Tom Preston-Werner
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| Born |
October 28, 1979 Dubuque, Iowa |
| Residence | San Francisco, California |
| Organization | Github Inc |
| Title | Co-Founder & Former president of GitHub |
| Successor | Chris Wanstrath |
| Spouse(s) | Theresa Preston-Werner |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | tom |
Thomas "Tom" Preston-Werner (born October 28, 1979) is a software developer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is an active contributor amongst the open-source development community, most prominently in the San Francisco Bay Area where he lives.
He is most prominently known for his role as founder and former CEO of GitHub, a Git repository web-based hosting service, which he co-founded in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett. He resigned from GitHub in 2014 when an internal investigation concluded that he and his wife harassed an employee. Preston-Werner is also the creator of the avatar service Gravatar.
Preston-Werner lives in San Francisco with his wife Theresa and their son.
His wife is a former grad student in cultural anthropology known for her involvement in historical research and social subjects.
Preston-Werner grew up in Dubuque, Iowa. His father died when he was a child. His mother was a teacher and his stepfather was an engineer.
He graduated grade school at Dubuque Senior High School and attended Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California for 2 years before dropping out to pursue other endeavours.
As an active contributor to the open-source developer and hacker culture most prominently in areas involving Ruby, Tom has written passionate articles with regard to his philosophies and opinion on various issues. He has been featured as a guest on podcasts including Rubyology, SitePoint, and he often speaks out about his passion that developers should seek to collaborate more and the measures which would promote such collaboration, such as writing better documentation, and contributing to other people's projects.
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