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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.
CoderPad
CoderPad is a San Francisco-based technical interview and assessment platform that lets engineering teams evaluate developers in a real, runnable coding environment instead of on a whiteboard. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google and Amazon engineer Vincent Woo, it pairs live collaborative interviews with asynchronous take-home screens across 40+ programming languages, and has hosted millions of technical interviews for thousands of companies. In 2021 it acquired CodinGame to add candidate assessments and a developer skill-building community.
Natalia Panowicz
Natalia Panowicz is the CEO and co-founder of Codility, a technical assessment platform used by enterprise engineering teams to evaluate developers. Trained as a psychologist, she joined Codility in 2012 as a business developer, became COO in 2014, and stepped into the CEO seat in July 2019. She has helped grow the company past 140 employees across Warsaw, London, Berlin and San Francisco, and led the raise of a $22M Series A in 2020.