[Big News] Microsoft-owned GitHub expands operations to India

The California-based software development platform GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft today announced its operations in India under the name GitHub India Pvt. Ltd. which will be headed by Maneesh Sharma as the General Manager.

India being the third-largest GitHub community, the aim of the expansion is to help GitHub serve better to the developer community and customers across the country. The company mentioned that they will build teams across all functions like engineering, sales, support, marketing in India over a span of the next few months.

Erica Brescia, COO, GitHub, in a statement today commented…

“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,”

ⓘ Interesting Read: Startup Glossary – 40+ Startup Terms Every Startup Founder & Entrepreneur Should Know

“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 already working with organisations across India including the unicorns like Ola, Zomato, OYO, Swiggy and Paytm to help them deliver winning customer experiences through its GitHub Enterprise solutions. The Company is also expanding its channel partner programme to support GitHub Enterprise customers.

ⓘ As part of our ongoing support for startups and SMEs, LAFFAZ Media publishes feature and resource articles that may include references and links to external websites. These inclusions are selected at our editorial discretion to provide valuable information to our readers. LAFFAZ Media does not control, endorse, or assume responsibility for the content or practices of external websites. For more details, please refer to our Terms and Conditions.