Aug 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru East, Karnataka, India

• Heading hiring for Technology and Product roles and driving Recruiting and sourcing initiatives.
• Scaled up the Engineering team from 50 to 150+ employees in a span of 1 year.
• Responsible for end-to-end hiring for the roles SDE’s, Architects, EMs, DevOps Infra, Data Scientist, Data Engineers, Design,Product and focused on leadership roles.
• Research market/Companies to headhunt & target the talent pool with a preference on company, skill, market availability and role-fitment.
• Manage the contingent workforce program, including managing and monitoring relationships with employment agencies, search firms and vendor contracts.

May 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible to drive hiring for Tech Verticals - Focused approach on process improvements in recruiting and improving the candidate experience.
• Build the Engineering team from 100 to 200 member in 1 year.
• Building deep partnerships with technical managers to understand their team hiring needs, capabilities and knowledge requirement/gaps, business, and team dynamics.
• Mentoring the team in full cycle recruiting support - Executing all stages of the recruitment process and ensuring the team achieves the target.
• Defining the recruitment metric approach and worked on few TA projects.

Jul 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Passive sourcing strategies to hire awesome geeks. Build the entire team from scratch.
• Leading end-to-end recruiting efforts for Tech and Non-Tech roles. Technology requirements, source candidates from job portals, networking sites & references etc.
• Develop pipeline of talents both on proactive and reactive basis to anticipate the needs of various Practice areas.
• Recruited candidates at different levels such as Software Engineers, Product Managers, Devops Engineer, Marketing Manager, UX Designers, Data Scientist, UI Engineers, Sales Professionals, Customer Success Managers.

Oct 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• Leading recruitment activities at Bangalore office. Defining recruitment metrics. Worked with Head of functions for active recruitment needs.
• Built the entire tech team from scratch from 4 to 50 members in just 6-month time.
• Accountable for sourcing for the roles in Software Engineering, Product Management, Data Sciences, UI/UX, and Mobile Apps (Android & iOS).
• Developing and implementing strategic recruitment initiatives to meet business needs.

Apr 2014 – Sep 2014 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Looking for Product Managers at various Level.

Nov 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• MakeMyJob (MMJ) is a talent search company in Technology, Healthcare and BFSI space and focused on Middle & Senior level positions with start-up / mid-sized companies in APAC region.
• MMJ is well funded with a long term perspective of providing professional services in the areas of Staffing & Recruitment and supported by several veterans from the consulting indust
• Currently working on some criticial reqs and Senior searches for Product MNC / Startups on Online / Ecommerce Space.

Sep 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Working on Telecom & Wireless, Consumer Electronics, STB & Automotive Domain. End to End Recruitment in sourcing profiles based on client needs,follow up with candidates and deliver the best.
• Skill Set:
• 1. Device Driver Developer / Testing (Any RTOS)
• 2. Firmware Developer
• 3. Board Support Package, Bootloader, Board Bring up, Linux kernel.
• 4. Power Management / Battery Management
• 4. LTE 4G / 3G UMTS Layer Protocols.
• 5. UE Protocol Layers on RRC, MAC, RLC, NAS & Network protocol Layers on enodeB.