Technology Talent Alchemist with over Fourteen years of Talent Acquisition, Strategy, and Management experience acquired from Product / Platform development, Retail, E-Commerce, Investment Banking, and Fin-Tech firms. Led and Leading Talent functions for incubating Engg CoEs, Executive Hiring (IC's and People Leaders), Business Partnering, Org Design, and University Relations.Big Move - My switch to Morgan Stanley helped build my forte to head the TA function for engineering ecosystems built ground-up; the charter entailed carving strategies and leading programs for Executive Search, Volume Hiring, Talent Branding, events/programs showcasing the scale of engineering across tech communities & open forums.Next stop - the startup ecosystem. At Snapdeal, my charter was to help navigate the Cloud Engineering team through troubled waters by setting the leadership right and identifying niche talent to build an open-source-based private hybrid cloud platform- Cirrus.The comfort zone - As a Partner, HR at Tesco, I led the Talent Acquisition and advisory portfolio for Tech and Product BU’s across India and the UK by identifying niche technology talent helping Tesco's engineering landscape traverse the journey from monolith to open-source, hybrid cloud and micro-service driven ecosystem. The charter included owning transformational work around branding Tesco's technology ecosystem over open-source forums and crowdsourcing ideas to solve key technology/product and hiring challenges.The walk towards the Podium - As a Manager of the Global Talent function, I led a regionally distributed team of recruiters and search specialists, responsible for all tech and Product hiring across PayPal's global markets and spanning all business areas incl. Product Engineering, Data Science, Sales & Marketing, Risk, Compliance, and Corporate functions. Additionally, I partner directly with senior leadership to advise and consult on talent strategies, talent branding, and recruiting best practices.True sense of accomplishment: From taking the first Uber ride to first day at Uber (all set in motion by a series of unplanned events), from teaching the TA fraternity on Uber Architecture to leading a TA team at Uber, this indeed is my true sense of accomplishment..Psst, there's more - I'm passionate about technology, system design & architecture, mind mapping, all things TA, Photography, and Xbox One X. I also take pride in translating the engineering ecosystem into real-life examples, hosting learning sessions educating the TA community to decipher Technology and science behind.