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Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer currently as the Co-founder and CEO of Chatterbug. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage and the Git Community Book.
- Male
- Chatterbug
Sep 10, 2023 · Updated: Sep 21, 2023. This year, our keynote speaker for Wix Engineering Conference 2023 is none other than Scott Chacon, the CEO and Co-Founder of GitButler, Co-Founder of the Berlin accelerator SCNE, and a Co-Founder of GitHub.
Scott Chacon is the co-founder and CEO of Chatterbug, a language learning platform. Prior to starting Chatterbug, Scott was the Cofounder & CIO at GitHub from October 2008 to January 2016. Scott helped build GitHub into a global company of more than 400 employees during their time there.
- Co-Founder & CEO
- Chatterbug, Chatterbug
The GitHub service was developed by Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner, and Scott Chacon using Ruby on Rails, and started in February 2008. The company, GitHub, Inc., was formed in 2007 and is located in San Francisco.
Hey there, my name is Scott Chacon and I was one of the cofounders of this here site you're using right this very minute. I wrote the Pro Git book and the Git website. Now I live in Berlin, investing in cool companies and building some new Git magic. 💻 I’m currently working on GitButler and SCNE.
"Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion.
