Name:Ankit Kumar Honey

Bio:

Ankit Kumar Honey is a Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub (Microsoft), where he leads engineering for software supply chain security. His team operates dependency-security systems - alerts, automated security updates, and version updates - across millions of repositories and 30+ package ecosystems.

His work focuses on detecting vulnerable and malicious dependencies at ecosystem scale, operationalizing secure-development frameworks such as the NIST SSDF, and applying AI and agentic automation to vulnerability response. He has led large-scale platform migrations and ecosystem-wide security initiatives across a 17+ year career spanning Wipro, Toshiba, Verizon, AWS, and Microsoft.

He is an IEEE Senior Member and is pursuing an M.S. in Data Science at Harvard University Extension School.

Country:United States

Affiliation:GitHub, Inc.

Research interests:Software supply chain security; dependency and malicious-package detection; SBOM and build provenance; vulnerability disclosure and response; secure software development frameworks (NIST SSDF); AI/ML and agentic automation for security at ecosystem scale