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GitHubber

GitHubber noun: an employee of GitHub, Inc., a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

Noun

GitHubber (plural GitHubbers)

  1. An employee of GitHub, Inc., a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.
    • At 29 years old, I was the oldest of the three GitHubbers and had accumulated a proportionally larger amount of debt and monthly expenditure.2009, Tom Preston-Werner, “How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft (continued)”, in Chad Fowler, The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development, Raleigh, N.C.: The...
    • GitHubbers are still committed to the principles of bootstrapping, especially for younger startups, and [Tom] Preston-Werner doesn’t think their messaging on that score will change any time soon.2012 July 9, J. O’Dell, “Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper’s ship for a $100M Series A”, in VentureBeat, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2022

Examples of GitHubber in a sentence

  • According to GitHubber Brian Doll, when GitHub first started, they just had a row of tables and everyone worked at the tables. […] An Open Organization may require a whole lot of arguing.2014, Philip A. Foster, “GitHub: ‘Creating Awesome’—A Case Study”, in The Open Organization: A New Era of Leadership and Organizational...
  • I thought that’s how I become a good GitHubber -⁠- that’s the idea of success.2014 September, Shanley Kane, quoting Julie Ann Horvath, “Interview with Julie Ann Horvath”, in Model View Culture: New Writing on...
  • This is where GitHubbers have lunch, hold meetups, and relax.2016, Yevgeniy Brikman, “Startup Culture”, in Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams...

Forms of GitHubber

pluralGitHubbers

Origin of GitHubber

From GitHub + -er.

Questions about GitHubber

What does GitHubber mean?
GitHubber means an employee of GitHub, Inc., a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.
How do you use GitHubber in a sentence?
According to GitHubber Brian Doll, when GitHub first started, they just had a row of tables and everyone worked at the tables. […] An Open Organization may require a whole lot of arguing.
What part of speech is GitHubber?
GitHubber is a noun.
What is the plural of GitHubber?
The plural of GitHubber is GitHubbers.

Words near GitHubber in the dictionary

  1. gites
  2. gith
  3. Githens
  4. Githenses
  5. githeri
  6. GitHubber
  7. GitHubbers
  8. Gitika
  9. Gitksan
  10. Gitksans
  11. Gitlin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GitHubber (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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