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title: "Mahidhar Ponnada - Talent Acquisition Specialist in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Mahidhar Ponnada, Growth Manager based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and gemini."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/mahidhar-ponnada-1/share-image"
---

# Mahidhar Ponnada on Tal

## Headline

Growth Manager

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

notebooklm

notion

Gamma

## Work experience

Talent Acquisition Specialist at YAAS\!, Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I have experience building teams from scratch for startups, scaling the team from 30 to 300\+ employees within two years across technical and non\-technical roles\. I also built a 0\-to\-1 team for a new vertical, with all 13 initial hires joining within a week\. Along with hiring, I handle HR operations for 300\+ employees, including onboarding, offboarding, offer letters, payroll coordination, appraisals, leave policies, employee referrals, documentation, and employee queries\.

Placement Coordinator at ANITS College Of Engineering, Feb 2023 \- Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Organised 30\+ placement drives \(offline and online\), connecting students with top\-tier technology companies\.

## Education

Master of Technology \- MTech, Andhra university

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Andhra university

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