GitHub 2.0: The Handoff — Building Together Without Breaking Things

About the Workshop You've learned to commit and push your own work. But what happens when your code becomes someone else's starting point? In this 90-minute, hands-on session, you'll work in pairs to run a complete team handoff: one partner builds a simple personal web page using an AI builder and ships it to GitHub, and the other pulls it down, makes changes on a branch, and sends it back through a Pull Request — without anyone breaking anything. It's the exact workflow your build-cycle team will live in, practiced once with training wheels on. About the Instructor Aaron McKeever is a recent graduate of Columbia University, where he studied information science and specialized in computational linguistics. At Columbia, he worked as a research assistant and project lead across multiple teams, using tools such as GitHub, Python, and Linear to manage shared projects, track contributions, and coordinate work with remote collaborators. His personal research project — a digital history of early 20th-century industrial networks spanning the US, UK, and Germany — uses GitHub to manage key data files and sub-projects. Additionally, his work includes serving as a deputy board UX/UI designer and training lead on the Columbia Daily Spectator product team. Before Columbia, Aaron spent a year in Germany as a U.S. Department of State CBYX-Y scholarship recipient, and he currently works as an administrative and research professional in Washington, DC. Skills you'll walk away with: What to bring: