HR Series India 2026: Recognized HR Professionals

Aravindan Subramanian

Recognized for combining strategic HR leadership with workforce analytics, HR systems, and people-focused process improvement. His experience spans workforce planning, performance management, employee engagement, HR governance, compliance, and organizational development, with a focus on using data and technology to strengthen workforce effectiveness and business outcomes.

Ayushi Mishra

Recognized for building high-impact talent acquisition strategies across SaaS, Cloud, Fintech, and Insurtech environments, with a strong focus on technical and specialized hiring. Her experience spans engineering, AI/ML, DevOps, data, product, GTM, and leadership recruitment, alongside structured hiring processes, sourcing strategy, candidate experience, and employer branding.

Aniruth Vasu Dev

Recognized for his hands-on contribution to talent acquisition and HR operations, with experience managing recruitment across multiple business units and locations. His work includes high-volume and executive hiring, end-to-end recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, HR process management, and supporting HR systems and process standardization.

Aravindhan K V

Recognized for his extensive experience in talent acquisition and technical recruitment across IT and semiconductor environments. His work spans end-to-end hiring, executive and specialized recruitment, talent pipelining, employer branding, and recruitment operations, with experience leading recruitment teams and implementing ATS-driven hiring processes.

Arun Pandian Karunanithi

With experience spanning employee relations, recruitment, engagement, and HR operations, Arun has built a broad people-management career focused on employee experience, compliance, retention, and scalable HR processes. His work includes handling employee cases and grievances, driving engagement initiatives, supporting workforce planning, and managing end-to-end recruitment across different organizational environments.

Elisha Williams

With experience across US IT and non-IT staffing, Elisha specializes in end-to-end recruitment, technical sourcing, candidate screening, and international hiring. Her work includes managing contract and permanent hiring, working with US staffing models and VMS platforms, and sourcing candidates for technical and specialized roles.

Chandu Bojja

Chandu brings 7+ years of in-house recruitment experience across IT, SaaS, product, and service environments, with a strong focus on technical and niche hiring. His experience includes volume recruitment, building teams from the ground up, talent pipelining, stakeholder management, and improving hiring turnaround, including reducing hiring TAT from 90 days to 20–25 days.

D Hemanth Babu

With 10+ years of experience across IT staffing and talent acquisition, Hemanth has progressed from hands-on US IT recruitment to leading recruitment teams and end-to-end hiring functions. His experience spans technical, leadership, niche and volume hiring, talent pipeline development, recruitment operations, stakeholder management, and process improvement across India and global markets.

Dhevi J

Dhevi brings 6+ years of recruitment and staffing experience, with a strong focus on technical and AI/ML talent acquisition. Her work combines end-to-end hiring, talent sourcing, client and stakeholder engagement, and building targeted talent pipelines, supported by experience with recruitment platforms such as Naukri and Ceipal.

Ganesh VR

Ganesh brings 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition across staffing, information services, and technology-focused environments. His work combines technical and IT recruitment with global talent acquisition, talent sourcing, and recruitment management, supported by an ability to adapt hiring strategies to the specific requirements of different industries.

Gokul Kumar S

Gokul brings 4+ years of experience across the full recruitment lifecycle, supporting hiring across BFSI, finance, healthcare, retail, telecom, and other business functions. His experience combines recruitment strategy, stakeholder management, employer branding, talent sourcing, and candidate experience, with a strong focus on improving hiring efficiency and recruitment outcomes.

Himanshu Bhardwaj

Himanshu is building a well-rounded HR career across pharmaceutical and industrial environments, with hands-on exposure to HR operations, recruitment, employee lifecycle management, and workplace relations. His experience combines talent acquisition and onboarding with HR administration, employee engagement, compliance, and industrial relations, supported by an MBA in Human Resources and a pharmacy background.

Janvi Sahibani

Janvi is building a well-rounded HR career across IT talent acquisition and HR operations, with hands-on experience managing end-to-end hiring for technical and business roles. Her work also covers onboarding, employee engagement, HR documentation, payroll coordination, HR systems, and talent pipeline development, reflecting a growing focus on both people and business needs.

Kinshuk Swarnkar

Kinshuk’s recruitment experience centers on building technology teams through end-to-end IT talent acquisition and technical hiring. His work spans software engineering, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, Java, .NET, and Python recruitment, along with volume hiring, candidate sourcing, stakeholder coordination, screening, and offer negotiation.

Ram Kumar Kudupudi

With 12+ years in talent acquisition, Ram has progressed into recruitment leadership, managing teams and end-to-end hiring across IT and multi-skill environments. His experience includes GCC hiring, bulk and campus recruitment, executive and technical hiring, stakeholder management, recruitment strategy, and building recruitment teams, supported by experience managing a 10+ member TA team.

Momeena Khan

Momeena has built a broad people-operations career in a fast-growing, global startup environment, where she helped establish the HR function from the ground up. Her work spans talent acquisition, HR operations, compliance, payroll, policies, employee engagement, and performance management, alongside partnering with leadership and supporting the people needs of a growing multi-country team.

Mrunali Ingale

Mrunali is building her HR career through hands-on IT recruitment, with experience managing the hiring process across both technical and non-technical roles. Her work covers candidate sourcing, resume screening, evaluation, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and onboarding, supported by experience using multiple recruitment platforms and a growing focus on technology-enabled HR.

Noah Rajkumar

With 10+ years of professional experience, Noah brings together HR, client relationship, and people-management experience across his career. His work includes HR operations, talent management, vendor management, client and stakeholder coordination, and team leadership, supported by experience in both HR and client-facing environments.

Palak Agarwal

Palak brings 4+ years of recruitment experience across staffing and technical hiring environments, with a focus on identifying and engaging the right talent for organizational needs. Her experience covers end-to-end recruitment, IT recruitment, candidate sourcing, Boolean search, screening, interview coordination, and managing hiring requirements within defined timelines.

Praveen M.

Praveen is building his talent acquisition career through hands-on technical recruitment across IT roles, supporting the hiring process from candidate sourcing and screening through interview coordination. His experience includes maintaining talent pipelines, working with hiring managers on technical requirements, and using recruitment platforms and emerging AI-enabled sourcing and screening tools.

Purnendu Chatterjee

With 10+ years of experience across talent acquisition and recruitment, Purnendu has built expertise spanning technology, product, business, and leadership hiring. His career combines end-to-end recruitment, senior stakeholder engagement, talent strategy, executive search, and data-led sourcing, with experience across both in-house and recruitment consulting environments.

Ravi Lakhatariya

Ravi has built a hands-on HR career in manufacturing, covering recruitment, payroll, statutory compliance, employee relations, and workplace policies. His experience includes managing compensation and benefits processes, supporting labour-law compliance, developing HR policies, handling employee concerns, and strengthening workplace practices across plant and corporate environments.

Rushabh Shah

With 12+ years in HR, Rushabh brings a broad people-management perspective shaped by experience across talent acquisition, HR operations, workforce management, and employee experience. His work includes supporting large and distributed workforces, managing payroll and statutory processes, building talent pipelines, driving digital HR initiatives, and improving employee experiences through HR technology and process transformation.

Sukhada Shitole

Sukhada is building her recruitment career through hands-on experience across the hiring lifecycle, working closely with clients and internal teams to support timely recruitment and a smooth candidate journey. Her role combines candidate sourcing and screening with onboarding, stakeholder coordination, and client relationship management, reflecting a strong early focus on connecting talent with business needs.

Swati

With 15+ years of HR experience, Swati has built a strong career across HR Operations, People Operations, and HR Administration, particularly within IT organizations. Her expertise spans employee lifecycle management, HRMS and employee data, onboarding and exits, HR policies and documentation, payroll coordination, performance processes, compliance support, and practical HR process improvement.

Udaykumar B

Udaykumar brings hands-on experience in talent acquisition with a strong focus on technical and IT recruitment. His work spans end-to-end hiring, sourcing through multiple channels, candidate screening, interview coordination, hiring-manager collaboration, pipeline development, and supporting candidates through onboarding.

Vinoth Arun Raj

With 10+ years of recruitment experience, Vinoth Arun Raj specializes in US talent acquisition and technical hiring across APPS, Digital, Infrastructure, and Testing domains. His experience covers full-cycle recruitment, technical sourcing, candidate screening, client and vendor coordination, contract hiring, interview management, and offer-to-closure processes, supported by strong expertise in US staffing models and recruitment technology.

Vishva Soni

Vishva brings experience across People Operations, Talent Acquisition, and employee experience, with a focus on building structured HR processes and supporting organizational growth. In her role as HR Manager, she works across hiring, employee engagement, onboarding, workplace culture, and people practices to help build a positive and performance-driven work environment.

Kartik Oza

Kartik brings experience across talent acquisition, HR operations, employee lifecycle management, and HR data management, with a growing focus on data-driven HR practices. His work spans technical and non-technical recruitment, onboarding, payroll coordination, statutory compliance, HRMS, HR MIS, and workforce reporting across diverse engineering and technology-driven industries.

Surojit Roy Chowdhury

With 19+ years of experience across recruitment and talent management, Surojit brings extensive expertise in IT talent acquisition, sourcing, vendor management, and recruitment strategy. His career combines recruitment leadership with talent management, vendor management, and technology-focused hiring, supporting organizations in building strong talent pipelines and recruitment capabilities.

Shreeya Arora

With 5+ years of HR experience, Shreeya works across talent acquisition, HR operations, and employee lifecycle management. Her experience covers end-to-end recruitment, hiring-manager coordination, onboarding and exits, employee documentation, HR reporting, employee engagement, and day-to-day employee support, contributing to structured and efficient HR processes.

Devansha Mathur

Devansha Mathur brings 12+ years of experience across People & Culture and strategic HR, with a focus on employee engagement, culture, strategic human resource planning, and organizational alignment. Her experience includes partnering with founders and senior leaders to support people strategy, develop performance-focused initiatives, and build high-performing, value-driven teams.

Rudra Pratap Singh

Rudra brings 5+ years of HR experience across supply chain, logistics, and automotive environments, with a focus on people strategy and operational effectiveness. His expertise spans HR business partnering, workforce planning, talent management, employee relations, grievance handling, and HR operations and compliance within large enterprise environments.

Riya Kapoor

With 14+ years of experience in talent acquisition, Riya has built deep expertise in technology recruitment and talent strategy across Engineering, Product, Cloud, Data, AI, and leadership functions. Her experience combines strategic hiring, leadership and lateral recruitment, recruitment transformation, team building, and close partnership with business leaders to support scalable organizational growth.

Balaji Raja Ravindran Sembu

With 2+ years of recruitment experience, Balaji Raja Ravindran Sembu focuses on technical and US IT recruitment, supporting the sourcing and evaluation of technology talent across diverse roles. His experience includes candidate pipeline management, initial screening, Boolean sourcing, technical talent assessment, and collaboration with recruiters and hiring teams to support effective hiring outcomes.

Nagaraju Gumpenapalli

With 10+ years of experience across talent acquisition and recruitment, Nagaraju Gumpenapalli brings strong expertise in technical and leadership hiring. His experience spans recruiting Architects, Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, Delivery Managers, and technology leaders, alongside full-cycle recruitment, candidate sourcing and assessment, stakeholder management, and building effective talent pipelines.

Kamalakannan S

With 6+ years of HR experience, Kamalakannan S specializes in payroll management, HR operations, and statutory compliance across local and international teams. His experience includes managing end-to-end payroll across the UAE and 11 global countries, supporting employee lifecycle processes, handling statutory requirements and audits, and improving HR operations through process automation and structured compliance practices.

Ashi Sherawat

Ashi Sherawat specializes in technology and leadership hiring, with experience building recruitment functions for startups and growing organizations. Her work spans SDET and QA automation recruitment, strategic sourcing, closing 100+ critical roles, and developing hiring processes that support both business growth and candidate experience.

Jayya Luthra

Jayya Luthra brings a business-oriented approach to HR leadership, partnering with organizations to connect people practices with business growth and performance. Her work spans talent acquisition, talent management, learning and development, behavioral training, culture change, and HR interventions across FMCG, pharma, logistics, fintech, and consulting environments.

Adesh Srivastava

Specializing in talent acquisition across BFSI, NBFC, IT/ITES, FinTech, SaaS, blockchain, AI, and telecom, his experience covers both IT and non-IT recruitment. His work spans full-cycle hiring, executive search, candidate sourcing, ATS-based recruitment, offer negotiation, and talent pipeline development, along with key account management and business development.

Kiran Guwalani

Scaling SaaS teams has been a central focus of Kiran Guwalani’s recruitment career, with experience spanning technology hiring, talent strategy, and recruitment process improvement. Her work combines strategic sourcing, team building, hiring-process optimization, and candidate experience, supported by experience across SaaS, technology, consumer, and building-materials organizations.

Manan Patel

Manan Patel brings extensive experience in talent acquisition, with a strong focus on end-to-end and technical recruitment within the IT sector. His work spans candidate sourcing and engagement, screening, interviewing, onboarding, and collaboration with management and technical teams to support effective technology hiring.

Tarun Dogra

Tarun Dogra brings a global talent acquisition perspective shaped by recruitment across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and India. His experience spans high-impact technology and engineering hiring, workforce planning, talent strategy, international recruitment delivery, and recruitment team leadership, with a growing focus on data, automation, and AI-enabled hiring.

Fareed Shaik

Fareed Shaik brings 6+ years of recruitment experience with a strong focus on US IT staffing and technical hiring. His experience covers candidate sourcing, Boolean search, screening, salary negotiation, US staffing requirements, and end-to-end recruitment, with experience supporting IT hiring across different recruitment environments.

Saloni Jivani

Saloni Jivani brings hands-on experience across the employee lifecycle, managing recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, performance coordination, payroll, and HR operations. As the sole HR professional supporting a 55-member organization, she has handled end-to-end HR responsibilities while driving critical hiring, structured onboarding, payroll accuracy, employee support, and process documentation.

Rida Choudhary

Rida Choudhary brings 7+ years of dedicated HR experience across talent management, full-cycle recruitment, employee relations, HR operations, and employee development. As an HR Manager, she supports workforce planning, performance management, employee engagement, HR policy and compliance, training initiatives, and employee relations while partnering with senior leadership.

Shabbir Basha Shaik

Shabbir Basha Shaik brings 10+ years of experience across HR operations and US immigration, with deep expertise in managing H-1B processes and employment-based immigration requirements. His work includes handling H-1B extensions, amendments and transfers, RFE documentation, Public Access Files, LCA requirements, employment verification, and coordination with attorneys to support compliant immigration processes.

Sunil Giri

Sunil Giri brings hands-on HR generalist experience across talent acquisition, employee lifecycle management, HR operations, and people analytics, with a strong background in the shipping and logistics industry. His work includes managing 20+ recruitment positions, supporting HRMS processes for 250+ employees, coordinating onboarding and exits, and using HR reporting and analytics to improve hiring efficiency, including a 30% reduction in average time to hire.

Anusha Kari

Anusha Kari brings over 5 years of hands-on HR experience, with a strong focus on end-to-end recruitment and bulk hiring. Her experience spans sourcing, headhunting, interviewing, networking, and managing recruitment processes, including onboarding 50+ employees in a single quarter.

Sanjana Pernenkil

Sanjana Pernenkil brings 18+ years of experience across HR operations and strategic HR management in IT/ITES, product, and service environments. Her work spans HR business partnering, workforce planning, talent management, organizational development, performance management, compensation, and change initiatives, with a focus on aligning people strategy with business objectives.