Benton K

Owned and delivered the entire Engineering hiring for Auth0 - The Code & Platform of Okta's Identity, Authentication & Access, SSO teams to build their SDK Teams in Backend, Frontend, Android & iOS UI components from (Senior Engineer to Staff/Senior Staff Levels) which contribute in building Developer softwares, tools(CLI) & platforms consumed by the Software Developer Community (Open Source Contributions). Additionally, owned & solved the hiring challenge for critical SRE roles ageing beyond 180+ days within 60 days hiring timeline commitment

At Salesforce, I have owned the Full cycle recruiting of top-tier talent across various technical and creative roles. My expertise spans hiring Software Engineers at all levels, from MTS, SMTS, LMTS & PMTS Job Titles for key teams - Industries, Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, AI Cloud, Mulesoft and Tableau for Backend & Full Stack Engineering roles with around 35% mix of diversity. Additionally, I have recruited for specialized roles in Technical Writing and Editing for the Content Experience (CX) Team. My strategic approach has led to impactful and significant hires at senior levels (Grade 7 and above), including Managers and Architects for the CSE Team. I am particularly proud of my commitment to diversity of 40% in these roles. My ability to identify and attract high-caliber candidates has consistently contributed to the growth and success of Salesforce's dynamic teams.

• A Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist focused on building strong Technology teams for Bangalore Development Centre (BDC) & Hyderabad (QIPL). • Working to fulfil the Recruiting needs for Core CPU Engineering, Machine Learning, Extended Reality/Augmented Reality (XR/AR), Multimedia, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Frontend (UI), Customer Engineering Teams. I'm hiring Software Professionals from Senior Engineer to Senior Staff & Principal Engineer levels with Software Development background focused on strong Problem solving, analytical & critical thinking skills, C/C++ programming, strong competency in writing device drivers in the kernel space of Linux/RTOS/Android/Windows operating systems. Alongside, I'm hiring for some super niche Machine Learning & Signal Processing roles, Typescript for UI development, Multimedia drivers development for XR/AR Metaverse • My role actively involves in partnering with Stakeholders to understand the technical skills and competencies of the open requisitions, Plan, develop & execute the strategy to build active and passive talent pipelines, help the Hiring teams to consume the pipeline for offer conversions. • Apart from traditional sourcing channels like Naukri, LinkedIn, Workday (ATS) & Employee Referrals being the potential & primary sources of building talent pool for me, I am passively exploring sourcing on Developer communities like GitHub, Stack overflow, Xing, Belong.co through X-ray search to empower my sourcing competency

Zeta Suite is in the business of providing a full-stack, cloud-native, API first neo-banking platform including a digital core and a payment engine for issuance of credit, debit and prepaid products that enable legacy banks and new-age fintech institutions to launch modern retail and corporate fintech products. I am a part of the India Talent Acquisition team working to fulfill the recruiting needs for the Core Digital Banking Platform & Payments platform which are clocking 1 million transactions a day globally. Focused in hiring Backend & Frontend Development Engineers, SDET’s and Product Management roles

Worked in a fast-paced environment in building the Technology teams for some highly scalable enterprise Products of Microsoft (O365; E+D; Azure; CFE; CPE; DSRE; EUSE) for Bangalore, Hyderabad & Noida. I am focused in hiring for Core SDE roles across Business units from L60 to L62 (SDE II till Senior Lead SDE) • Being a part of the Talent Acquisition team, which is strongly focused into sourcing and building active and passive technology talent pool from Compete and Traditional Organizations & Startup’s and Tier I / II educational Institutes, Interviewing, Offer Management and Stakeholder Management • Recruited people from different backgrounds with diverse skills across different levels; but ultimately focused in hiring talent who have strong passion towards technology; Engineering background with strong Coding & Designing skills; Proficient with CS fundamentals & strong problem-solving skills using Data structures & Algorithms. • Strong experience in constructing & re-constructing Optimal & Reusable Boolean search strings on different job boards and Social Recruiting sites to identify potential talent. • Actively involved in Market Intelligence & Talent Insights research. • Strong sourcing skills and experience working on Naukri; Instahyre; Linked In; ATS Database & Employee Referrals • Developing strong Network on LinkedIn and optimize it for attracting the talent. • Actively worked on Weekend Hiring events individually

• I have worked to fulfill the Recruitment needs for Application Development teams for the projects of JP Morgan Chase & Co, the oldest and the largest bank of North America; and building the Product teams for HP (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) • Acquired decent exposure on hiring trends and technologies for Banking and Capital markets & Product environment • Interacting with Architects, Product Owners, Application Delivery & Technical Delivery teams to understand the functionality and technology requirement for fulfilling the hiring needs. • Built a Strategic & focused driven approach to recruit technologists for Dev Teams, QA Teams, Infrastructure Teams, Agile & Scrum Teams, Architect’s & Leadership teams competing with the competitor’s strength & trends • Develop strong Sourcing Methods to fetch potential profiles from Job Portals, Social Sites, Recruiting Database, Recruiter’s Network • Proficiently skilled in using Boolean Search, Keyword Search, X Ray search (Site:) for Social Recruiting & Employee referrals • Active Linked in networker' and active technology researcher always trying to understand and adapt to the Technology transformation in the emerging trend. • Driving the entire interview process carefully and flawlessly ensuring good candidate experience throughout the process and Stakeholder’s satisfaction equally Technology Stack : C/C++, .Net, Core Java, Microservices, Kafka, Python, Perl, Mainframes, Full Stack (Development technologies) from SE to Architect Level, SDET, System Engineering (Linux & Windows), Core QA (Automation, Performance), Core IT, Oracle Technologies (EBS, OBIEE, DBA, PL/SQL etc.), Build & Release ( Jenkins, Docker), DBA & Cloud technologies, ETL (Ab Initio / Informatica), CRM (SFDC), Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Scala), Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Analytics (Python, R, SAS), Actimize, DB Development (T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, Sybase), UI / UX Design & Development.

*Proficiency in handling both IT Recruitment and Non IT Recruitment for Tier - 1 Product development companies and Service based industries. *Decent Exposure to IT, Banking & Finance, Telecom, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Gaming & Entertainment Domains. *Worked at EA Games, a Tier - 1 Product development company from Gaming Industry, hiring for niche skilled requirements. *Involved in End to End Recruitment Life cycle. * Source, Screen and shortlist the strong and potential profiles for the open requirements from different Job portals like Naukri, monster, iimjobs.com, Linked In & Internal database * Scheduling Interviews and follow up until on boarding process is completed * Stakeholder management * Delivering the Recruitment Projects within TAT * Proficiently handled Campus Recruitment drives across India * Develop the Recruitment & Sourcing strategies for different IT requirements * Maintaining the Time, Volume & Quality factors as the key attributes for the entire Recruitment Process * Proficiently handling the Niche skill requirements of various business units. *Ensured best candidate experience throughout the interview process Skill Set (IT): C/C++, .Net, Java, Python, SDET, System Engineering (Linux & Windows), QA (Manual & Automation), Studio Technologies (Game Developers, 2D/3D Artist, Game Producers, Product Managers), Devops, ETL(Informatica), Networking and Infrastructure Skill Set (Non-IT): Core Finance (AP, AR, Procurement, Financial Analyst, FP&A)

MBA - Human Resources