Summary
Anand Ahire is a product leader with over 17 years of experience driving DevOps, ITSM and data platforms to market leadership, currently VP of Product Management for Core DevOps and Data at GitLab. He has repeatedly transformed product organizations—bringing startup speed and a “Minimal Loveable Product” mindset to large enterprises and taking products into Gartner and Forrester leadership positions. Anand pairs engineering roots and an IIM Ahmedabad MBA to balance technical depth (DevOps, CD, cloud, containers, Big Data) with go-to-market rigor, having scaled businesses and doubled revenue year-over-year at Electric Cloud. He champions user-centric design and evidence-based, outside-in product management, turning UI into a competitive differentiator and shortening release cycles from annual to bi-monthly. A hands-on collaborator, he has led senior product teams, customer advisory boards, and close sales engagement, and even contributes front-end fixes in open repos—bridging strategy and code in practice.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Information Systems Marketing, MBA Information Systems Marketing at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Maharashtra Mandal Pune
Bachelor in Engineering Electronics and Telecomm, Bachelor in Engineering Electronics and Telecomm at COEP Technological University