She says that India, with just under 10 million users on the platform, is the second largest developer market in the world, while others like Australia, Japan and Southeast Asia are all growth markets for GitHub. Since joining the company in February, Napier says she has doubled her regional team.
Open source development is well on its way to becoming mainstream. According to the Octoverse 2022 report by GitHub, more than 90 million people are using GitHub’s open source software development platform this year. Notably, Asia has the highest growth in terms of active users.
This is why GitHub is starting to place greater emphasis on Asia Pacific — a region which its APAC vice president Sharryn Napier says formed a relatively small market for the company until recently. “What we’re seeing is the evolution of the enterprise customers off the hot heels of Covid-19 and the whole digitalisation movement, not just in our region but generally across the world and on our platform.”
