Github Ceo To Step Down

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced connected Monday that he’s stepping down from his role. Dohmke will stay astatine nan Microsoft-owned institution until nan extremity of nan year, aft which he will depart to go “a laminitis again,” he wrote successful a blog post.

Axios reports that Microsoft will not straight switch nan position, and that GitHub activity will now study to respective Microsoft executives.

“With much than 1B repos and forks, and complete 150 cardinal developers, GitHub has ne'er been stronger than it is today,” Dohmke wrote. “We person seen much open-source projects pinch much contributions each year. AI projects person doubled successful nan past twelvemonth alone. And our beingness successful companies of immoderate size is unmatched successful nan market.”

The move comes arsenic GitHub is facing increasing title from companies for illustration Google and Cursor complete AI devices for programmers.