Aditya Batura

Aditya is the co-founder and CEO of Codomo, an education technology company with a mission to deliver delightful education experiences to nurture innovative minds for the 21 st century. He has a strong passion for making a positive impact in education and learning by combining his skills in software engineering, experience in design thinking and his love of growth hacking. Under Aditya’s leadership, Codomo’s first product line; Potato Pirates (www.potatopirates.game), has gone on to be the most successful series of Kickstarter games from Singapore each campaign raising over USD 200,000. Potato Pirates are a series of tabletop games which teach computer science fundamentals without computers and have gone on to be featured on large publications such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Smithsonian and Mashable as one of the best ways for kids to learn computer science. In 2018, Potato Pirates snatched up the Singapore Good Design Award 2018, Japan Good Design Award 2018 and the Core77 Design Awards (Education Category) 2018. Potato Pirates is now distributed worldwide by American game publisher Thinkfun. Over the past 5 years, Codomo has worked with the Singapore government, large corporations, schools and social enterprises in Design Thinking training. Through this extensive exposure, Codomo identified an opportunity to bridge the gap in innovation and design thinking, which has resulted in the development of Rolljak (www.rolljak.com) – a gamified microlearning innovation platform embodying the principles and methodologies of Design Thinking, which has the potential of unlocking global opportunities to scale innovation and Design Thinking online. Amongst his many appointments, Aditya is an Apple Certified Educator, Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner and an Adjunct Fellow for Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He was Singapore Computer Society’s I.T. Youth Leader Award finalist in 2019. An avid life-long learner, Aditya’s myriad of personal interests include biohacking and spirituality. He is also a certified personal trainer, independently recording musician, a black belt holder in Goju-Ryu Karate, and holds a Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, for which he won a Bronze medal in Grappleasia’s Dumau tournament 2017 and Singapore BJJ open 2019.