Open Sourcing GitHub with Denise Yu

Denise Yu is a senior software engineer at GitHub based in Toronto. Prior to this position, she worked as a senior software engineer at Pivotal, Inc., a full-stack developer at Mergermarket, and a Ruby on Rails developer at Third Space Learning. Denise earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy from Columbia University and a master’s degree in social policy and planning from the London School of Economics. Join Corey and Denise as they talk about what exactly it is that Denise does at GitHub, why Corey believes Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub will be seen as a transformational moment in five years, how GitHub has shaped the way Denise thinks about software collaboration, how GitHub uses GitHub across its operations, how GitHub’s site looks better every time Corey looks at it, how Denise can’t wait to check out GitHub HQ but hasn’t been able to because of the pandemic, what it was like adjusting from working in Pivotal’s pairing culture to GitHub’s asynchronous one, how GitHub solves version control problems, how to decide whether to speak at an event, advice for speaking at a conference, and more.