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title: "Akshay Khanwalkar - Recruitment & Operations Associate in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Akshay Khanwalkar on Tal

## Headline

Technical Recruiter — SDE, Data & AI Hiring \| Full\-Cycle Recruiting & Sourcing \| 100\+ offers closed at 89% accept rate\.

## About

Technical recruiter\. 100\+ engineering offers closed at an 89% accept rate\. I hire SDE I and SDE II across backend, frontend, QA, data engineering, automation and prompt engineering for YC\- and VC\-backed startups — offers from ₹10L at the junior end to a highest close of ₹50L\+\. Junior roles fill in around 12 days from a trained talent pool; senior and niche briefs run 45 days on direct sourcing through LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed and headhunting\. I also run the full cycle on non\-tech roles — sales, HR, analyst, operations and training — including hiring HR and talent people themselves\. What I'm actually good at: taking intake from a hiring manager, agreeing the technical bar with them, and defending rejections with reasons they accept\. Plus the unglamorous half — dashboards, stage\-wise conversion review, and using drop\-off data to fix the funnel rather than guess at it\. Currently at Crio\.Do, where I lead a team of four and report hiring metrics to the founder\. Open to technical recruiting and TA roles in Bengaluru\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

openai

claudecode

Glean

## Work experience

Recruitment & Operations Associate at Crio\.Do, Jun 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Full\-cycle hiring for SDE I and SDE II across backend, frontend, QA, data engineering, automation and prompt engineering — offers from ₹10L at the junior end through ₹15L\+ mid\-band to a highest close of ₹50L\+\. • 100\+ offers closed at an 89% accept rate, across 30\+ live roles at YC\- and VC\-backed startups\. • Fill junior roles in 12 days on average from the trained internal pool; 45 days on senior and niche briefs, where sourcing runs through LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed and direct headhunting\. • Take intake from the hiring manager, agree the technical bar with them, and screen on substance rather than keyword match — rejections come with reasons they accept\. • Own the hiring dashboard and the stage\-wise conversion review, and use drop\-off data to reset screening criteria and scheduling turnaround\. • Coach candidates on profile and interview readiness before submission — the main lever behind the accept rate\. • Lead 4 team members on allocation and output quality, and report hiring metrics directly to the Founder\. • Run the same full cycle on non\-tech roles — sales, HR, analyst, operations and training — including hiring HR and talent people myself, so I have recruited for this function as well as worked in it\.

Founder's Office at Hamper Cop, May 2023 \- Nov 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Ran hiring for 20\+ roles across operations, sales and delivery, from requirement definition to joining\. • Built onboarding from scratch — offer through day 30 — and ran candidate engagement across the notice period to protect joins\. • Wrote the SOPs and hiring workflows the team still runs on, and set up vendor onboarding and contract processes\. • Ran 1:1s with employees to surface concerns, and led engagement and wellbeing programs\.

Talent Acquisition Intern at Biosash, Sep 2022 \- Feb 2023 · 6 mos, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, • Sourced and screened for business and sales roles; partnered with hiring managers on requirements and offer support\.

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, St\. aloysius College, Jabalpur

Master of Science \- MS, Computer Science, St\. aloysius College, Jabalpur

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