THE_GUESTRachel PotvinI'm an engineering executive with 25 years of experience working in the technology sector. I've spent the bulk of my career working on developer focused infrastructure and am passionate about building and investing in systems that improve developer productivity and happiness.
At GitHub, I'm motivated by the mission of helping developers around the world collaborate, solve challenging problems, and have fun while doing so. I'm focused on building healthy sustainable engineering teams that scale to meet the demands of the world's developers. I manage a team of 500+ developers working on products such as Codespaces, Copilot, GitHub Core (PRs, Repos, Notifications), Planning and Tracking (Issues, Projects), GitHub Advanced Security (CodeQL/Code Scanning, Secret Scanning, Software Supply Chain), Code Productivity (CodeSearch, Nav, Dependencies), and Data (Data Platform, Data Science & ML, Insights).
Before GitHub, I worked at Google for over 11 years. There, I most recently ran the Google Cloud Insights organization, responsible for managing and building products based on Google Cloud's customer and product data, including Google Cloud's recommendations and insights platform. Prior to that I ran Google’s DevOps teams focused on Developer Productivity: Code Search, Code Review, Issues, Source Control, IDEs, and developer research (see https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2854146).
Earlier in my career I worked at an ISP startup doing web and database development, spent 6 years working in the video game industry, and spent two years in consulting.