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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke to step down
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Thomas Dohmke, chief executive of Microsoft-owned software development platform GitHub , will step down after nearly four years in the role, according to a report by US news website Axios on has not yet named a replacement and will not immediately fill the joined GitHub in 2018 as vice president for strategic programmes. In 2021, he became chief product officer, serving in that role for just four months before taking over as CEO in November that acquired by Microsoft in 2018, is a platform that enables developers to create, store, manage and share their has become GitHub's fastest-growing developer community globally. ET reported earlier this year Indians account for 12%, or 18 million, of the 150 million developers on this growth, GitHub has revised its forecast for India to overtake the US as the world's largest developer community, pushing the estimate to 2028 from an earlier 2027 projection. The change, it said, is based on 'linear population growth.' Speaking at the ET World Leaders Forum in August last year, Dohmke reiterated his view that India would surpass the US by 2027, driven by the rise of AI. He said tens of millions of developers in India are creating the digital public infrastructure of the future, fuelling economic growth.
