Dec 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

• At Meta — with ~80K employees and a ~$1.6T market cap — we build the future of human connection, creating technologies that help people, interests, and communities come closer together. I contribute to this mission by recruiting high-impact ML/AI, GenAI/LLM, Infra, Product, and Mobile engineering talent to power these experiences.
• Key Contributions:
• Hiring Senior Engineering Talent (IC6 and IC7) for 0→1 Product Engineering – Senior, MTS, Staff, Senior Staff, Principal, Distinguished Architects, Fellows
• Top Performer – Achieved 250% of target goals. Exceeded baseline metrics by 25%+ for prescreens, tech screens, and onsites on a weekly basis
• Recruiting for Meta's Core Pillars – GenAI, Monetization, DDAI, Family of Apps (Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook), AI Infra, Central Products, and Privacy
• High-Performance Recruiting Ops – Architect sourcing strategies that blend technical acuity with creative execution, driving pipeline quality, velocity, and conversion across all funnel stages.
• Metrics & Business Impact – Track and report on funnel metrics. Routinely outperform targets by aligning talent priorities with business outcomes—and never losing sight of the human behind the hire.
• Competitor Talent Strategy – Leveraged competitor analysis to design and execute recruiting strategies that successfully targeted and closed top talent from Meta’s strongest competitors
• Candidate Experience – Lead with empathy, precision, and confidence, delivering white-glove candidate experiences that reflect the technical bar and Meta brand. Trusted closer for high-stakes hires in hyper-competitive markets
• Coaching & Organizational Impact – Mentor and uplevel recruiters by instilling storytelling that converts. Coached a 150+ member recruiting organization on leveraging Tableau reporting data to rediscover senior talent through Facebook Recruiting Tool (FBR), creating immediate impact by increasing AI/ML talent acquisition.

Jul 2019 – May 2024 · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Mateo, California, United States · On-site

• Joined Guidewire, a global P&C “Insure-Tech” leader ($20B market cap), during its critical SaaS transformation. Initially hired as Senior Technical Recruiter and later promoted to lead a global Talent Acquisition team (US, Ireland and India), built high-performing software engineering teams from the ground up while driving scalable, innovative recruiting strategies.
• Key Contributions:
• Global TA Leadership: Led a global TA team. Owned performance reviews, hiring, promotions, and terminations while coaching for growth and alignment.
• Consistently outperformed peers on all recruiting metrics (TOF to BOF).
• Core Pillars Recruiting: Recruited for Guidewire’s core product lines — InsuranceSuite, InsuranceNow, Analytics & Data, and Guidewire Cloud Platform (GWCP).
• Hiring Impact: Reduced time-to-fill by 50% while ramping R&D teams from P1–P5 engineers (SDE -> Staff) and L2 -> L3 leaders (Eng. Managers -> Senior Directors).
• 0 to 1 Product Scaling: Scaled multiple 0 to 1 product teams to 100+ employees each team, across the US, Canada, Brazil, and India over a 5-year period.
• Executive Search: Successfully hired VPs and Senior Directors across Engineering, Solutioning, People/HRBP, and GTM/Sales.
• Founding Recruiter, GenAI Team: Built the Generative AI practice from the ground up, hiring complex, high-impact R&D and product teams.
• India Development Center Expansion: Built and scaled the Bengaluru recruiting team, partnering with the Managing Director of Guidewire India and key stakeholders.
• Strategic Partner to Leadership & HRBPs: Advised business leaders (CPO,VP, Senior Directors), HRBPs, Finance, Branding, and People Ops to align TA strategies with organizational goals.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Championed strategies to expand representation across technical and leadership roles.
• Innovation in TA Delivery: Designed TA sprints and war rooms to accelerate hiring for niche, high-priority roles.

May 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Redwood City, CA · On-site

• Served as Senior R&D Recruiter at Informatica, a global enterprise software leader with 5,500+ employees. Played a key role in scaling high-performing product and engineering teams under tight budget constraints, partnering cross-functionally with Engineering VPs, the Head of TA, Finance, People Ops, and Legal to achieve aggressive hiring goals.
• Key Achievements:
• Exceeded Performance Goals: Achieved 200% of target hiring goals, consistently delivering above expectations.
• Full-Cycle Recruitment: Delivered end-to-end Talent Acquisition for complex technical roles across multiple R&D teams, including:
• CLAIRE AI
• Data Security Group (DSG)
• Metadata Foundation
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• CloudTrust
• Product Documentation
• User Experience (UX) Design - Doubled the size of this team from 12 to 24 in 10 months
• Ultra Messaging
• Executive Hiring: Successfully recruited VP- and Director-level leaders, strengthening innovation and technical leadership within R&D.
• Scaled Product Teams: Hired engineers and leaders to accelerate growth in AI, security, and cloud product areas, directly supporting Informatica’s transformation initiatives.
• Early Talent Programs: Spearheaded recruitment for Informatica’s 2019 R&D Summer Internship Program, attracting top university talent and strengthening long-term pipeline.

Aug 2010 – May 2018 · 7 yrs 9 mos · San Jose,CA · On-site

• Joined Ness, a global technology leader with 3,500+ employees and 15+ innovation centers, as lead technical recruiter and later promoted to lead a global talent acquisition team (US and India). Recognized with a top performance award for consistently exceeding hiring goals and driving impact in high-growth domains such as eCommerce and Payments. Partnered with executive leadership to build and scale high-performing product teams while serving as a trusted Talent Acquisition partner.
• Key Achievements:
• Exceeded Hiring Goals: Consistently delivered 150%+ of target hires across product and engineering organizations year over year.
• Specialized Product Hiring: Closed niche, business-critical roles including Big Data Engineers, DevOps Engineers, ML/AI Engineers, UX Designers, Data Analytics Engineers, Solution Architects (Java, Cloud, AWS, AI), Full-Stack Developers, and Cloud Engineers (AWS, Azure).
• Executive Hiring: Successfully recruited VP- and Director-level leaders across Engineering and Sales
• Team Leadership: Built and managed a team of 5 recruiters, coaching them into a high-performance unit that consistently exceeded quarterly hiring targets.

Apr 2004 – Jul 2010 · 6 yrs 3 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

• Over this period, worked with multiple software staffing companies based out of San Jose, CA, recruiting top technical talent for Fortune 500 clients across the U.S. in a fast-paced and highly competitive environment. Led end-to-end recruiting efforts — from strategic sourcing and stakeholder partnership to offer negotiation, background checks, and onboarding — and have been consistently recognized as a top closer for hard-to-fill technical roles.