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Gopal Devarajan

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of experience in tech recruitment.
  • Expert in building diverse engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in leadership hiring.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned tech recruiter specializing in e-commerce and engineering talent acquisition.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTechnical Recruiting

Other Skills

SourcingScreeningOnboardingLeadership HiringStakeholder ManagementCandidate Pipeline ManagementPeopleSoftHR ConsultingRecruitingHuman ResourcesInternet RecruitingExecutive SearchEmployee EngagementApplicant Tracking SystemsManagement

About

Passionate Lead Tech Recruiter with a proven track record of identifying and attracting top-tier tech professionals. I specialize in building top-notch Product and Engineering, Analytics & Customer success teams that power the growth and success of organizations in the e-commerce space. Dedicated to understanding the unique needs of both candidates and hiring managers to create successful matches that drive organizational growth. Experienced in full-cycle recruitment, talent acquisition strategies, diversity hiring, and employer branding. With more than 15 years of experience, my Strengths are: - Direct sourcing, Efficient stakeholders management skills, - Building and managing an effective candidate pipeline, - Managing the data on a regular basis, - Responsible for a Better Candidate Experience - Managing large-scale Employee Referral Programs and University hiring programs. I have always relied on direct sourcing through channels like Careersite, LinkedIn, and Social Networking, and placed high-caliber tech professionals in various positions. Highly experienced in Leadership hiring like DoE, Engineering managers, Principal Engineers & Architects Utilized innovative sourcing techniques, such as social media recruiting and networking events, resulting in a 20% increase in the candidate pool. Collaborated closely with hiring managers to define job requirements, develop compelling job descriptions, and make them understand the talent landscape for any given open role. My core strength is being Agile and having a strong team player attitude, I have mentored junior recruiters, talent sourcers, and coordinators. Groupon's Mission: "To be the destination for experiences -- where customers discover fun things to do and local businesses thrive". We are a Hyper Local marketplace attracting millions of customers across the Global. This means we work on really large-scale distributed systems and cutting-edge technologies! Our highly talented Engineering teams are solving problems at scale. I am really thrilled to be a part of a Global organization that believes in an Equity and Inclusive work culture. We are culturally rich and very are teams are very diverse. "It's really a fun combination of not too large and not too small, so you can make a big difference"! Would you like to be part of a Global brand that can provide a variety of challenges and opportunities, Then do check out [www.grouponcareers.com] and apply! If you want to know more you can ping me on LinkedIn or write to me at [gdevarajan@groupon.com]

Experience

22 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Groupon

Recruitment Team Lead

Sep 2018Present · 7 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru

  • 7+ years leading APAC recruiting across India, Australia, and UAE — hands-on tech recruiter and people manager.
  • Regional Ownership: End-to-end hiring across India P&E, India Global Ops (Customer Support), and Australia BD — simultaneously managing complex tech, leadership, and volume pipelines.
  • Niche Tech Hiring: Owned full-funnel execution for hard-to-fill SRE, Staff Engineer, Lead Engineer, and EM II roles — sourcing, TA screens, code review orchestration, system design panels, case studies, offer strategy, and closures.
  • Collaborated closely with Engineering teams to define essential skills and experiences for key roles.
  • Successfully onboarded top Engineering talents, significantly contributing to the growth of the E-commerce Platform team at Groupon.
Technical RecruitingTalent AcquisitionSourcingScreeningOnboardingLeadership Hiring

Career victory consulting

Co-Owner

Oct 2016Aug 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Talent Hunt!
  • Connecting Talents to Opportunity...
  • Hunting Engineering talents for Start-up and Well known Product companies!

Wellness ever

Marketing

May 2015Oct 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Whitefiled, Bangalore

  • Spreading Happiness through Wellness!
  • Come experience, enjoy and spread happiness! Experience Happiness! @ WELLNESS EVER
  • www.wellnessever.com

Flipkart.com

Talent Acquisition

Jul 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Connecting Great Talents to Awesome career opportunity.

Inmobi

Talent Acquistion Lead

Oct 2011Jul 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Since our inception in the Asia-Pacific region in 2007, InMobi has grown to become the world's largest independent ad network serving over 100 Billion mobile ads to date. We built our product in parts of the world where the mobile phone is not just a screen, it's the only screen. After launching in the U.S. and Europe in early 2010, InMobi has more than doubled its global network from 7.5 Billion to 50.4 Billion impressions monthly. Backed by SoftBank, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures, InMobi's founders hail from global technology leaders such as Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Akamai, Trilogy, Virgin Mobile, and AT&T
  • Today we are the world's largest independent mobile advertising network. Offices are located in Bangalore, Johannesburg, London, Nairobi, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo.

Yahoo!

Sr.Talent Acquisition - Service & Product Engineering

Oct 2007Sep 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Recruited Service Engineers: Responsible for building large Service Engineering teams at Yahoo!
  • Challenge was to build a open source Geeks experts in Linux with other open source tools and programming
  • Recruited Lead C++/ Java Developers &
  • White Box Testing Engineers (Java programing+Testing) Professionals at Yahoo! Bangalore.

Helios & matheson

Asst Mgr

Feb 2006Sep 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Business Development for recruitment, managing a sourcing team, Guide the team to source and fill positions, coordinating with the clients for day to day fulfilment/ closure of open positions. SPOC for various clients, Bridging the prospective candidate with the best opportunity with the client and keeping them engaged. Ensure required coordinates for on-boarding of the selected candidates.

Clien & bosch

Sr Recruitment Consultant

Oct 2003Jan 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Sourcing, Business Development, Coaching juniors

Education

Bangalore University

MBA

Jan 2000Jan 2002

Bharathidasan University

BBA

Jan 1997Jan 2000

Velankanni Matric Higher Sec School

Biology/Biological Sciences — General

Jan 1995Jan 1997

Jawahar Higher Secondary, Neyveli

Secondary High School

Jan 1994Jan 1995

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