The GitHub Blog: New Hires

This week we welcome Kelsey Schimmelman to our Outreach family. Kelsey will be helping to coordinate killer events for GitHubbers and GitHub fans alike. Creating cool event experiences for the open source community has been her bread and butter for several years now! When she's not partying professionally, you can find her sequestered in a corner with her nose deep in a book.

You can find her on GitHub and Twitter.

Today we welcome Sachin Ranchod into the family. He'll be helping us make the sales team just a little classier.

If you have any interest in wines, cricket, and slow internet speeds you'll have plenty to talk about with Sachin since he joins us from South Africa. However, he's realized that the wines of Napa and the fast internet speeds of northern California are good enough reasons to move to San Francisco. He'll miss the rains down in Africa, but he'll learn that California is the only place to be.

You can follow him on GitHub and Twitter.

Some #shiftkeyfacts about @shiftkey:

• "His Mexican wrestler name is 'Hermano Mayor'"
• "His middle name is 'Diplomacy'"
• "He does not speak Klingon"
• "He has had dinner in Paris with a woman claiming to have the largest afro in the world"
• "He once ditched my wedding so he could go to a Legend of Zelda concert"

And the best fact of all, he is now our newest GitHub for Windows developer. Brendan will be hacking on everything Windows'y as well as all kinds of other cool things, out of beautiful Sydney, Australia.

Check him out on GitHub and Twitter

Today we're welcoming Charlie Somerville to the family of mildly dysfunctional engineers known as GitHub's Systems Team.

Charlie hails from Melbourne, in The Land Where Everything Wants to Kill You, and fortunately has survived being devoured by a wild animal for long enough to join us here at GitHub.

You may know Charlie as the author of some of the coolest shit that has ever been blogged about the Ruby VM, the man behind eval.in or the creator of the lovely better_errors middleware.

Since Charlie is not old enough to drink in the States, we expect him to take over the responsibilities of GitHub's infrastructure while the rest of us are out partying.

Make sure to follow him on GitHub and Twitter so he feels better about this.

This week we are pleased to welcome Keith Duncan to GitHub. He will be working with our native teams to ensure that their path to shipping is always a happy one.

Keith adds to our growing British contingent, hailing from Scotland and has previously worked on some of our favourite Mac and iOS software at Realmac Software.

You can follow him on GitHub and Twitter.

We are vrlo uzbuđeni to welcome Ivan Žužak to the support team!

Ivan hails from the fair city of Zagreb, Croatia. As he is always smiling, you will know him when you see him (if you've not confused him with PJ).

Like all GitHubbers, he's an enigma. He is an international man of over-planning for every situation and outcome, but yet has a secret hoard of four-leaf clovers. He is a recovering software engineer, and his CS educator role has honed his skills of explanation and understanding someone else's brain. You can catch him experimenting with web APIs, mostly in JavaScript and Python, always as open-source. Ivan will be bringing inherent classiness, as his people invented the cravat. He is built to support GitHub.

You can find Ivan on GitHub and Twitter.

A newly minted supportocat, Nikki comes to GitHub from the turbulent world of web QA and the even more turbulent world of freelance Ruby on Rails and Python programming. She's worked in phone tech support, and she's a member of a 26-member co-op house, so she has the superpower of effectively infinite patience. Like all of our supportocats, her melange of experiences are what make her great.

When she's not hand-crafting responses to support emails, Nikki enjoys playing go, running crazy distances, biking reasonable distances, and building giant jungle gyms for Burning Man. She has the esteemed pleasure of starting at GitHub during our all-hands Summit, where she gets to meet EVERYONE AT ONCE.

You can find Nikki on GitHub and Twitter.

This week we welcome Brandon Ferguson to the GitHub Enterprise team. Brandon will be working with the team's developers, designers, and sales folks to build awesome features for our Enterprise customers. Although he has never actually seen Point Break, he has seen Hot Fuzz and quite liked it.

He hails from Indiana, is a connoisseur of craft beer, co-organizes Dorkbot Indy, and enjoys throwing himself down mountains. Sometimes even on skis or a bike.

Follow him on GitHub and Twitter.

Today we are pleased to welcome Jeff McDonald to the GitHub family. He will help us build a faster, better, stronger GitHub Enterprise product. Jeff is a lover of all variety of games—be they video, card, board, or other—and has a tattoo of friendly sushi rolls on his arm.

Follow Jeff on GitHub and Twitter.

Today we're excited to announce the addition of Fabian Perez to the GitHub Enterprise team! Aside from slinging pixels to help us enrich the Enterprise experience, we're excited for Fabian to refactor all our JavaScript, expand our minds with design thinking, and teach us the art of micro-interactions.

You can find him on GitHub, Dribbble, and Twitter. Welcome, Fabian!

We're excited to welcome Sergio Rubio to the GitHub team. Sergio is a longboarding scuba diver from Barcelona, Spain. He will help the GitHub Enterprise team automate all of the things.

Follow Sergio on GitHub and Twitter.

This week we're stoked to welcome Mu-An to the GitHub team. She joins us from London/Taipei where she'll be working with the design and billing teams. She's aggressively shy, has been known to make funny noises, and stress eats Skittles. She also enjoys playing bass, loves going to concerts, and open sources Jekyll themes.

Follow her on GitHub and Twitter.

We're excited to welcome Connor Sears to the GitHub team. He'll be working his design magic on identity and educating us on the finer details of Kentucky bourbon, all while blessing the rains down in Africa.

Follow Connor on GitHub and Twitter.

Reg joins us from the Great White North, more commonly known as Toronto. He joins our Documentation team to help us take Help to the next level.

Reg is a big fan of board gaming, rock climbing, mountain biking, scuba diving, and lots of other things that end in –ing.

You can follow Reg on GitHub and Twitter.

Rachelle joins us from world-famous-ish Providence, Rhode Island.

She's been everywhere from Qatar to India to Miami, stubbornly refusing to believe that humans aren't all genuinely amazing creatures at their core.

In a previous life, she helped manage student hiring programs at Google and Carnegie Mellon University, but in her new life she'll be helping us as our resident Sourcer to grow the GitHub team out so we can keep writing ...Is A GitHubber posts until our fingers hurt. She'll also be teaching us all about economic theory and how to cope with experiencing snow for the first time.

You can follow @rachellegupta on GitHub.