GitHub CEO steps down as Microsoft integrates platform into CoreAI

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Tuesday that he plans to step down later this year, and Microsoft does not intend to search for a replacement. Dohmke is leaving the Microsoft-owned platform to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors.

“With more than 1B repos and forks, and over 150 million developers, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today,” Dohmke wrote in a blog post. “We have seen more open-source projects with more contributions every year. AI projects have doubled in the last year alone. And our presence in companies of any size is unmatched in the market.”

GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018 for $7.5 billion, has largely operated independently. However, with Dohmke stepping down, GitHub will now operate as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI group. In a separate memo, Microsoft CoreAI head Jay Parikh outlined a new structure in which GitHub leadership will report to several Microsoft executives, according to Axios. Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft’s Developer Division, will oversee GitHub’s revenue, engineering, and support. Earlier this year, Microsoft formed the CoreAI group, led by Jay Parikh, Facebook’s former head of engineering, whom CEO Satya Nadella added to Microsoft’s senior leadership team in October.