HackerEarth Reshuffle: Sachin Gupta Moves To Chairman Role, Vikas Aditya Roped In As CEO

Tech-focused skilling and hiring startup HackerEarth has made a top deck reshuffle, with the company roping in Vikas Aditya as new chief executive, while its current CEO Sachin Gupta will be moving to the executive chairman’s role.

Gupta made this announcement in his LinkedIn post. He said that going forward, he will dedicate more time to the product vision, supporting the team in exploring adjacent opportunities and spending more time with customers and partners.

He further added that the changing role of software developers in coping with the evolving AI landscape required passing on the baton to Aditya. 

“As we go into an AI-first world, the skills landscape will be fundamentally changed. The role of a software developer of the future will be very different from what it has been in the past 5 decades. I have spent the past many months collaborating with Vikas thinking through many of these changes. As I hand over the baton to him, I am extremely excited about what lies ahead.”

Aditya had previously served as CEO of cloud-based software development company Veridic. Apart from this, he also held key roles in tech companies like Intel Corp, TEKnuova and FTS Solution, among others.  He is also the founder of search solution provider startup QuikFynd. 

Founded by Gupta and Vivek Prakash in 2012, HackerEarth helps tech organisations recruit developers via its platform. It also helps companies upskill their employees via its platform Sprint.  

In 2020, the startup secured $6.5 Mn in its Series B funding round led by the family office of ZIGExN CEO Jo Hirao and other existing investors.

It counts the likes of Beenos Partners, BizReach, BEENEXT, Prime Venture Partners, Smile Group and TA Ventures, among its investors. 

This also comes over a year after it laid off over 8% of its workforce owing to unfavourable macroeconomic conditions including economic downturn, funding crisis and impending recession in the US market.

This comes at the heart of several other startup heavyweights in the likes of Flipkart, Inshorts, BharatPe, and Freshworks undergoing leadership rejigs. 

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