Apr 2025 – Sep 2025 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Mar 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Dec 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr

• Technical Sourcer for Software Engineering Leadership Team.
• Building world-class engineering teams - focused on Core Software Engineering teams, sourcing for Principal Software Engineers, Senior Technical Leaders, Staff Engineers, VP of Engineering, Directors of Engineering, and Engineering Managers.
• Driving diverse sourcing strategies using various tools to help influence stakeholders across APAC, EMEA, London & XBR.
• Responsibilities:
• Provide strategic sourcing based on data and market insights
• Identify and hire Senior Technical Leaders/Principal Engineers/Staff Engineers/ Architects/Directors/Managers
• Work cross-functionally with business partners to build scalable hiring solutions for technical leadership hiring for both London and other international sites
• Diversity Sourcing and creative sourcing (Entelo, X-Ray Search, SeekOut, etc)
• Do pre-screens and phone screens to assess candidates' skills and experience
• Promote a good candidate experience from the start to the end of the process
• Designed and created the Sourcing playbook which houses all SWE sourcing processes, rules, tips, and learnings in one place.
• Working as a mentor and trainer to help other Sourcers succeed and progress in their careers
• Employee Outreach Program
• AB Testing with the outreach messages
• Talent Map (LATAM, APAC, EMEA)

Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Palo Alto Network’s Talent Research Team made up of 15 talent acquisition professionals spread across India, with Bangalore at our centre. Our mission is to identify top tier diverse talent for Palo Alto Networks in over 65 countries around the globe.
• What do we do?
• Increase diversity at the top of the funnel and ensure every diverse lead/candidate (applicants, referrals, sourced) are curated for just-in-time pipelines globally.
• Maintain close partnerships with Sourcers and Recruiters to ensure the talent we provide meets/exceeds the bar at Palo Alto Networks.
• Identify creative sourcing techniques like Github, Stackoverflow, Meet-ups, Prophet, recruit’em, and identify and tap into talent from diversity events, sororities, Linkedin groups, diversity Boolean search strings, colleges etc.
• Talent map diverse qualified candidates globally.
• Provide organization analysis of competitors.
• Why Palo Alto Networks?
• PANW is the global leader in cyber security and is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that's transforming the way people and organizations operate. PANW's mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, addressing the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.
• Visit https://jobs.paloaltonetworks.com/careers/ to learn more about our culture, values, and career opportunities.

Aug 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Solid understanding of Technology stack and skills for Tech roles.
• Identify, evaluate, and hire top talent through various channels (LinkedIn, Employee Referrals, Candidate References, Job Portals, Hackathons). Developed recruiting strategies to identify qualified candidates, utilizing specialized tools.
• Generated specific candidate pool for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials, and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
• Conducted various recruiting events to grow a passive talent pipeline and prepare for future hiring needs.
• Partnered with Program Specialists to ascertain hiring needs and subsequently work on various programs.
• Engage candidates for Google opportunities through various programs, pipeline management and working towards assigned OKRs.
• Focus on outlining Google's Principles, Culture, Work life balance, career opportunities to prospective candidates. Manage complete process till on-boarding providing impeccable candidate experience.
• Achievements: Managed 100% offer acceptance for Software Engineer roles. Focused on providing great candidate experience, developing process docs from recruitment perspective.

Nov 2018 – Aug 2019 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Handling the end to end recruitment process for Consultant job families, also was a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) during the entire selection process.
• Responsible for the entire gamut of recruitment process from understanding the requisition needs, sourcing, screening, arranging technical interviews, candidate management & managing panels for interview schedules.
• Ensuring the offer fitment of the selected candidates within the budget and getting the necessary approvals in case of any exceptional cases.
• Understand important deliverables provided by the key stakeholders and successfully deliver on those metrics.
• Ensure quality recruiting experience for candidates from start to finish.
• Advocate for the candidate experience and maintain consistent communication and move each candidate through the interview process in a timely fashion and within SLA.
• Offer Release, Reference check and Post Offer follow-up.
• Have an in-depth understanding of the overall recruiting process and impact and put it into use with the business, recruiting team and candidates. This includes influencing the client leadership at the table around hiring practices such as entering feedback, interview compliance, or other hiring leadership activity.
• Ensure data accuracy across all systems on a consistent and compliant basis.
• Track candidates in the internal system and ensure positive candidate experience.

Jan 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Offering candidate concierge service to support the recruiters in the end to end permanent recruitment process.
• Updating the system with candidate feedback as advised by the Resourcing Partner following review of the shortlist.
• Acting as a key point of contact to liaise with the key delivery teams and the on-boarding team, to ensure seamless hands-offs and a focus on candidate experience.
• Responsible for over-all candidate experience by ensuring timely coordination of interviews and other logistical arrangements like Room booking for AVP/ VP hires within the SLA time frames. Ensuring the hiring manager has a copy of the CV, calendar invites and room bookings.

Oct 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Got exposure to understand industry recruiting life cycle and ecosystem.
• Schedule and coordinate End to End recruiting process across IT, Development consulting domains.
• Open Job requisition on internal tools, publish internally and externally.
• Stakeholder Management and Candidate Engagement

Jun 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos