Headline

Senior HR Leader | HR Business Partnering, Talent Management & Organizational Development | Building People Functions from the Ground Up

About

I'm a senior HR leader with close to 11 years of experience building and running HR functions across technology, fintech, EdTech, and manufacturing. Most recently, I served as a Talent Management Lead supporting a 7,500-employee, multi-geography technology and consulting business. My work sits at the intersection of talent strategy and organizational design: succession planning, performance management architecture, career pathways, and people analytics. I've built these capabilities from scratch in organizations scaling from a few hundred people to several thousand, partnering directly with senior leadership to turn people strategy into outcomes people actually feel, not just slides that look good in a review. Earlier in my career, I built HR functions from the ground up. I led a regional HR team across South India at Spinny, and ran plant-level HR, compliance, and industrial relations at Lucas TVS. That ground-level experience (compensation, compliance, employee relations, day-to-day engagement) shapes how I think about HR. Strategy only matters if it holds up on the floor. I hold an MBA in Human Resource Management and a B.Tech in Computer Science. That combination keeps my thinking analytical without losing sight of the people it's meant to serve. What I care about most is building HR functions that hold up under real business pressure, not ones that only work on paper. I look for organizations where people strategy is treated as a business lever, not an afterthought. Open to connecting with HR leaders, founders, and anyone building people-first organizations.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

gemini

grok

notebooklm

notion

openai

Work experience

Head of Human Resources at Zensciences, Sep 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate Manager People Practice (Lead - Talent Transformation and Organization Development) at Happiest Minds Technologies, Dec 2023 - Aug 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Designed and governed the company's talent management architecture: succession planning, talent reviews, and HiPo identification across a 7,500-employee, multi-geography organization • Built a capability maturity framework linking behavioural, functional, and leadership competencies to structured career paths, enabling succession depth analysis and internal mobility • Led organizational design work with senior leadership, restructuring spans, layers, and role architecture to match evolving business priorities • Drove talent transformation programs using AI-enabled talent intelligence tools, improving succession decision quality and leadership pipeline visibility • Built a performance management framework spanning goal alignment, calibration forums, and structured coaching that improved consistency and evidence-based differentiation across teams • Embedded DEI principles into calibration, succession, and promotion processes, improving representation visibility in the leadership pipeline • Partnered with the C-suite, country HR leads, and COE teams to localize and run talent frameworks across geographies Results: talent plans lifted organizational agility by 20%. Tailored leadership programs improved effectiveness by 15%. Automated succession planning improved efficiency by 30%.

Manager HR Business Partner at Cuemath, Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Served as HRBP for a 600-employee global EdTech company, partnering with founders and senior leadership on workforce planning and people strategy across four geographies • Owned the full performance management lifecycle: goal-setting, mid-year reviews, calibration, feedback frameworks • Led talent reviews and succession readiness assessments across India, the US, the UK, and Abu Dhabi • Built career pathways and manager capability programs that strengthened internal mobility across engineering, product, and business teams • Advised founders on org design and workforce expansion across three international geographies Results: engagement up 12%, workplace satisfaction up 8%, quality of hire up 10%, time-to-fill down 15%.

Associate Lead - Human Resources at CoinSwitch Kuber, Sep 2021 - Jul 2022 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led the L&D function for a 450-employee fintech company: operationalized the LMS, built capability frameworks and structured learning pathways • Designed individual development plans and competency mapping for engineering, product, and operations roles • Managed talent reviews and HiPo identification, supporting calibration and development planning • Ensured statutory compliance across PF, ESIC, and POSH, partnering with operations on policy governance Results: learning hours up 20%, training effectiveness up 25%, HR policy compliance up 20%.

Manager HR Business Partner at Spinny, Nov 2019 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Built and led the HR function for South India from scratch, managing a 5-person team across Bengaluru and Chennai for a fast-scaling automotive retail startup • Owned HR business partnering for South India leadership: workforce planning, org design, and people strategy advisory • Established compensation structures and job-family benchmarking, building pay architecture that was competitive and internally equitable • Governed performance management cycles and built manager capability across distributed regional teams • Handled payroll, leave and attendance governance, and employee lifecycle documentation across a large distributed workforce Results: turnover down 12%, HR metrics dashboard efficiency up 25%, diversity hires up 12%.

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Human Resources Management, Alliance University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham