Mar 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Building the rocketship Wheelocity across two stints
• March 2023 to August 2023 & Jan 2024 to May 2024
• In my role at Wheelocity, I was accountable for all things People & Culture at Wheelocity.
• Advisory to Wheelocity’s Founder & CEO on building the foundational HR infrastructure for their 1 to N growth journey.
• Led a comprehensive cultural transformation initiative along with the Founder to make organisational culture a pivotal driver of business transformation.
• Pioneered a company-wide restructuring effort to enhance organisational efficiency.
• Promoted smooth talent mobility across various business units.
• Complete Ownership for all core HR functions, including Talent Acquisition, Performance including
• Employee Engagement, HR Advisory, Leadership Development, HR Compliance, and Reporting.

Feb 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• I lead HR for the R&D org of Chargebee.

May 2015 – Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• At Indix, I own full spectrum of HR activities
• Talent Acquisition
• Hiring high calibre technical talent across the country for Indix - India and also support hiring for Indix - US for key strategic roles.
• Some of the roles I hire for include but not limited to Software Engineers (All levels ranging from Fresh college grads to Director, VP level), Machine learning Engineers (Across levels), Product Managers, Devops Engineers, Engineering managers.
• I work closely with the core Engineering & leadership in terms right from formulating sourcing strategies till on-boarding.
• Act as a Talent brand ambassador representing Indix at key technical events in building the technical brand value proposition of Indix amongst prospects.
• A key member of the team that works on both internal and external hackathons conducted at Indix.
• Talent Development
• I own on-boarding at Indix.
• Engage in a series of activities to ensure there is a seamless transition to Indix for new hires from their former workplaces.
• Work with engineering and manage the Software engineering bootcamp, cross-functional learning sessions to provide holistic on-boarding experience to the new joiners
• Conduct periodic on-boarding review with new hires and On-boarding owners to understand the effectiveness of the current program and make changes as needed.
• Team Feedback
• Indix is a feedback driven organization and I manage team level feedback sessions.
• Train the employees on effective ways of giving meaningful feedback.
• Conduct the sessions for the teams on a stipulated schedule
• Identify trends from feedback collected over time and come up with interventions to help teams.
• Performance Reflection exercise
• Conduct quarterly performance check-ins for teams that focusses on reviewing the performance of the individuals Vs set goals and also set goals for the upcoming quarter.
• Act as the people ambassador and connect with people on the floor proactively to understand their pulse.

Dec 2011 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Chennai Area

• Talent Acquisition
• Complete ownership of end-to-end hiring for various Technical (Developers, Quality Analysts, Business Analysts, Project Managers, User experience/Visual Designers) & Non-Technical roles (Sales/Business Development, Domain Consulting) right from formulating Sourcing Strategy till final offer.
• Special focus on Hiring Application Developers across various skill sets like Java, .Net, Ruby, Scala, along with various frame works, Databases, Front End Engineers.
• Rich experience in using
• LinkedIn
• Online tools like HackerEarth, Instahyre, Facebook Graph Search
• Entelo, Sourcing.io, Conducting Hackathons, Events based hiring, Job portals etc.
• Handle campus hiring strategy and own campus hiring for ThoughtWorks, Chennai
• Worked closely with the function lead/Resource managers to compute the annual hiring numbers along with the role/grade mix.
• Event management/Marketing
• Complete ownership of several recruiting events from budgeting, stake holder management till final execution.
• Member of the organizing committee of various employee engagement activities like Family Day, Chennai 150, TW India Away Day.
• Actively involved in various community building events hosted at ThoughtWorks like Geeknights for external Developers, VodQA for Quality Analysts, BA conference for Business Analysts, Rails Girls.
• Worked closely with the marketing team to socialize the event with the outside community, lead generation.
• Representing TW in various events like Great Indian Developer Summit, JsFOO.
• Innovation/Process improvement
• Worked on several initiatives to innovate the way a few processes are carried out, worked closely with the technical team to build apps in-house that helps us reduce work by automation.
• Research Intelligence and Data Analysis
• Provide research input and hiring intelligence to the team by identifying potential talent in the niche space of interest to TW, upcoming new Talent Acquisition/HR practices.

Jun 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

• 1) Handled a Portfolio of 280 accounts
• 2) Handled account Development at scale
• 3) Business Experiments
• 4) CRM activities
• 5) Product Adoption exercises
• 6) Risk Analysis for Fraud