About LitCoder

We're building the future
language of engineering
talent.

Software engineering is changing faster than at any point in its history. AI is rewriting how software is designed, built and maintained. Developers are no longer expected only to write code — they are expected to think like engineers, collaborate with AI, solve increasingly complex problems, and continuously adapt.

70,000+Developers
evaluated

70+Campuses
benchmarked

75+Enterprise
partners

4SCAV™ dimensions

The Industry Gap

The world's way of identifying engineering talent has barely changed.

Hiring decisions are still driven by resumes that can be AI-generated, academic scores that reflect past performance, coding tests that measure only fragments of engineering capability, and interviews that consume enormous time while often relying on limited evidence.

We believe the industry deserves something better.

01 Not another assessment.
02 Not another hiring platform.
03 A fundamentally better understanding of engineering talent.

That belief led us to build Litcoder.

A New Category

Developer Intelligence.

Our proprietary SCAV™ Talent Intelligence framework evaluates developers across four dimensions that together provide a richer picture of engineering readiness than traditional hiring signals alone.

Skills

Can they build reliable, high-quality software?

Capability

Can they solve engineering problems and think in systems?

AI-Augmented Development

Can they effectively collaborate with AI to build better software?

Velocity

Can they learn, adapt and grow as technology changes?

Together, these signals move the conversation from "Can this person code?" to "Can this person succeed as a modern software engineer?"

Built on Decades of Talent Science

Litcoder didn't start as a platform. It started as an observation.

The strongest engineers are not always identified by the strongest traditional hiring signals.

Having worked at the intersection of talent assessment, workforce development and organisational capability for many years, we recognised that software engineering had entered a new era while talent evaluation had not.

Drawing on that experience, we combined advances in engineering assessment, behavioural science, AI-enabled development and learning analytics to create a multidimensional framework that reflects how great engineers actually perform.

SCAV™ is the result of that journey.

A National Talent Intelligence Ecosystem

More than hiring.

Through the Litcoder National Benchmark Evaluation (LNBE), we are creating a nationally benchmarked ecosystem that connects developers, campuses and employers through a common language of verified engineering capability.

For developers

Meaningful recognition and visibility for the engineers they are becoming — not the resume they submit.

For universities

Actionable employability intelligence that supports curriculum improvement and student development.

For enterprises

Access to benchmarked, pre-evaluated engineering talent and deeper workforce insights across the talent lifecycle.

Our ambition is to make engineering talent more discoverable, more transparent and more
measurable than ever before.

The Opportunity

The organisations that succeed will
not simply hire more developers.
They will identify better developers.

Millions

of engineering graduates enter the workforce each year.

Thousands

of technology companies compete for that talent.

Monthly

AI is changing the nature of engineering work.

They will recognise learning agility, engineering judgement and AI capability before others do. We believe Developer Intelligence will become a foundational layer of that future.

Our Mission

To build the world's most trusted intelligence platform for engineering talent.

To help organisations hire with greater confidence.

To help universities develop industry-ready engineers.

To help developers be recognised for what they can truly become — not just what a resume or a coding score can reveal.

Because the future of engineering talent deserves better signals.
And we're building them.

From the Founders

“

"We didn't set out to build another assessment platform. We set out to answer a much bigger question: How do we recognise the engineers who will build the future? That question continues to drive every product we create, every institution we partner with and every developer we evaluate. We believe the future belongs to organisations that understand Developer Intelligence — and we're committed to building that future."

Prahlad Rao & Meeta Goswami

PortraitLitcoder

Prahlad Rao

Founder & Director