Karunjay Anand

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18 years of experience in tech and recruitment.
Co-founded a successful B2B recruitment marketplace.
Expert in building high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on recruitment technology and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (ai)MicroservicesData-driven Decision MakingAmazon Web Services (aws)

Other Skills

Design PatternsStrategyContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cross-functional Team LeadershipBusiness GrowthReact.jsNext.jsMachine LearningAgentic AAI GovernanceGenAIArtificial Intelligence for BusinessGenerative AI for LeadershipAI for ManagementAI for Leadership

About

I once hired someone on a friend's word of mouth. No interview. No process. Just — "he's a good guy, trust me." Six months later I was cleaning up the damage. That mistake taught me something I couldn't learn from any hiring framework — the people who destroy early stage teams rarely look wrong on paper. They look perfect. They just don't believe in what you're building. I've spent 18 years in tech and recruitment. 10 of them building CBREX — a B2B recruitment marketplace — where I've watched thousands of hiring decisions from the inside. Good ones. Catastrophic ones. The pattern I keep seeing in Indian startups: Founders obsess over skills for their first 10 hires. They run assessments, check portfolios, verify credentials. And then wonder why the team falls apart at the first sign of pressure. Skills you can train. Commitment to your vision you cannot. Your first 10 hires are not employees. They are co-owners of your outcome. Get them wrong and no amount of strategy, funding, or product fixes it. I write about hiring, team building, and the uncomfortable realities of scaling people — drawn from 18 years of getting it right and wrong. If you're building a team and want to get the fundamentals right — follow along.

Experience

18 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

10 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Cbrex -global recruiter exchange

CTO & Co-founder

Sep 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

CBREX is a B2B driven talent sourcing platform connecting enterprises to recruitment agencies across the world. CBREX introduces a tech stack in the agency hiring process of an enterprise enabling them to widen their talent sourcing funnel. Enterprises have access to vendor analytics ,Fill ratios , pipeline analysis which automates their vendor engagement process making it more efficient and bringing down the time to hire.
It also enables recruiting firms of all sizes to access validated open requisitions from enterprise hirers, based on their areas of expertise.
Own the technical vision and technical architecture of the CBREX platform
Recruit, mentor, and lead a team of software engineers, including SDET and DevOps
Define and implement agile development practices to improve product delivery quality and value creation
Collaborate with Product management and business stakeholders to build the right product in the right way
Responsible for software quality and scalability and hyper growth
Driving improvement of the platform and team using metrics, measurement, and optimization
Bringing innovative technology expertise and ideas to the table that help CBREX improve its product
Thoughtfully plan and nimbly execute vision for the team and technology stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)MicroservicesDesign PatternsData-driven Decision MakingStrategyContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)+8

Envestnet | yodlee india

Senior Application Security Specialist

Jun 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Heading Information Security operations
Created and formulated the security roadmap for the organization and driving on that road
Evangelizing the SOC and continual improvement.
Helping with operations such as Audits
Managing Org wide communications on product security
Driving cross functional security sprints

LeadershipMicroservicesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Design PatternsData-driven Decision MakingCross-functional Team Leadership

aditya birla minacs world wide ltd

Technology Lead

Feb 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Involved in design/development discussion within team and assisting project through project estimates / schedule / resource allocation figures.
Managed a team of 24 people.
Understanding the business requirement and figure out the solution on top of the existing systems or creating new application, based on the feasibility study and stakeholders interests.
Worked on Enterprise-level Trade Finance for Corporate customers and Trade Finance Back Office system for Bank operatives for many large Banking companies, including integrating with various third party systems.
Interaction with Banking clients to understand their business processes, requirement gathering (functional & nonfunctional), writing specifications
Solution assessment & validation (Review Design Documents, Test Criteria, Risk Management)
Review of requirements / functional specification / system test cases
Technical guidance to the team and team management
Investigating the best technology for the application

MicroservicesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Design PatternsData-driven Decision MakingCross-functional Team Leadership

Mkay technologies pvt ltd

Founder & Chief Technology Officer

May 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

mKay is a humble and young IT venture aimed at building web based solutions to educational institutions.
We're building a services product that isn't disruptive, but helps IT admins in universities and schools, yet stick to their existing systems, and feel better about it.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Artoo

Head of Engineering

Jun 2010 – Apr 2011 · 10 mos · Bangalore

Artoo wishes to catalyze development through inclusive technology and empowering communication. We want to do everything we can to bring the digital revolution to those at the bottom of the pyramid.
We often wonder why the world’s most intuitive technology isn’t available to the masses: Why aren’t iPhone like interfaces available to low-income first-time technology users? Why isn’t enterprise software as slick and easy-to-use as Facebook?
Our first product, Artoo Slate, is a solution for the microfinance industry. We believe it has the potential to help microfinance institutions become more productive in helping their customers rise out of poverty.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)