Pramod Shintri
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Talent Advisor - Hardware Engineering at Cisco!
San Jose, California, United States
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Sr. Talent Advisor - ASIC Design & Optical NetworksCiscoMar 2026 - Current (8 months)Talent Advisor at Cisco, supporting the Common Hardware Group.
In this role, I partner closely with business leaders and hiring teams to attract, engage, and hire top talent that drives innovation across Cisco’s hardware portfolio, including Silicon One. I focus on building strong talent pipelines, delivering an exceptional candidate experience, and aligning recruitment strategies with evolving business needs.
Passionate about connecting people with opportunities, I bring a consultative approach to talent advising—leveraging market insights, data, and relationship-building to help teams scale effectively. I’m proud to contribute to an organization that is shaping the future of technology through cutting-edge hardware s- Leadership & Career CoachMeet YourselfOct 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)Excited to partner with Dr. Antoine Eid and his team to help individuals find their full potential and help companies transform their teams while they are building a high performing organization.
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Meet Yourself is a revolutionary tool that combines DNA testing and personality assessm - Staff Talent Acquisition AdvisorSupermicroJan 2024 - Mar 2026 (2 years 3 months)At Supermicro, I led recruiting across some of the company’s most critical and high-impact organizations — including Hardware Design (Server & Switch), Architecture, and Field Application Engineering — giving me a unique front-row view into how world-class infrastructure products are built and brought to market.
In my final year, I expanded my scope to lead recruiting for Software organizations, including Switch Design, Validation, Product Management, AI/LLM Application Development, and Total Solutions. As a Talent Advisor, I partnered closely with business leaders to drive hiring strategy end-to-end — from sourcing and candidate engagement to closing top talent in highly competitive markets.
Beyond core recruiting, I - Talent & Community ManagerPangeaFeb 2022 - Jan 2024 (2 years)Pangea is a well-funded Series B startup led by veterans of the security industry and have raised over $52M in funding in the last one year from Google Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, SYN Ventures, Decibel, and Okta Ventures . We are a product-led company, whose mission is to deliver an amazing product built specifically for developers and we are hiring talented software engineers to build a collection of cloud-agnostic security services. Professionals who are passionate about innovating in the security space and driven to deliver exceptional product experiences for developers are encouraged to apply, https://pangea.cloud.
• Sole recruiter focus - Talent Acquisition Lead - AI Driven Enterprise/Product Line Managenent/CorpDev & StrategyJuniper NetworksJul 2019 - Feb 2022 (2 years 8 months)Talent Acquisition Partner leading a small team of recruiters/researchers and responsible for hiring in the following teams at Juniper:
AI Driven Enterprise - Join the team that is revolutionizing the Networking Industry with AI. Hiring talented Engineers at all levels of the stack. Includes Data Scientists/ML Engineers, Platform Engineers, SRE's, and many more. Cloud agnostic infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) with cloud native applications using Golang/Kubernetes.
Product Line Management - Join the exciting team that delivers our products successfully to the market. PLM opportunities with AI Driven Enterprise, Cloud-Ready Datacenter Networking, Connected Security, and Service Provider teams.
Corp Dev - Talent Acquisition LeadHuman APIMay 2018 - Jul 2019 (1 year 3 months)Data-driven TA Leader responsible for all recruiting activities, top of the funnel thru offer stage activities.
Drive all cross-functional hiring at HumanAPI
Partnered with VP-Engineering for evaluation process of starting R&D center in Guadalajara and led recruiting efforts. - Talent Acquisition LeadPhantom CyberJan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year 1 month)(Phantom was acquired by Splunk in April 2018)
Responsible for global hiring (NA/EMEA/APJ) across the organization. Groups include:
R&D - Software Engineers (backend, Web Services, and Front End)
Customer Success - Solution Architects, Solution Engineers, and Support Engineers
Sales Engineers
Marketing
Great leadership. Well funded. Disruptive. Rocketship. - Recruiting LeadIQTalent Partners IncJan 2015 - Jan 2017 (2 years 1 month)IQTalent Partners is a professional services firm that focuses on finding, assessing and hiring key talent for your organization. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.iqtalentpartners.com.
My role is mostly focusing on the Candidate/Client management and candidate research. Lead teams ranging from 1-3 researchers. Ensure quick ramp, technical calibration, setting/managing weekly goals, and iterating/improving on sourcing plan to identify quality candidates while achieving aggressive outreach plans.
Clients engagements have been as little as 6-months and as much as 18-months in duration d - Senior Talent Acquisition ConsultantGoogleJan 2014 - Jan 2015 (1 year 1 month)Joined Nest as a TA Partner during a time of rapid growth. Responsible for leading full-life cycle recruiting efforts for UI/UX and Apps Development teams. Positions hired include:
Design Producers
Interaction Designers for Hardware and Software
Visual Designers
iOS Apps Developers
Android Developers
Web Developers - Senior Talent Acquisition ConsultantGrouponJan 2013 - Jan 2014 (1 year 1 month)Sr. Technical Recruiter responsible for all Palo Alto recruiting efforts relating to Data Platform, Test Engineering, and ProdOps Engineering.
- HR & Recruiting LeaderHortonworksJan 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year 1 month)Hands-on HR & Talent Acquisition Leader at Hortonworks, a dynamic startup, created to accelerate the development and adoption of Apache Hadoop. Primary focus on R&D, Technical Support, Pre-Sales Engineering, and Professional Services.
Joined Hortonworks to manage all Talent Acquisition and HR efforts. From August, my role shifted to leading all Recruiting efforts.
Accomplishments include:
Partner with Executives, division leaders and hiring managers to design staffing plans that ensure we are attracting the best talent cross functionally.
Generate pipeline thru multiple channels - Internal sourcing, 3rd party agencies, and Conferences/MeetUps. Implementation of Interview Days focused on hiring l - ADirector of HR and RecruitingAxway AppceleratorJan 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years 1 month)Full responsibility of all HR and Talent Acquisition efforts for Appcelerator.
Growing Appcelerator from 10+ employees to over 125 employees. Partnering with Executives and hiring managers to ensure that we are attracting the best talent. - Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant(YahooJan 2008 - Jan 2009 (1 year 1 month)Sole Recruiter responsible for staffing all of Connected Life's engineering positions.
Worked directly with hiring managers to design staffing plans and ensure that they are seeing the best qualified candidates.
Responsible for lead generation, candidate management, and client management.
Areas include: Mobile Application Development, Mobile Platform Development, Quality Engineering, and Project Management - Sr. Talent Acquisition ConsultantYahooJan 2007 - Jan 2008 (1 year 1 month)Sole Recruiter for handling all Product Management hiring for Yahoo’s Strategic Data Solutions Group.
Sole Recruiter for engineering hires of all levels within Yahoo's Media Engineering Group, Video, and Streaming Center.
The technologies were multi-faceted and included PHP/MySql, Java & C++/Unix, C#/.NET, and database technologies. - Talent Acquisition LeadIntuitJan 2006 - Jan 2007 (1 year 1 month)TA Lead for Intuit's Central Technology Group and India R&D Office. Locations include Mt. View, San Diego, Boston, and Bangalore.
For US operations, responsible for designing comprehensive staffing plans that include research, candidate generation channels, interview process & questions, and timelines to fill. Worked closely with finance and HR business partners on tracking hiring activities.
For India operation, worked with India Executive team on headcount staffing projections for FY07, managed agency relationships, and hired on-the-ground staffing team in Bangalore.
Led efforts in employment branding, college recruiting, compensation programs, immigration process (ie. ex-patriot & relocating professional - Recruiting Consultant - Mobile EngineeringGoogleJan 2005 - Jan 2006 (1 year 1 month)Sole recruiter responsible for leading staffing efforts for Google's engineering initiatives in mobile and Wi-Fi. Early staffing contributions to building team that built Android.
The technologies were multi-faceted and included C++, Java, Perl, and several front-end mobile applications (i.e. J2ME, BREW, Symbian, Windows OS, and Palm OS). - Recruiting ManagerKnight Ridder DigitalJan 2001 - Jan 2005 (4 years 1 month)Hands-On HR/Staffing Generalist responsible for HR efforts and all cross-functional recruiting at all levels in 9 marketplaces.
Emphasis in online advertising sales (local & national), sales operations, strategic marketing, engineering, and G&A.
Sole recruiter responsible for all candidate generation, full candidate management, and client management. Also includes succession planning. Designed comprehensive staffing plans that included research, candidate generation channels, interview process and questions, and timelines to fill.
HR responsibilities include documenting/managing HR hiring process for exempt/non-exempt hires, I-9 audits, immigration matters, compensation benchmarking, HR training, benefits, - Talent Acquisition ConsultantMicrosoftJan 2000 - Jan 2001 (1 year 1 month)Responsible for all staffing efforts for Placeware's Engineering Team.
Actively sourced, screened, and managed candidates thru the offer process.
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- Business Administration and Management, GeneralUniversity of Houston