CoHyre.ai, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) recruitment platform has announced the appointment of Vishal Sharma as its chief technology officer (CTO).
An alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Sharma was a member of the technical staff at Oracle India for well over two years from 2009 to 2012. He moved to Myntra as senior software engineer in April 2012.
His association with Livspace.com began in 2015. He went from being SDE to software architect in two years. By 2019, he had become the director of engineering, Livspace.com.
Vishal Sharma’s next stop was Avail Finance, where he served as head of engineering, from March 2021 to February 2022.
It was in March of 2022 that he joined RIPPLR as chief technology officer.
As co-founder and CTO, CoHyre.ai— an agentic AI recruitment intelligence platform which redefines how organisations identify and hire top talent today—Sharma will lead the development of Aria, the platform’s AI recruiter agent. He will spearhead all things technology, from architecture to implementation, with a focus on ensuring that AI augments human decision-making rather than replacing it. He believes in using ethical, explainable AI to solve complex hiring inefficiencies and create real impact at scale. With a strong foundation in engineering and AI/ML systems, his experience in building technology at scale across India’s most dynamic startups makes him uniquely suited to lead CoHyre.ai product and platform evolution.
Deepak Ahluwalia, founder and CEO, CoHyre.ai believes that Sharma’s “expansive expertise in intelligent automation, backend architecture, and AI-powered analytics are the core pillars that power CoHyre’s product infrastructure.”
Vishal Sharma will endeavour to “to ensure that AI hiring tools such as Aria reflect fairness, transparency, and true augmentation—not automation—of human judgment.”
For Sharma himself, “building future-ready tech isn’t just a job — it’s an adrenaline rush.” He admits that “Co-founding Cohyre.ai has been a thrilling ride, especially as we push the boundaries of what’s possible in recruitment with AI.”
