GitHub sets up India unit, plans to engage with developers and enterprises

GitHub, the world's largest open source development platform, which was bought by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018, is setting up its India entity in order to better serve the developer community and its own enterprise customers in the country. 

India is home to GitHub’s third largest community of developers, growing 22 per cent over the last year.

The first of its two offices will be set up in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, Erica Brescia, Chief Operating Officer, GitHub, told Business Standard.

"We're building up a team across a variety of functions. We're taking a pretty holistic approach. We're hiring people