Vivek Ravisankar is the CEO and co-founder of HackerRank, a company that is on a mission is to match every developer to the right job based on skills, not pedigree. While Vivek was working at Amazon as a software developer, he and HackerRank co-founder Hari Karunanidhi noticed that instead of dedicating their time to coding and building new products, they often had to spend hours interviewing candidates for developer roles. Moreover, even after the long interviewing process, companies would often have new hires who didn’t actually have the skills needed to do the job, despite having traditional markers of success that employers screened for such as high GPAs and degrees from top universities. The hiring process for recruiters was clearly broken. To fix the problem, Vivek and Hari created HackerRank where companies can screen developers through coding assessments and developers can join the HackerRank community to practice their coding skills. HackerRank is now a Y Combinator alumnus that is backed by tier-one Silicon Valley VCs with total funding of over $58 million. There are 5 million+ developers in our community and we have 1,500+ customers from across different industries such as LinkedIn, Stripe, and Goldman Sachs who rely on HackerRank to build strong engineering teams.