Hi, I'm Edd. I work as a technical program management leader inside GitHub. I work primarily on Copilot and the GitHub platform. I still get to mess around with code in my spare time, where Clojure and Rust are my footguns of choice.

My journey in open source started some time before GitHub existed, so you're unlikely to find too much in the contribution graphs: most of my open source coding stopped around ten years ago. These days I release fun experiments and hacks but not anything you'd want to rely on too much!

In a nutshell: I created my first open source project in 1999, was a Debian and GNOME contributor, was lucky enough to chair the O'Reilly Open Source Convention from some years, led open source programs at Google for a while, and have been involved in a variety of CNCF open source projects. You can find more of my historical contributions at the bottom of this document.

• mdconv — Browser extension for converting rich text clipboard to Markdown, with special handling for Microsoft Word
• agent-shell-quiet-mode — Compact turn display for agent-shell: collapsible groups with spinners
• agent-shell-matrix-proxy — Matrix bot that relays agent-shell AI sessions between Emacs and Matrix for mobile/web access
• emacs-copilot-sdk — Pure Emacs Lisp client for the GitHub Copilot SDK
• org-natural-dates — Natural language date entry for Org-mode

• Wilder Thoughts, my weekly newsletter on tech, productivity and work
• Mastodon
• LinkedIn
• Bluesky
• X
• Keyoxide -- this link asserts my identity, and will also let you send me PGP-encrypted email

• In 2025 I joined the staff of GitHub, where I am part of the Technical Program Management leadership. I lead the team of TPMs focused on Copilot and the GitHub platform.

• Most recently at Sysdig, I led open source ecosystem. As a company Sysdig contributes significantly to the Falco project, as well as maintaining other projects such as sysdig and WireShark. Here's why you might want to work with me—though I'm no longer at Sysdig, you can find out about my management philosophy here.

• While at Google, I did a lot of work building the TensorFlow and Kubeflow communities. When I became the leader of the 20 person open source program manager group at Google, my team also looked after engagement with projects like Go, Kubernetes, Istio and Knative, as well as Google Summer of Code and other amazing community endeavors.

If you've known for over ten years, you might be familiar with me by my previous name, Edd Dumbill. Historic OSS contributions all use my previous name.

• I created the DOAP vocabulary for describing software projects. This went on to become the foundation for SPDX.
• I was a Debian maintainer, principally looking after the Bluetooth integration
• I was a GNOME contributor, agains writing Bluetooth UI tools such as PhoneManager
• In the mists of time (1999...), I created PHP XML-RPC