Mar 2025 – Aug 2025 · 5 mos · India · Remote

• I’ve been selected as part of the first cohort for the prestigious Perplexity AI Business Fellowship Program! This six-month journey is a unique opportunity for me to learn about AI from some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, including Jensen Huang (CEO, NVIDIA) and Aaron Levie (CEO, Box) and many other leaders from this space.

Jul 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Diagnosed with Chronic Heart Blockage "Triple Vessel Coronary". Had undergone treatment and took a health recovery break, it impacted my financial status and career both due to break, however it helped me to recover, this did not stop me to achieve more. Below are my achievements after my severe heart issues and treatment.
• >Did follow very strict diet and exercises to recover. Reversed diabetes under India's highly respected doctor Dr. Pramod Tripathi.
• >Became Guinness Book Of World Record Official Participant. Participated in the world's highest altitude Frozen Lake Marathon in Ladakh-Pangong, ( In Himalayas) ran under -22 degrees along with 75+ elite runners from all over the world under extremely low Oxygen levels.
• >Participated in Ladakh marathon post 6 months of my heart stenting.
• >Climbed 18500 Feet mountain which is near India's Highest Lake in North Sikkim. Took special ---coaching on High altitude running to run at 14500 feet levels.
• >Have mentored many heart patients to run and started a coaching initiative to prepare newbies to run 5k in 30-40 mints.
• >During this break I have also authored books on The role of Cognitive Biases in Financial Markets and released research guides on Values Based hiring and on 14 golden rules for creating attractive Job descriptions and few other guides on busting assumptions and on Mental Models.

Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led Postman Engineering hiring with amazing team of recruiters and rockstar engineering teams. Played a very important role in scaling the engineering teams. Worked with company Founders, feel fortunate to hire many engineering leaders and outstanding engineering talent.

May 2016 – Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Built a team of recruiters, worked with early stage startups in Bangalore/Hyderabad to help in tech hiring. Focus was to fill C Level reqs, closed successfully CPO/CTO/CFO level confidential reqs.

Apr 2016 – Sep 2016 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Worked as an Engineering Recruiter. Quit after 6 months to start my own venture.

Mar 2014 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Hired talent for gTech function @Google Hyderabad ( Worked for Tech and Non-Tech senior level hiring (L4/L5/L6/L7 reqs) and Data Analytics volume hiring.

Jul 2013 – Feb 2014 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Hired Engineering talent for @Labs and @Platform teams in @WalmartLabs- Bangalore.

May 2012 – Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Built Tech community groups from 0 to 2500+ active members.
• Ran it independently for 4+ years and transitioned it to other engineers in community.

Jul 2010 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore - India

• Built new engineering teams at Yahoo! from scratch ( Back-End engineering, Front-End engineering and SRE for Yahoo! R&D- Bangalore).
• Hired talent for below engineering teams:
• Yahoo! Vertical Intent Search
• Yahoo! SnMP (Search and Market Places)
• Yahoo! Platform Group
• Yahoo! Cricket
• Yahoo! Site Reliability Engineering.

Jul 2006 – Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• It's a US consulting company. Built a new 15 member recruiting team from scratch. Played a key role in expanding the company new business verticals and bringing profits. Involved in Tech and Non-Tech hiring. Clients are from Financial and Pharmaceutical domain from the east coast, US.

Jun 2004 – Jun 2006 · 2 yrs

• It's a US consulting firm. First year played an IC role, second year built a team of 20 tech recruiters. worked with many US-California based clients ( IBM, Sun Microsystems, Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Amgen).