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Sachin Gupta and the work left on the wall
A dorm-room project became HackerEarth. For Sachin Gupta, learning to sell it opened the door to a second company - and another process he wanted to fix.
Kris Lande Is Betting AI’s Future on an Old Technology: Trust
After helping turn Salesforce learning into a global community, the OutSystems CMO has a new brief: make enterprise AI credible, useful, and human - one carefully designed detail at a time.
Laura Heisman Is Teaching Enterprise Marketing to See Around Corners
The Dynatrace CMO began in music-industry PR, learned brand craft inside developer communities, and now argues that AI should make marketers faster without making judgment optional.
Mike Swift Built a League for the Kids Who Would Rather Make Something
He arrived at his first hackathon expecting an elite coding contest. What he found was a room where beginners could belong - and a blueprint for more than a decade of building developer communities.
Vivek Ravisankar
Vivek Ravisankar is the co-founder and CEO of HackerRank, the technical hiring platform he started in 2012 after leaving a developer job at Amazon. Frustrated by the hours engineers lost to unstructured interviews, he and co-founder Hari Karunanidhi built a way to measure programming skill directly. After several pivots and three tries at Y Combinator, HackerRank grew into a platform used by thousands of companies and millions of developers. Ravisankar's stated mission is to build a meritocracy in hiring, where a developer's skills matter more than their school, geography, or resume brands.
Justine Davis
Justine Davis is the VP of Developer Marketing, Community, and Developer Relations at ServiceNow, where she oversees a developer community of more than one million members and shapes the narrative of ServiceNow as a global developer platform. With roots in digital marketing and a career arc that ran through Hotwire, Atlassian (over nine years), and Postman, she has built a reputation for translating complex technical products into language that resonates with developers and enterprise buyers alike. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, she is known for her candid takes on developer marketing, her emphasis on showing rather than telling, and her belief that DevRel and Developer Marketing are two sides of the same coin.
Sandeep Panda
Sandeep Panda is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hashnode, a developer-first blogging and community platform that lets software engineers own their content and publish on custom domains. Founded in 2016 alongside Syed Fazle Rahman, Hashnode has grown to serve 3M+ monthly readers and 10M+ monthly views, backed by Sequoia Capital India's Surge, Salesforce Ventures, and angel investors including Naval Ravikant and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel). A graduate of IIIT Bhubaneswar with a background in web development and technical writing, Sandeep has authored books on AngularJS and HTML5, and is now building Bug0, an AI-native end-to-end testing platform.