This is a frustrating limitation of GitHub’s setup and is hard to find out who people are. As an admin, I can theoretically search the org membership for HugeDick53 and see that it’s associated with John.smith@example.com, b it regular users in the org are at a loss.

We have a loose convention that everyone update their profile with their name. But this is visible publicly, so if an employee doesn’t want their name public they are hosed.

I wish there was an option for an “enterprise” account that would stay hidden to everyone except org members.

But I do applaud GitHub for sticking with the idea that dev identities belong to individuals, not their orgs. So when someone leaves a company they can keep their profile.

I use a single GitHub account with activity for years and link and unlink it to orgs as necessary. Since I also do dev work, I worry that if someone compromises my account or gets a token, they will be able to wreak havoc on multiple orgs and repos where I have access.