Jul 2022 – Apr 2023 · 9 mos · India

• Oversaw end-to-end recruitment for the Platform Org, collaborating closely with hiring managers to define position requirements and candidate criteria.
• Evaluated candidates' skills, experience, and cultural alignment to ensure optimal fit for the organization.
• Managed the recruitment system, tracking open applications, overseeing the selection process, and providing timely recruitment reports.
• Successfully expanded the Platform team from 25 to 35+ members through effective hiring of Backend engineers, senior backend engineers, platform architects, developer experience, and Engineering Managers.
• Maintained a high standard of candidate evaluation, resulting in top talent acquisition for the team. Demonstrated proficiency in managing multiple positions and stakeholders within the Platform Org.
• Set clear and measurable recruitment goals, emphasizing performance metrics aligned with hiring needs and diversity targets.
• Implemented efficient onboarding and training programs, equipping contract recruiters with essential skills and knowledge.
• Leveraged modern recruitment technologies and tools, including ATS and AI-driven sourcing platforms, to enhance efficiency and candidate experience.
• Fostered team alignment and collaboration, promoting open communication and sharing of ideas among contract recruiters.

Sep 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

• Acted as the POD lead for the CTO business unit and performed full-life cycle recruiting.
• Developed and executed recruiting strategies to meet business needs, including sourcing,
• screening, interviewing, negotiating offers, and closing candidates.
• Managed the recruitment process from start to finish for multiple positions in the CTO Org.
• Collaborated with hiring managers on position requirements and expectations as well as
• candidate qualifications.
• Assessed potential employee fit based on skills, experience, cultural alignment, etc., while
• ensuring compliance with applicable laws/regulations regarding discrimination in
• Employment practices.
• Communicated effectively with internal stakeholders such as hiring managers and HR partners throughout the entire recruiting cycle.
• Responsible for day-to-day recruitment activities and managed 3 contract recruiters.
• Mentored and trained new team members in the areas of full lifecycle recruiting and sourcing.
• Evaluated/reviewed all weekly requisition status reports submitted to VP, Technology.
• Work with marketing team on online advertisements and prepare videos for the employer
• Branding.
• Involve in drafting & publishing along with the marketing team on recruitment advertisements in the professional media websites (such as LinkedIn)
• Extensive experience in hiring Passive Candidates via Social Media Platforms
• Sourcing profiles through job portals like LinkedIn recruiter, GitHub, Stack overflow, Instahyre,
• Hirist, Behance, Naukri., etc
• Participated in the campus hiring for the year 2021.
• Tapping the right companies to hire relevant candidates
• Worked for Engineering (SE to Director level), Technology (DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, SRE,
• DevSecOps, Security, GRC, IT) GTM (LDR, SDR, Pre-sales, Technical account manager),
• Operations (Growth, Partnerships).
• Achievements:
• Built the Technology team from a 35 members team to a 100+ members team.
• Implemented and executed Post-offer engagement program (Buddy Program)

Sep 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr · Chennai Area, India · On-site

• I was the 2nd Talent Acquisition member in the Talent Acquisition team at Ally.io.
• Lead the full recruitment life-cycle, from sourcing strategies, talent recruitment, and acquisition to interview preparation, offer negotiation, and on-boarding.
• Manage the open applications in the recruitment system, manage the selection process and its progress, and provide timely periodic recruitment reports
• In partnership with the TA Manager develop and implement the yearly recruitment plan and strategy
• Managed the candidate experience by being the initial contact, moving candidates through the interviewing process, pre-screening, and maintaining the recruitment pipeline
• Identify candidates through multiple sources including employee referrals, social networking sites (e.g. LinkedIn), alumni, transfers and agencies
• Execute on processes to implement hiring plans based on business strategy in consultation with business and recruiting leaders
• Participate with hiring managers and recruiting leadership to develop implementation plans for sourcing and recruiting strategies, paying particular attention to inclusiveness strategies
• Actively participated in the Campus Hiring program, Initiated process with the Tier 1 & Tier 2 colleges like IIT, MIT, CEG, SSN, and etc,.
• Responsible for employee engagement activities like organizing Fun at work, Team Lunches, Offsite
• Achievement:
• Built GTM operations for India and scaled the team from 1 to 12+ member team.
• Played a key role in building the overall team size from a 12 member to 80+ member team by the end of year

Oct 2018 – Aug 2019 · 10 mos · Chennai Area, India · On-site

• Hands-on expertise in handling all functions of recruitment from sourcing, interviewing, facilitating technical interviews, conducting HR interviews, Salary negotiations and post offer regular follow up/s to ensure joining.
• Strong in Product and StartUp hiring with good exposure on Employer Branding and Candidate engagement.
• Experience both inbound and outbound processes.
• Proficient working with Job portals, Social networking, Job Posting, References, Database.
• Handling major assignments of IT Product-Startups (Backend/Frontend Developer,UI/UX
• Designer/Developer, Full Stack Developer, SDET/QA,QA Manager, Technical Architect).
• Handed major assignment into Sales positions, Account Executive, SDR, LDR.
• Experienced in Mid-Senior-Leadership Hiring.

Jan 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Handling the end to end recruitment process.
• Gathering and analyzing requirements of the clients.
• Experienced as Team Lead in absence of Manager, allotted work to team Members after sync up
• call with respective Account Managers (Hyderabad & Bangalore).
• Handled BG process
• Coordinated with Onsite team for clarity call, interview schedule and follow up.
• Successfully conducted walk-in drives to close position as per the TAT.
• Achievement:
• Have closed a Project(Wholesale) with max hire of 10 members and hired for project upgrade as well.
• Clients Worked: Verizon, BNP Paribas, UHG, Avaya and E&Y.
• Technologies Worked: Java, J2EE, JEE, Spring Boot, Microservices, Cassandra, Elastic Search, AWS, Cloud Engineer, Devops, Dotnet, Network Security, SOC, MS Dynamics, SAP, Architect, Technical Architect, Cloud Architect, C, C++, Selenium, Appium, PMO, Android, IOS, PHP, Information Security, DBA, Angular2/4/5, Node.JS, MongoDB, Scrum Master, etc.,

Jun 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Handled both internal and external recruitment(Permanent & Contract Staffing).
• Exposure in client handling, client servicing and as well as in team handling.
• Good experience into both knowledge and volume hiring
• Direct interaction with delivery team to understand the requirement, block calendar to
• conduct interview like F2F, telephone, Skype and Bridge call
• Interacted with RMG for requirement as well as Follow up.
• Involved in bulk hiring(For training courses conducted by the organization)
• Involved in interview panel undertaking first level of interview for fresher’s as well as
• experienced candidates to check communication and technical skills
• Sourcing profiles from database, referrals, networks and through various job portals like
• Naukri, monster, Indeed and etc.,
• Make sure the quality to hit the requirement on 1:3 profiles ratio.
• Good into negotiation with selected candidates and on-boarding them on TAT
• Job posting in portals & mass mailing when required
• Continuous learning by up gradation of knowledge on various technologies
• Positions handled for Internal:
• AWS, Openstack (DevOps), Linux L3, Unix L3, Openstack Administrator, IPT, Cisco Voice Engineer, Infrastructure Manager, Lead, QA, UI Developer(Angular.JS/knockout.JS), Oracle E-Biz, Network Administrator, Confluence Wiki, Oracle DBA L3 with AWS, Network Architect, OPS Supervisor, and etc...
• Client Worked: Rackspace, Franklin Templeton, HP, TCS, CTS, Valeo, Oracle, India Healthcare, Global Logic
• Technologies: Sun Technologies, Microsoft Technologies, Infrastructure, Mobile Application, Web development, Testing, Openstack (Devops), AWS

Jun 2013 – May 2014 · 11 mos · Chennai

• Expertise into complete Recruitment life cycle (RLC)
• Requirement Gathering from lead & clients.Analyze the client requirement in detail which includes desired and mandatory skills required
• Sourcing profiles from database, referrals, networks and through various job portals like
• Naukri, monster, Indeed and etc.,
• Screening and shortlisting the profiles deeply as per job description to share Quality Resources
• with TAT.
• Make sure the quality to hit the requirement on 1:3 profiles ratio.
• Handled clients in India Like: NEC, Prodapt, Raqmiyat, Herbalife, Leeyo, 5th Generation, Ninestars Information Systems, Saviance Technologies, Excelsoft, BIAS Corporation, CAMS.
• Handled clients in Middle-East countries like: GTFS, ISYX, BCT, GBM
• Technologies handled: Oracle E, Sun Technologies, Microsoft Technologies, Infrastructure, Mobile Application, Web development, Testing, Embedded and etc.,