David Heinemeier Hansson is Co-founder & CTO at 37signals / Basecamp / Hey.com. This page summarizes publicly observable engineering activity tied to the @dhh GitHub handle.
David Heinemeier Hansson (GitHub @dhh) is Co-founder & CTO at 37signals / Basecamp / Hey.com. The @dhh GitHub handle is self-published by David Heinemeier Hansson at https://dhh.dk, which is the source we rely on for the identity-to-handle mapping shown on this page. Everything below is observable from public GitHub events and from David Heinemeier Hansson's own publicly stated affiliations.
Self-published source
https://dhh.dkThe handle-to-identity mapping cited on this page is published by David Heinemeier Hansson at this URL.
DHH created Ruby on Rails and is a co-founder of 37signals. Long-running public-figure status with deep OSS and public-writing footprint.
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David Heinemeier Hansson publishes the @dhh GitHub handle at https://dhh.dk. This is the primary public source we cite. If the link breaks or David Heinemeier Hansson updates their public source, please submit a correction via /corrections.
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Founder & CEO at Vercel
VP of Product at Vercel
Founder & CEO at Gumroad
Founder at Nomad List, RemoteOK, and a portfolio of indie SaaS products
Open-source maintainer at Independent (maintainer of 1000+ npm packages)
Founder & engineer at Apex (and prior Express.js, koa, mocha, jade, stylus)
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