Company Performance Metrics
- Bhavin Turakhia: Founder & CEOPast Role: Directi, CEO and Co-Founder
CodeChef is a competitive programming community of programmers from across the globe. CodeChef was started as an educational initiative in the year 2009 by Directi, an Indian software company. Apart from its monthly coding contests for the community, CodeChef has many initiatives for Schools, Colleges, and Women in competitive programming. CodeChef
is credited with hosting the India regionals of the prestigious ICPC for college students, as well as for IOI for school students in India. CodeChef also runs a program called 'CodeChef for Business, ' which helps leading technology recruiters in sourcing top-notch programming talent and in building branding among millions of programmers at no upfront costs. In 2020, CodeChef’s custodianship was changed from Directi (founded by Bhavin Turakhia) to Unacademy (Gaurav Munjal, CEO). CodeChef and its various initiatives have been managed and run by its Business Unit Head Anup Kalbalia.