Sep 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Building experiences, one tech & product line at a time.

Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Tech + Prod: Building the next Groupon innovation.

May 2021 – Sep 2021 · 4 mos

• ▪Hands on end to end recruitment for multiple businesses for product development roles at Blue Yonder.
• ▪Mentored both junior and senior recruiters as part of daily operations, fostering team growth and elevating overall hiring effectiveness.
• ▪Responsible for end-to-end Talent Acquisition strategy for the Technology & Data Science Teams.
• ▪Resource planning through active partnering with functional leaders to understand profiles & hiring needs along with channels optimization. Built several BU’s from scratch [Technical team].
• ▪Hands on experience of using Applicant tracking system. Utilized Workday Tool for recruitment process.
• ▪Information gathering of the requisitions received. Maintain the requisition tracker/resource trackers and set Turn Around Time in consultation with the business.
• ▪Meeting the hiring manager on a weekly basis and provide status updates for each of the positions. Updating the business at each stage of the candidate status post offer (back checks and on boarding).
• ▪Coordinating with India, Germany & US technical panel for interviews. Scheduling and Coordinating Virtual Connects and interviews. Scheduling the interview calls with the panel – telephonic/VC [Zoom]/In person rounds.
• ▪Strategize the use of Recruiting Channels for hiring as per set timelines. Maintain and balance the progress of hire for the super niche skill sets.
• ▪Having skill calibration call with local stakeholders (as & when required). Updating the business at each stage of the candidate post offer.
• ▪Recruiting talent through various sources, which includes, internet (Social Media, Groups), advertisements, referrals, networking.
• ▪Offer negotiation with the candidate. Adhere to the set company compliances in the entire process. Hand holding the candidates till onboarding(confirming back checks, travel tickets accommodation).
• ▪Educate Business leaders on internal and external work force, emerging trends and potential watch points.

Dec 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• About Blue Yonder - (Formerly known as JDA Software)
• If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite Us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values
• Check out Blue Yonder's blog - https://blog.blueyonder.com
• The Platform for Supply Chain Trends and Innovations.
• Key Achievements
• Built the machine learning team from the ground up at Blue Yonder, laying the foundation for scalable AI-driven initiatives.
• Hired 6 Data Scientist candidates & 3 Sr Architects in span of 1 months from Top Notch companies and pedigrees.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• > Headed the complete Recruitment function for the Engineering Team JDA Software Inc. End to end recruitment life cycle.
• > Talent Mapping and Competitor Mapping.Talent Research based on Diversity, Location, Skill and Experience.Social Media sourcing and Ethical Stalking of Passive candidates
• > Stakeholder Management, Vendor management and interactions with Head of Engineering and Director of Technology. Handled end to end recruitment Events.
• > Direct Sourcing, Employee Referral, Vendor Management and Social Media Sourcing Specialist.
• > Recruitment Strategy and Planning.
• > Team Management and Branding activities in terms of Recruitment.
• > Tools: Linkedin, Instahyre, Workday, Hire pro and Darwin Box.
• > Creating Pro-active talent pipeline to cater to future hiring spikes across functions.
• > Driving the sourcing, selection & interviewing process in collaboration with the hiring managers and
• effectively handling the offer roll out & on-boarding process.
• > Creating Pro-active talent pipeline to cater to future hiring spikes across functions.

Nov 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• About Arvind Internet
• Asia’s largest omnichannel enablement company built by retail practitioners and industry insiders who understand the complexities of omnichannel retail transformations, both technological and operational. We power the omnichannel roadmap of 40+ global brands covering a network of 3000+ stores. We are backed by Arvind Ltd., one of India’s most respected companies in fashion with divisions in textiles, garmenting, retail, and brands.
• Building a B2B Saas platform for global brands
• [ omuni.site ] Omnichannel enabled websites & mobile apps (NNNOW.com, Wildcraft.com)
• [ omuni.one ] Clienteling App envisioned to replace everything @ store
• Key Achievements
• Successfully recruited over 86 candidates for various Tech, ML and Product Managers roles.
• Established the entire tech team from the ground up, expanding it from 10 to more than 100 employees during my tenure.
• Developed a tailored recruitment and interview process for each role and trained panels on metrics evaluation.
• Fostered strong relationships with stakeholders and the leadership team.
• Actively supported candidates from sourcing to onboarding, participating in every stage of the recruitment process.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• >Actively mentored junior and senior recruiters, driving skill development and strengthening the overall recruitment strategy.
• >Handling end to end Product Engineering across different verticals.
• > Partnering with Hiring managers on requisitions prioritization, checking quality of JDs and sourcing through Social Media Data Mining, internet postings, recruitment events.
• > Offer Management- HR Assessment and creating Offer packet for selected candidates for committee review.
• > Offer Negotiation, extending offers, updating TA Ops on offer acceptances & Date of Joining.
• > Company Mapping to tap potential candidates.

Aug 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Key Achievements
• Strengthened Expedia's employer brand, leading to 135+ successful hires across roles—including ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Backend and Frontend Engineers—with a high-performing team of just 5 members.
• Demonstrated deep expertise in machine learning hiring across diverse roles and levels, supporting both Bangalore and Gurgaon units.
• Hiring For Expedia - global travel technology company
• Involved in the Program with high reputed individuals to work for the Niche requirement.
• Designing and developing recruitment strategies by working closely with the Hiring Managers.
• Developed, drove and executed comprehensive search strategies to recruit senior and niche candidates in limited candidate spaces.
• Effectively recruited candidates through Internet Research, Internal database, Cold calling, Referrals, Networking, Board-line,Conducting tech talks for passive candidates,X-Ray,Drives.
• Responsible for coordinating the interview process, extending offers, and closing candidates and joining formalities.
• Performed extensive recruiting across all the levels with heavy focus on high end technologies.
• Handling the entire Recruitment Life Cycle- for Mid Sr./Sr. Leadership Roles/Director Level requirements right from Sourcing profiles, Defining the competencies, Pre-Brief, De-Brief, Negotiating salary, Offering, Onboarding etc.

Jun 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Key Achievements
• Successfully established the Amazon Global Payments team from the ground up, hiring for roles such as SDE II, SDE III, SDE IV, SDM, and TPM.
• Successfully recruited two candidates for highly challenging machine learning roles, overcoming significant hurdles in a competitive hiring landscape.
• Hiring for fast growing start-ups and established ecommerce and product firms.
• Leveraged deep ML expertise to successfully hire top-tier machine learning engineers across all levels for leader Rajeev Rastogi, marking a significant accomplishment at Amazon.
• Engineering Managers with solid Technology and Business acumen
• Software Development Managers (solid experience in Architecture, Design, Data structures and Algorithms).
• Technical Program Managers (hands-on experience in managing highly scalable, complex projects with multi-million end-users)
• SDE2 and SDE3 (very strong coders and designers)
• SDE 4 and SDE 5 (Technology geek and Tech face of the company)

Jan 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Working with Amazon, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the global leader in e-commerce.
• Amazon hires the world's brightest minds, offering them an environment in which they can relentlessly improve the experience for customers. Amazon does this every day by solving complex technical and business problems with ingenuity and simplicity. Amazon's making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.
• Involved in the hiring of mid level to senior level to design and implement large-scale distributed systems from the ground up, using the latest in industry technologies. Who will help build a fast-paced, agile environment that delivers value immediately. Mainly, you will write a lot of code.
• Helped in Building up all Product Teams from scratch.
• Interactions with DOE,SEM,Hiring Managers and Panels for the deep understanding of roles/positions.
• Smooth conducting of drives in Bangalore and Gurgaon for the Talent pool.Worked for the Diversified hiring and Niche requirements.
• Currently working for Leadership Hiring and helped them to hire Diversified Product manager, Engineering managers and DOE
• Helping them build the world class team across all the levels and requirements.
• Involved in the End to end recruitment and Joining formalities for the candidates.

Jan 2011 – May 2016 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ▪Design and development Embedded software by using Embedded C++, uRT toolkit.
• ▪Modifying Specification whenever to be mandated. Root cause analysis and defect fixing. Functional and Integration Testing. Follows Agile software development process, such as story point estimation, Sprint Cycle planning, Daily stand up, scrum meeting with onsite SPOCs/system Engineer.