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Gun.io

Our mission is to make hiring simpler, more efficient, and more human.

What started as a way to get open source devs paid for their contributions became the Gun.io we are today, helping thousands of companies and developers collaborate on industry-shaping software

Deeper Dive

Our Story

Back when "zoom" was a setting on your camera, we were busy bootstrapping a platform for remote work. Our founder, Teja Yenamandra, breaks it all down for you.

By the numbers

What over a decade of working
with developers looks like

2012
Founded to start paying bounties to white hat hackers
$10M+
The amount we've paid out to developers
2.7K
Engineers approved since inception
1K
Skills and technologies on our platform
Our secret sauce

What makes Gun.io unique

The current system of sorting through stacks of resumes, scheduling multiple interviews, and going through lengthy coding challenges for every developer hired is a broken one, and we want to change that.

It’s a big undertaking, and our team is full of people that say “Let’s gooooo!” when others would balk. We’re a fully remote team of linchpins, dreamers, Star Wars nerds, artists, tinkerers, and, obviously, developers.

The go-getters

Core team

These are the faces behind the keyboards at Gun.io, working from everywhere but the moon (not yet, anyway)

Abbey Charles

Content Lead | Asheville, NC 🇺🇸

Ben Kettle

VP, Revenue | Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Cameron Holmes

Revenue Analyst | Dallas, TX 🇺🇸

Chris Johnson

Marketing Coordinator | Carolina Beach, NC 🇺🇸

David Egbert

Sr. Backend Developer | Cleveland, OH 🇺🇸

Deividi Silva

VP, Technology | Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil 🇧🇷

Francois Planet

Technical Talent Advocate Lead | Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

Girish Kumar

Technical Talent Advocate | London, UK 🇬🇧

Grey Garner

Head of Product | Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Haley Harris

Product Manager | Austin, TX 🇺🇸

Jay Taylor

Sr. Frontend Developer | Chattanooga, TN 🇺🇸

Jeff Vedenoff

Client Success Manager | San Diego, CA 🇺🇸

Jesse Gonzalez

Sr. Account Executive | Las Vegas, NV 🇺🇸

Joe Ciskey

Sr. Software Developer | Greeley, CO 🇺🇸

Kate Mauldin

Client Success Manager | Memphis, TN 🇺🇸

Keely O'Brien

Sr. Account Executive | Memphis, TN 🇺🇸

Kevin Jones

Sr. Account Executive | Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Liaq Ahmad

Technical Talent Advocate | Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦

Pedro Masid

Product Designer | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷

Regis Camimura

Sr. Backend Developer | Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil 🇧🇷

Richa Bhardwaj

Technical Talent Advocate | Delhi, India 🇮🇳

Skyler Marr

Operations Manager | Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Taylor Desseyn

Talent Advocate | Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Teja Yenamandra

CEO | Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Tomas Ambrogi

Sr. Software Developer | Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷

Tyler Newkirk

VP, Operations | Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Victoria Stahr

Talent Growth Lead | Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Vitor Oliveira

Talent Success Manager | Vancouver, BC, Canada

Our backing

Our investors

We’re thrilled to be backed by Ballast Point Ventures out of Tampa, Florida. They’re a later-stage venture capital and growth equity fund founded in 2002 to provide expansion capital for rapidly growing, privately held companies. They are particularly excited about backing companies in Florida, Texas, and other parts of the Southeast, like the place we call HQ: Nashville, Tennessee.