Abhishek Vijayvergiya
Co-founder of OpenRound and Fabric
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| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Education | B.Tech ECE, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 2017 |
| Companies | OpenRound, Fabric |
Abhishek Vijayvergiya is co-founder of OpenRound, an AI-native technical assessment platform for software engineers, and CMO and co-founder of Fabric, the AI recruitment company that built it.1 He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad with a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2017, then spent seven years in video production and creative direction before founding Fabric in December 2024.1 Two days before OpenRound launched publicly in April 2026, Vijayvergiya published open-source research on how more than 1,000 companies conduct technical hiring in an era when AI tools can solve most LeetCode problems in seconds.2
Vijayvergiya studied Electronics and Communication Engineering at IIT ISM Dhanbad from 2013 to 2017.1 While still a student, he interned in 2015 at EmotionalFulls in Mumbai writing scripts for short videos and YouTube advertisements for brands including OLA, OLX, and Chef's Basket, and served as assistant director on shoots for those ads.1 In the summer of 2016, he interned at FundaCurry, a production unit under The Viral Fever, as a screenwriter and production intern.1 He wrote explainer episodes for the channel covering Brexit, India's engagement with the Nuclear Suppliers Group and Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Indus Waters Treaty.1
After graduating in 2017, Vijayvergiya joined Orchids The International School in Mumbai as a senior faculty member.1 In September 2018, while still at Orchids, he also joined K12 Techno Services in Mumbai as a Video Content and Social Media creator, leading a team of more than 15 professionals to produce video content for the marketing and academic programs of international schools.1 He left both positions by late 2019.1
Vijayvergiya moved to Bengaluru in August 2019 to join 7 Frames as Creative Director, a role he held for four years through November 2023.1
Vijayvergiya joined Fabric as CMO and co-founder in December 2024.1 Fabric builds AI-driven recruitment tooling for companies handling high-volume hiring; its primary product is an AI interviewer that conducts first-round screening calls with candidates without recruiter involvement.6 Clients include CRED, Meesho, Kearney, Inshorts, and Tata.6
In a June 2025 blog post, Vijayvergiya published an analysis of Fabric's AI interviewer drawn from data across 25 companies.5 The analysis found that on average only 1 in 8 shortlisted candidates passed a company's first technical interview.5 In a pilot of Fabric's AI interviewer, 66% of shortlisted candidates initiated the AI screening call within 48 hours of applying, 93% of those who started completed it, and 1 in 3 candidates advanced by the AI then passed the subsequent human L1 interview — three times the rate from traditional screening.5
Vijayvergiya co-founded OpenRound in March 2026 and helped launch it publicly on April 9, 2026.3 OpenRound gives software engineering candidates a real codebase matched to the hiring company's tech stack and asks them to complete a realistic engineering ticket within 90 minutes using the same AI coding tools — including CLI-based agents — that they use on the job.37 The platform includes a built-in AI coding agent in the assessment environment and uses models slightly weaker than frontier tools so that problems remain challenging.3 Assessments produce scored reports across six dimensions: Analysis, Discovery, Planning, Judgement, Execution, and AI Collaboration.7
In April 2026, Vijayvergiya wrote about the practical gap between software engineers and what he called "vibe coders."4 When he and OpenRound's CTO Mehul both took the same OpenRound assessment using identical AI tools, Mehul scored 85 on his first attempt; Vijayvergiya scored 43, 51, and 57 across three attempts.4 He described three specific behaviors that separated them: engineers edit AI output rather than accepting it, debug by reading stack traces rather than re-prompting, and justify architecture decisions through explicit trade-off reasoning rather than deferring to AI suggestions.4
On April 7, 2026, Vijayvergiya published open-source research based on reviewing the interview loops of more than 1,000 companies, built while developing OpenRound.2 The research found the industry split between companies still running LeetCode-based assessments that ban AI use and a smaller group — including Meta, Shopify, and Canva — that had redesigned their engineering hiring process.2 The research addressed three questions Vijayvergiya heard repeatedly from engineering leaders: how to design problems that cannot be one-shot by AI, how to evaluate candidate skill independently of AI output, and what benchmarks define strong versus weak AI-native performance.2 He published the research notes without a lead-generation gate, writing that he "didn't want to add any strings by adding a performative 'comment Openround to get it' loop."2