About

Amit Haval is a passionate recruiter and sourcer with over 7 years of experience in technical and engineering recruitment. He has an in-depth understanding of the recruitment life cycle and extensive experience in hiring Engineering managers, Development Managers, SDEs, and SDETs. Amit is currently working as a Technical Recruiter at Microsoft, where he is responsible for the hiring needs of Microsoft IDC E+D teams like ODSP, GitHub, Special cloud, Azure, Office 365, MS Teams, M365, Bing, and Edge. He has a proven record of hiring 150+ candidates for FY22 across levels with ~33% diversity ratio. Amit is a key planning and execution member of the strategy for setting up new lines of businesses from the ground up. He is an active player in compete mapping projects which has helped in targeting diversity talent from compete organisations. He has mentored new members of the team and scaled them up in quick succession to deliver success. Amit has also conducted training sessions for India & APAC teams with Recruitment, Sourcing, and ATS Hacks. Amit's current focus is on software engineers, sr. software engineers, and Engineering managers across all of Microsoft engineering with a lens for distributed systems, Cloud Services, APIs, and Microservices at scale. He has worked with both technical and non-technical requirements and has experience in X-ray Search and Web Scraping. Amit has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General from Jaipur National University and a Master of Business Administration - MBA degree in Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General from MIT School of Business. He also has an Engineer's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Shivaji University. Amit is skilled in Software Engineering, Microservices, Azure, Research Scientist, Search, and Web. He has previously worked as a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Microsoft and as an Assistant Manager Recruiter Sourcer at iimjobs. Amit is passionate about solving the puzzles of tech hiring (Distributed, Scalable and highly available systems) and is a LinkedIn expert.