Chris Wanstrath (born March 13, 1985) is an American technology entrepreneur and programmer.

He is the founder of Null Games, and the co-founder and former CEO of GitHub, an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git.

In addition to GitHub, he created the Atom text editor, Ruby's Resque job queue, the Mustache templating language, and the pjax JavaScript library.

[6][7] He left the university after getting a job in San Francisco at CNET Networks.

Prior to this, Wanstrath was at CNET Networks, where he worked on GameSpot and the launch of Chowhound.

[17][3] At the time, GitHub was the world's largest host service for software code.

[10] In addition to GitHub, Wanstrath created the job queue program Resque,[6][18] the Mustache templating language,[19] and the Atom text editor.