Apiiro Welcomes Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke as Strategic Advisor to Safeguard AI Before Code Generation and Prevent Risks at Enterprise Scale

The software industry is in the middle of its most profound shift. AI is no longer an assistant on the sidelines; it is writing the majority of new code across modern engineering organizations in Fortune 500 enterprises. This pace unlocks incredible innovation, but it also introduces unprecedented risk.

Today, I’m excited to share that Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub and a driving force behind GitHub Copilot, the AI coding assistant that serves 90% of Fortune 100, is joining Apiiro as a Strategic Advisor to accelerate our mission: helping enterprises prevent risk before AI generates code.

AI Has Changed How Software is Developed. Security Must Change With It.

Thomas helped usher in the era of AI-generated code. Under his leadership, GitHub Copilot scaled to 26 million developers, became a staple across 90 percent of the Fortune 100, and helped define the way modern development teams design, develop and deliver software.

But as organizations embraced AI-driven and agentic coding, a new reality emerged: teams are shipping 4x more code, but they are creating 10x more risk.

AI now generates massive amounts of code without understanding an enterprise’s software architecture graph, policies, or runtime environment – and developers review only a fraction of what it produces. Existing application security tools and processes were never designed for the exponential growth of AI-generated code, and AI models themselves lack the deep context required to generate secure-by-design, compliant software.

This is the gap Apiiro was built to close, and it is exactly why Thomas is joining Apiiro.

Thomas helped lead the first wave of AI-assisted development, and now he is partnering with us to shape the next one: preventing risks before AI generates code, with deep context of the Software Graph, organizational policies, and runtime environments.

When AI Models Meet the Software Graph

Our vision at Apiiro has always been clear: enable enterprises to design, develop, and deliver secure software faster powered by a unified data lake: Software Graph + Risk Graph. .

Our patented Deep Code Analysis (DCA) builds a real-time Software Graph that understands your software architecture from code to runtime. This is the enterprise context AI has been missing.

Built on top of this foundation is the Risk Graph, which overlays risks from any source directly onto the Software Graph. With this context, AI models can generate secure and compliant software. 

Together, Apiiro provides the foundation for enterprises to power automated risk assessment and governance, intelligent prioritization and remediation, agentic AutoFix workflows, and secure-by-design AI code generation.

Looking Ahead

We are thrilled to welcome Thomas to Apiiro. His expertise, leadership, and deep understanding of AI’s impact on software development will help us accelerate this next chapter of innovation.

The future of software is being written by humans and AI together. Our job is to ensure that the future is secure-by-design.

See a demo of Apiiro here.