Jul 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built and executed talent acquisition strategy for Mobile Engineering, Security, Infra, and SRE teams, ensuring high talent density and alignment with CRED’s engineering standards.
• Partnered closely with hiring managers to Design compelling, market-aligned job descriptions and develop customised recruitment strategies for niche technical and leadership roles.
• Managed and mentored team to deliver data-driven hiring process, ensuring consistent performance, cost efficiency, and adherence to SLAs.
• Part of the core team that led CRED’s first post-COVID offline branding initiative – the SWIFT Conference (iOS Developer Community Event); collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless execution, significantly boosting CRED’s employer branding within the iOS engineering community.
• Experienced in multiple ATS platforms – Greenhouse, Recruiterbox, Mynexthire, and Lever.
• Collaborated with hiring managers to build a data-driven hiring framework and set up regular stakeholder cadence reviews on key metrics (time-to-fill, TAT, candidate experience, interviewer feedback, offer conversion), ensuring transparency and continuous process improvement.
• Collaborated closely with hiring managers to identify and assemble the right interview panels for critical engineering roles, ensuring strong alignment with required technical and behavioural competencies.
• Designed and implemented strategies to increase interview capacity by optimising panel bandwidth, introducing interviewer rotations, and effectively managing interview hours.

Jul 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Looking for Backend Engineers(Hands-on Coding Java/PHP/Python/Golang with good DS/Algorithms and design at Junior to mid to senior levels), Frontend Engineers(Reactjs), DevOps, Security and Data Engineering(Spark/Flink and Java/Scala) at Razorpay.
• Razorpay, India’s first Converged Payments Solution company, helps Indian businesses with comprehensive and innovative solutions built over robust technology to address the entire length and breadth of the payment journey for any business. Established in 2014, the company provides tech payment solutions to over 350,000 businesses. Founded by alumni of IIT Roorkee, Shashank Kumar & Harshil Mathur, Razorpay is the second Indian company to be a part of Silicon Valley’s largest tech accelerator, Y Combinator. Marquee investors such as Tiger Global, Matrix Partners, YCombinator and MasterCard have invested a total of $31.5 million through Series A & B funding and $75mn from Sequoia India & Ribbit Capital in Series C. Around 33 angel investors including Snapdeal, InMobi & Freecharge founders, Visa’s Global Head of Strategy, Flipkart ex-CPO Punit Soni and internet entrepreneurs & investors Justin Kan and Tikhon Bernstam have invested in Razorpay’s mission to simplify payments. Known to be a developer oriented payment gateway, Razorpay focuses on essentials such as 24x7 support, one-line integration code and superior checkout experiences.

Mar 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• InMobi Group’s mission is to power intelligent, mobile-first experiences for enterprises and consumers. Its businesses across advertising, marketing, data and content platforms are shaping consumer experience in a world of connected devices. InMobi Group has been recognized as a 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 and one of Fast Company’s 2018 World’s Most Innovative Companies.
• I am responsible for hiring engineering talent across Infrastructure, Data and Platform Engineering teams. If interested reach out to me on 9986241296/praneeth.d@inmobi.com.
• For Exciting career opportunities please visit: https://www.inmobi.com/company/careers/

Sep 2017 – Mar 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• About DoSelect:
• We are transforming how organisations think about taking people decisions. Historically, hiring and continuous development workflows in most organisations are highly manual and involve a lot of subjectivity. We are using cutting-edge technology and using data in a whole new way to re-invent how hiring and learning teams in organisations function and take critical decisions.
• We have helped countless organisations become exponentially better at hiring great people to join their teams, and enabling their employees to acquire new skills to stay ahead of the curve.
• And that's just what we are doing today. We have dedicated ourselves to the mission of solving recruitment and learning for good -- using technology and data to solve the most important challenges in these areas.
• Responsible for end to end recruitment from Technical sourcing/Offer negotiation/HR discussions/Onboarding.
• Manage the complete recruitment life-cycle for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources of manpower requirements through internal database, job portals, job posting, job advertising, social networking and employee referrals.
• Gather job specifications from hiring managers with detailed job descriptions and skill requirements.
• Responsible for setting up various policies within the organisation.
• Taking care of joining formalities by collecting necessary documents and keeping track of all the functionalities within the HR team.
• Maintaining Excel sheets to track candidates at different levels for different positions so as to prepare necessary metrics.
• Preparation of Staffing reports, weekly dashboard/ hiring plan etc.
• Maintaining a sourcing channel mix.
• Responsible for hiring Interns and Full-Time roles.
• Responsible for hiring both Technical and Non-Technical (partially) roles.
• Helping Sales team in generating leads.

Mar 2017 – Aug 2017 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• · Responsible for strategy and delivery of hiring top talent for both product lines of Belong.co
• [Hire and Experts].
• · Work with growing companies to spot candidates who best fit their requirements and are most
• inclined to move, and engage with them through personalized interactions.
• · Fulfilling roles in different tech stacks in Engineering, Mobile, Design and Infrastructure.
• · Few of my key focus/delivery areas includes providing thought leadership in talent acquisition,
• stakeholder management, team/people management, engagement with business leaders,
• finding innovative solutions to fulfill hiring needs, maintaining and reporting of key recruitment
• metrics and data.

Apr 2016 – Feb 2017 · 10 mos

• Responsible for Hiring across all verticals with major focus on Technology. Involved in research, mapping and headhunting for various Product Organisations and Start up's. Worked on Senior positions from Technical Architect to CEO for Product set up's and Start up's.
• Headhunting and working with our Executive Search firm Accord group in identifying and
• preparing a long list for key senior positions with their client.
• Worked on CTO position for one of the start-up in Mumbai.
• Closed multiple positions for Strats team for a top tier investment bank.
• Exclusively worked on machine learning scientist position for a critical team of a top-tier
• investment banking firm.
• Has extensive experience in working for ITES requirements such as Support Engineer-
• Cloud, Unix engineer and various other positions across Virtualization, mobile, security,
• Banking, BPM Domains.
• Closed multiple positions with e-commerce and start up’s.
• Successfully placed professionals from India to the US for a Product Organization which is into
• building Foreign Exchange Trading Platform.
• Extensive experience in placing professionals willing to relocate from the US to India.

Oct 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Headhunting and working with our Executive Search firm Accord group in identifying and
• preparing a long list for key senior positions with their client.
• Worked on CTO position for one of the start-up in Mumbai.
• Closed multiple positions for Strats team for a top tier investment bank.
• Exclusively worked on machine learning scientist position for a critical team of a top-tier
• investment banking firm.
• Has extensive experience in working for ITES requirements such as Support Engineer-
• Cloud, Unix engineer and various other positions across Virtualization, mobile, security,
• Banking, BPM Domains.
• Closed multiple positions with e commerce and start up’s.
• Successfully placed professionals from India to US for a Product Organization which is into
• building Foreign Exchange Trading Platform.
• Extensive experience in placing professionals willing to relocate from US to India.

Oct 2010 – Oct 2013 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Technologies:
• Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Java, J2EE, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JBoss, JQuery, JDBC, Messaging ( JMS,), EJB, Business Objects, Multi-Threading, Flex, SOA, GWT (Google Web Tool Kit), AJAX, GUI, Web Services, Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, XML, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, MVC2, C/C++, Objective C, Shell, UNIX, Linux, AIX, Solaris, PL/SQL, Scripting, Tomcat, Eclipse, PHP, MySQL, JSP, .Net, Agile/Waterfall methodologies, MS Office.
• Responsibilities :
• Requirements Gathering – meeting the clients, technical & HR department to understand the requirement & accurately assess, analyze the client’s requirements needs & objectives
• Screening of candidates before technical round.
• Sending suitable Profiles after screening to the respective clients.
• Initial screening of the candidate based on his/her resume through a telephonic interview.
• Scheduling further rounds of interviews for the candidates.
• Client Interface on a regular basis and fulfilling the requirements given by them.
• Arranging regular client feedbacks on recruitments and joining of candidates.
• Involved in doing job posting in various job portals.
• Regular follow-up with the candidates
• Maintaining the records of the candidates on the basis of skill and experience.
• Titles:
• Software Developers/Architects,Data Architect, Technical Program/Product/Project Managers, Web Developers, Programmers, and other IT professionals.
• Companies I was hiring for:
• Palantir, Goldman Sachs, Integral Development Corporation, Capillary, Games24/7, Morgan Stanley, Amazon to name some.