diff --git a/openhands/server/github.py b/openhands/server/github.py
index 50acd3f9a225..5e26beaa9d2b 100644
--- a/openhands/server/github.py
+++ b/openhands/server/github.py
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 import os
 
-import httpx
+from github import Github
+from github.GithubException import GithubException
 from tenacity import retry, stop_after_attempt, wait_exponential
 
 from openhands.core.logger import openhands_logger as logger
 from openhands.server.sheets_client import GoogleSheetsClient
+from openhands.utils.async_utils import call_sync_from_async
 
 GITHUB_CLIENT_ID = os.getenv('GITHUB_CLIENT_ID', '').strip()
 GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET = os.getenv('GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET', '').strip()
@@ -113,24 +115,13 @@ async def get_github_user(token: str) -> str:
         github handle of the user
     """
     logger.debug('Fetching GitHub user info from token')
-    headers = {
-        'Accept': 'application/vnd.github+json',
-        'Authorization': f'Bearer {token}',
-    }
-    async with httpx.AsyncClient(
-        timeout=httpx.Timeout(connect=5.0, read=5.0, write=5.0, pool=5.0)
-    ) as client:
-        try:
-            response = await client.get('https://api.github.com/user', headers=headers)
-        except httpx.RequestError as e:
-            logger.error(f'Error making request to GitHub API: {str(e)}')
-            logger.error(e)
-            raise
-
-        logger.info('Received response from GitHub API')
-        logger.debug(f'Response status code: {response.status_code}')
-        response.raise_for_status()
-        user_data = response.json()
-        login = user_data.get('login')
+    try:
+        g = Github(token)
+        user = await call_sync_from_async(g.get_user)
+        login = user.login
         logger.info(f'Successfully retrieved GitHub user: {login}')
         return login
+    except GithubException as e:
+        logger.error(f'Error making request to GitHub API: {str(e)}')
+        logger.error(e)
+        raise
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 0ccd8331e0a8..b32d2c7753db 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -6778,6 +6778,25 @@ files = [
     {file = "pyflakes-3.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:1c61603ff154621fb2a9172037d84dca3500def8c8b630657d1701f026f8af3f"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pygithub"
+version = "2.5.0"
+description = "Use the full Github API v3"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "PyGithub-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b0b635999a658ab8e08720bdd3318893ff20e2275f6446fcf35bf3f44f2c0fd2"},
+    {file = "pygithub-2.5.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e1613ac508a9be710920d26eb18b1905ebd9926aa49398e88151c1b526aad3cf"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+Deprecated = "*"
+pyjwt = {version = ">=2.4.0", extras = ["crypto"]}
+pynacl = ">=1.4.0"
+requests = ">=2.14.0"
+typing-extensions = ">=4.0.0"
+urllib3 = ">=1.26.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pygments"
 version = "2.18.0"
@@ -6842,6 +6861,32 @@ files = [
 [package.dependencies]
 pybind11 = ">=2.2"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pynacl"
+version = "1.5.0"
+description = "Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+files = [
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-macosx_10_10_universal2.whl", hash = "sha256:401002a4aaa07c9414132aaed7f6836ff98f59277a234704ff66878c2ee4a0d1"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_24_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:52cb72a79269189d4e0dc537556f4740f7f0a9ec41c1322598799b0bdad4ef92"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:a36d4a9dda1f19ce6e03c9a784a2921a4b726b02e1c736600ca9c22029474394"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_24_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:0c84947a22519e013607c9be43706dd42513f9e6ae5d39d3613ca1e142fba44d"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:06b8f6fa7f5de8d5d2f7573fe8c863c051225a27b61e6860fd047b1775807858"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-musllinux_1_1_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:a422368fc821589c228f4c49438a368831cb5bbc0eab5ebe1d7fac9dded6567b"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-musllinux_1_1_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:61f642bf2378713e2c2e1de73444a3778e5f0a38be6fee0fe532fe30060282ff"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-win32.whl", hash = "sha256:e46dae94e34b085175f8abb3b0aaa7da40767865ac82c928eeb9e57e1ea8a543"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0-cp36-abi3-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:20f42270d27e1b6a29f54032090b972d97f0a1b0948cc52392041ef7831fee93"},
+    {file = "PyNaCl-1.5.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8ac7448f09ab85811607bdd21ec2464495ac8b7c66d146bf545b0f08fb9220ba"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+cffi = ">=1.4.1"
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["sphinx (>=1.6.5)", "sphinx-rtd-theme"]
+tests = ["hypothesis (>=3.27.0)", "pytest (>=3.2.1,!=3.3.0)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pyparsing"
 version = "3.2.0"
@@ -7995,6 +8040,11 @@ files = [
     {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:f60021ec1574e56632be2a36b946f8143bf4e5e6af4a06d85281adc22938e0dd"},
     {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:394397841449853c2290a32050382edaec3da89e35b3e03d6cc966aebc6a8ae6"},
     {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:57cc1786cfd6bd118220a92ede80270132aa353647684efa385a74244a41e3b1"},
+    {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp313-cp313-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:e9a702e2de732bbb20d3bad29ebd77fc05a6b427dc49964300340e4c9328b3f5"},
+    {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp313-cp313-macosx_12_0_arm64.whl", hash = "sha256:b0768ad641981f5d3a198430a1d31c3e044ed2e8a6f22166b4d546a5116d7908"},
+    {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:178ddd0a5cb0044464fc1bfc4cca5b1833bfc7bb022d70b05db8530da4bb3dd3"},
+    {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:f7284ade780084d94505632241bf78c44ab3b6f1e8ccab3d2af58e0e950f9c12"},
+    {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:b7b0f9a0b1040830d38c39b91b3a44e1b643f4b36e36567b80b7c6bd2202a27f"},
     {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:757c7d514ddb00ae249832fe87100d9c73c6ea91423802872d9e74970a0e40b9"},
     {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp39-cp39-macosx_12_0_arm64.whl", hash = "sha256:52788f48b5d8bca5c0736c175fa6bdaab2ef00a8f536cda698db61bd89c551c1"},
     {file = "scikit_learn-1.5.2-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl", hash = "sha256:643964678f4b5fbdc95cbf8aec638acc7aa70f5f79ee2cdad1eec3df4ba6ead8"},
@@ -10128,4 +10178,4 @@ testing = ["coverage[toml]", "zope.event", "zope.testing"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.12"
-content-hash = "8a34ef6158ca2a9fe3615fc362db3fd71bc43eabb57ffc2e2e14dfb658cf52c3"
+content-hash = "245fd4cd56a3c95b2dd4f3a06251f7de82ad0300de7349f0710aac1f92a151b7"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1ab931a5bab0..6430f70d720d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ opentelemetry-api = "1.25.0"
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc = "1.25.0"
 modal = "^0.64.145"
 runloop-api-client = "0.7.0"
+pygithub = "^2.5.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.llama-index.dependencies]
 llama-index = "*"
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ reportlab = "*"
 [tool.coverage.run]
 concurrency = ["gevent"]
 
+
 [tool.poetry.group.runtime.dependencies]
 jupyterlab = "*"
 notebook = "*"
@@ -123,6 +125,7 @@ ignore = ["D1"]
 [tool.ruff.lint.pydocstyle]
 convention = "google"
 
+
 [tool.poetry.group.evaluation.dependencies]
 streamlit = "*"
 whatthepatch = "*"