GitHub Widens International Operations to India to Serve the Developer Community

GitHub, one of the leading software development platforms in the world, announced the opening of its subsidiary, GitHub India to better serve the developer community and enterprise customers in the country. India has the third-largest community of developers in GitHub and is growing at 22 per cent over the last year.

Erica Brescia, COO, GitHub, comments, “As the third-largest group of active developers on GitHub, Indian developers are truly building the future of software. Over the past year, the number of public repositories in India has grown 75 per cent, demonstrating a sharp increase in collaboration across the Indian developer community. In building out a local team in India, our goal is to create stronger relationships with developers and support open source development across developers, maintainers, and enterprises”.

GitHub is also working with other organizations across industries to help them deliver customer experiences using a modern software supply chain and industry best-practices. Swiggy and ArisGlobal, two of the growing companies collaborate with building the software that helps businesses on GitHub Enterprise. It also expands its channel partner program to assist GitHub Enterprise customers in efficiently running their software development operations.

Maneesh Sharma will be heading the GitHub India as the General Manager and over the next few months, they will be building a team across all functions-including community, engineering, sales, support, marketing and services to allow customers to adopt DevOps best practices at scale and collaborate with over 40 million developers across more than 100 million projects.

As a part of GitHub Education, it supports the next generation of developers and helps more student communities come together to learn and build on GitHub. Also, the GitHub’s Hackathon Grant program helps students in India to support student hackathons with up to $1,000 in grants.

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