Oct 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Looking for Engineering Leaders in Backend, Frontend,Data,Fullstack and Data Scientists and Data Architects
• As an Individual Contributor involved in Leadership Hiring for Platform Engineering,Business Unit at Razorpay. This involves end to end Recruitment from Sourcing to Candidate Management for Staff & above Roles and Engineering Manager & above Roles
• Hands-on Sourcing
• Mentoring Junior Recruiters
• End to End Candidate Management

Dec 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Talent Acquisition for Engineering Leadership Hiring(Backend,Frontend,Devops,Secops) and Backend Engineering Hiring across all levels(except Campus)
• Involved in Leadership Hiring for all Business Units at Razorpay.
• Worked for Engineering Managers/Senior Engineering Managers,Directors(Hands-on Technology,Large Scale Systems,Product Development) and Data Scientists(Machine Learning/ML),Data Engineers(Spark/Flink and Java/Scala)
• Worked for SDEs (Hands-on Coding Java/PHP/Python with good DS/Algorithms and design at mid to senior levels
• Razorpay has been ranked 9 out of 25 '2018's Top Startups to work for in India' by LinkedIn

Aug 2018 – Nov 2018 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Not an Official Employment,just explored for few months

Aug 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Currently Hiring for Sales (Online Sales) and Business Development,Strategic Alliances,Collections Professionals
• Working as an Individual Contributor for niche Hiring in Tech,Non Tech and closed several Roles successfully in short time
• Worked for Hiring Leaders in ,Product(Director & above),Engineering(VP,Director-Backend).Closed Director,VP Level Roles apart from Principal Engineers,Senior Engineering Managers etc
• Worked for Hiring Architects,Principal Engineers(Java/C++,Data structures & algorithms,Distributed Systems,microservices) & Directors,Engineering Managers
• Hands- on Leadership Hiring(VP ,Directors,Architects)
• worked on Hiring for Platforms,Market Place,Supply,Consumer Teams fro various Engineering Roles
• Worked on Design(UX,User Experience) Positions
• Worked on Security Engineering(Application) and PMO Positions
• Worked earlier Hiring for Non Tech Positions
• Critical & niche Non Tech Positions
• Marketing,Sales,CRM,Customer Life Cycle

Jul 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• Currently working on Hiring Architect/Principal Architect, Data Scientist Positions
• Strategic TA Partner with Business and played an advisory Role
• Involved in building high-performing Recruitment Teams, Training TA Teams, designing TA Processes
• Completely hands-on Sourcing and managing a team
• Leading and managing a team of Senior and Junior Members (Full Time & Contract)
• Mentoring Recruiters & Sourcers
• Hands-on TA Metrics
• Strategic Sourcing for niche positions
• Involved in Compensation Decisions & Discussions
• Extensively involved in Talent Research & Market Intelligence
• Successfully closed several senior niche hires like VP, Principal Architect, Architects and several SDE IIIs by hands-on direct Sourcing. Also, closed EM and DOE level positions
• Skills Hired & Worked for: Java/ C++/Scala/Clojure; Data structures and Algorithms; Design & Architecture; Distributed Systems, Analytics & Program Management, Data Science,IOT

Jan 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

• Talent Acquisition - SDE III & Architect Hiring,EM/Director Hiring
• Supply Chain,EKART,IOT(Internet of Things)
• My Role is to hire SDE IIIs which are very niche and critical positions.Besides that I also take care of Architect Positions at Flipkart.
• Hands-on Direct Sourcing experience
• Successfully closed several senior niche hires like VP,Principal Architect,Architects and several SDE IIIs by hands-on direct Sourcing.Also,closed EM and DOE level positions.
• Closely work with Business Leaders in understanding their requirements
• Have partnered with multiple Business Units and closed positions.
• skills:Java/ C++/Scala/Clojure;Data structures and Algorithms;Big Data;Design & Architecture;Distributed Systems

Apr 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Hired Architects,Principal Engineers and Senior Managers/Directors for Product Engineering with following skills:Java/ C++/J2ee;Data structures and Algorithms;Big Data;Cloud Computing
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Solely responsible for Leadership Hiring and also all requirements of Cloud Platform Group at Yahoo SDC, Bangalore
• Involved in End to End Recruitment with good understanding of various technologies and also ability to understand Hiring Teams requirements
• Hands-On sourcing/recruiting and creating a candidate pool of
• Qualified resumes for Leadership Hiring and all Requirements of Cloud Platform Group
• If you are looking for a challenging technical role,being hands-on,working on cutting edge technologies at Yahoo! please connect with me, to know more about openings.

Mar 2008 – Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• I was responsible for hiring Architects and Senior Architects, Senior Engineering Managers and Directors for various Product Engineering Groups at Yahoo!
• I was handling Architect and above Positions across all Business Units.
• My Role was to recruit Individual Contributors at senior level with skills in either C++ or Java or PHP and good experience using Data structures,Algorithms and building highly scalable systems for various Business Units in Yahoo

Oct 2005 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Pylon is formed by IIT Alumni & a leader in IT Recruitment. I was the first employee to join Pylon .I successfully managed various clients in IT application domain which includes startups,product companies which is always a challenge recruiting to these companies.I was instrumental in closing many key positions with niche skills with startups & product based companies.I joined Pylon as a staffing trainee and had quick promotions and at the time of leaving Pylon I was Lead Staffing Specialist and successfully handled teams which are into sourcing and delivery
• Roles & Responsibilities
• I have worked as a Lead Staffing Specialist handling a team of 6 people
• Handling end to end recruitment (Meeting Client---Getting Requirement---Analyzing the
• Requirement—Sourcing (through various sources)----Talking to Candidates---Follow
• Up (coordinating with client and candidate)------Offer---Joining
• Handled various types of positions in IT Application Domain, Research, networking,  Telecom,
• System Software, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and various other technologies
• Solely responsible for sourcing/recruiting candidates and creating a candidate pool of qualified
• Resumes
• Mentoring the team and making them understand End to End Recruitment Process and
• monitoring their performance over the time
• Good understanding of various technologies, ability to understand Client requirements, ability to plan sourcing, recruiting strategies and hiring Candidates for various types of requirements for our clients