Shanawaz Mohammed Rafeeq

Talent Acquisition Manager

Dubai, United Arab Emirates10 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Scaled engineering team from 20 to 150 at Traveloka.
Built core teams at Cashfree Payments with founders.
Mentoring students and professionals for career growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the tech industry, specializing in scaling teams and strategic hiring.

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Skills

Core Skills

Professional MentoringTalent AcquisitionRecruiting

Other Skills

Career CounselingEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsEmployer BrandingHiringHuman ResourcesHuman Resources (HR)IT RecruitmentInterview PreparationInterview schedulingInterviewingInterviewsManagementMicrosoft OfficeOnboarding

About

Hey there! Thanks for checking out my profile. I hope your day’s going amazing! :) - A little about me: I started my work in biosciences but quickly discovered my real passion-recruiting. Over the past decade, I’ve turned that passion into a career, helping companies build incredible teams from the ground up. - At Traveloka, I was part of the pioneering recruitment team in India, where I helped scale the engineering team from a small group of 20 to a powerhouse of 150 talented individuals. - At Cashfree Payments, I worked closely with the founders to build the company’s core teams. From Payouts and Payment Gateway engineering to product, data, security, and design teams-I was involved in building it all. - Currently, at Astra Tech/BOTIM, I’m helping to shape business and tech teams for the region’s first ultra-app. This app is improving the lives of over 150 million people every day-pretty exciting, right? - Outside of work, I love sharing my knowledge and experience. I offer 1:1 career guidance for students and professionals looking to explore new opportunities. Let’s connect and see how we can create something amazing together!

Experience

Topmate.io

Mentor

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Professional MentoringResume WritingCareer CounselingInterview Preparation

Astra tech

Talent Acquisition Manager

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

I lead the TA efforts for all things Tech, Product, Design & Business at Astra Tech. If you are looking to be part of a massive revolution in the Internet space, come join us. We are hiring talents across the globe.

Botim

Talent Acquisition Manager

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Astra Tech is the parent company of BOTIM and we are building MEA’s first Ultra App.

The talent deck

Community

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Bringing the power of community to the Talent Acquisition world 🚀

Google

Technical Recruiter, APAC Horizontals

Jul 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

At Google, I was part of the Tech X hiring team. I have hired for Google Pay, Google Ads, Google Cloud, YouTube and a few more teams. Below are the roles I have hired for:
UX Designers & Leadership roles
UX Writers
Frontend Engineers (UX) and UXE managers.
System Development Engineer/ Devops Engineers

Cashfree

2 roles

Assistant Manager- Talent acquisition

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Jul 2021 · 3 mos

Lead the hiring for an entire business unit (Payment Gateway) at Cashfree. Responsible to build Data and Platform teams along with Security, Backend and more!

Talent Acquisition Lead

Aug 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

Founded in 2015, Cashfree is a PayPal incubated start-up which aims to provides a single platform for businesses to disburse and collect payments in India via its Payouts and Payment Gateway products.
Hired by the founders as the 1st recruiter to build the initial engineering, Product & Design teams at Cashfree Payments.
Roles I have hired for:
Head of Product, Design and Engineering.
Software Engineer/ SSE/ Principal Engineers (Backend)
Software Engineer (Frontend)
DevOps Engineer
QA & SDET
Product Managers
Product Designers (UX)
Data Analysts and Engineers
Information security engineer

Employer BrandingStrategic HiringStakeholder ManagementTalent advisorRecruitingTalent Acquisition

Traveloka

Recruiter

Apr 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Traveloka is the no.1 hotel & flight booking website in Indonesia.
I was the founding recruiting member of the India R&D center where I was responsible to build and scale the engineering team from ground up. Scaled the technology team to 150+ and built teams such as Flights, Experience, Recommendation, Merchandising etc and hired for roles such as Backend, QA, Security, DevOps and more!

Uber

Recruiting Coordinator

Jun 2017 – Mar 2018 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

IT RecruitmentEmployer BrandingStakeholder ManagementRecruiting

Belong.co

Talent Advisor- Belong Experts

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Hired as a TA advisor at Belong.co to help build user friendly product for recruiters.
Built solid tech and business teams for early stage start-ups such as Treebo Hotels, Furlenco, Xola, Swiggy etc

Interview schedulingStakeholder ManagementTechnical RecruitingRecruiting