I am a Program Manager Director @ GitHub, and I run AI enablement programs.

You can visit my portfolio at mattnigh.net and my blog at blog.mattnigh.net.

My job is shipping leverage for people who ship products.

My expertise is building, leading, and maturing software development organizations. I thrive in an environment in which I can manage a mix of complex strategic, technical, and people problems. Said simply – I love being a part of creating meaningful impact across entire technical organizations.

• What makes something ‘GitHubby’
• How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories
• How Copilot helps build the GitHub platform
• The art of engineering team focus: less is more
• Why developer satisfaction is your best productivity metric
• Patterns for Managing Autistic Engineers
• Template for a team brag post
• Protips for Achieving Flow: A Guide to Deep Work
• The Five Types of A Corporate Chief of Staff: Exploring archetypes of the Chief of Staff role
• Technical Stewardship: A Must-Have for Engineering Managers
• How to Create User Personas for Data Engineering
• Leaders: Be the dumbest in the room

As part of my role at GitHub I ran the company-wide AI for Everyone program. The goal of this program was to scale AI adoption + fluency across our company. I published an AI enablement playbook for our customers + others to use from our own learnings.

The overall playbook 👉 GitHub’s internal playbook for building an AI-powered workforce

• Activating your internal AI champions
• Communities of Practice
• Creating clear AI policies and guardrails
• Executive Support
• Fostering AI learning opportunities
• Right-fit tooling
• Why you need a DRI for your AI program