Tom Preston-Werner Net Worth, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki!

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Tom Preston-Werner is one of the most popular and richest Software Developer who was born on October 28, 1979 in Dubuque, Iowa, United States.

In 2004, Preston-Werner founded Gravatar, a service for providing globally unique avatars that follow users from site to site. The company grew to about 32,000 users in 2007, when Preston-Werner sold the company to Automattic. In 2005 he moved to San Francisco to work at Powerset, a natural language search engine. Powerset was acquired by Microsoft. Preston-Werner declined a $300,000 bonus and stock options from Microsoft so that he could focus on GitHub.

Preston-Werner co-founded GitHub in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett and Scott Chacon, as a place to share and collaborate on code.

Name Tom Preston-Werner
First Name Tony
Last Name Massarotti
Occupation Software Developer
Birthday October 28
Birth Year 1979
Place of Birth Dubuque
Home Town Iowa
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Scorpio
Full/Birth Name
Father Not Available
Mother Not Available
Siblings Not Available
Spouse Theresa Werner
Children(s) 3

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He is best known as the founder and former CEO of GitHub, a Git repository web-based hosting service, which he co-founded in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett. He resigned from GitHub in 2014 when an internal investigation concluded that he and his wife harassed an employee. Preston-Werner is also the creator of the avatar service Gravatar, the TOML configuration file format, the static site generator software Jekyll, and the Semantic Versioning Specification (SemVer)

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