About Me
My name is Scott Chacon. I am a
software developer,
Git evangelist, speaker,
author,
world traveler,
father, husband, cat and dog rescuer, baby signer and gorilla tamer.
Not neccesarily in that order.
I work at GitButler, a new take on modern version control tools,
and previously cofounded Chatterbug to help people learn languages,
and even more previously cofounded GitHub.
I have a WSET Level 3 Certification in Wines and Spirits, my wonderful wife and I run a dog rescue outside of Berlin,
and I speak 6 languages to various degress.
🇬🇧 English natively,
🇩🇪 German relatively well (B2),
🤟 American Sign Language sort of well (B1),
🇫🇷 French minimally (A2),
🇪🇸 Spanish not great (A1),
🇯🇵 Japanese terribly (<N5).
🇩🇪 German relatively well (B2),
🤟 American Sign Language sort of well (B1),
🇫🇷 French minimally (A2),
🇪🇸 Spanish not great (A1),
🇯🇵 Japanese terribly (<N5).
About Scott (Professional Edition)
(for copypasting to pro bio things)
"Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a next generation version control client,
based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by
Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In
unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin."
