# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-wanstrath
# Generated: 2026-08-31T12:54:29.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-wanstrath"
name: "Chris Wanstrath"
slug: "chris-wanstrath"
description: "Chris Wanstrath is an American technology entrepreneur and programmer. He is the founder of Null Games, and the co-founder and former CEO of GitHub, an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. Wanstrath co-founded GitHub in 2008 and sold it to Microsoft in 2018. Before starting GitHub, he worked with CNET on GameSpot and Chowhound. In addition to GitHub, he created the Atom text editor, Ruby's Resque job queue, the Mustache templating language, and the pjax JavaScript library. According to Forbes his net worth is estimated at US$1.8-2.2 billion and is listed in America's richest entrepreneurs under 40, as well as Fortune's 40 under 40 and he was named in CNBC's Disruptor 50 list."
tagline: "American technology entrepreneur and programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Wanstrath_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1985-03-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           62.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.963938666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 92
totalFollowers: 22717
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/defunkt"
    handle:    "defunkt"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/defunkt/"
    handle:    "defunkt"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://chriswanstrath.com/"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/defunkt"
    handle:    "defunkt"
    followers: 22717
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AB"
    title: "کریس وانسترث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wanstrath"
    title: "Chris Wanstrath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wanstrath"
    title: "Chris Wanstrath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wanstrath"
    title: "Chris Wanstrath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wanstrath"
    title: "Chris Wanstrath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9"
    title: "クリス・ワンストラス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27940879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump