GitHub, an open source website, has been on the receiving end in recent months due to various cases of sexual harassment surfacing intermittently. The latest blow to the company came last week when one of the high ranking female developers quit citing sexual harassment by the senior officials.

Announcing her abrupt departure from GitHub on Twitter, Julie Ann Horvath tweeted a string of messages to condemn the top brass at the company who made the workplace inhospitable for women. On Friday, she tweeted that after suffering sexual harassment for the last 24 months, she has decided to call it quits.

Though there have been many resignations by female employees in this company in the past, the news of Julie Ann Horvath has a more devastating effect because she served as a bridge between the management and female employees who were hesitant to come on board GitHub because of a male dominated work culture.

On Friday, she expressed her apology to those who she brought on board by defending the work culture at the company. She did not mince words when she said that she was sorry for hurting people in the process.

While incidents compelling her to take this move are still a secret, she did tell that it was aggressive behaviour of the top brass who conceal it with the term "professional feedback". She revealed to her followers who number a little over 15,000 that what she underwent at GitHub was insufferable and was not very conspicuous to others.

Responding to one of the comments on Twitter, Horvath clarified that she was not subjected harassment of sexual nature.

Founded in 2008 by PJ Hyett, Chris Wanstrath and Tom Preston-Werner, developers themselves, this company is renowned for its Octocat logo.