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The chief executive officer of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) GitHub, Thomas Dohmke, said on Monday that he is leaving the software coding platform after nearly four years of running it.
In a post on X, Dohmke said he will be leaving to become a startup founder.
“From building mobile developer tools, to running the acquisition of GitHub alongside Nat Friedman, to becoming GitHub’s CEO and guiding us into the age of Copilot and AI, it has been the ride of a lifetime,” he said.
Dohmke was co-founder and CEO of an app-testing software start-up, HockeyApp, which Microsoft acquired in 2014. He moved to GitHub after Microsoft acquired it in 2018 for $7.5 billion and became the CEO of GitHub in 2021, replacing Nat Friedman.
“GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon,” Dohmke said in a blog post, adding that he will be staying through the end of 2025 to help guide the transition.
According to an Axios report, Microsoft CoreAI head Jay Parikh outlined a new structure that will see GitHub leadership reporting to Microsoft executives. Microsoft developer division head Julia Liuson will oversee GitHub’s revenue, engineering and support, while GitHub chief product offer Mario Rodriguez will report to Microsoft AI platform VP Asha Sharma.