May 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area & Hyderabad

• Fantastic experience in spreading Hiring Ideas in US and worked for several product start ups, mid sized & Large MNC's in the Bay Area !
• Worked with various innovative and cutting edge tech start-ups in the bay area and helping them identify top talent for some of the toughest skills - Cloud based BigData Platform/Analytics, Hadoop Eco-system/Mapreduce frameworks, NoSQL, Cassandra, Hbase, Hive, PIG, Machine Learning/ Mahout.
• We have strong exposure in recruitment of candidates with expertise in Algorithms/data structures, data and text mining, Machine Learning, Unstructured data management, Search Engines & Focused crawling/extraction techniques, Architecting Customized Index, Large-scale web architectures, Mobile/Video Advertising, SaaS and web services, Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud and Distributed Computing/Systems, Internet and Search technologies, Platform as a service(PaaS), Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Data-warehousing/BI, Data Analytics, Distributed Databases, Virtualization, Cryptography and Security, Mobile Multimedia Streaming, Streaming/real time analytics, Mobile Rich Media Applications, Web Applications/RIA.

Aug 2010 – Apr 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Orchestrated Executive Search practice at MMJ, worked with couple of product start-ups, VC backed firms, R&D labs of various MNC's on their Leadership executive search mandates.

Jan 2009 – Apr 2014 · 5 yrs 3 mos

• MakeMyJob (MMJ) is a specialized talent search company with core competency into niche technology recruitments and focused on Middle & Senior level positions with start-ups / mid-sized & Multinational companies in APAC region.
• We are working with emerging, innovative & cutting edge technology companies in the products space and acquired rich experience in handling specific domain requisitions. Our portfolio are majority product start-ups, VC backed firms, R&D labs of various MNC's.
• Currently handling various Big Data requirements - Cloud based BigData Platform/Analytics, Hadoop Eco-system/Mapreduce frameworks, NoSQL, Cassandra, Hbase, Hive, PIG, Machine Learning/ Mahout.
• We have strong exposure in the recruitment of candidates with expertise in Algorithms/data structures, data & text mining, Machine Learning, Unstructured data management, Search Engines & Focused crawling/extraction techniques, Architecting Customized Index, Large-scale web architectures, Mobile Ad Networking, SAAS & web services, Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud & Distributed Computing/Systems, Internet & Search technologies, Platform as a service(PaaS), Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Data-warehousing/BI, Data Analytics, Distributed Databases, Virtualization, Cryptography and Security, Mobile Multimedia Streaming, Streaming query processing, Streaming/real time analytics, Web Applications/RIA, Technical Support/Infrastructure.
• MMJ is well funded with a long term perspective of providing professional services in the areas of Staffing & Recruitment and supported by several veterans from the consulting industry.
• My role involves building the company's business in the APAC region, client acquisition and management.

Apr 2004 – Jul 2008 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Extensive working experience with the Emerging, Innovative and Cutting-edge Technology Product Start-ups, VC Funded and Private equity companies.In-depth recruiting experience for the R&D Labs divisions of MNC's. Have successfully built Core Technology teams for budding & established start-ups.
• Played an "intra-preneurial" role in establishing Delhi operations for the company from scratch.
• Actively involved in Leadership & Executive level searches. Some of my successful searches are:
• CTO
• Director/VP Engineering/Products
• Engineering Managers/Development Managers
• Architect/Principal Architect
• Extensive experience in working with various Country Heads of Multinational Companies, mid-sized and start-up companies.
• Partnering with various BU heads, holding discussions with Hiring Managers on the compensation issues, salary bench-marking and job specifications.
• Handled Clients like Amazon (A9), Google, AOL, Adobe, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Intuit, Stryker, McAfee, DeShaw and start-ups like LimeWire, Veveo.tv, Terracotta, MakeMyTrip, Guavus, 4Interactive, Ugenie etc.

Jul 2003 – Mar 2004 · 8 mos · Greater Lucknow Area

• In the first quarter of the launch of new Personal Health Care products, stood first at the all India level Sales figures and was awarded the “National HERO” certificate by 'General Manager-Sales, Dabur'
• Conducted various promotional and awareness campaigns for better visibility and branding of Dabur’s products and considerably augmented sales target.
• Exposure in maintaining cordial relationship with Distributors & stockists, ensuring quality & excellence in overall operations keeping customer satisfaction and business retention in mind.
• Ensuring business development by defining channel requirement, establishing sales network and monitoring the entire business performance.
• Effective role played in tracking & mapping competitors landscape which helped business to streamline & forecast future positioning & strategies.