About

Amit Sharma is a Principal Recruiter and Talent Acquisition Partner at Confluent with over 15 years of professional experience. He has a savvy background in core competencies with a solid understanding of recruitment and talent acquisition processes. Amit is passionate about bridging the gap between talent and opportunity, and his current role at Confluent allows him to do just that. Confluent is pioneering a new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion, and Amit is a key player in building the foundational platform for this new paradigm. He is responsible for recruiting self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and want to help realize Confluent's enormous potential. Amit values having diverse teams and encourages personal growth, whether you're just starting out in your career or managing a large team. Prior to Confluent, Amit worked as a Talent Acquisition Lead at Walmart, where he was a partner and advisor for nine different core tech product units. He has hands-on experience with full life-cycle recruitment and has worked with teams of engineers, designers, and product leaders to create smarter futures for online and in-store shopping experiences. Amit has also worked at Huawei as a Manager of Talent Acquisition, where he managed hiring for multiple product teams and hired top talent with experience in building cutting-edge software in the areas of Big Data, Cloud, NFV, SDN, IOT, and Storage. He partnered with the Data Science team for their hiring needs. Amit has a degree in Management from ISBM and completed his SSC in PCM from KPC. He has a wide range of technical skills, including infra, software engineering, SQL, Kafka, backend, Ansible, Terraform, data engineering, ETL, UI, frontend, search, big data, and data science. With almost 16 years of relevant experience, Amit is a seasoned professional in the recruitment and talent acquisition space.