Summary
Ben De St Paer-gotch is a product leader with 13 years’ experience building developer-focused platforms, currently directing Product Management for GitHub Actions, Packages, Codespaces and npm. He has a strong track record of driving revenue and adoption through platform changes—most recently leading Actions pricing, runner UX, and self-hosting initiatives that unlocked significant growth and new compute offerings like GPU and ARM runners. Previously he scaled Docker Desktop from 1.7M to 4M users and led commercial and partnership efforts across Docker, demonstrating a blend of user research, data-driven decisions, and technical fluency. Comfortable working across engineering, field teams and partners, he has also advised startups like Cosmonic on product-market fit. Based in the Greater Cambridge area, Ben pairs an engineering background (BSc Computing) with hands-on product leadership that consistently moves developer tools from idea to production.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels Computing Biology Math, A Levels Computing Biology Math at Palmers Sixth Form College
BSC Hons Computing, BSC Hons Computing at University of Plymouth