Swetha Puttarajappa

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in leadership hiring for tech roles.
  • Proven track record in sourcing passive candidates.
  • Skilled in market data analysis for recruitment.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter with expertise in SaaS and high-scale engineering talent acquisition.

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Skills

Core Skills

Corporate RecruitingTechnical HiringTechnical Recruiting

Other Skills

ApacheArchitectureBig DataC++Cloud ComputingData MiningDesign PatternsE-commerceEmployer BrandingExecutive SearchHBaseHTMLHadoopHigh AvailabilityHiring Practices

About

Mainly involved in leadership hiring, I have successfully recruited Principal Engineers, architects, and leads with robust experience in distributed systems, fault-tolerant designs, and backend systems for product development teams. I excel in sourcing passive candidates through social networking, internet searches, and various unique channels such as groups, blogs, forums, and candidate referrals. My industry-specific focus and expertise enable me to offer highly desirable positions that align with your aspirations. On a personal note, I am passionate about traveling, exploring new places, engaging in artistic pursuits, and enjoy swimming. :)

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Procore technologies

Senior Talent Advisor.

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Remote

  • Procore is an award-winning construction software company. Glassdoor released its list of Best Places to Work for 2024, and Procore came in at the #5 spot! and one of the top 100 product companies in the world.
  • Procore is a leading provider of cloud-based applications for construction. Procore connects people, applications, and devices through a unified platform to help construction professionals manage risk and build quality projects—safely, on time, and within budget. Procore has a diversified business model with products for Project Management, Construction Financials, Quality & Safety, and Field Productivity. Headquartered in Carpinteria, California, with offices around the globe, Procore is used to manage billions of dollars in annual construction volume.
  • Be a partner and talent advisor to senior R&D leaders to hire complex senior level positions across the R&D organization.
  • Drive recruitment strategy by using market data and other metrics to create a narrative and educate hiring leaders on best practices, process and opportunity areas.
  • Identify opportunity areas and create scalable solutions that will improve the broader Recruiting team with the right level of collaboration and visibility to leadership and appropriate partners.
Corporate Recruitingleadership hiringTechnical hiringEmployer Branding

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Apr 2023Mar 2024 · 11 mos

  • Channeling my energy into rebuilding my mental and physical health! Have you ever wondered what you could learn and accomplish in a year if you thrust yourself into the unknown? I wondered the same, so I took a leap of faith and pursued my personal goals: travel, health and well-being, and volunteering. I went solo trekking in the Himalayas, spent months in Turkey, immersing myself in their culture, volunteering in government schools. I also became a pro at cooking fancy meals three times a day. In short, I had the time of my life, and I strongly believe everyone should do this at least once to recharge for the next adventure

Salesforce

Senior Employee Recruiter - Technology and Product

Oct 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Hired engineers with substantial experience in constructing distributed backend systems for product teams.
  • ✓ Scaled the Experience Cloud and Marketing Cloud Product teams by hiring for leadership (Principal Memb- Sourced and closed roles across the Products, engineering, and Sales hierarchy.
  • Hired for Senior roles (Principal member of Technical Staff, Architects, Lead MTS, Senior MTS ) for
  • Products team(Experience cloud , infra,and Marketing cloud)
  • Hired exceptionally Talented Software Geeks across all levels. I recruited candidates for Salesforce user experience cloud ,commerce cloud, workspace teams
  • Responsible for analyzing market data, developing recruiting models, and presenting
  • recommendations to support business decision-making.
  • Lead Market Mapping Projects to determine the level and quality of talent available, as well as
  • the Benefit status of key players within that market.
  • Hands-on experience in LinkedIn Recruiter, Google advanced searches.
  • VTO: Bring team together to volunteer for Non- Profit organisation.

Vmware

Staffing Partner R&D(leadership hiring)

Jan 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Wore multiple hats, and tested my own potential to do more than just TA.
  • Hired Senior Staff , Staff Engineers 2, Staff Engineers, Director (DOE). Engineering Managers, Sr Engineering Managers, Member of technical staffs across R&D teams.
  • Recruited Senior and Staff level roles in Data Science: Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing/Understanding.
  • Responsible for all the senior level, Mid-level, and niche skills hiring across functions for the VMware R&D teams (OCTO, Carbon Black,EUC, MAPBU, IoT, ).
  • Managing Recruiters and Sourcers toward meeting the BU Targets.
  • Successfully hired leaders with the very niche skill set (kernel and blockchain );
  • Built office of the team (CTO) from scratch for Bangalore office and Built Carbon Black team(security) from the scratch and scaled it from 0 to 100+ employees in Pune within 3 months of accquisition, POC for both the teams.
  • Focused on hiring solid Windows, Mac, Linux kernel developers who are well versed with kernel-level programming, OS internals, file systems, Device driver development.
  • Hired solid c++ developers with a strong distributed background for the office of CTO team .
  • SPOC for all business needs from presentation, reporting, hiring drive plans.
  • By close collaboration with Global leaders closed a few high priority leadership roles finding rare talent in the market.
Technical Recruiting

Cohesity

Technical Recruiter

Apr 2018Jan 2019 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Hired solid engineers from Tier 1 colleges (IIT, IIIT) and from strong product startups.
  • Scaled the Data protection, Data path, Cloud, Appstore divisions.
  • Hired engineers with strong experience in building distributed backend systems, search infrastructure, distributed search engine, file systems, highly scalable and available products

Tivo

Global Sourcing Specialist

May 2015Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • We’re always innovating to create the ultimate entertainment experience. We touch the lives of binge-watching, music-loving, entertainment fanatics every day by delivering beautiful user experiences and enabling the world’s leading media and entertainment providers to nurture more meaningful relationships with their audiences.
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Sourcing the best and brightest talents, to work on challenging and complex problems.
  • Leading the sourcing team in India.
  • Sourcing candidates directly by conducting and collating market research and building referral networks via professional and social networking sites and other innovative channels.
  • Leading the leadership hiring for Bangalore office.
  • I have extensively hired people using LinkedIn, Facebook graph search, X-ray search, Recruit ‘em, Git hub, Xing, Dribble, Instayre, about.me etc.
  • Working across levels starting from Software Engineers/till Architect/Sr. Manager.
  • Actively part of ramping up Tivo Engineering and Operations team and efficiently building a robust and highly talented engineering team at Tivo.
  • Internet Researcher, highly skilled in numerous search tactics and technologies.
  • Hired for different functions across the Globe (India, London, Luxembourg, Romania, China).
  • Maintain Sourcing reports and performance metrics on a regular basis
  • Recording all activity accurately on the Applicant Tracking Systems-Jobvite.
  • Updating by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications;
  • maintaining personal networks; market mapping etc.

Careernet technologies

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Oct 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • First job & exposure to the recruitment world
  • Internet Researcher, highly skilled in numerous search tactics and technologies.
  • Worked for top notch eCommerce companies and start ups : Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra,
  • Walmart labs, Jabong ,Urban ladder, Nutanix, Zendrive, Appdynamics etc.
  • Involved in end to end Technical Sourcing, Screening, Interview Follow up.
  • Exposure to data science hiring
  • Utilize sourcing strategies including: LinkedIn, Boolean Searches and other through other social platform.
  • The positions I worked:
  • Software Development Engineer
  • Data scientists.
  • Tech Lead
  • Architect
  • Engineering Managers
  • Product Manager
  • Director
  • VP or AVP

Hindustan aeronautics limited

Intern

Dec 2012May 2013 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Effectiveness of the Behavioral Competency Model at HAL
  • Behavioral Competency Model contains the series of Assessment centers conducted to ascertain the competency levels of Senior Executives on 11 competencies as per the model and Competency Development Program was conducted to improve their competencies to align with the standard 11 competencies
  • The main objective was to know the improvement in the Behavioral competencies from the perspective of the Executives who have undergone the CDP(Competency development program)

Education

B. M. S. College of Engineering

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Human Resources Development

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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