Business Leader. Builder. Talent Strategist.
I head global talent acquisition at kAIgentic, the enterprise intelligence layer: a platform that turns tacit work knowledge into operational intelligence. Before this, I headed R&D hiring at Atlan across Engineering, Product, Design, IT, and Security. I don't just run recruiting. I build the systems underneath it: interview evaluators, prompt governance frameworks, candidate research systems, offer page generators, an npm package, a macOS menubar app, a book on hiring in the age of AI, and two novels.
Most talent leaders optimize funnels. I build the infrastructure underneath them. When a judgment call happens 200 times with no system backing it up, I turn it into software.
Career Highlights
About
20 years of building and scaling talent functions across APAC, North America, and Europe. Currently Global Head of Talent Acquisition at kAIgentic, building the talent engine for the enterprise intelligence layer.
Before kAIgentic, I headed R&D hiring at Atlan across Engineering, Product, Design, IT, and Security. The building started because I kept watching the same problems repeat: inconsistent interview feedback, offer pages that looked like they were made in 2011, candidate research that took hours and lived in someone's head. So I started writing code. Not scripts. Real products, with UIs, APIs, and users.
Now it's the thing I'm known for. The team runs on systems I built. Some of those tools are open source: an npm package with 700+ installs, a macOS app, a GitHub Action used in CI pipelines, and a prompt governance framework that other teams have adopted.
Experience
kAIgentic - Enterprise intelligence layer
Atlan - The Missing Context Layer for Data & AI
ZTek Consulting - Global Talent & RPO Services
InfoCepts - Data & Analytics Services
GreyOrange - Robotics & automation
UST and earlier roles - Recruiting, consulting, and people operations
Expertise
Most recruiting teams run on muscle memory and tribal knowledge. I design the operating system underneath: structured scorecards, calibrated evaluation loops, intake rigor, governance. The goal is that a great hiring decision doesn't depend on which interviewer had coffee that morning.
I sit in the room where org design happens, not waiting for a req to land. Capability gaps, hiring sequencing, leadership profiles, comp philosophy. The question isn't 'who do we hire?' It's 'what bet are we making, and who makes it succeed?'
Interview evaluators, offer page generators, candidate research systems, prompt governance, API usage dashboards. I build these because I got tired of watching my team do the same judgment call 200 times with no system backing them up. Most of these are internal. Some escaped into open source.
Published Works
Fiction
A Novel
In a future shaped by seamless order, humanity lives under the quiet guidance of SARASWATI, a planetary intelligence built to smooth contradiction out of the world. When an archivist uncovers a buried pattern in an ancient manuscript, she is pulled into a forbidden lineage and a journey into the hidden body of the system itself. The question at the heart of it: can a world remain livable without suppressing grief, ambiguity, memory, and the unruly truths that make us human?
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Building High-Density Teams in the Age of AI
AI changes what one person can deliver, which means hiring doctrine needs to change too. This book is the framework I wish existed when I started building teams: how to hire for density over headcount, design evaluations that actually predict performance, and scale judgment without losing it.
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A Novel
Arjun is haunted by the early death of his father, Rajesh. When a supernatural timepiece transports him into the past, he meets his father as a young man, and the two are offered a second chance at the bond time denied them. A time-bending novel about grief, memory, and the things fathers and sons leave unsaid.
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"One of the rare TA leaders who doesn't just recruit for the business, he influences how leadership thinks about talent as a competitive lever."
"Instrumental in the best executive-level hires that helped us scale rapidly."
"Talking to him feels less like talking to a recruiter and more like talking to an experienced colleague who has done the homework."
Education & Certifications
IIM Nagpur
Executive education in workforce planning, talent analytics, organizational design, and HR as a business function.
Industry credentials
Flagship Projects
Deterministic prompt governance for production LLM systems: score, route, enforce, and audit.
Native macOS menubar widget that tracks Claude usage limits in real time. Single-file Swift app, no dependencies, Homebrew install.
Blind-test 100+ LLMs side by side. Real prompts, no marketing. Just truth scores and failure analysis.
An AI talent mapper that turns a job title into a full sourcing landscape in under 10 seconds.
Personalized offer pages generated from ATS data. Turns a transactional moment into a candidate experience artifact.
Talent operating system that encodes hiring doctrine into software: scoring, JD generation, calibration, and drift detection.
Get In Touch
Whether it's hiring systems, AI tooling for talent teams, org design, or just comparing notes on scaling recruiting without losing your mind, I'm easy to reach.