Ankit Honey
Senior Engineering Manager, Dependabot, GitHub
Ankit Honey is listed as Senior Engineering Manager, Dependabot, GitHub. Ankit is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 20 November 2026.
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About
Ankit Kumar Honey is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub, where he leads Dependabot, the system that delivers dependency alerts, automated security updates, and version updates across 30M+ repositories and 30+ package ecosystems. His work focuses on detecting vulnerable and malicious dependencies at ecosystem scale and on AI-agent-driven vulnerability remediation. Ankit has spoken at the NIST Software and Supply Chain Assurance Forum and Microsoft Reactor, and has written for Help Net Security and The Times of India. He is an IEEE Senior Member and is pursuing an M.S. in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University Extension School.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- The backlog problem gets worse with AI. Here's how to fix it. Speaker · 20 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Ankit at events on B2DB.
- Carlin Cherry Senior Product Manager · GitHub 1 shared session
Others from GitHub
- Dave Burnison Senior Technical Advocate 2 sessions
- Jessica Deen Staff Developer Advocate 2 sessions
- Meagan Cojocar Product 2 sessions
- Pallavi Challa Director of Product | Commerce & AI Monetization 2 sessions
- Ricky Diep Product Marketing 2 sessions
- Aaron Stewart Public Learning and Credentialing Director 1 session
- Aditya Sharad Principal Manager, Software Engineering 1 session
- Alejandro Menocal Senior DevOps Engineer 1 session
- Britni Burks Senior Customer Enablement Manager 1 session
- Carlin Cherry Senior Product Manager 1 session
- David Apirian Senior Director of Software Engineering 1 session
- David Losert Strategic Technical Architect, International 1 session