Chris Wanstrath

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Chris Wanstrath is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the code-hosting platform GitHub.


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instanceOf entrepreneur
human
software developer
basedIn San Francisco Bay Area
coFounded GitHub
Logical Awesome LLC
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
employer GitHub
fieldOfWork open-source software
software engineering
web development
hasRole software architect
startup founder
technology executive
industry software
technology
knownFor GitHub
name Chris Wanstrath
notableAchievement helped popularize Git-based code hosting
notableEvent oversaw growth of GitHub into a major code-hosting platform
served as CEO of GitHub prior to its acquisition by Microsoft
notableWork GitHub code-hosting platform
occupation entrepreneur
software developer
positionHeld CEO of GitHub
co-founder of GitHub
programmingLanguageUsed JavaScript
Ruby
socialMediaPlatform Twitter

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GitHub
foundedBy
Chris Wanstrath
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