Apr 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, We sustainably connect the digital world. We have the platform where the world comes together.
• Contribution:
• Built high-performing technology teams from scratch for Enterprise Corporate Applications and Enterprise Customer Applications across India.
• Designed and executed leadership hiring strategies, ensuring data-driven decisions and superior candidate experience.
• Acted as a Talent Advisor to global leaders (Singapore, Australia, US, UK) with actionable market insights and talent analytics.
• Enhanced sourcing efficiency through innovative recruitment techniques and proactive talent mapping.
• Hired India’s 1st Manager- Business System Analysts, Data Architect, CPQ Architect, ServiceNow Manager, ServiceNow Solution Architects.
• Achieved 31% hires via Referrals, 30% Diversity hires and a 80-90% offer- to- joinee ratio.
• Impact: Established India operations and elevated global TA excellence through strategic collaboration.
• Critical roles hired:
• Servicenow Solution Architects & Servicenow Engineers
• Manager Business System Analysts
• Business System Analysts: Oracle financial applications
• CPQ Architect
• Data Architect
• Oracle Integration Cloud Developers
• Oracle ERP Developers

May 2021 – Mar 2022 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• YML is an award-winning design and technology company born in the heart of Silicon Valley that builds best-in-class digital products for Fortune 500 companies and leading startups.
• We have delighted over 407 million users, built over 200+ apps, impacted 28 Fortune 500 companies and have been featured on the app store over 700+ times!
• Contribution:
• Scaled leadership and senior hiring for global digital product teams serving Fortune 500 clients.
• Delivered data-driven hiring strategies, leveraging market insights to strengthen hiring outcomes.
• Introduced innovative sourcing models and managed the Employee Referral Program, boosting internal engagement and diversity.
• Impact: Improved hiring efficiency, talent quality, and stakeholder satisfaction across business verticals.
• Critical Hiring Handled:
• Senior to Leadership Hiring – Lead Engineer, Senior Lead Engineer, Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, Technical Project Manager, Director Engineering for Skill sets – Mobile (iOS/ Android), Full Stack, Frontend (AngularJS/ ReactJS)

May 2020 – Apr 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.
• Contribution:
• Partnered with Data & Analytics teams (Supply Chain, Pricing, Merc IQ, Financial Data) on end-to-end hiring.
• Led referral strategy revamp, achieving 25% hires via referrals and a 70–80% offer-to-join ratio.
• Provided market intelligence to business leaders to refine TA processes and hiring models.
• Spearheaded multiple strategic projects including Interview Model enhancements, Employee Referral strategies, and Talent Pipeline development across niche data skill sets.
• Impact: Enhanced quality-of-hire and optimized data-driven recruitment for analytics teams.
• Critical Hiring Handled - Senior Data Scientists, Lead Data Scientists, Big Data Engineers, Lead Big Data Engineers.

Jul 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru

• Intuit is a global financial technology leader behind QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mint, empowering individuals and businesses with innovative financial solutions.
• Contribution:
• Partnered with Intuit Platform BU teams including Identity & Experimentation, Core Engineering, Services Fabric, Data Catalogue, AppFabric, Modern SaaS, Financial Data Platform, and Product Infrastructure to drive technology hiring.
• Supported SBSEG (Small Business & Self-Employed Group) for QuickBooks Online Advanced Platform and Data Science hiring needs across India.
• Managed the end-to-end recruitment process, leveraging LinkedIn Recruiter, Employee Referrals, internal databases, and social platforms to identify and engage world-class engineering talent.
• Acted as a Talent Advisor to hiring managers and business leaders, providing market intelligence and competitive insights to design effective hiring strategies.
• Championed diversity hiring initiatives such as Wintuit, Women in Tech, and Intuit Again, building partnerships with women-in-tech communities and driving gender diversity across engineering teams.
• Impact:
• Successfully built high-performing Data Engineering and Data Science teams for Intuit’s core and business platforms, strengthened diversity representation, and elevated the employer brand within the technology community.
• Critical Hiring Handled: Principal Big Data Engineers, Architects, Data Scientists, Staff Cloud Engineers, Senior Cloud Engineers, Staff Engineers, Senior Big Data Engineers, Data Engineers, Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, etc.

Oct 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Involved in Client Engagement, Team handling, Team Building. Along with managing clients and team. I do involve in sourcing for Leaderships roles and some exclusive requirements.
• In process of building new Engineering Teams from scratch for real-time video streaming, media/entertainment, world's biggest product consulting firm, Few emerging start-ups etc.
• Hiring Handled: SDE 2 I Backend Developers, DevOps Engineers, SDET, Lead Engineers, Architects,
• VP Data Engineers, IP Licensing & Patent drafting, Cloud Engineer, etc

Mar 2012 – Mar 2015 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

• IT Recruiter-
• Roles & Responsibilities:
• Understanding the requirements of the clients’ like Flipkart,Amazon,Walmart Labs, Manthan Systems,E Bay, PayPal etc for different positions and search from LinkedIn,online search & portals for right candidates.
• Hunt the candidates for the required positions and get the required information on their profile and discuss about the details required for the further process.
• Briefing candidates about job specifications, role, responsibility, growth prospects, and organizational hierarchy of the client, etc.
• Schedule interviews, and verify candidate’s credentials & career expectations.
• Acquiring periodic feedback from clients regarding selection/rejection of the candidates.
• Taking feedback from the clients immediately after the interview and maintaining proper documentation of the selection list.
• Ensuring a smooth communication flow between the client and candidate and ensuring a timely joining of the candidate.

Mar 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

• Deployed at PHILIPS through Wenger & Watson Inc., on a greater mission...
• Established Philips very first Big Data Heathcare Platform from scratch by hiring 6 Architects & 8 Data Engineers.
• Responsible for hiring DevOps Architect, Sr Architect, Director and cloud Infrastructure roles for HIT - CoE Team, Big Data Analytics and placed the best talent to scale the platform and take it to the next level.
• Responsible for ITGS Team in PHILIPS which was building from scratch and had multiple roles across the levels. I have worked on middle level to senior level and all most worked on 80% of the hiring needs and successfully placed the one of the first "Project Managers- Cloud" for PHILIPS India.

Nov 2011 – Feb 2012 · 3 mos · Bangalore

• Roles and Responsibilities:
• Recruitment Process- through job portals and consultancies.
• Daily Attendance- through EESL software
• Payroll process- Through Excel sheet
• HR Letters- formats, terms and conditions
• Employee Masterdata- through Excel sheets and SAP
• File handiling- maintenance of file