Luke Hefson

Luke Hefson

Product Manager in Shoreham-by-Sea, UK, He/Him

Projects

2021

Building the next generation of GitHub's machine learning-driven social experiences.

2021

On this day, thousands of open source maintainers cried out in relief.

2020

As the primary product owner I teamed with Legal, Policy, Comms, LT etc. to make this happen. It's one of my proudest moments at GitHub.

2019

I worked closely with engineering and sales executives across GitHub & Microsoft to gain certification needed to sell our enterprise products in China. This even involved flying to Beijing to present language compliance examples to the Chinese goverment!

2019

When Microsoft acquired GitHub, in the first few week we kicked of a new initiative to accelerate the shipping of a number of key features. I helped to research, scope, design and build core platform capabilities such as 'Draft Pull Requests', 'Delete/transfer an issue' and many others.

2018

I led an initiative to address over 100 customer pain-points across GitHub. I have no doubt that it helped Microsoft's consideration in acquiring GitHub in late 2018.

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
2017 — 2022
2009 — 2012
Brighton, UK

Small startup. Lots of hats 🧢🎩👒

Side Projects

2018

I've written, performed and released music since I was a teenager. This is the album that I like the most.

Speaking

2021
Remote

A small case study of Issue Forms, why they’re successful, how we keep up tempo when building community-driven products and how we make room for experiments.

Features

2021

In this episode, GitHub’s Senior Product Manager, Luke Hefson, shares the importance of prioritizing fixes to the small, annoying “papercuts” within your product experience in order to maintain an engaged and loyal following.

2020

From CEOs to independent musicians, startup founders to software developers, performance coaches to marketing managers, creative directors to product managers, we talk to everyone about how they balance the grind in their own unique way.

Luke Hefson is a Product Manager at GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform, working on product discovery and direction for GitHub’s flagship code review & project management tools.

2020

Part of a series of posts featuring protips from GitHubbers for improving productivity, efficiency, and more.

2019

You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when you’re coding a work in progress.

2013

GitHub has a long tradition of supporting developer communities throughout the world. We throw meetups, speak at and sponsor conferences, and host training events in most corners of the globe.

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