Feb 2022 – Aug 2022 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Clumio, a series C startup created the first data backup and recovering solution built on native cloud technologies for public clouds use cases. Recruited engineering professionals primarily focused on backend development and software test automation. Worked with co-founder/Head of Engineering to establish compensation structure and process.

Aug 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Livongo was acquired by Teladoc. I continued in the same role supporting core engineering recruiting.
• Livongo is a digital health platform that empowers people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier live. We offer a whole person approach addressing diabetes, hypertension, pre-diabetes, weight management and behavioral health using our AI+AI platform to transform the experience. There are 147 million people just in the US with chronic conditions.
• We are staring in the face of one of the most significant opportunities to impact human lives. Globally, approximately one in three of all adults suffer from multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) according to NIH. That's 2.3 Billion people!
• (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6214883/)
• According to National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) "90% of the nations $3.5 Trillion in annual health care expenditure are for people with chronic and mental health conditions". That's a crazy $3.15 Trillion! (https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm)
• Teladoc + Livongo which is taking a leadership role in solving this problem already has build a proven infrastructure. We need to continue to grow rapidly and continue to make huge impact. It's a lifelong mission. Come join us.
• Open positions:
• 1) Senior Software Engineer, Data: Java/Scala/MySQL/Postgres/Redshift
• 2) Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise: Scala, AWS, MySQL (+ETL pipelines, Jenkins, Kafka, Spark)
• 3) SRE: AWS, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, Scripting: Multiple openings
• 4) Senior Security Engineer

Aug 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Teladoc acquired Livongo. I continued in the same role supporting engineering recruiting.
• Teladoc Health empowers all people everywhere to live their healthiest lives by transforming the healthcare experience. As the world leader in whole-person virtual care, Teladoc Health uses proprietary health signals and personalized interactions to drive better health outcomes across the full continuum of care, at every stage in a person’s health journey. Ranked best in KLAS for Virtual Care Platforms in 2020, Teladoc Health leverages more than a decade of expertise and data-driven insights to meet the growing virtual care needs of consumers and healthcare professionals.
• Key Open Positions:
• 1) Technical Program Manager: SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Software, project management, PMP
• 2) Release Train Engineer: SAFe, Agile, PI Planing, ART
• 3) Agile Coach
• 4) Data Engineer (Multiple openings)
• 5) Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Multiple openings): Scala, Java, MySQL, REST API, microservices, Kafka, AWS

Aug 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Ace Hires, Inc. was formed with a mission to provide best in class professional search services to technology companies based in the San Francisco bay area.

Apr 2016 – Jul 2016 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• PernixData is leading the new era of analytics-driven storage, where storage is architected to be dynamic, scale-out, and predictable based on real-time application and infrastructure data.
• PernixData Architect is a hardware agnostic platform for infrastructure analytics. It provides intelligent design recommendations based on detailed VM and storage data to maximize application performance and minimize storage costs.
• PernixData FVP software is a hardware agnostic platform for server-side storage acceleration. It delivers low latency, fault tolerant I/O acceleration using server Flash/RAM, ensuring fast VM performance with scale-out growth.
• Any shared storage can be used for capacity, maximizing design flexibility without expensive rip/replace.
• Accolades:
• Fortune 50 Best WorkPlaces for Flexibility 2016
• Fortune magazine great places to work 2015 and 2016
• Bay Area News Group top workplaces 2014, 2015 and 2016
• Forbes most promising company
• Over a dozen product awards, including Gartner cool vendor, InfoWorld technology of the year, and Storage magazine product of the year

Jan 2016 – Mar 2016 · 2 mos

Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Head of Recruiting and Solo Recruiter+Sourcer+Coordinator for this storage startup. Contributed towards adding 35 employees to the company.

Aug 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Jose, CA

• Accountable for company-wide staffing needs reporting to the CEO. Built company from 40 to ~200 employees in 2 years as first recruiter and Head of Staffing. Recruited software engineers with focus on distributed systems and kernel engineering. Negotiated and closed majority of offers for Engineering, QA, IT, Technical Support, and Marketing teams.
• Hired and mentored team of recruiters/sourcers and led by example carrying critical reqs.
• Implemented light weight and scalable hiring processes and tools.
• Thanks Poojan for sending this message to all PernixData employees on my last day!
• > Hi Everyone,
• >
• > Today is Nikesh's last day at PernixData. Nikesh has done a lot for the
• > company in the role of Staffing Manager in the last 2 years, helping us
• > assemble a great team overall including his own recruiting team. He has put
• > processes in place that will help us scale recruiting. He has helped us
• > grow from 40ish people to where we are today in 2 years. And all of this
• > while this was his first startup (he was in Google for 8 years before
• > PernixData).
• >
• > Our recruiting teams have been doing some amazing things in the last year
• > leading to us achieving our growth plans successfully in engineering and I
• > am looking forward to Monika, Peter and Stephanie continuing and doing
• > exactly that going forward.
• >
• > Thank you Nikesh from all of us for your amazing contributions and best
• > wishes for your future endeavors.
• >
• > Thanks,
• > Poojan.
• >
• > --
• > Poojan Kumar | CEO/Co-founder, PernixData

Oct 2006 – Jul 2013 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Recruited Software and Systems focused Engineers/TPMs/Managers for global SRE team. Also hired Software Engineers (SWEs), Software Engineers in Test (SETs), Release Engineers, and Technical Program Managers (TPMs) for General SWE, Corporate Engineering, Data Center Operations, Hardware Operations, and Network Operations teams.
• Closed several complex offers resolving significant compensation, relocation, immigration, allocation, and legal/contractual issues. Extensively collaborated with corresponding teams to achieve a high closing ratio. Part of team of 3 that designed and contributed material for the original Advanced Art of Closing class for recruiters at Google circa 2006.
• Owned/managed one of SRE hiring committees (HC) on weekly basis. Delivered detailed HC reports that were widely distributed across engineering and staffing leadership.
• Drove interview process change and calibration efforts to bring consistency and predictability into TPM hiring. Heavily collaborated with interviewers, Hiring Committee members, Engineering Leadership, Recruiters, and Sourcers to roll out standardized interview process worldwide. TPM hiring significantly increased as a result.
• Trained and mentored Recruiters and Sourcers on ongoing basis. Taught basic Computer Science concepts in classroom format to increase effectiveness of technical prescreens.
• Recruited several diversity candidates including LGBT and a visually impaired engineer.
• Awards: Nine “Peer Bonus” Awards, “Recruiter Partner” from SRE Sourcing team, and Certificate for “Laszlo’s favorite attribute award - Conscientiousness and Collaboration”.
• Provided stellar candidate experience. Consistently got very strong satisfaction ratings in several categories from surveys conducted on both hired and not-hired candidates.

Jul 2006 – Sep 2006 · 2 mos

• • Execute full-cycle recruiting process as NetApp’s lead recruiter for International Software Engineering team.

May 2005 – May 2006 · 1 yr

• Google.com Engineering Team
• Sourced world class Site Reliability Engineering/Leadership candidates for mission critical Google.com engineering team.
• International Technical Recruiting Team
• Sourced candidates for Google’s R&D laboratory in Bangalore, India.

Jan 2000 – May 2005 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Developed business plan and boot-strapped the company to serve recruiting needs of Silicon Valley tech companies. Ran this business for five years.
• Recruited as full-cycle corporate recruiter for some Silicon Valley software startups.
• Executed high volume full life-cycle recruiting desk for high technology industry.
• Hired and mentored recruiters, engaged temp-recruiting alliances and partners, and led search projects.
• Monitored critical recruiting metrics and coached recruiters to enhance performance.
• Trained and Certified as AIRS Internet Recruiter.

Jan 1998 – Present · 28 yrs 4 mos

• Mentored and trained recruiters, hiring managers, candidates on creating a winning resume/interview strategy/preparation/negotiations, and interviewers in proper recruiting practices, metrics measurement/analysis/improvement, process optimization and implementation.
• As career coach enabled career change and performance enhancement.
• As Life Coach, enabled creation and management of a fulfilling life, behavior change using Tony Robbins and Cloe Madanes strategic intervention coaching methods.
• Meditation and energy healing practitioner. Help with deep inside-out energy cleanse, chakra healing and proper energizing enabling fulfilling manifestations in the physical world.

Oct 1995 – Dec 1999 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Executed high volume full life-cycle contingency recruiting desk with focus on software and IT engineers and leadership candidates.

Mar 1993 – Sep 1995 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Jun 1990 – Feb 1993 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Engineered and coded complex algorithms in C and UNIX to solve sophisticated problems in computer numerical control (CNC) and automated machining technologies in CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing.).

Jul 1983 – Jul 1987 · 4 yrs

• Provided Manufacturing Engineering Services to Heavy Engineering fabrication shop floor at L&T HQ. Solved complex manufacturing problems enabling improved manufacturing processes, increased productivity, and cost reduction.