Only a few days after addressing developers to tell them that if they did not adopt the AI, it was better to look for another job, the CEO of Github, Thomas Dohmke, has announced its resignationwhich will be effective at the end of this year. Microsoft, owner of Github, has taken the opportunity to confirm that he will not cover his position, and that Github will stop working independently of Redmond’s for gradually integrate into your Koreai team.
After almost four years like CEO, Dohmke leaves its position Den Github to again found a startup, and also to look for other opportunities outside both Microsoft and Github. As for this, it has worked independently since Microsoft bought it in 2018 for 7.5 billion dollars, but Microsoft will soon absorb it. In fact, Dohmke’s departure is part of a great restructuring of the company’s operation.
From the moment Dahmke leaves Github, its directive will directly report its activity directly to the Microsoft Koreoi team. This team is a new engineering group, which has the former goal manager Jay Parikh. It encompasses the Microsoft platform and tools division, as well as the dev. Teams its main activity is focused on the development of an AI platform, as well as tools for the company and its customers.
It is not the first change in Github’s structure since it is owned by Microsoft. Already in 2021 his original CEO, Nat Friedman, resigned from his position. Dohmke then took his place, and was responsible for informing Julia Liuson, responsible for the Microsoft developer division. Earl this year, Liuson began to inform in turn to Parik, from Koreai, when this group was formed.
In a statement to Github employees, published in his blog, Dohmke remembers that «Github and his leadership team will continue with their mission as part of the Microsoft Koreai organization, and there will be more details about it later. It will stay until 2025 ends to help guide the transition. Marcho with a deep sense of pride of everything we have developed as an organization “Remote-Firs extended throughout the world«.
