01Who am ITen years · five regions · full cycle
Founding Talent Leader · High-performance hiring engines for Series A–C fintech & B2B SaaS
The recruiter
who builds.
Founding Recruiter and Talent Leader — ten years, 500+ hires across fintech, SaaS and enterprise. Built Sardine’s talent function from 0 to 1, scaling 30 → 200+ through Series C, with a sustained 95%+ offer-acceptance rate and retention that held as the teams grew — quality built in at intake, not inspected after. And where the tooling fell short, I built my own — three products, live below.
Ten years operating on US Eastern business hours from India — 7 PM to 4 AM IST, every working day, by choice. It simply became how I work.
Mechanical engineer by training — I approach talent acquisition as a system of feedback loops, data, and human calibration. This console tracks how I build, measure, and scale hiring.
Booting…
10 yrs · 500+ hires · 3 builds live
000Hires delivered in 10 years · incl. Sardine 30→200+ · A→C
00Offer-acceptance rate · sustained
00Roles delivered across the org chart · build through business
00US nights, worked from India · by choice
Global coverageFive regions · the full hiring spectrum
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USA
CAN
EUR
APAC
LATAM
Region 01 / 05
STANDBY
Full-cycle coverage
United States
Home market for a decade of EST-hours hiring — Sardine, Medly, and enterprise delivery for Apple to Google.
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Hiring spectrum · every role delivered, build through business
◀ Build organization · 18 rolesBusiness organization · 21 roles ▶
The build side · 18 roles
Engineering, platform & reliability, data, product & design — hired from startup floors to FAANG-scale processes.
Ten years across both sides.Thirty-nine roles across the org chart · slide
The business side · 21 roles
Revenue, customer, marketing and G&A — from the first SDR to legal counsel, FAANG to first-hire startups.
500+ hires, built to last.
Ten years · fintech, SaaS & enterprise · 95%+ offers accepted
02My resumeSardine 0→200+ · delivery for Apple through Google
ExperienceA decade of delivery — scroll to rewind the tape
·02·2022 — now
Founding Recruiter — Sardine · Fintech, B2B SaaS · Remote
Stood the talent function up 0-to-1 and scaled headcount 30 → 200+ through Series A to C. Staffed fraud, AML, compliance, crypto and AI-risk teams. Implemented Ashby, cut agency reliance, built leadership hiring dashboards. ChallengeFirst full-cycle recruiting hire at a Series A startup (~30 employees) with minimal existing processes — tasked with scaling a high-bar team while competing directly against FAANG and tier-one banks for hyper-specialized Fraud, AML, Compliance and AI-risk talent. The systemScalable talent infrastructure & agency reductionATS implementation & adoption — implemented and optimized Ashby as the core ATS, establishing standardized pipelines and candidate tracking from the ground up.Agency reliance reduction — built a high-volume in-house outbound sourcing engine, drastically reducing dependency on third-party agencies and cutting search costs.Structured interviewing — designed scorecard-based interview frameworks with engineering and leadership to ensure consistent calibration and maintain quality-of-hire.Executive visibility — introduced real-time hiring dashboards tracking pipeline health, funnel conversion and time-to-fill. The impactScaled the team 30 → 200+ across Series A–C at a 95%+ offer-acceptance rate, with retention that held as the team scaled — all of it worked from India on US nights: ten years of 7 PM starts and 4 AM closes.
Stood the talent function up 0-to-1 and scaled headcount 30 → 200+ through Series A to C. Staffed fraud, AML, compliance, crypto and AI-risk teams. Implemented Ashby, cut agency reliance, built leadership hiring dashboards. ChallengeFirst full-cycle recruiting hire at a Series A startup (~30 employees) with minimal existing processes — tasked with scaling a high-bar team while competing directly against FAANG and tier-one banks for hyper-specialized Fraud, AML, Compliance and AI-risk talent. The systemScalable talent infrastructure & agency reductionATS implementation & adoption — implemented and optimized Ashby as the core ATS, establishing standardized pipelines and candidate tracking from the ground up.Agency reliance reduction — built a high-volume in-house outbound sourcing engine, drastically reducing dependency on third-party agencies and cutting search costs.Structured interviewing — designed scorecard-based interview frameworks with engineering and leadership to ensure consistent calibration and maintain quality-of-hire.Executive visibility — introduced real-time hiring dashboards tracking pipeline health, funnel conversion and time-to-fill. The impactScaled the team 30 → 200+ across Series A–C at a 95%+ offer-acceptance rate, with retention that held as the team scaled — all of it worked from India on US nights: ten years of 7 PM starts and 4 AM closes.
2021
Senior Technical Recruiter — Medly · HealthTech
Full-cycle engineering and product hiring through rapid scaling — quality held against aggressive timelines.
Full-cycle engineering and product hiring through rapid scaling — quality held against aggressive timelines.
2020 — 21
Senior Technical Recruiter — Amiseq
High-volume, multi-account technical delivery for Apple, Facebook, Walmart, Dropbox and PG&E — cloud architecture, data engineering and infrastructure pipelines under strict VMS governance (JobDiva · Fieldglass · Beeline).
High-volume, multi-account technical delivery for Apple, Facebook, Walmart, Dropbox and PG&E — cloud architecture, data engineering and infrastructure pipelines under strict VMS governance (JobDiva · Fieldglass · Beeline).
2018 — 20
Senior Technical Recruiter — Collabera · India
Specialized pipelines in cloud, cybersecurity and data for Cisco, Verizon, KPMG, VISA and Google — passive-talent sourcing for hard-to-fill roles, while mentoring junior recruiters.
Specialized pipelines in cloud, cybersecurity and data for Cisco, Verizon, KPMG, VISA and Google — passive-talent sourcing for hard-to-fill roles, while mentoring junior recruiters.
2016 — 18
Diverse Lynx · HANAC Staffing · US
Full-cycle IT recruiting for US enterprise clients — Boolean sourcing to offer negotiation and onboarding.
Full-cycle IT recruiting for US enterprise clients — Boolean sourcing to offer negotiation and onboarding.
2015
Project Planning & Design Trainee — Steel Authority of India
Where the mechanical engineering started — project planning at one of India's largest integrated steel producers. B.App.Sc, Mechanical Engineering, Poornima University.
Where the mechanical engineering started — project planning at one of India's largest integrated steel producers. B.App.Sc, Mechanical Engineering, Poornima University.
How I run hiringOne discipline, six stages — built to adapt
·03·The overarching structure provides consistency, but the execution is flexible — strategy re-aligns as the market moves, stages re-tune mid-stream, and sourcing pivots the moment the signal drops. The metrics across each stage reflect ten years of testing, failing, learning, and re-calibrating.
01 · IntakeSCORECARD · CALIBRATED
Calibrated scorecards — competencies, trade-offs and non-negotiables defined alongside the hiring manager before going live — minimizing moving goalposts mid-search.
02 · SourceIN-HOUSE · 5 REGIONS
The in-house engine — high-signal outbound sourcing using Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter and modern tooling, wired into a repeatable pipeline built to scale without relying on external agencies.
03 · ScreenTECHNICAL INTERVIEWS
Depth-first vetting — structured conversations centered on real-world projects: architecture, system design, trade-offs, ownership and execution. Depth over résumé keywords.
04 · LoopSCORECARD · CALIBRATED PANEL
Evidence-based panels — structured loops and calibrated debriefs where concrete candidate evidence leads the discussion, helping the team reach decisions everyone can defend.
05 · Offer95%+ ACCEPTANCE
Upfront alignment — compensation expectations anchored early, followed by a high-touch closing process owned end-to-end. The goal: an offer that feels like a natural next step, not a negotiation battle.
06 · CloseQUALITY HELD UPSTREAM
Quality held upstream — high long-term retention driven by the calibration done during intake, ensuring quality is built into the process, not inspected after the hire.
OUT · Hire500+ HIRES · 10 YEARS
Proven at scale: 500+ hires across fintech, SaaS and enterprise — most recently helping scale Sardine 30 → 200+ through Series A to C. Maintained a 95%+ offer-acceptance rate by focusing on alignment long before the offer letter goes out.
The tooling fell short. So I built my own.
Three products · designed, built and shipped solo · all live
03ProjectsThree products · built solo · all live
DeltaflowHRBuilt No.1 — offer & onboarding management · live
·05·Send an offer they can explore.
Multi-tenant SaaSApproval engineEquity visualiserHash-chain integrity
5–10 minto draft an offer · was 1–2 days
1 toolper hire · replaces 5–7
0approvals chased · auto-routed
DeltaflowHR is an offer & onboarding management platform for People teams — automated approval routing, a live equity visualiser, and hash-chain audit trails in place of drifting PDFs. A complete offer package drafted in under ten minutes; requisition to first day, one unbroken record.
Open the live product ↗ApprovalsConfigurable chains, server-side escalation cron, token-authenticated approver links — no login required.
CandidateAn interactive branded offer page with an equity-vesting visualiser — not a PDF attachment.
IntegrityHash-chained packet versioning — what the candidate sees cannot drift from what was signed off.
StackReact 18 · Vite · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Supabase · Express · Render · org-scoped multi-tenancy
BizBrainBuilt No.2 — a trainer for commercial judgement · live
·06·The atlas is open. Where do we sail?
AI judgement engineXP · levels · streaks5-axis skill compassLive leaderboard
5 skillsmeasured on every decision
2× XPdaily specials · streaks · community bounty
#1live weekly leaderboard
BizBrain is an AI-graded trainer for commercial judgement: it simulates real-world business trade-offs, takes your decision, grades it honestly, and shows you exactly which instinct to train next. Built by someone who screens for judgement every day.
Open the live product ↗The loopA real scenario, your decision, an honest grade — then a harder scenario. Progress is earned, never given.
ProgressionXP, levels, daily specials and streaks — with a community bounty and a live weekly leaderboard.
Live marketScenarios can run on today's actual headlines — judgement trained on the real world, not case-study fiction.
StackNext.js · Vercel · Supabase · Postgres · Groq · magic-link auth
KaalachakraBuilt No.3 — the politics nobody puts in the handbook · live
·07·The Wheel of Time turns. Ready to learn?
Career doctrine engineOracle + ArenaTri-LLM engineRazorpay metered
10graded doctrines in the arena
3 LLMsGroq · Gemini · Anthropic
Solodesigned, built & shipped end-to-end
Kaalachakra is a career-strategy trainer for workplace dynamics: an Oracle that reads your live situation and returns a doctrine, and a graded Arena of scenarios that shows you what you misread and why. Built for the politics nobody puts in the handbook.
Enter the arena ↗ModesAn Oracle that returns a doctrine for a live situation, and a graded Arena that explains what you misread.
CommerceRazorpay payments with metered usage and a paywall that degrades gracefully rather than blocking.
CraftOne pair of hands, whole product — design, AI orchestration, payments and infrastructure, shipped live.
StackNext.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Firebase · Firestore · Razorpay · Groq · Gemini · Anthropic
Your hours. My night. Ten years straight.
7 PM – 4 AM IST · US Eastern coverage from India · by choice
Ask the operatorCommon questions · honest answers
Ask the operatorCommon questions, answered honestly
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Open to remote & relocation · available now
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·08·Let’s talk about the talent function you need.
The track record, the searches, the console — or the team you are about to scale. Open to remote and relocation. Available immediately.
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