Skillable

Skillable is a performance-based learning and skill validation platform, founded in 2004, that builds hands-on lab experiences in live technical environments. Its platform spans cloud, cybersecurity, AI, networking and data analytics, and underpins Microsoft official curriculum training as well as enterprise enablement programmes. To date, 50 million labs have been launched on the platform, reaching millions of learners and more than 400 global customers.

The engineering challenge is one of scale and realism: delivering live-environment labs in which practitioners practise and validate real technical skills rather than merely consume content. The domains covered are those in which competence is demonstrable and unforgiving - cloud infrastructure, security, artificial intelligence, networking and data - and the product's purpose is to make that competence measurable.

Skillable operates entirely virtually. Its team of more than 170 people is distributed across 21 U.S. states and five countries, and the company reached its present form through the 2014 merger of holSystems and Terillian Technologies. Its stated mission is to transform how technical skills are developed and validated, with an emphasis on hands-on, real-world job readiness - a mission suited to engineers who take the craft of building seriously.