Rakesh Nagaraj

Rakesh Nagaraj is the Vice President and General Manager for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region at HackerRank, a position he has held since January 2020. His career at HackerRank began in 2014, where he initially served as the Head of Sales for India and APAC, followed by a role as Director of Sales for the region from 2017 to 2019.13

Before joining HackerRank, Rakesh worked at LinkedIn as a Senior Enterprise Relationship Manager and an Enterprise Relationship Manager from 2011 to 2014. He also has experience from his time at naukri.com, where he held various sales management positions from 2003 to 2011.124

Rakesh holds a degree from Visvesvaraya Technological University and has completed various certifications related to leadership and sales operations. He is multilingual, speaking English, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil.12