Jan 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · India · Hybrid

• Built Engineering & Product teams in India & APAC, 0 to 170+ 🚀

Feb 2022 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr

• Built and scaled Slack's India & JAPAC teams.
• Scaled Slack's overall India headcount within a year and half from 40+ to 140+.
• Doubled India Engineering team (2x) within a year, Leadership hiring (EM, Sr. EM & Director of Eng)and backfilling expected/unforeseen attrition. Hired 5 Sr. Engineering Managers within 4 months, and built teams of 7-8 engineers under each of them.
• Grew Australia Sales, Customer Experience & Solutions Engineering teams by 35% in FY21-22.
• Built Slack's India GTM & Sales teams single handedly from the scratch, across all levels, leadership included. From 0 to 40+, and the growth continues 🚀
• Developed hiring processes/practices grounds up for several teams across APAC.

Jan 2021 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Aug 2020 – Jan 2021 · 5 mos

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

• Bringing the power of community to the People Success world 🚀

Aug 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs

• Reported direclty to the Co-Founder & CEO. Led the entire gamut of Talent Acquisition, People Operations & Culture, employer brand & Special projects/programs.
• Built Engineering, Product, Design, Strategy & International teams grounds up. Grew the company from 75 to 210+ over 2 years across the globe (India, SF, Hongkong & Berlin, Germany)
• Hired Backend, Frontend, Design, Product Management & Business teams across levels.
• Built and led a TA & People Ops team of 5 amazing Talent & People enthusiasts.
• Led campus engagement & hiring initiatives across the country, especially focussed on Tier 1 & 2 Engineering institutions & B'Schools such as IITs, IIMs, NITs & BITs and many more
• Created the hackout.io Hackathon series of Headout, still being continued.
• Built Headout's employer brand that contributed to significantly boost the offer acceptance ratio & joiners from 40% to 80%.
• Launched new PMS (Performance Management System) across the org and managing employee performance review cycles for India & offshore teams.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Reported to the Co-Founder & CTO. Responsible for Technology, Product, Design, Strategy & Operations Hiring.
• Hired for the following roles: SDE II, SDE III, Tech Lead-Backend, Senior/Lead Front-end, SDET, Associate Architect & Architect, Engineering Manager, Product Manager / SPM, Director of Products.
• Backend Tech-Stack:____Python, Scala, Spark, RoR, Java, Kafka, NoSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached, Ehcache.
• Concepts Excellence: ____Data Structures, Algorithms, Design Pattern ( HLD & LLD) & Problem Solving.
• Frontend Tech-Stack:____Javascript, AngularJS, ReactJS/ReactNative, PostCSS, LessCSS, HTML, Redux, Typescript, Gulp.
• Leadership Hiring - Associate Architect | Architect | Associate Director | Director of Engineering | Director of Products | Data Scientists
• Leading the campus hiring process for Technology, Product and Strategic roles right from planning the requirements till executing in IIT's | NIT's | BITS | IIM's | ISB. Carrying out Post Offer Follow up(POFU), logistics and on-boarding them.
• Owner:
• Established and governing robust lateral and fresher hiring processes.
• Employer branding champion administering social presence of Treebo across all platforms and driving several other employer branding activities.
• Driving referral program and leveraging the most of it.
• Contributing to talent management and retention.
• Efficiently execute special projects/programs.
• Scaled Technology, Product, Design & QA teams 2x - (From 60 to 130+) in a span of 16 months, developed processes, shaped the culture and managed programs.

Apr 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Joined as the 2nd hire in the company, worked closely with the Co-founder & CEO in building all foundations of the company. Led the entire gamut of HR. Built the core team, Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, Operations, BD & Sales teams. Shaped the culture. Managed operations and Business partnered.
• Grew the team from 0 to 45+ in a span of 1 year.

Apr 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr · Chennai Area, India

• Campus hired and been part of a vibrant IT Recruitment team and catered to both lateral and fresher resource requirements. Embraced and executed major campus recruitment drives, and managed employer branding.
• Accomplishments:
• During my stint with Sensiple, closed over 30 lateral positions that include web & product developers (Backend | Frontend), mobile app developers (i.e. Android and iOS), QA Manual/Automation, tech lead,
• project manager, technical architect, solution architects and CoE’s
• Headed campus recruitments - Hired and on-boarded about 100+ fresh computer science and IT engineering grads by conducting on and off campus drives pan India. Also hired from IIT’s, NIT’s and other premier institutions during the journey.
• Applied & secured H1B visas for 60+ employees and sent them onsite
• Recognized as – "The most loved recruiter"

Apr 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai