Concepts for account and profile

Your profile page tells people your story through the information you share, the contributions you make, and the projects you showcase.

Your profile shows off your pinned repositories, Achievements, and a graph of your repository contributions over the past year.

Your organization's profile page shows basic information about your organization.

You can become a member of an organization to collaborate with coworkers or open-source contributors across many repositories at once.

You can change the username for your account on GitHub if your instance uses built-in authentication.

Learn about the different types of email addresses you can associate with your GitHub account—primary, backup, commit, and noreply—and how each type is used for account management, security, and commit attribution.

Learn how to manage access and collaboration for repositories you own with your personal account on GitHub.