f13dev

If you are a programmer who uses GitHub then why not share your coding projects via your WordPress blog by adding a snapshot 
of your profile as a widget
Simply add the widget to your preferred location and enter your GitHub username.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Cached using Transient</li>
<li>Displays your GitHub profile image</li>
<li>Shows your GitHub bio, if set</li>
<li>Shows your Location, email address & blog URL if set</li>
<li>Provides links to your followers, following and starred repositories</li>
</ul>

GitHub Mini Profile Widget

Easy to use and a nice design, thanks! 
I didn't need the API key when using a cache timeout of 30 minutes, which is great.

Clean and easy to use

Add a snapshot of your GitHub profile to your website with with this widget.

dflydev

This project is available for forking on GitHub:
<ul>
<li>https://github.com/dflydev/embed-github-gist</li>
</ul>
Embed <a href="http://github.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> <a href="http://gist.github.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Gists</a> into 
WordPress. Provides a shortcode for posts and pages but also has the ability 
to embed by hand in the event that a Gist needs to be embedded somewhere in 
the page that does not pass through the shortcode filters.
Examples:
<pre><code>[gist id=546764]
[gist id=546764 file=file.txt]
[gist id=546764 file=file.txt bump=1]
[gist]http://gist.github.com/546764[/gist]
</code></pre>
Cache is implemented with the Transients API to minimize delay on loading 
content. Default TTL (time to live) is 86400 seconds or one day.
<h4>Upcoming features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option for setting default TTL</li>
<li>Option to bypass cache entirely</li>
<li>Implement admin interface to control options</li>
</ul>

GitHub Mini Profile Widget vs Embed GitHub Gist