GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand • The Register

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to leave the company and corporate parent Microsoft will not appoint a successor.

Dohmke assumed the position back in November 2021, replacing Nat Friedman, who helmed the code hosting biz since Microsoft acquired it for $7.5 billion in 2018.

In a public post of an internal memo sent to staff on Monday, Dohmke bid goodbye, citing the desire to work on founding another company.

"GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon," he said. "I’ll be staying through the end of 2025 to help guide the transition and am leaving with a deep sense of pride in everything we’ve built as a remote-first organization spread around the world."

The CoreAI group formed in January under EVP Ja