About

Rebecca Miller-Webster is an engineering executive, manager, educator, and software engineer. She was the founder of Write/Speak/Code, creating visibility and leadership for 3k+ technologists of marginalized genders, and is currently Director of Engineering at GitHub. At GitHub, she has managed the Codespaces & Copilot Workspace, Actions MacCloud, and Client Apps teams. Currently, her teams are beta launching a Copilot AI feature to drive Copilot acceptance rates, increase ARR, and decrease PR cycle time.

Rebecca has been managing engineering teams for over 10 years and developing software professionally for more than 20 years. She has broad industry and technology experience, including DTC, FinTech, building and designing racks, mobile, and healthcare. Some notable challenges included architecting an application for the US Department of Defense where 3 previous firms had failed, saving US taxpayers millions and overseeing the design and build of Apple racks in Azure data centers, transitioning from a 3rd party data center, saving the company $4m/year. Rebecca previously organized GORUCO, and was the founding teacher at Dev Bootcamp NYC. She’s taught, mentored, or created curriculum for a thousand or so coders in software development, public speaking, leadership, communication, oppression, and more.

Rebecca holds a MS in Computer Science and a BA in Women and Gender Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and was named one of 7 Brilliant Women in Tech by Craig Nemark, founder of Craigslist.

Rebecca’s hobbies include reading romance novels, writing, playing guitar, being quasi-successful at having plants, cuddling pugs, & wearing all the colors.

And she changes her hair. A lot.

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You can find different length bios, headshots, and talk proposals in my talks Github repository.