M S Abhimanyu

Built and scaled India's engineering GCC to 75 engineers in 18 months across distributed systems, protocol engineering, backend, Dev Rel, and AI—retiring outsourced delivery and saving $1 M+ annually.
Designed talent mapping strategies for niche distributed systems and AI hiring, directly engaging passive candidates and influencing hiring decisions.
Closed near-zero-supply engineering and AI talent against FAANG and frontier-lab competition, cutting time-to-fill 30–40% through talent mapping, AI-assisted sourcing, calibrated interview scorecards, and recruiter enablement.
Set the hiring bar with structured scorecards and calibrated panels, lifting offer acceptance to 85%–90%.
Advise founders on build-vs-buy, comp strategy, and headcount ROI in the planning room, not downstream of it.

Led a team of 5 and hired 0 to 35 across engineering, growth, community, and BD in 9 months, enabling an on-time product launch.
Personally led executive searches for hard-to-fill engineering and AI leadership positions across multiple global markets.
Cut agency spend 20–30% and time-to-hire ~25% through proactive pipelines and AI-personalized outreach.
Built a developer-first employer brand via technical-community engagement and ecosystem sponsorships, lifting inbound applicant quality ~30%.

Led a team of 7; hired backend, IAM, and platform engineers (OAuth 2, SCIM, Zero-Trust) with 30% faster time-to-fill and fewer mis-hires through competency-based scorecards.
Stood up an in-house AI/ML lab, hiring researchers, ML engineers, and MLOps specialists to advance product capability.
Standardized job architecture and leveling, improving offer consistency and internal mobility.

Led a team of 7, delivered 150+ hires a year, and ran campus strategy across 50+ institutions — cutting cost-per-hire 15–20%.
Renegotiated vendor SLAs, improving fill-rate ~18% and reducing agency dependency.

Built product and engineering teams from zero to 75+ hires in 12 months and cut time-to-fill ~25% for quant and engineering roles in a competitive fintech market.
Launched Tier-1 campus partnerships that became a durable pipeline and employer-brand channel.

Delivered 250+ engineering and corporate hires over four years; promoted early for consistent above-target throughput and process improvement.