Dhanashri Chavan

Business Development Executive

India21 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led GitHub Copilot workshops for 2000+ participants.
  • Drove 66% YoY growth in enterprise adoption.
  • Established strategic partnerships with major enterprises.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Developer Advocate with expertise in enterprise adoption and education enablement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer AdvocacyEducation EnablementEnterprise AdoptionBusiness DevelopmentSales ManagementSales

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipEducation & Academic EnablementCustomer EngagementCloud ComputingDevSecOpsCustomer SuccessEnterprise advocacyCustomer RetentionSolution SellingCold CallingComputer ScienceComputer Science EducationBusiness Technology OptimizationStakeholder ManagementCustomer Experience Transformation

About

I’m a senior professional with 20+ years of experience driving developer adoption, strategic programs, and business growth across startups, unicorns, and enterprises. At GitHub, I focus on execution-driven growth, leading customer, education, and partner programs that move products from available to actively used. I thrive in the "white space"—aligning stakeholders, translating customer needs into actionable programs, and taking ownership of complex cross-functional initiatives. Key Impact Areas: Education & Academic Enablement: Led GitHub Copilot workshops across APAC for 2000+ students and educators, led sustainability initiatives and hackathons, and strengthened University Partnerships across India. Community & Developer Advocacy: Enabled 750+ developers across 60+ countries, organized hackathons, and spoke at forums including NASSCOM, SAP Inside Track, and Shell Open Fest. Enterprise Adoption & Growth: Executed GitHub Enterprise adoption for 1,000+ developers, drove 66% YoY growth, and expanded LATAM territory by 133% headcount. Passionate about education, security, and sustainability, I thrive at the intersection of technology, strategy, and execution to create measurable impact.

Experience

21 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
8 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Github

3 roles

Senior Developer Advocate

Promoted

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Drove AI-powered development adoption by leading GitHub Copilot workshops for 2,000+ students, developers, and faculty across APAC, improving hands-on usage and readiness.
  • Enabled 750+ developers across 60+ countries through GitHub + Microsoft for Startups programs by designing onboarding paths that accelerated cloud, DevSecOps, and AI-driven workflows.
  • Driven advocacy programs for 350+ Microsoft MTC customers and multiple Fortune 500 teams on secure SDLC, CI/CD automation, and App Modernization, increasing product usage and long-term retention.
  • Built strong feedback loops with GitHub Engineering by sharing education adoption patterns, directly influencing product enhancements and roadmap discussions.
Cross-functional Team LeadershipDeveloper AdvocacyEducation Enablement

Senior Enterprise Advocate

Jun 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Drove GitHub Enterprise adoption for 1,000+ developers across key VSS accounts by shaping rollout plans and coaching engineering teams—improving stickiness and renewals.
  • Collaborated with Microsoft Digital Natives and Business Groups to deliver joint GTM motions, increasing customer awareness, usage, and multi-cloud readiness
Enterprise advocacyEnterprise Adoption

Business Development Manager

Apr 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Supported GitHub’s India growth by driving enterprise pipeline, leading account expansion conversations, and accelerating GitHub Enterprise and Advanced Security adoption.

Digitalonus

Senior Director, Business Development at Digital OnUs

Apr 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Digital OnUs provides Managed DevOps, Monitoring Services and CAS (Cloud Application Services) for Hybrid Enterprises. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley and with wholly owned subsidiaries in Mexico, Canada and India, the company ensures critical 24/7 coverage for 1000+ customers around the globe.Partnering with SAP as a Global Strategic CAS provider for Basis, Functional Application and Technology Services support, and with HashiCorp, the leading DevOps technology provider, we have been on a rapid growth path and have emerged as a leader in the exciting DevOps services business in a short span of time.
  • Served as the single point of contact (SPOC) for 30+ HashiCorp Account Managers across West & Central USA; recognized as a top partner leader (Q3 2020).
  • Established strategic cloud modernization and DevSecOps partnerships with major enterprise clients.
Solution SellingBusiness Development

Persistent systems

6 roles

Director - Sales

Promoted

Dec 2018Apr 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Manage WW sales territory for the Security portfolio in the IBM Alliance business unit , accounting for multi-million dollars in services revenue per year. Manage business development, customer satisfaction, client relationships and overall account strategies.
  • Demonstrated ability to forge high-level relationships within different units at IBM including engineering, client success, product professional services and Global Technology Services to win incremental services business
  • Proven ability to execute the complete sales process from deal capture through close, demonstrating successful client analysis, qualification and presentation, and proposal of services
  • Responsible for on-time renewals for FY16, 17, 18 and 19.
Solution SellingSales Management

Account Executive

Jun 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Responsible for sales of the IBM Security and Watson IoT-Connected Products portfolios for North America clients.
  • Partnered closely with pre-sales, delivery and offering management teams to ensure technical excellence in all positioning, competitive analysis, proposals, and exchanges
  • Aggressively hunted and prospected for new business opportunities by making cold calls and email prospecting and following up on leads to ensure pipeline sufficiency
  • Tracked sales activities within salesforce.com to support accurate forecasting
  • Attended trade shows for client interaction and lead generation
Cold CallingSolution SellingSales

Solution Architect

Jul 2011May 2016 · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led installation of Tivoli Identity Manager, Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness and Tivoli Federated Identity Management in Production environment at a Department of Motor Vehicles for one of the largest states in the US.
  • Designed and implemented HADR and LDAP failover for ITIM and ITAM.
  • Configured TFIM trust chain setup to exchange and validate credential tokens for Layer7.
  • Implementing best-of-breed solutions for greatest stability of ITIM environment for a Cloud Managed Services Delivery team managing over 700 clients.
  • Responsible for reduction of outages in Production ITIM environment from twice daily to once a year.
  • Received IBM BlueThanks from IAM Support team for providing exceptional support.

Senior Implementation Analyst

Promoted

Jan 2008May 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Successfully led two releases of Global IAM Solution Deployment and IBM Japan Support
  • Headed 14 member team during Global IAM development release; got “Excellent Team Award” for Financial Quarter ‟10 at Persistent Systems.
  • Deployed and maintained IAM Role Based Access Control solution at an American multinational that produces a variety of commercial and consumer products, engineering services and aerospace systems.
  • Worked on a complex Tivoli access manager assignment for a Malaysia based public bank.
  • Integrated TAMeB with legacy systems running Lotus Domino (using LTPA).
  • Analyzed and configured load balancing and I/P address based request routing.
  • Created custom ITDI Assembly lines for handling account status and password resets for bulk account loads.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2006Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

  • Led the upgrade activity of ITIM 4.5.1 production environment to ITIM 4.6 for an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances.
  • Recognized by clients for ability to learn quickly and understand existing IAM environments.

Software Engineer

Jun 2004Jan 2006 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Worked as part of Level 3 support for IBM Identity Management 4.5.1
  • Responsible for bug-fixes for various modules in the product including webclient, workflow, policy, dataservices and auditing. Also worked on enhancement requests and Interim Fix & Fix Pack releases.
  • Worked as part of IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 team responsible for bug fixes and enhancements. Conducted multiple technical trainings for various internal and client teams with excellent feedback.

Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Masters in Computer Science — Computer Science

University of Pune, India

Bachelor of Computer Science

University of Pune, India

Master of Computer Science

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