HackerRank has appointed former Facebook executive Grady Burnett as president and chief operating officer.

Burnett, former a vice president of global sales and operations at Facebook, now takes the reins at the technical talent platform that ranks programmers based on their coding skills.

Burnett’s most recent role was as chief operating officer of app analytics company Flurry, which was acquired by Yahoo. 

He is based in the San Francisco Bay area.