Akash Parnami

Co-Founder

India9 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in hiring top tech talent.
  • Expert in passive recruiting and data-driven hiring.
  • High offer acceptance rate and candidate satisfaction.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruitment expert with a strong focus on technical talent acquisition.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

AI for RecruitingAshbyBloggingCC (Programming Language)C++Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer ServiceData-Driven HiringDatabasesEarly-Stage StartupsExecutive SearchFinancial AnalysisHuman Resources (HR)International Recruitment

About

With around 9 years of experience in full cycle IT and non-IT recruitment, I am a highly resilient, impactful, and motivated tech-savvy talent partner. I have a proven track record of hiring top talent for various roles and levels, from consulting engineers and machine learning experts to cloud support and professional services managers. I specialize in passive recruiting, Google sourcing, data-driven hiring, and stakeholder management. Currently, I am a senior talent partner at Deel, a leading platform for hiring and paying remote teams. I am responsible for hiring in India, US, EMEA and Canada regions, sourcing candidates globally for machine learning, data science, robotics, embedded, AI, and AR/VR engineering teams, as well as backend engineering teams for business functions. I am passionate about finding the best fit for both the candidates and the company, and enabling a seamless and positive hiring experience for all parties involved. I am always open for new opportunities and challenges, and eager to learn and grow as a professional.

Experience

9 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Deel

Senior Talent Partner

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · India · Remote

  • Stats:
  • Roles closed so far in 2025 till Mid Nov: 50 (just 1 offer reject out of 51)
  • 2025: Q1: 144% | Q2: 166% | Q3: 133%
  • Offer Acceptance Rate: 98.2% HIGHEST Across whole Deel TA Team
  • Screen to offer Ratio (Includes also who got rejected in my screening): 11:1
  • 1st interview to offer: 4:1
  • NPS-Net Promoter Score (Candidate experience survey): 83.3%
  • Deel is the fastest growing B2B SaaS business of all time, Globally.
  • Hiring for engineering, data and product across EMEA, APAC, NA and LATAM.
  • Roles: Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Backend ( infra ), Site Reliability, Full Stack, DevOps, Information Security, Reports Engineering
  • Tools: Advanced Ashby , MetaView, Covey Inbound and Outbound bot, Crunchbase, Wellfound, Angellist, LinkedIn Recruiter, Google XRay, Advanced Boolean
  • B2B | SaaS | Fast Paced | Startup | Early Stage Startup | Series E
StartupsAI for RecruitingTechnical RecruitingLinkedIn RecruiterAshbyEarly-Stage Startups+4

Meta

Senior Technical Recruiter (Role impacted due to layoff)

Sep 2022Feb 2023 · 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Working as a Technical Recruiter, responsible for recruiting IC6+ Principal Software Engineers for Meta,
  • London.
  • Sourcing candidates globally for Reality Labs teams (Machine Learning, Data Scientists, Robotics,
  • Embedded, AI, AR/VR Engineers) as well as Backend Engineers for Business teams.
  • Working closely with recruiters and hiring managers in various software engineering teams to
  • deeply understand the requirements of the role
  • Actively worked on talent mapping and research projects.
  • Participated in various recruitment and networking events
  • Been an active contributor in sharing ideas around improving processes and projects.
Executive SearchMachine LearningMachine learning hiringTechnical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Mongodb

Technology Recruiter

Apr 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Worked as a second Technical Recruiter in APAC, responsible for hiring for Customer Engineering division at MongoDB for from Mid to Executive level.
  • Own end-to-end recruitment for MongoDB for core technical roles in the Customer Engineering department. (Technical services engineering, Cloud support and Professional Services; Roles: Consulting Engineer, Machine learning [ ML ] engineers, Artificial Intelligence [ AI ] engineers Technical Services Engineer and Manager, Cloud Engineer, Backend Developer etc.)
  • Partnering with extremely talented, enthusiastic global and local engineering leaders in MongoDB helping them build our customer engineering teams in APAC region.
  • Mentoring the team of 6 Sourcers. Also, responsible for sourcing for niche roles at MongoDB by using platforms like job portals, LinkedIn recruiter, Xray and few other non-traditional platforms.
  • Actively managed virtual hiring drives.
Technical RecruitingStartupsEarly-Stage StartupsTalent Acquisition

Publicis sapient

Technical Recruiter

May 2018Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • I currently work as an individual contributor and am responsible for full-cycle recruitment and am dedicated to sourcing and engaging the niche yet best technical talent from all sources including LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri, Indeed, Google Xray, etc.
  • Recruited candidates heavily for investment banking clients; Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPM, for technologies: Java, QA, and UX/UI professionals etc.
  • Recruited candidates on technology: Java, QA, and hired a bunch of UX/UI professionals, etc.
  • Extensively used Google chrome extensions and recruiting automation tools.
  • Level recruited for: Associate to Managers [Exp range: 0 – 15 YR]
  • Responsible for keeping candidates warm during the interview process and after releasing the offer.
  • Applicant and candidate tracking using CRMs: Avature, Taleo, and Smartrecruiters.
  • Actively managed in-house and outstation hiring drives.
  • Optimized processes: resulted in a saving of approximately 12800 minutes for over 100 Recruiters in a quarter.

Varite inc

4 roles

Team Lead Recruitment

Promoted

May 2017Apr 2018 · 11 mos · On-site

  • Specifically assigned to the multiple high tech and utility clients for the recruitment of their various requisitions in US, Canada and India region which includes both IT and non IT roles.
  • Well experienced in reviewing/screening IT profiles and assessing role match for a range of IT roles.
  • Identification of potential Candidates from many sources as like- Job-site (Monster, Indeed, Dice, Google).
  • Have used nontraditional sourcing platforms like Google Xray Search, Twitter, LinkedIn, Github, Bing Search etc. for covering full-time immediate roles.
  • Have used multiple sourcing tools for retrieving contact information of relevant candidates with one click.
  • Worked for Fortune 500 companies including Amazon, Salesforce, NetApp, Brocade, Pacific Gas and Electric, Northern Natural gas and Mid American Energy.
  • Screened all applicants based on their qualifications and background. Worked on various Full-time requisitions like
  •  IoT security Architects, Automation Engineer, Data Scientists, Information Security Architects, Cloud Specialists, and QA Engineers.
  • Worked on various requirements including
  •  Java Developers, DevOps Engineers, System Administrators, Infrastructure Engineer, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Business Systems Analyst, Desktop Engineer, Network Engineers, Product Managers and Project Managers.
  •  Some of the Non-IT positions include Pricing Analysts, Marketing Managers, HR Coordinators, Financial Analysts, Accounting Managers, SOX auditors, and Legal Assistants.
  • Coordinating and setting up interviews of candidates with the Hiring Managers.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Promoted

Nov 2016Apr 2017 · 5 mos · On-site

Technical Recruiter

May 2016Oct 2016 · 5 mos · On-site

Trainee Technical Recruiter

Nov 2015Apr 2016 · 5 mos · On-site

Make tech easy

Founder

Jan 2012Jan 2018 · 6 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Education

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hissar

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Holy Child Public School, Rewari

Apr 2009Apr 2011

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