GitHub CEO Thomas Praises India For Having the “Fastest-Growing Developer Population”

Software giant GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke lauded India for having the “fastest-growing developer population” among countries. Via a social post on X, he underscored the country's potential in technology claiming, “India's rise as a global tech titan is inexorable”.

He wrote, “Of course, I have to show some love to India. Now the fastest growing developer population on the planet, India's rise as a global tech titan is inexorable.”

The post also contained an infographic stating India’s contribution to the company's projects. It stated that India’s contribution in total projects totalled to 5.2 billion, with 108 million new repositories in 2024.

Dohmke added, “India's developers have gone a leap further: they're increasingly using AI to build AI. India has the second-highest number of contributors to public generative AI projects. This makes it evermore likely the next great AI multinational is borne on the continent.”

About Octoverse

Being a developer platform, GitHub facilitates developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. In a company report titled ‘Octoverse’ GitHub noted about India’s growth, ANI reported.

By 2028, Octoverse report expects India to have the world's largest developer population on GitHub. Interestingly, the company reported a 59% increase in the number of contributions to generative AI projects. Notably, India is set to surpass the United States in number of developers on GitHub by 2028.

The company said, “India prioritises open source software and introduced the National Education Policy of 2020, which requires schools to include coding and AI in student curriculum. And notably, a recent study from the learning platform Udemy found that GitHub is one of the most sought-after skills in India, comparable to English grammar skills.”

Reporting an impressive growth story in the country, GitHub has seen a 95% increase in contributions to generative AI projects until now.