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Vladimir Fedorov

Chief Technology Officer, GitHub

Vladimir (Vlad) Fedorov is the Chief Technology Officer of GitHub, leading its engineering team. Before joining GitHub, Fedorov co-founded UserClouds, a startup focused on data governance and privacy, and spent twelve years at Facebook, now Meta, as a Senior Vice President leading engineering for privacy, ads and platform. Earlier, Fedorov worked at Microsoft.12

At a glance

Current role
Chief Technology Officer
Company
GitHub
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Company
Work listed
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Career

Fedorov worked at Microsoft earlier in their career and spent twelve years at Facebook, now Meta, as a Senior Vice President leading engineering for privacy, ads and platform. Fedorov then co-founded UserClouds, a data governance and privacy startup, before joining GitHub as Chief Technology Officer. Fedorov also serves on the board of Codepath.org.1

Work at GitHub

As CTO, Fedorov leads GitHub's engineering team. In 2026 Fedorov wrote GitHub Blog updates on the stabilization and reliability work GitHub was prioritizing, published in March, April and August 2026.1345

Work and contributions

  • GitHub availability updates Show, channel or publication

    Wrote a series of 2026 GitHub Blog posts describing the engineering work under way to improve the platform's availability and reliability.2345

Timeline

  1. Published a GitHub Blog post on stabilization work to address availability incidents.3
  2. Published an update on GitHub's availability and reliability work.4
  3. Published a post on an August 2026 incident and the reliability work ahead.5

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Senior Vice President of engineering for privacy, ads and platform (12 years, past), Meta (Facebook)1
  • Co-founder (past), UserClouds1

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References

5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. GitHub — LeadershipGitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. Vlad Fedorov — GitHub Blog author pageGitHub Blog · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  3. Addressing GitHub's recent availability issuesGitHub Blog · Announcement · published Mar 11, 2026 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  4. An update on GitHub availabilityGitHub Blog · Announcement · published Apr 28, 2026 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  5. The August 17 outage, and the work aheadGitHub Blog · Announcement · published Aug 20, 2026 · accessed Oct 22, 2026