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GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation Comments Drawer * News News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All News * AI AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All AI * Tech Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Tech GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and GitHub is moving even closer into Microsoft's CoreAI team. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and GitHub is moving even closer into Microsoft's CoreAI team. by Tom Warren Tom Warren Tom Warren Senior Editor Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All by Tom Warren Aug 11, 2025, 3:43 PM UTC * * * GitHub logo GitHub logo Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tom Warren Tom Warren Tom Warren Tom Warren Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All by Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is moving GitHub even more closely into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to "become a startup founder again," and pursue opportunities outside of Microsoft and GitHub. GitHub has operated as a separate company ever since Microsoft acquired it in 2018 for $7.5 billion, but Dohmke's departure is part of a big shakeup to the way GitHub operates. Microsoft isn't replacing Dohmke's CEO position, and the rest of GitHub's leadership team will now report more directly to Microsoft's CoreAI team. "GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft's CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon," says Dohmke in a memo to GitHub employees today. "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." Related * Microsoft creates new AI engineering group led by former Meta executive * GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot, vibe coding, and AI's next chapter * Microsoft is racing to build an AI 'agent factory' Microsoft's CoreAI team is a new engineering group led by former Meta executive Jay Parikh. It includes Microsoft's platform and tools division and Dev Div teams, with a focus on building an AI platform and tools for both Microsoft and its customers. Today's change means GitHub no longer has a single leader, or CEO, and responsibility for GitHub will align more closely to the CoreAI leadership team. GitHub's reporting structure originally changed in 2021 when former CEO Nat Friedman stepped down, and Dohmke reported up to Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division. Liuson then started reporting to Parikh earlier this year with the formation of the CoreAI team. Jay Parikh, head of CoreAI, described his vision of an AI agent factory in an interview with Notepad earlier this year, and how he is convincing the developer division of Microsoft to adopt AI. "Just like how Bill [Gates] had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our platform, for any enterprise or any organization, to be able to be the thing they turn into their own agent factory," said Parikh. Dohmke only just appeared on Decoder last week, discussing Copilot, vibe coding, and what's next for AI. Dohmke was thinking a lot about the competition and GitHub's role in the future of software development, and now he's about to leave to potentially create some more competition for Microsoft's AI efforts. Correction, August 11th: GitHub was already part of CoreAI, but its leadership will no longer be under a single CEO. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. * Tom Warren Tom Warren Tom Warren Senior Editor Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All by Tom Warren * AI AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All AI * Microsoft Microsoft Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Microsoft * News News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 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