloud and AI chief. Julia Liuson was on the heart of a latest controversial .NET change that triggered an open supply neighborhood backlash and compelled the corporate to shortly U-turn on its determination.

While there have been some preliminary fears round Microsoft buying GitHub, the corporate has saved the enterprise working individually with out looking for to make main modifications. Friedman was fast to reply to the firing of a Jewish worker at GitHub earlier this 12 months, admitting that “significant mistakes were made.” Microsoft additionally revealed not too long ago that GitHub is now house to 73 million builders, up 2x because the firm acquired GitHub in 2018.