Headline

Talent Acquisition Manager, Recruitment Leader, 12 plus years, AI, data science, cloud, cybersecurity, and DevOps hiring, India, APAC, Middle East, international hiring.

About

Talent Acquisition leader with 12 plus years overall and 10 plus years specializing in end-to-end tech recruitment and leadership across India, APAC, and the Middle East. I hire for niche and leadership roles across AI and ML, data science, cloud, cybersecurity, DevOps, and product engineering. I've built teams from scratch, led international recruitment across Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai, Qatar, and Saudi, and partnered with senior stakeholders on talent strategy. Highlights include building an 8-member data science team and a 5-member data engineering team from scratch, delivering around 25 AI and FinTech hires in 5 months. Alongside running my own business, I've continued freelance TA and consulting. I'm now open to TA Manager, TA Lead, or Senior Recruiter roles focused on building high-impact teams.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

codex

github copilot

hugging face

Canva Magic Studio

ChatGPT

Work experience

Freelance Recruiter / Business Development at Freelance, Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Provide recruitment, business development and basic digital marketing support to Culture Highway Pvt. Ltd., Vevion Technology Service Pvt. Ltd. and Masaki Infotech LLP. • Support recruitment through sourcing, screening, candidate coordination and stakeholder follow-up, drawing on 10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience. • Support business development through prospect research, outreach and relationship-building activities. • Create technical and business content and marketing collateral using Canva; maintain working knowledge of sales-funnel concepts. • Design and build websites using AI-assisted / vibe-coding workflows, demonstrating practical technology fluency.

Founder at Srikari Textiles, Jan 2022 - May 2026 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Solapur, Maharashtra, India, Manage end-to-end operations of a clothing start-up, including vendor sourcing, pricing, budgeting, procurement and day-to-day execution. • Own vendor and stakeholder negotiations, commercial decisions and operational problem-solving, building practical business leadership and commercial judgment. • Manage planning, execution and cost-conscious decision-making across day-to-day business operations.

Assistant Manager Talent acquisition at Impetus, Dec 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led a 4-member recruitment team across Product and Services hiring, managing requirement allocation, progress tracking, delivery and follow-ups. • Owned stakeholder management for Product and Services verticals and translated business priorities into actionable recruitment requirements. • Conducted daily recruitment stand-ups, reviewed bottlenecks and drove follow-ups to improve recruitment turnaround time (TAT). • Managed end-to-end hiring for advanced analytics roles across BFSI, Healthcare and Airline domains. • Delivered senior and niche hiring across Solution Architects, Product Managers, Technical Leads, Scrum Masters and Cloud Architects. • Prepared market intelligence reports, hiring dashboards and leadership presentations and maintained stakeholder and vendor alignment. Key Achievements • Received the Star of the Month Award for strong performance and earned a ₹1.1 lakh performance incentive. • Improved recruitment TAT through structured team cadence, requirement prioritization and active follow-up, with positive client/stakeholder appreciation.

Sr Executive - Talent Acquisition (Key Strategic Accounts) at Skoruz Technologies, Jul 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Skoruz Technologies is an information technology company specializing in Data Science and data analysis services. Working for Data Analytics Team (KSA) Specialized in Hiring related to Data Science/Data Engineering Hiring for Advanced Analytics team for clients like Johnson and Johnson, Equinix, Etisalat etc., Responsible for End to End Recruitment related activities Helping management with relevant reports, Presentations etc., Stakeholder Management

Head of Delivery and Professional Services at CHANSYS Global Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Oct 2018 - Apr 2019 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Client Engagement Team Handling Taking care of Delivery in a timely manner Addressing Recruitment Bottlenecks Provided inputs in Creating HR Policies generating reports to Management

Education

Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology