Yashraj Nayak

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Built communities engaging over 200,000 developers.
Led APAC community growth for OutSystems.
Executed GitHub's Constellation India 2024 conference.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Developer Relations expert with a focus on community building in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer RelationsProgram ManagementProject ManagementDeveloper Education

Other Skills

Community BuildingStrategic PartnershipsCommunity ManagementEvent ManagementCommunity DevelopmentCommunity EngagementTechnical PresentationsProgram DesignWeb DevelopmentJavaScriptGitHub ActionsMongoDBData VisualizationDigital MarketingC#

About

Developer and a People Person. Over the past 9 years, I’ve built and scaled developer communities across India and Asia-Pacific. My journey began as a Microsoft Student Partner - representing India at Microsoft HQ which gave me first-hand experience volunteering, supporting, and learning from diverse tech communities. Since then, I’ve had the privilege to: - Scale Progate’s India community, engaging 200,000+ learners via learning jams, partnerships, and ambassador programs. - Lead APAC community growth at OutSystems, growing our low-code developer base to 60,000+ through flagship learning initiatives and hackathons with major global partners. - Build ANSR’s community programs from scratch - hosting 20+ high-impact events for clients like Delta Air Lines and lululemon, and engaging 6,000+ active developers in under a year. - Contribute to growth of developer programs at GitHub, delivering premier initiatives like Constellation India 2024, the Global Meetups Program, and GitTogethers across Bengaluru, NCR, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. We brought 10,000+ of India’s most active developers closer to the GitHub ecosystem, amplifying their voices internally and externally. Through each chapter in my career, my focus remained on building authentic connections and nurturing environments where developers can grow, collaborate, and thrive. Always open to connecting with fellow builders and community enthusiasts!

Experience

7 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

1 yr 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 mo

Current Experience

Databricks

University Alliances and Student Programs Lead, India

Mar 2026 – Present · 1 mo · Bengaluru · Remote

Owning Databricks’ university alliances and student programs strategy for India, focusing on building a strong pipeline of data and AI talent across top institutions. My responsibilities include:
Building and nurturing partnerships with faculty, university leadership, and student communities to integrate Databricks into teaching, projects, and research.
Designing and executing scalable programs including workshops, hackathons, and curriculum collaborations.
Enabling students and educators with Databricks resources, training, and community so they can gain hands-on experience with Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
Tracking program health through engagement, adoption, and pipeline metrics. Iterating on initiatives based on feedback from campuses and internal stakeholders.

Community BuildingStrategic PartnershipsProject ManagementDeveloper RelationsProgram Management

Mongodb

Senior Program Manager, Developer Relations

Mar 2025 – Feb 2026 · 11 mos · Bengaluru · Remote

Collaborated closely with regional teams and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment for MongoDB User Groups (MUG) program.
Supported 40 existing MongoDB User Groups globally and launched/revived chapters in key cities including Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Rio de Janeiro, and Cape Town.
Managed operations as the DRI for 24 user group events, totalling over 4,600 RSVPs.

Community ManagementEvent ManagementDeveloper RelationsProgram Management

Github

Program Manager, Developer Relations

Mar 2024 – Feb 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru · Remote

As a Program Manager, I supported the GitHub Developer Relations team with:
Planning and execution of Constellation 2024, GitHub's developer conference celebrating the best of the Indian developer community, which attracted thousands of registrations and engaged 900+ in-person attendees in Bengaluru, India.
Key programs such as the Global Meetups Program and premier events like GitHub Universe Recap and GitHub Connect India.
Developed processes and automations to scale GitTogethers program in India, hosting 39 premier developer meetups in Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, and Mumbai July 2024 to July 2025. These in-person events featured over 200 speakers and engaged more than 10,000 of India's most active developers, bringing them closer to the GitHub ecosystem.
Represented the voice of developers internally, working with teams across the company to bring their insights back into GitHub.

Program ManagementCommunity DevelopmentDeveloper RelationsProject Management

Outsystems

APAC Community Growth Manager

Mar 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As part of the Developer Relations team at OutSystems, I focused on expanding our global community programs in the Asia-Pacific region.
Some programs and initiatives I have worked on:
#14DaysOfOutSystems Challenge, a cohort-based learning program for developers who are new to OutSystems. Participants start following a 14-day learning plan and help each other along the way.
OutSystems Developer Journey, a 4-stage self-paced learning journey for anyone to go from absolute beginner to certified OutSystems developer.
OutSystems Student Accelerator, a structured learning program for university students to get started with low-code app development, build applications, get certified, and become job-ready.
OutSystems User Groups (OSUGs) are community-driven chapters in different cities worldwide. I am supporting user group organizers in APAC to host technical events and build a strong community of OutSystems developers in their cities and regions.
Hosted large-scale internal hackathons with our key global partners such as Infosys, KPMG, etc.
OutSystems Intro Talks, 90-mins introduction to low-code app development.

Community ManagementTechnical PresentationsProject ManagementDeveloper RelationsProgram Management

Progate

2 roles

India Community Manager

Promoted

Jun 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Progate is an online coding learning platform from Japan with over 2 million learners across the world. I was involved in managing the India community at Progate, building and scaling programs to engage our community of over 200,000 learners in India.
Some programs and initiatives I have worked on:
Progate's Community Partnership with Hacktoberfest 2020 (Sept 2020)
Finalized this partnership and helped 100+ student volunteers to plan and execute their own online meetups, inspiring thousands of university students to start their open source journey.
Progate Learning Jams (Feb 2020 - Feb 2021)
Helping beginners to try their hands on new technologies such as React, Node, etc. Planned and executed over 30 Learning Jams in Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Indore, Nagpur, Mumbai, etc, and 10+ online Learning Jams covering different topics.
Progate Week of Learning (Sep 2019 - Feb 2020)
An intensive week-long learning program to combine online and offline learning. 8000+ students from 50+ universities across India started their web development journey with a 'Week of Learning'
Progate India Community Support Program (2019)
Connected with 10+ nonprofit organizations working for tech skilling or digital empowerment, helped them with support and resources to do more good.
Progate Student Ambassadors Program (2018)
Over the period of 6 months, 30+ ambassadors in universities across India hosted technical activities and workshops in their campus, helping hundreds of students to learn new skills.
Hour of Code™ 2018 Campaign (Supported by Progate)
Reached 6000+ high school students in 20 cities across India, including Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Pune, Varanasi and more. Trained 100+ volunteers on how they can inpire school students to learn to code. Collaborated with partners like CodeChef and DigitalOcean.

Community ManagementTechnical PresentationsProject ManagementDeveloper Relations

Strategic Partnerships

Mar 2018 – May 2018 · 2 mos

Responsible for exploring and building early-stage partnerships for Progate in India. Finalized academic partnerships with 15+ schools and universities in different cities across India.

Event Management

Skillenza

Community Manager

Aug 2017 – Feb 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked alongside teams from DigitalOcean, AWS, Digital Domain, Société Générale, etc to plan and execute various developer events across the country (both online and offline)
Helped in the execution of Hack2Innovate 2017, series of 7 deep-tech hackathons in cities across India. While working with teams from T-Hub, Microsoft, NVIDIA and PwC.
Built a diverse team of experienced mentors for Rajasthan Hackathon 4.0, Rajasthan Government's biggest technical event.
Handled Skillenza's student developer engagement, came up with initiatives and university programs such as Skillenza Campus Hustlers (SCH). Supported 25+ hackathons in different campuses reaching thousands of university students.

Event ManagementCommunity Management

Uber

Operations Consultant

Sep 2016 – Oct 2016 · 1 mo · Bhopal Area, India

Managed the process of on-boarding new partners and supporting existing ones.
Managed in-person communications (both 1-1 and 1-many) between Uber and its partner community.