Microsoft owned GitHub has announced the opening of its subsidiary GitHub India Private Limited to better serve the developer community and GitHub’s customers in India. GitHub’s third largest community of developers is based in India, growing 22 per cent last year and solidifying GitHub’s base in India.

“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," Erica Brescia, Chief Operating Officer, GitHub, said in a statement.”

GitHub by building a strong team in India aims to strengthen its relationships with developers and support open source development amongst developers. Maneesh Sharma, General Manager, GitHub India will spearhead its India growth strategy.

The California headquartered company said that it will build a strong team across all functions including community, engineering, sales, support, marketing and services – to enable customers to adopt DevOps best practices at scale and collaborate with over 40 million developers across more than 100 million projects.

Many Indian companies are collaborating and building the software that powers their businesses on GitHub.