Thirunarayan Sharma

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Scaled tech teams from 60 to 190 employees.
Expert in niche skills recruitment across multiple domains.
Strong background in innovative talent sourcing methods.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Recruitment Specialist with expertise in Fintech and Machine Learning talent acquisition.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionNiche Skills RecruitmentMachine Learning RecruitmentEnd - End RecruitmentContract StaffingRecruitment SolutionsRecruitmentOutsourcing

Other Skills

ARM 9Aerospace EngineeringAlgorithm DevelopmentAnalyticsAndroid DevelopmentAudio EngineeringAutomotiveBlog DirectoriesCC ProgrammingCandidate Evaluation and ManagementCandidate ExperienceCloud ComputingData MiningData Structures

About

Enthusiastic and Matured Recruitment Professional with a passion to deliver highly valued results in Recruitment Industry. Strong fundamentals with eager to learn and implement current recruitment trends for Innovative strategic planning with retention in purview. Believer in Social Media Recruitment Initiatives for scouting passive quality talent. Passionate about !!!!! a. Industry Research and trends and Competency Mapping b. Stake Holder Management c. Niche Skill recruitment and Matrix d. Leadership Hiring e. Start-up Engagements & Recruitment Program Management f. Executive Search and Research g. Business Modelling - Negotiation and Strategic Engagement h. Unorthodox methods of recruitment i. Building high performance technology teams from scratch Specialization # End - End Recruitment # Experience in recruiting quality talent for Product and Services Industry # Setting and Scaling up new COE - Center of Excellence # Experience in recruiting for Innovation and Research Labs # Recruited for start-ups across technologies and Domains # Leadership hiring across levels like AVP - VP - CTO - COO

Experience

15 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Smallcase

Lead Principal Recruiter - Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

"Series C" Funded Fintech Product Development company - www.smallcase.com
Hired as First Member of Talent Acquisition to Lead Hiring for smallcase
Reporting to Founders and working towards scaling High Performing Tech Teams for
# www.smallcase.com
# www.tickertape.in
# www.zerodhafundhouse.com
Responsible for End - End Talent Acquisition - Niche Skills
Recruitment Process definition and enhancement
Special focus on "Candidate Experience" and Improvements
Talent Branding and Attraction
Campus Hiring and Internship Programs
Market Research Inputs
Practice Innovative talent sourcing methods through different channels and platforms
Integral part of driving company growth
Drive employee referral programs
Reduce recruitment cost
Using Freshteam as our ATS
Not using Recruitment Vendors and Consultants for fulfilment
Using couple of platforms and channels for scouting best Tech Talent and keep the pipeline flowing
Keep the Tech Talent motivated during our lengthy interview process
Hiring top tech talent keeping in mind companies challenging compensation/salary parameters and internal parity (One of the challenges)
We follow the most challenging Interview process
Devising ideas to achieve higher offer to on-boarding conversion ratio
Highly productive recruitment delivery (Talent Scout to interview and selection ratio for niche skills at its best)
Driving Growth - Individually scaled 60 to 190 Employees - witnessed Series B Funding of 100 crores
Not even 1 single hire from Recruitment Consultants / Vendors / Partners
Explore channels like - Cutshort / Angellist / Instahyre / Interviewbit / Github / Stackoverflow - based on need
Domain : Fintech
TechStack - (React.js, Redux. Hooks), (Node.js, MongoDB), (Cloud Formation, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker), (Android, Hybrid, Kotlin, RxJava, React Native)

End - End Talent AcquisitionNiche Skills RecruitmentCandidate ExperienceTalent BrandingMarket ResearchInnovative Talent Sourcing+3

Utopia global, inc.

Talent Acquisition Manager

Feb 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for Scaling up High Quality Machine Learning Talent from Scratch.
Target to On-board in 3 months
Completed ML - DL - NLP - AI Hiring in 2 months as per above mentioned target
> 10 high quality Lateral Machine Learning technology Talent currently in high demand
> Initiated Off Campus Intern Hiring Program and successfully hired 10 interns from premier institutes within 3 weeks
> 3 PHD Candidates from top institutes
> Projection to hire freshers from top Tier 1 and Tier 2 institutes
> Initiated Talent Branding and Organization Branding in couple of forums
Strengths
Strong Machine Learning recruitment experience
Strong Talent Research and Scouting experience
Expertise in Talent and skill mapping and engagement
Fast learner while adapting to hiring from various social media platforms
Understand technologies and passionate to get deeper building high quality talent network
Experience working across technologies and domains
Specialist in understanding talent landscape, need for employee branding
Seasoned in scaling up technology teams from scratch for Start-ups - mid and Large companies

Machine Learning RecruitmentTalent ResearchTalent MappingIntern Hiring ProgramTalent Branding

Synechron

Assistant Manager / Lead Sourcing Strategist / Talent Advisor

Feb 2017 – Jan 2018 · 11 mos · Bangalore

One of the fastest-growing digital, business consulting & technology services providers, is a $405 million firm based in New York. Since inception in 2001, has been on a steep growth trajectory. With 8,000+ professionals operating in 18 countries across the world, it has presence across USA, Canada, UK, France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Serbia, Hungary, Germany, Italy, UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan, Australia and Development Centers in India
R&R
Working with CXO / Leadership Level Stakeholders within the organization
Finlabs - Innovation Labs across 5 countries - Niche Skills Scale up
a. Initiate - Idea Generation and Implementation of Sourcing Strategies
b. Continuously brainstorm on new trends in sourcing
c. Research and Adopt best sourcing practices
d. Motivate and Guide younger talent team
e. Industry research - Talent / Competency / Company Mapping
f. Recruitment Analytics
g. Responsible for End - End Recruitment - Requisition Fulfillment
h. Understand Technology trends and landscape
i. Domains : BFSI - eCommerce - Digital - Independent Software
j. Working for all Niche position of Synechron "FinLabs" - Products and Accelerators (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Neural Networks, Image Processing, Python, Algorithms, Cloud - PaaS - IaaS and SaaS, Hadoop, Distributed Systems, Blockchain - (Smart Contracts, Hyper Ledger)
l. Working on all niche senior position across Synechron India and USA - Blue Prism Architect, SOA - OSB 12C Architect, Java Hadoop Architect, DevOps Expert, WRIA Architect
Passionately researching on few niche areas of technologies like Decision Trees - Random Forests - Bayesian - Ensemble - SVM - CNN - RNN - HMM - GAN
Continuous efforts to find out new tools to source talent - (Social Media) meanwhile struck an idea of using a new Application to source talent from across different companies. I am currently using this App to recruit talent and seeing success.

Sourcing StrategiesRecruitment AnalyticsEnd - End RecruitmentIndustry Research

Publicis.sapient

Manager Recruitment

May 2016 – Feb 2017 · 9 mos · Bangalore

Sapient, an active element of Publicis.Sapient, is a global services company that helps clients transform in the areas of business, marketing, and technology. The company operates three divisions that enable clients to gain a competitive advantage and succeed in an increasingly digital world. SapientNitro, Sapient Global Markets, and Sapient Government Services fuse insight, creativity, and technology to drive innovation and to help clients navigate complex business problems. Our approach is the subject of case studies used by MBA programs at Harvard and Yale. The company has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.sapient.com
Roles and Responsibilities
Efforts focused to fulfill Niche positions through contract staffing (Staff Augmentation Model) for Tier 1 e-commerce giant
Market research
Technologies : Java and .Net Web services, Front End Engineering, Full Stack Developers, DevOps, Oracle HCM, ORMS, ORWMS, ODI, EDQ, Tibco, Teradata
Vendor Management : Scout, Em-panel, Motivate and Evaluate

Contract StaffingMarket ResearchVendor Management

Ibm - india software labs - isl and isdl - india systems development labs and watson

Recruitment Specialist

Jul 2015 – May 2016 · 10 mos · Bangalore

Hiring Niche Skills for IBM
Last 5 months in IBM was full of action with below assignments completed
Successfully Hired and scaled up 37 resources for IBM Commerce (Sterling ) (WCS - Websphere Commerce Suite) (Portal) (Content Manager) (WESB - Enterprise Service Bus) in a span of 1 month - ISL
Scaled up a niche team 15 for IBM LTC - Linux Technology Center - ISDL
Scaled up a niche team on 20 for Openstack, Cloud for IBM Cloud - ISL
Scaled up 10 Solution Consultants with Combination of Nice Skills for IBM ISV - Power Systems
Scouted extremely good talent for IBM - ISTL - TechLine - SME - COE Group within IBM in storage domain - more details can be provided
Did some work for IBM Watson Group - Fiberlink (Mobile Security) and Curam (Healthcare Product)
Source : Linkedin - Hirist - Naukri
Got "Recognition" from "Director of IBM Commerce"
Got bluepoints from the Managers
Got "Recognition" from ISDL Manager for achieving hiring numbers for Business critical positions

Niche Skills RecruitmentTalent ScoutingVendor Management

Quadrangle - a search division of infoedge india limited

Manager - Recruitment

May 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

Individual Contributor as well managing a team of 3 recruiters
Intrapreneur approach and role to solve business related challenges
Passionate to source right talent for the right job and a natural skill to maintain professional relationships with my huge professional network
Delivering recruitment solutions for clients in below domain
Analytics
Gaming
Semiconductor
Telecom - Networking - Data Communication
Cloud Computing - Big Data - Hadoop
Web Technologies - HTML5 - CSS - Javascript
Open Source Technologies - Linux
SDN - Software Defined Network
NFV - Networks Functions Virtualization
Sales Leadership Hiring
ERP - BPM - SAP - Pega - Sterling - Oracle
Currently handling positions like - "Country Head" - Delivery Head" - "Practice Lead" - Solutions Architect" - AVP - VP
Instrumental in getting 6 new clients business worth around 30 - 35 Lakhs
Providing competency roadmap to build on new recruitment delivery verticals

Recruitment SolutionsVendor ManagementOutsourcing Projects

Hcl technologies

Associate Manager - Recruitment

May 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

As an Associate Manager was responsible to handle a team of 3 as well contribute individual to critical positions at organizational level.
Got appreciation mail from Vice President for scaling up an Account
worked for COE very closely and made a impact by hiring high quality technical talent

RecruitmentTeam Management

Sasken communication technologies limited

Sr. Executive - Outsourcing - Recruitment - Vendor Management

May 2006 – May 2008 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

Was responsible for handling outsourcing projects - T&M - Fixed Price - Vendor Management and Recruitment.
Responsible for scouting quality talent for below mentioned domains
Mobile Apps
Semiconductor - Multimedia
Platform - ARM - OMAP - Embedded
Data Communication - Telecom

OutsourcingVendor Management