About

Hemant Shetty is a Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at SAP Brilliant Hire, where he leads the development of AI-powered skill-based intelligent job recommendation tools and candidate discovery and ranking dashboards. With over 10 years of experience, Hemant is a passionate product designer who has delivered innovative cloud-native SaaS products and built and scaled engineering teams across the US and India. Hemant is a natural leader with a never-give-up attitude, empathy, and a data-driven mindset. He has a proven track record of building great team cultures of belongingness with selfless collaboration focused on common objectives, clear and constant communication, and empowerment with ownership. Hemant has been rated 4.3/5 in SAP 360 feedback 2021 participated by 16 colleagues, including his manager, direct reports, and peers. Hemant's achievements include co-founding Brilliant Hire by SAP, validating product-market fit with 20+ customers after multiple pivots, and raising a series of funding. He was awarded by Juergen Mueller, SAP CTO & Executive Board Member, for being a key driver in quickly releasing the Smart Job Matching v1 product to enterprise customers in 2021. Hemant was also the SAP Catalyst 2020, an employee whose contribution to SAP stands out. Hemant's strength includes leadership, entrepreneurship, outcome-oriented, and a data-driven mindset. He has won the NASSCOM Digital India Challenge in 2017 for Virtual Scribe, a digital application to help visually impaired students take exams independently without a human scribe. He has also built a voice-enabled interview bot to fix the hiring problem and won the SAP 2016 Invent hackathon. Hemant has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai. He has worked as a Software Engineer at L&T Infotech, where he built front-end for world-renowned brands like GQ, Lucky, and CondeNast Traveller. Hemant is proficient in Senior Software Engineer, AI, AWS, product manager, Javascript, Apache Airflow, Redis, Kafka, NodeJS, Research Scientist, Elastic Search, Software Engineer, Python, Frontend, SQL, MySQL, and Microservices.