#231 Jason Warner - CTO at GitHub

Jason Warner Returns!

Today we are talking to Jason Warner, the CTO at GitHub. And we discuss his transition from VP of Technology to CTO, how to coach your team to deal with failure, and why he almost quit working in technology two different times.

All of this, right here, right now on the Modern CTO Podcast!

About Jason:

Jason Warner joined GitHub in June 2017 as the Senior Vice President of Technology. He serves on the company’s executive team and is responsible for GitHub’s product, engineering, support, and security departments.
Jason cares deeply about the future of technology, developer experience, and growing companies. He is a people-oriented product technologist, who is passionate about building both the technical and human systems needed for scale and growth. Prior to joining GitHub, Jason was Vice President of Engineering at Heroku, the world’s leading PaaS and one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world. Before Heroku, Jason worked to make Linux accessible to everyone by leading product engineering for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Phone at Canonical. Jason is also an active speaker, writer, and advisor on cloud computing, technology and leadership. His activities include formally and informally advising startup and established executives, as well as active coaching and mentoring future product and technology leaders.
Jason graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Computer Science, and Rensselaer University with an MS in Computer Science. He lives with his family in Victoria, British Columbia, where he writes, sketches and enjoys the water as much as possible.

About GitHub:

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over 31 million people use GitHub to build amazing things together across 97+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.