Open Sourcing GitHub with Denise Yu

Published: May 13, 2021, 10 a.m.

b'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\\u2019s degree in economics and philosophy from Columbia University and a master\\u2019s degree in social policy and planning from the London School of Economics.\\n\\nJoin Corey and Denise as they talk about what exactly it is that Denise does at GitHub, why Corey believes Microsoft\\u2019s 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\\u2019s site looks better every time Corey looks at it, how Denise can\\u2019t wait to check out GitHub HQ but hasn\\u2019t been able to because of the pandemic, what it was like adjusting from working in Pivotal\\u2019s pairing culture to GitHub\\u2019s 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.'