About Aditya Jayaprakash
Aditya "JP" Jayaprakash is the co-founder and CEO of Blacksmith, which he started in 2024 with Aayush Shah and Aditya Maru.
He was previously an engineer at Faire, where he helped scale search infrastructure and was a founding member of the ads team.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Aditya Jayaprakash in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Blacksmith Software Inc. Current
Co-founder and CEO (2024 – Present)
Director
2024 – Present · New York, NY
Blacksmith runs engineering teams' GitHub Actions jobs on its own bare-metal servers, with CI monitoring and a coding agent that fixes failed builds.
FA
Faire
Engineer
Education
- University of Waterloo
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Aditya Jayaprakash works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Blacksmith Software Inc. · Form D, Aug 19, 2026
Aditya Jayaprakash in the News
- Exclusive: AI code-testing startup Blacksmith hits $1 billion valuation as AI-written code surges
- Code testing startup Blacksmith becomes a unicorn after raising $66M in Series C funding
- AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year
- Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round