Aditya Jayaprakash

Aditya (JP) is a co-founder and CEO of Blacksmith, a software infrastructure platform that helps companies run their Continuous Integration (CI) and testing workloads substantially faster and cheaper than the large cloud providers. Blacksmith has raised more than $45m from some of the best venture funds in the industry, such as Peak XV Partners, Y Combinator, and GV (Google Ventures). Previously, Aditya was an engineer at Faire, a wholesale marketplace, where he worked on search and ad infrastructure. As a founding member of the ads team, he led ad indexing and retrieval. Before that, Aditya did research in Theoretical Computer Science and has authored publications in top algorithm conferences and journals such as SODA 2022 and the ACM Transactions on Algorithms.