India, Aug. 11 -- GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke will step down after nearly four years in the role, as Microsoft plans to integrate the platform more closely into its CoreAI organization.
The company will not appoint a direct successor; instead, GitHub's leadership team will now report into Microsoft's AI division, underscoring its growing strategic role in the company's AI ambitions.
Dohmke, who joined GitHub in 2018 and became CEO in 2021, announced in a memo to employees that he will leave to "become a startup founder again." He will remain through the end of 2025 to support the transition.
During his tenure, GitHub grew to more than 1 billion repositories and forks and over 150 million developers, and launched GitHub Copilot, which Dohmke...