Salil Subbakrishna
Product Manager at GitHub
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSalil Subbakrishna is a product manager with a decade of engineering and product experience across cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools, and machine learning, currently shaping developer experiences at GitHub. He combines hands-on software background—from building high-throughput trading data warehouses to machine-learning-driven location datasets—with MBA-trained strategic thinking to close product and partner gaps that translate into revenue. At companies like ngrok, HashiCorp, and CircleCI he led Kubernetes and CI/CD-focused products, evangelized new networking specs, and shipped features that unlocked seven- and six-figure deals. A documented contributor to ngrok’s docs and an advocate for developer productivity, he uniquely blends technical fluency with UX- and data-informed product decisions. Based in Los Angeles, he’s known for rapid learning and for turning complex infrastructure problems into pragmatic, customer-facing solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of BusinessBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University
Github Skills (7)
content-management-system10
content-management10
documentation10
self-organization10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
docusaurus8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ngrok/ngrok-docs
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
ngrok's official documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:62 reviews, 71 PRs, 147 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Salil primarily focused on modifying and reorganizing documentation content within the ngrok documentation repository. Their commits involved adding, moving, and reordering content related to Kubernetes deployments and other getting-started guides. The changes indicate a focus on improving the structure and flow of the documentation to enhance the user experience. These updates included adjusting the structure of the sidebar navigation within the documentation.
nginxngrokidris
salilsub/tartarus
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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