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title: "Phaneendra Kollipara - People and Culture Leader in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Phaneendra Kollipara, People and Culture Leader | Championing Self-Aware Workplaces | Ultra-Runner & Triple-Crown Hiker based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github."
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# Phaneendra Kollipara on Tal

## Headline

People and Culture Leader \| Championing Self\-Aware Workplaces \| Ultra\-Runner & Triple\-Crown Hiker

## About

I build cultures where ambitious people do their best work and then head for the mountains together\. Today I lead People & Culture at a boot strapped SaaS startup that helps 40,000\+ small retailers run their stores from a phone\. My sweet spot is the messy 0→1 and 1→10 stages: hiring for grit over pedigree, wiring feedback loops, and turning “we should” into “we shipped\.” Outside the office I’m one of only \~400 humans to finish North America’s \*Triple Crown\* of thru hiking \(AT, PCT, CDT — 7,900 mi\)\. Ultra running, mountaineering, and a few race director stints taught me more about logistics, resilience, and team morale than any MBA ever could\. What I love to jam on \- Crafting high performance, self aware teams \- Embedding mental\-health & EI routines into fast moving startups \- First principles hiring and culture fit interviews \- Outdoor leadership lessons for the boardroom \- Story driven employer branding that doesn’t feel like HR Let’s connect if \- You’re scaling a scrappy product team and want a culture that lasts \- You enjoy swapping trail stories over coffee \(or a dawn run\) \- You’re an early\-career talent looking for guidance or a referral \- You teach or research org\-behaviour and need a guest speaker who’s walked the talk—literally Drop a note; I usually reply faster than I run downhill\. 🏔️

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

Fireflies\.ai

Granola

## Work experience

People and Culture Leader at Zobaze, Mar 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Race Director at Trimetrix, Jun 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 3 mos, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India

Hiker at Arizona Trail Association, Feb 2020 \- May 2020 · 4 mos, United States

Thru\-Hiker at Continental Divide Trail Coalition, Apr 2019 \- Sep 2019 · 6 mos, United States

Thru\-Hiker at The Pacific Crest Trail, Mar 2018 \- Sep 2018 · 7 mos

## Education

Mountaineering, Nehru Institute of Mountaineering

Master of Engineering \- MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/phaneendra235

[View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/phaneendra-1)

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