Open-source in India: 3 of 4 coders come from product firms, Amazon leads

Services firms like TCS, Infosys, Cognizant are also catching up on open-source culture

Nearly three out of four best open-source code writers in India are from product companies, Amazon being the top contributor, says a study by recruitment start-up Belong. This clearly shows how the product companies outweigh large services companies in embracing an open-source culture. A close look at the software development platform GitHub reveals that among the top 5,000 open-source contributors, 144 developers come from Amazon followed by Microsoft at 94 and Thoughtworks at 85.

“Interestingly, in a deeper analysis of the top 200 contributors (among 5,000 on GitHub), the study found that most of them worked for product start-ups and