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Thomas Preston-Werner (born May 27, 1979) is an American billionaire software developer and entrepreneur. He is an active contributor within the free and open-source software community, most prominently in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives. He is best known as the founder and former CEO of GitHub, a Git repository web-based hosting service, which he co-founded in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath and P. J. Hyett.[3] He resigned from GitHub in 2014 when an internal investigation concluded that he and his wife harassed an employee.[4] Preston-Werner is also the creator of the avatar service Gravatar,[5] the TOML configuration file format,[6] the static site generator software Jekyll,[7][8] and the Semantic Versioning Specification (SemVer).[9] As of 2023, he and his wife have committed to The Giving Pledge—a promise give away or donate a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.[10] Preston-Werner grew up in Dubuque, Iowa. His father died when he was a child. His mother was a te

Tom Preston-Werner - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American software developer & entrepreneur {{Cite web |last=Deamicis |first=Carmel |date=February 7, 2014 |title=This year at the Crunchies: Class tensions and tech-charity |url=http://pando.com/2014/02/07/this-year-at-the-crunchies-class-tensions-and-tech-charity/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206022227/https://pando.com/2014/02/07/this-year-at-the-crunchies-class-tensions-and-tech-charity/ |archive-date=December 6, 2020 |access-date=April 22, 2014 |website=[[PandoDaily]]}}</r

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