Summary
Himank Yadav is a hiring-focused software engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building developer-focused products and scaling teams from startup to acquisition. As Co‑founder and CEO of Reploy (YC S20), acquired by Rippling, he combined product engineering and GTM focus to accelerate developer productivity, and now builds a new product vertical while recruiting engineers across the US, Canada, and Bangalore. His background blends rigorous research—PhD work in Cornell’s Joachims Group and teaching machine learning—with hands-on engineering at Apple, Facebook, Nextdoor and early-stage ventures. He brings a founder’s instinct to hiring and product decisions, favoring pragmatic systems that let smart teams move fast. Based in the SF Bay Area, he’s comfortable straddling research, growth engineering, and talent strategy to ship developer-facing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Computer Science, B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Cornell University
Urdu, German, Hindi, English