On August 11, 2025, GitHub CEO Thomas Domke announced that he would step down. He will pursue entrepreneurial activities. Microsoft decided to restructure the subsidiary’s management (Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in October 2018) rather than appoint a new CEO directly. Microsoft’s head of developer Julia Liuson will oversee GitHub’s revenue, engineering, and support operations, and Chief Product Officer Mario Rodriguez will report to Microsoft’s vice president of AI platform Asha Sharma.
In fact, GitHub will no longer be an independent division of Microsoft after the CEO's resignation. The GitHub platform will become part of Microsoft's AI engineering team. Microsoft will merge GitHub with its CoreAI team after Domke's resignation.
Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion and promised to keep it operationally independent. Now that will change. The platform will be part of Microsoft's CoreAI division, led by Jay Parikh, a former Meta executive.
In November 2021, Microsoft announced the resignation of GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. He was replaced by Chief Product Officer Thomas Domke on November 15, 2021.
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