Thomas Dohmke

Chief Executive Officer

@ashtom

Fascinated by software development since his childhood in Germany, Thomas Dohmke has built a career building tools to accelerate developer happiness. Currently, Thomas is the Chief Executive Officer of GitHub, where he has overseen the rise of the world’s most widely adopted AI developer tools – including the launches of GitHub Copilot, Copilot Workspace, and GitHub Models. Thomas is a celebrated TED speaker and holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Glasgow, UK.

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Everything new from Universe 2021

Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week.