Phil Haack is the founder and CEO of Haacked LLC where he coaches software organizations and helps them become the best versions of themselves. To do this, Phil draws upon his seven years of experience at GitHub where he was a director of engineering and helped make GitHub friendly to developers on the Microsoft platform. He also draws upon his experience at Microsoft where he was a senior program manager responsible for shipping ASP.NET MVC and NuGet, among other projects. These products had permissive open source licenses and ushered in Microsoft’s Open Source era. Phil is a coauthor of the popular Professional ASP.NET MVC series and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He’s also made several appearances on technology podcasts, such as .NET Rocks, Hanselminutes, Herding Code, and The Official jQuery Podcast. **Source**: [*Github for Dummies*](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27759616M)