Matthew McCullough Email Address

Trainer

GitHub, a hosted Git repository, provides a distributed software management program which allows users to take part in collaboration by forking projects, sending and pulling requests, and monitoring development.

My extensive experience in the software consulting industry started with independently building two commercially successful desktop apps in prior to high school. I've been producing many profitable and successful desktop, server, and web solutions for clients in the years since, and now, lead technical teams on these same successful journeys. Currently, I lead the Professional Services efforts at GitHub as the Director of Field Services. This diversely skilled department includes dozens of team members on the Sales Engineering, Implementations, and Training teams. It's a privilege to apply my passion for open source, experience in enterprise software development, and ideas for the future of distributed collaboration alongside my amazingly talented colleagues. I'm a strong proponent of and contributor to open source projects, and have a demonstrated track record of success in applying agile methodologies to software development. I also spend a great deal of time in studying and applying marketing techniques, such as those put forth by Seth Godin, to software development. The net result has been highly marketable, and thus profitable solutions for my clients. Some of my early accolades include a perfect 4.0 GPA throughout high school and college, then receiving awards for web development through Microsoft's Sitebuilder Competition. I have served on the Denver JBoss User Group Board of Directors, been elected acting president of the Denver Open Source Users Group, given numerous educational presentations to large groups, and made contributions to the crafting of Sun's Java 5.0 JCP Exam. I'm a contributing author to the Version Control with Git, Building and Testing with Gradle and Jenkins: The Definitive Guide O’Reilly books and creator of the Git Master Class series for O’Reilly. I've spoken regularly on the No Fluff Just Stuff conference tour, authored the DZone Git RefCard, and was founder and a past President of the Denver Open Source Users Group.