Ankit Honey
Senior Engineering Manager, Dependabot at GitHub
Lake Stevens, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Honey is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, secure automation systems for cloud and developer platforms. He advanced through hands-on roles on Dependabot—contributing bug fixes and integration work to its widely used dependabot-core—and now leads execution, reliability, and strategy for the Dependabot ecosystem serving millions of repositories. His background spans infrastructure and automation at Microsoft, AWS, Verizon and Toshiba, giving him deep experience in distributed systems, CI/CD, and device/cloud orchestration. Known for reducing alert noise and improving update automation, he blends pragmatic engineering with people-centric management to grow high-impact teams. Based in Lake Stevens, Washington, he is active in professional engineering communities and brings a track record of turning complex platform challenges into reliable, developer-facing services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
dependency-analysis10
rubygems10
ruby10
git9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dependabot/dependabot-core
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PRs.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 326 reviews, 44 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ankit primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the Dependabot core logic, which involves creating update pull requests. Their commits focused on addressing issues related to incorrect release tags, style violations, and whitespace inconsistencies. The user also merged branches, suggesting a role in integrating changes from other contributors and maintaining the core functionality of the project. These contributions centered around refining the codebase and ensuring its stability.
dependabotelixirrubyphppython
honeyankit/update_engine
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 11 months
coreosdaemonlinuxupdatemacos
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