Ayodeji Ayodele—Senior Customer Success Architect at GitHub and author of GitHub Foundations Certification Guide (Packt, 2025)—joins The Deep Engineering Podcast to share how teams can move from “using Git” to leading with GitHub. We dive into inner source as a cultural shift, practical CI/CD patterns that avoid pipeline bloat, and the security basics every org should enforce: branch protections, rule sets, secret scanning, Dependabot, and build provenance. Ayodeji also demystifies GitHub Copilot and emerging agentic workflows—how to boost throughput responsibly while keeping humans in the loop.
What you’ll learn
Concrete habits for async collaboration: issues, PR conventions, Projects, and docs-first practices
Choosing branching strategies (trunk vs. Git Flow) for speed and release governance
Building quality gates into CI/CD and centralizing reusable workflows
A pragmatic checklist for supply-chain security on GitHub
Where AI helps (and hurts) developer productivity—and how to use Copilot responsibly
Who should listen: engineering leaders, platform/DevOps teams, security champions, and any developer aiming to level up their GitHub practice.
