Ben De St Paer-Gotch

CEO

Cambridge, United Kingdom14 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led product management for GitHub Actions and Codespaces.
Achieved significant revenue growth through innovative product strategies.
Authored a book on technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with a focus on developer tools.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product Management

Other Skills

Product DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesEnterprise SoftwareMicrosoft TechnologiesC#Business AnalysisSoftware Project ManagementWindowsAgile Project ManagementProject Portfolio ManagementSQLJavaScriptApplication Lifecycle ManagementSoftware DesignPresentations

About

I am currently working at GitHub as the director of product for GitHub Action, packages, Codespaces, Microsoft Dev tunnels and npm, leading a team to improve developers lives as their automate their day-to-day work. I also wrote a book! Check it out here: https://amzn.eu/d/bSxOwEf Outside my role I have a keen interest in new technology and enjoy working with people who share my passion. I spend my spare time with my family and indulging my love of all things Warhammer and Warhammer40k.

Experience

14 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Github

2 roles

Director of Product Management

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

I lead the product management team for GitHub Actions, Packages, Codespaces, Microsoft Dev Tunnels and npm, empowering developers to automate their workflows from idea to production.

Product DevelopmentProduct Management

Staff Product Manager

Nov 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Working as a Staff PM I engage with our field and engineering teams to understand how best to improve the GitHub Actions Compute platform to better serve our customers. I have worked to review and update GitHub Actions pricing model, runner UX and our self-hosting options to ensure that customers have the best access to Actions compute whatever their needs.
Larger Actions runners generating 30% increase in revenue in 6 months for Actions
GPU runners & PM lead for ARM partnership announced at GitHub universe
Lead the adoption of a new self-hosting solution for Actions – Action-Runner-Controller
Supporting and mentoring multiple PMs across the GitHub business

Product DevelopmentProduct Management

Cosmonic

Product Advisor

Apr 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs · Remote

Supporting Cosmonic to explore their opportunities and move towards product market fit

Product DevelopmentProduct Management

Docker, inc

Group Product Manager

Mar 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote

Working as the Developer Experience Product Manager across all of the Docker products. Leading new features in Desktop, Engine, CLI and new Integrations into Docker Hub. Managed a team of product managers working across groups to bring new developer experiences to life. Driving insight on customer behavior from in depth customer interviews and data analysis.
Key Launches:
Docker Desktop relicense resulting in a >300% increase in revenue https://www.docker.com/blog/celebrating-our-second-fiscal-year/
Binging vulnerability scanning to Docker in partnership with Snyk
Amazon & MSFT partnership to drive the future of Docker Compose
Work with Apple for the future of Docker on Mac, resulting in callout in 2020 WWDC
Docker Desktop UI, adopted by over 20% of traditionally CLI users in under 9 months
Scaled Docker Desktop users from 1.7m to 4m over 24 month period
Set up the Docker Developer Preview program to engage developers directly for feedback
Lead PM on Compose Specification moving to a community contribution model

Product DevelopmentProduct Management

Amazon

Senior Technical Program Manager

Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

Working with developers and scientists to design and implement new solutions to understand and answer customer factual questions.
Work included supporting teams running experiments on new ML models and design of A/B testing
approaches.
Working with and supporting development of knowledge graphs & query engines

Microsoft

Project Manager

Sep 2011 – Apr 2017 · 5 yrs 7 mos · UK

Ensured that the right outcomes were delivered for Microsoft and our customers by leading customer facing technical delivery projects up to £4m in value using agile delivery methodologies including SCRUM and Kanban