About Me
Hi, I am @ashtom and I am a developer. 👋 I recently left my job to start building something new. Previously, I was the CEO of @GitHub. I grew up in 🇩🇪, live in the Pacific Northwest of the 🇺🇸, I'm a LEGO enthusiast, and love turning that GitHub contribution graph ⬇️ more green 🟩 whenever I find time to code.
Public Speaking
- Phase 2 of AI Code Generation @ GitHub Universe 2024, San Francisco, USA
- With AI, anyone can be a coder now @ TED 2024, Vancouver, Canada
- Copilot in the Age of AI @ GitHub Universe 2023, San Francisco, USA
- Building an app in 18 minutes with GitHub Copilot X @ Web Summit Rio 2023, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- One, Integrated Platform. One Purpose. @ GitHub Universe 2022, San Francisco, USA
- Technology for the sake of happiness @ We Are Developers 2022, Berlin, Germany
Articles & Thoughts
- Developers, Reinvented, August 3, 2025
- What makes autonomy work?, May 6, 2025
- The Dawn of Showercoding, March 13, 2025
- AI Peer Programmer, February 16, 2025
- Scenes from an Agentic Life, February 7, 2025
- Developer Odyssey, January 12, 2025