Headline

Tech hiring for well-funded AI-native startups | Forward Deployed Engineering & Applied AI

About

After my Bachelor's in engineering. Turns out I was more interested in the people building things than in building them myself. I consider recruiting a vocation, not a job. I get to spend my days introducing good people to companies that might change their career, which is a strange and lucky thing to be paid for. Most of my work is technical hiring for US startups - Engineering, GTM, CS. The engineering degree earns its keep here: I can read a stack, and I can tell when a role is worth your time and when it isn't. I'd rather tell you it isn't. Job searching is brutal. I try to be the recruiter who actually replies. If you're an engineer thinking about your next move, or you just want an honest read on the market, let's talk. Even if I don't have the right role today.

Location

India

Work experience

Talent Partner at Valarr.io, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 y 1 mo, Remote, Valarr is a boutique hiring partner for founders. We work across engineering, product, GTM, and CS for startups that have raised and need to build fast without breaking their bar. I work directly with founders and hiring managers on their key hires. That means understanding the technical problem before writing a single outreach message, and being straight with candidates about stage, comp, and what the first six months will actually feel like. Currently working on engineering, GTM, and CS roles for AI-native teams. If you want to know what's live, message me.

Senior Technical Recruiter at Motion Recruitment, Jul 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 y 3 mo, Remote, I ran full-cycle technical searches for engineering roles across clients - sourcing, screening, and closing. Most of my time went to senior individual contributors, where the bar is high and the sell is honest conversation rather than volume outreach.

Senior Associate Consultant at Infosys Consulting, Aug 2022 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs, Technical recruitment and talent acquisition for US IT hiring. Three years running full-cycle recruitment against US requirements across backend, cloud, data, and infrastructure skill sets. Sourcing, screening, stakeholder management, and offer stage - working to US timelines and US hiring standards. This is where I learned technical recruiting properly. Large volume teaches you pattern recognition fast, and it's the foundation for the more selective work I do now.

Associate Consultant at Infosys Consulting, Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Started in technical recruitment for US IT hiring - sourcing and screening engineering talent against live US requirements. Learned the craft here: Boolean sourcing, technical screening, and how to have a real conversation with an engineer instead of reading from a script.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Rajalakshmi Engineering college