Lyric

Hiring across product, engineering, design and data science

Lyric is disrupting the entire supply chain industry with a new generation of AI technology. The Lyric Studio marries a rich catalog of artificial intelligence IP with capabilities for key players across your enterprise, eliminating the challenge of making all your supply chain decisions AI-first.

Seed → Series B | Backed by Insight Partners

Leading R&D hiring across Engineering, Data, Product and Agentic/ GenAI, with focus on senior, staff+ and leadership mandates. Also supporting business and GTM opportunistic hiring. 

• Rolled out 40 offers in ~10 months with 75%+ self-sourced and ~80% acceptance
• Built high-signal outbound and calibration systems for hard-to-close technical hiring
• Partnered deeply with engineering and product leadership on org design, archetyping and market mapping
• Thesis: great hiring looks more like systems engineering than sales

Lyric: AI-native decision intelligence for enterprise supply chains.

The Talent Deck

The Talent Deck is a curated volunteer led community of People and TA professionals where we leverage the power of community to help each other grow.

CertifyOS

Series A -> Series B, Health tech startup 

Built and scaled the tech and product hiring function for a 60-member engineering team within a 200-member US-based health-tech company during a high-growth phase.

Key mandates include Head of Product Platform, Director of Engineering, Director of IT & Security, Staff/ Group PMs. 

	•	Rolled out over 40 offers, primarily for mid-to-senior roles, in under 7 months with a 70% closure rate, creating a predictable and high-quality hiring engine.
	•	Led end-to-end recruiting across Product, Engineering, Data, Infrastructure, and Tech Support, driving alignment across functions through a unified hiring strategy.
	•	Partnered with US and India-based leadership to translate hiring goals into execution plans, ensuring talent pipelines met business and delivery timelines.
	•	Independently managed negotiations and offer rollouts for Data and Provider Operations teams, closing an additional 10+ offers.
	•	Self-sourced over 50% of all hires by building a high-signal outreach workflow, reducing vendor dependency while improving candidate fit and close rate.
	•	Managed 10 to 15+ concurrent open roles with a throughput of 20 to 40 interviews per week, consistently balancing speed, quality, and candidate experience.
	•	Owned recruiting operations, vendor relationships, and process improvements, contributing to long-term org efficiency and readiness for scale.
	•	Worked through tight budgets, timezone gaps, and shifting priorities while sustaining hiring momentum and delivering against stretch targets.

Certify is a first-of-its-kind provider data intelligence platform, powered by API integrations and hundreds of verified data points. We unlock insights and power performance for clinicians, teams and organizations, with frictionless licensing and enrollment, one-click credentialing and realtime network monitoring at your fingertips.

Series A → Series B | Backed by General Catalyst | Founding Talent Partner for R&D

Built and scaled the tech and product hiring function for a 60-member engineering team within a 200-member US-based health-tech company during a high-growth phase.

Key mandates include Head of Product Platform, Director of Engineering, Director of IT & Security, Staff/ Group PMs. 

👉 Rolled out over 40 offers, primarily for mid-to-senior roles, in under 7 months with a 75% closure rate, creating a predictable and high-quality hiring engine.
👉 Led end-to-end recruiting across Product, Engineering, Data, Infrastructure, and Tech Support, driving alignment across functions through a unified hiring strategy.
👉 Partnered with US and India-based leadership to translate hiring goals into execution plans, ensuring talent pipelines met business and delivery timelines.
👉 Independently managed negotiations and offer rollouts for Data and Provider Operations teams, closing an additional 10+ offers.
👉 Self-sourced over 50% of all hires by building a high-signal outreach workflow, reducing vendor dependency while improving candidate fit and close rate.
👉 Managed 10 to 15+ concurrent open roles with a throughput of 20 to 40 interviews per week, consistently balancing speed, quality, and candidate experience.
👉 Owned recruiting operations, vendor relationships, and process improvements, contributing to long-term org efficiency and readiness for scale.
👉 Worked through tight budgets, timezone gaps, and shifting priorities while sustaining hiring momentum and delivering against stretch targets.

Certify is a first-of-its-kind provider data intelligence platform, powered by API integrations and hundreds of verified data points. We unlock insights and power performance for clinicians, teams and organizations, with frictionless licensing and enrollment, one-click credentialing and realtime network monitoring at your fingertips.

DaoLens

Post-Crunch pivot, I took on dual roles: spearheading People Success and driving aspects of our GTM & Product strategy

Crunch

Crunch helps fast tracks data preparation, modelling, and run queries spanning multiple warehouses. Everyone gets as informed as an analyst while analysts get superpowers.Crunch facilitates your data team to operate in a better way.

Employee #6, at Crunch (Nexus VP-backed), I built and scaled the People function from scratch while supporting the company through a pivotal evolution—from a Web3-first approach to an AI analytics platform. I grew the team from 10 to 35 employees by leading full-cycle talent acquisition, setting up HR systems (Lever, Keka, Carta, Sprinto), and driving culture initiatives such as mental health partnerships and performance frameworks. As the company pivoted and downsized, I expanded into GTM and operations, handling cross-functional projects and working closely with leadership on product-market fit. This experience gave me a unique view into early-stage scaling, org restructuring, and strategic pivots.

0 →  1 | Employee #6, at Crunch (Nexus VP-backed)

I built and scaled the People function from scratch while supporting the company through a pivotal evolution—from a Web3-first approach to an AI analytics platform. I grew the team from 10 to 40 employees by leading full-cycle talent acquisition, setting up HR systems (Lever, Keka, Carta, Sprinto), and driving culture initiatives such as mental health partnerships and performance frameworks. As the company pivoted and downsized, I expanded into GTM and operations, handling cross-functional projects and working closely with leadership on product-market fit. This experience gave me a unique view into early-stage scaling, org restructuring, and strategic pivots.

Crunch helps fast tracks data preparation, modelling, and run queries spanning multiple warehouses. Everyone gets as informed as an analyst while analysts get superpowers.Crunch facilitates your data team to operate in a better way.

CoinDCX

👉  Created the strategy to hire 200 engineers in Q2 2022 & its implementation with Director of Engineering and AVP- TA
👉  Streamlined the People Analytics & reporting mechanics for accurate representation of TA efforts across 15 sub functions
👉  Implemented Screening and  Interviewing automations to reduce overall turn around time by 23% across all functions
👉  Successfully drove referrals up by 30% by implementing a gamified employee referral program, enhancing engagement
👉  Reviewed 10+ ATSs, delivering key insights & strategic recommendations to optimize TA team's operational efficiency
👉  Implemented an upskilling program for our team of 12 recruitment professionals, carefully selecting vendors and integrating a data analytics workshop to enhance sourcing and reporting efficiency
👉  Evaluated & onboarded sourcing platforms, & vendors while setting in place performance evaluation metrics for the same 
👉  Created the TA roadmap with AVP - Talent  that quantitatively and qualitatively shows the impact of processes/ automations on Quality, Speed, Candidate Experience, Hiring Experience, Recruitment -Marketing and Bandwidth Creation for the Team

Dhwani Rural Information Systems

👉 Received an early promotion (superstar) from a Specialist to a Senior Specialist for demonstrating exemplary performance 
👉 Rolled out 32 offers in 12 months (highest in cohort) including the Head of IT for a partner biotech firm
👉 Created & implemented a Competitor Intelligence Dashboard, which is now being leveraged by multiple hiring managers
👉 Doubled the number of diversity hires per year for my developer roles by reaching out to inclusive developer forums
👉 Led the hiring strategy for the firm’s new product startup prior to it going live, partnering with the Head of the Startup 
👉 Conducted 2 outreach programs among global hackathon and coding competition winners to generate stronger hiring pools
👉 Managed end- to- end training and held regular mentorship sessions with 5 new recruits that joined the team this yea

Indian Institute of Management, Shillong

-Responsible for establishing and maintaining a proper communication channel with the industry and media houses.

-Point of contact & coordinator for developing all kinds of communications with other business schools across India.

-Organize ‘The Podium’ series, which is an annual corporate lecture series at the Institute. The series has featured corporate leaders from various established companies like Deloitte, L’Oreal, Nestle, Facebook, HDFC, PepsiCo and Honeywell to name a few.

-Responsible for expanding the presence of IIM Shillong on social media platforms (like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and promoting in-house events like Entrepreneurial Summits and Conferences.

•	Responsible for organizing all events, competitions and corporate interactions conducted by club

•	Editor of Markathon, monthly magazine of the Marketing club with readership across B-schools       
     
•	Columnist for Vartalaap section of Marketing magazine involving interview sessions with experts

•	Core member in organizing Business Leadership Summit, aimed to encourage corporate connect

SUEZ

-Reported to the Head of Controlling of the firm as a Financial Analysis and Controlling Intern

-Studied the concept of Price Escalation and conducted a PE analysis on one of the company’s leading projects in Bangalore by preparing a model and gave recommendations to the supply chain department for their procurement decisions

-Performed an Internal Budgeting and Cost Controlling procedure called Actualization for a current Project in Rajasthan consisting of three subprojects housing 150 water treatment plants, to improve profitability

-Assisted the Controller in identifying the projects showing over absorption of workforce costs by comparing various input data such as QPMS, Sales Module, and SAP (Recently implemented ERP)

JBL Professional

-Worked under the Senior Manager of Letsintern.com as a Marketing and Brand Building intern (Youth Brand Ambassador)

-Successfully carried out over 150 product trials all over Delhi, including an all-out team campaign at Rahagiri to increase brand image

-Created awareness about JBL among my peers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram via a host of original multimedia content (30+posts per week)

ELECTRIC BOOGIE ft. ANJANAY (GX) + TUSHAR DAS + ANDANTE