Bengaluru, India, 04/10/2016, 2016: HackerRank, a company today announced the hiring of Mr. Arunkumar Jadhav as the Vice President of Engineering. In his new role at the company, he will be responsible for scaling up HackerRank’s engineering division.
An
engineer at heart, Arunkumar brings over eleven years of experience in
software development, applying transformative digital solutions and a
knack for building robust and scalable products. He joins HackerRank
most recently from FreeCharge where he was the Associate Vice President
of Engineering. Arunkumar was one of the first developers who
bootstrapped FreeCharge at Bangalore. He played a key role in growing
FreeCharge to one of the largest digital payments brand in India which
culminated in one of the biggest tech acquisitions. Prior to his stint
at FreeCharge, Arunkumar worked with a wide range of groups at Amazon
such as Payments Platform, E-Commerce and Amazon Appstore.
"HackerRank
has disrupted the tech hiring space and established itself a pioneer in
the ecosystem. My goal is to continually improve and scale our
industry-leading platform so that every developer in the world can
access HackerRank to learn, compete, and ultimately to get hired. The
platform has been set, now we need to make it more robust," said
Arunkumar Jadhav, Vice President of Engineering, HackerRank
"Arunkumar’s
deep domain knowledge and experience will help us perform better as a
company." Companies want the best talent, but they are simply not using
the right approach to find and hire talent. There is no dearth of
skilled engineers around the globe and it is our mission to change the
way companies hire technical talent," said Harishankaran Karunanidhi,
co-founder and CEO of HackerRank.
HackerRank
a pioneer in technical recruitment, provides a platform for software
developers around the world to hone their coding skills, compete in
coding challenges, and ultimately get hired by the best companies.
Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, VMware, Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn etc,
use HackerRank to source, screen, interview, and hire software
engineers.
LinkedIn
recently partnered with HackerRank for their LinkedIn Placements
initiative. The standardized test for any tech job on LinkedIn
placements is done on HackerRank, which makes HackerRank tests a
benchmark for hiring top programmers.
About HackerRank
HackerRank
is a platform that ranks engineers based solely on their coding skills
and helps companies discover talent and save time to hire. We're driving
a new paradigm shift by eliminating resumes and creating opportunities
for hundreds of thousands of programmers worldwide. Over 1,000 companies
use HackerRank to build strong engineering teams