Nitish Gaurav

Recruiter

Pune, Maharashtra, India13 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

12+ years of experience in tech recruitment
Expert in building high-impact engineering teams
Passionate about recruitment infrastructure and data-driven strategies

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned tech recruiter specializing in SaaS and engineering talent acquisition.

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Skills

Core Skills

Executive HiringLeadership RecruitmentFull Cycle RecruitingTechnical RecruitmentRecruitment Systems EffectivenessTalent Management

Other Skills

ATSAccount ManagementArtificial Intelligence for BusinessBenefits NegotiationBuilding Business PartnershipsBusiness IntelligenceConsultingContract RecruitmentCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Cybersecurity HiringDecision-MakingEmployer BrandingEngineering RecruitmentFull Life Cycle RecruitingGTM Hiring

About

Tech recruiter with 12+ years of experience specializing in hiring for niche engineering and technical roles. I’ve had the privilege of being part of the foundational hiring teams at high-growth companies—helping build product and engineering teams from 0 to 100s, and supporting that scale with smart, data-driven recruitment strategies. From startup hustle to structured enterprise environments, I bring a deep understanding of what it takes to attract, engage, and hire top engineering talent. I’ve built lean, high-impact teams from scratch and thrive in fast-paced settings where hiring decisions shape the future of a product or company. I'm passionate about recruitment infrastructure—deeply familiar with tools like Greenhouse ATS, Workday HRIS, and other platforms that support scalable, efficient hiring. Whether it's fine-tuning workflows, optimizing pipeline analytics, or improving hiring team experience, I love blending systems thinking with people-focused recruiting. Always curious, always iterating—and always looking to connect with others who care about building great teams.

Experience

Druva

Principal Recruiter

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Druva is recognised as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. Our fully managed Data Security Cloud protects critical business data across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments—trusted by 6,000+ organizations, including 65 of the Fortune 500.
In my current position at Druva, I lead executive hiring strategies that enable innovation across Product, Engineering, and Security Research.
My focus is on leadership and executive hiring particularly Director-level and senior roles ensuring Druva scales with visionary, high-impact leaders aligned with our mission.
My Core strengths:
Talent research & insights
Talent rediscovery (unlocking value from past pipelines)
Recruiting systems effectiveness
Scouting diverse talent beyond traditional sources
Sourcing jams and real-time collaboration with hiring teams
Mentorship & guidance for recruiting teams to drive quality and consistency
By combining data-driven strategies with a hands-on, collaborative approach, I help build high-performing leadership teams that shape the future of secure, resilient organizations.

Product hiringSecurity Research HiringSecurity HiringCybersecurity HiringEngineering RecruitmentExecutive Hiring+1

Elastic

2 roles

Senior Recruiter- (Engineering- APJ & Solutions Architecture- India)

Promoted

May 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Elastic is a leading platform for search-powered solutions. Company behind the Elastic Stack —
that's Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash.
Full cycle recruiter partnering across all business verticals starting from Product Engineering > GTM > G&A and Global HR
As one of the 1st recruiters for Elastic india entity collaborated with global leaders to hire and ramp up one of the 1st pod for Observability engineering team
Worked on many 1st of the 1st roles for India entity across all businesses and level (Entry to Principal level) as a trusted advisor to the stakeholders.
Spend time with business stakeholders and self learning to know more about the Elastic products , new offerings and differentiators. Strengthening my pitch and helping to attract the best for the business and become a strong candidate advocate.
Expanded my role over the years at Elastic for global coverage beyond India & APJ ,handling roles based in EMEA and Americas.
Built technical hiring exposure in Golang,Low Level Systems, Distributed systems , Kubernetes , Security , Data streaming & cloud managed message queues, Cloud networking
Used non-conventional sourcing strategies to build talent pipeline for hard to fill roles
Projects at work:
1. Greenhouse ATS revamp
2. Global interviewer training
3. Evaluation of new BGC vendor, testing new tools for the recruiting team.
Initiatives :
1. Sourcing Jams for the team.
2. Driving Quarterly & Annual Recruiting reports .
3. Improved overall LinkedIn Inmail acceptance and open percentage
Mentorship: Played a vital role in onboarding new team members and mentoring during their initial time at Elastic.

Engineering RecruitmentProduct hiringGlobal RecruitingGTM HiringSales RecruitmentFull Life Cycle Recruiting+5

Engineering Recruiter- (Cloud and Observability)

Sep 2021 – May 2022 · 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Thoughtworks

Senior Recruiter

Nov 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Anchoring and independently driving UI Developer hiring at Thoughtworks Mumbai and Pune
Part of Digital Transformation hiring (Digital Strategy & Business Strategy , Agile Coach , Program BA's and Advisory) for ThoughtWorks India
Responsible for leadership and executive hiring for demand and business development team.
Also worked on hiring for Product Business Analyst and Full stack Developers.
Responsibilities:
Selling ThoughtWorks to potential ThoughtWorkers; responsible for getting people excited about ThoughtWorks
Represent ThoughtWorks at technical events and building community.
Proactively sourcing candidates through various channels
Anchor end to end recruiting process.
Review, screen and Interview candidates for appropriate skills , experience and knowledge with reference to the open roles .
Partnering and building productive relations with multiple teams.
Utilising available recruiting systems to create actionable data insights .
Projects at Work:
Worked on a project with Global Talent Data team on recruiting systems (ATS, HCM tool) effectiveness.
Participated in creating market intelligence report for talent data.
Other Initiatives :
Partnered with Community recruitment champions to achieve recruitment goals.
Worked closely with campus recruitment team to attract and recruit potential ThoughtWorkers from Top B-schools and Engineering/Technology University .
Recruitment representative for various internal and external community events.
Working with communities on various recruitments initiatives like Bootcamps, Workshop based hiring , Meetups etc

Allegis group

Senior Recruiter- Onsite at Danaher IDC

May 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Lead Allegis RPO at Danaher Corporation a Fortune 200 global science & technology innovator as an onsite member for end to end recruitment at Bangalore IDC constituting of Danaher Group Operating Companies Beckman Coulter, Radiometer, Leica Biosystems , Leica Microsystems, Hach and Danaher Labs
Requirement gathering from Stakeholders /Hiring Managers
Preparing Market Data and Recruitment Analytics
Formulating Sourcing Strategy and recruitment roadmap
Screening , Shortlisting and scheduling candidates with respective hiring managers
Collaboration with stakeholders, Hiring Managers , HRBP, HR leaders for managing the complete end to end one desk recruitment solutions.
Creating and mapping pipeline of candidates to suitable job positions and focussing on head hunting for passive talents