👥 Our Team
Built by
People Who Care
AlgoNation is run by a small team of engineers, event professionals, and community builders who believe India's best CS talent deserves a national stage — and a direct path to the careers they've worked for.
Organising Committee
The AlgoNation Team
Arjun Verma
Founder & Event Director
Strategy · Vision
CS graduate from BITS Pilani. Previously organised inter-college hackathons for 3 years before founding AlgoNation to create a national-scale competition that actually leads to careers.
Sneha Rao
Head of Operations
Logistics · Coordination
Former event manager at HackerEarth. Oversees everything from venue sourcing and participant communication to round-day execution and post-event logistics.
Tanmay Ghosh
Technical Lead
Platform · Infrastructure
Full-stack engineer with 5 years of experience. Builds and maintains the AlgoNation contest platform, submission system, and leaderboard infrastructure.
Ishaan Kapoor
Partnerships & Sponsorships
Business · BD
Manages relationships with hiring partners, sponsors, and university collaborators. Previously in business development at a Series-B startup in Bengaluru.
Meera Pillai
Head of Marketing
Growth · Content
Drives participant acquisition through university outreach, social media, and content strategy. Has grown AlgoNation's waiting list from zero to 2,000+ before registration even opened.
Dev Sharma
Community Manager
Community · Support
Manages the AlgoNation Discord community, handles participant support queries, and coordinates with college ambassadors across India.
What We Stand For
Our Values
Fairness First
We apply rules consistently, protect participant IP, and maintain a zero-tolerance policy on cheating.
Merit Over Background
Talent from Tier 3 colleges competes on equal footing with IIT students. The code doesn't know your college name.
Real Career Outcomes
We're not satisfied with just running an event. We measure success by internships, interviews, and hires that come from AlgoNation.
Community Above Competition
Even participants who don't win walk away with a network, a certificate, and new teammates they built something with.
Our Story
Why We Built AlgoNation
AlgoNation started from a frustration. India produces hundreds of thousands of CS graduates every year — many of them brilliant — but most campus hackathons are small, siloed, and disconnected from the hiring market. You could win your college's hackathon and still have nothing to show a recruiter.
We wanted to build something national, rigorous, and career-linked. Not a 24-hour sleep-deprived code-fest, but a structured multi-round competition that tests real skills: problem solving under pressure, building as a team, shipping a working product, and presenting it to people who can actually hire you.
AlgoNation 2026 is our first edition. 500 seats. 4 Sundays in July. We're building the national standard for CS talent discovery in India.
🎓 Become a Campus Ambassador
Representing AlgoNation at your college gets you early registration access, a featured profile, and a direct line to the organising team.
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