Tushar Katangale

A global TA specialist with 10+ years of experience in hands-on technical recruiting, leadership hiring, building and managing recruiting team. I am skilled at designing talent strategies for hiring quality talent across product engineering, product management, business intelligence, sales and G&A functions. I also have great experience in managing recruiting teams of 4 members and defining success metrics and KRAs and proactively driving learning and development initiatives for the recruiting team.

• Designed and implemented candidate engagement strategy to ensure >70% joining rate.
• Identified and fixed process gap in QA hiring resulting in an improved candidate interview success rate from 5% to 15%.
• At Medly, spearheaded the Pune headcount growth from 27 to 250 employees in 2 years.
• Significantly improved the female diversity hiring from 7% to 15% in product and engineering roles at Medly.
• Owned and spearheaded employer branding initiatives at Medly such as Meetup groups, hackathons, webinars etc.
• Successfully ramped the ThoughtWorks Mumbai engineering capacity from 5 to 25 engineers within 7 months.
• Played an instrumental role in designing and implementing hiring strategy for Calsoft in Bengaluru and successfully hired close to 15 engineers - Storage QAs, Networking QAs, DevOps Engineers and Linux kernel developers in 4 months.