About Me

My name is Scott Chacon. I am a software developer, Git evangelist, speaker, writer, world traveler, father, husband, cat rescuer, baby signer and gorilla tamer. Not neccesarily in that order.

This is my little bit-box on the web where I put stuff that people for some inconceivable reason might want to find out about me.

I work at GitHub. And it is awesome.

Some other interesting things I've done:

• Had dinner with the Rwandan Minister of Science and Technology
• Did a scared E.T. impersonation in front of a crowd in Las Vegas
• Memorized the "Countries of the World Song" from Anamanics
• Ran for Congress (US House of Representatives, 11th District, CA)
• Had a mountain gorilla pull on my leg
• Ran a trail marathon on Mount Diablo
• Performed in Oklahoma! with Zach Levi (of NBCs Chuck)
• Flew over 100,000 miles to 31 cities in 13 countries since joining GitHub

If you would like to know any more about any of these, please find me at a GitHub drinkup in your area, I'll tell you all about them.

About Me (Professional Edition)

I am a Git evangelist and Ruby developer working on GitHub.com. I am the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage and the Git Community Book. I have presented at a bunch of conferences and a number of local groups and have done corporate training on Git across the country.

About This Site

This site is built using the Jekyll library and hosted on GitHub. The source code used to create this library is publicly available on GitHub as well.