Usha N
Staff Product Manager at GitHub
Aurora, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolUsha N is a Staff Product Manager at GitHub with nine years of experience building developer-facing DevOps and identity products that enable secure authentication and continuous delivery for millions of developers. She has driven enterprise-scale GitHub Actions features—like OIDC support and custom deployment protections—by combining deep customer obsession with cross-org and partner collaboration spanning AWS, GCP, Azure and launch partners such as Datadog and Sentry. Her background includes shipping release and security updates at Microsoft and managing Windows design changes for large enterprise customers, reflecting strong stakeholder management and operational rigor. Earlier in her career she was a Lead Firmware Engineer at GE-FANUC, delivering SIL3 safety PLC firmware and automated test systems, and earned Six Sigma Green Belt recognition. Usha pairs an MBA from SPJIMR with hands-on firmware and cloud product experience, which helps her translate low-level technical constraints into product strategy. She’s known for a meticulous, practical approach that surfaces non-obvious reliability and security trade-offs before they reach production.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronics & Communications, BE, Electronics & Communications at Osmania UniversityDiploma, Information Technology, Diploma, Information Technology at NIIT, HyderabadMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Management Information Systems, General, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Management Information Systems, General at SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
Github Skills (119)
expressjs10
github10
windows10
spring-data10
azure-functions10
spring-security10
azure-cli10
azure-pipelines10
kubeconfig10
continuous-testing10
get-started10
kubernetes-operator10
azure-sql-database10
sdk10
azure-devops10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/variable-substitution
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Enable GitHub developers to parameterize the values in their config files from a GitHub Action workflow
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
parameterizeconfiggithub-action-workflowaction-workflowconfig-files
Azure/appservice-settings
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Automate your GitHub workflows using Azure Action for AppService
Contributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 4 commits in 1 year 2 months
github-workflowsautomationazureworkflowsappservice
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