Ben De St Paer-Gotch

@nebuk89

Ben De St Paer-Gotch is currently the director of product at GitHub, where he leads the team behind GitHub Actions, Packages, Codespaces, and npm. Prior to GitHub, he have worked at Docker, Amazon, and Microsoft. Based out of the UK, he’s as happy to discuss board games with you as he is to discuss eBPF or whatever technology is currently distracting him.

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Illustration of a chemistry lab setup with interconnected glassware and tubing. Beakers, flasks, test tubes, and a large central reaction vessel contain glowing green and blue liquids. A pressure gauge, condenser coil, funnels, and heating plates appear along a blue tiled lab wall, with fluids flowing through tubes between the containers.

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Illustration of a chemistry lab setup with interconnected glassware and tubing. Beakers, flasks, test tubes, and a large central reaction vessel contain glowing green and blue liquids. A pressure gauge, condenser coil, funnels, and heating plates appear along a blue tiled lab wall, with fluids flowing through tubes between the containers.