About

Kartik Rao is a seasoned Talent Acquisition partner with over 7 years of experience in Talent Partnering and Management. He is a multi-faceted professional and strategic thinker with a proven track record of driving Talent initiatives to achieve bottom-line results in the pursuit of organizational objectives. Kartik has extensive experience in building and motivating large, multi-cultural teams that exceed expectations. Kartik has worked across a range of industries such as Product (SaaS), IT, ITES, Non-IT, and E-commerce. He has expertise in Stakeholder Management, Recruitment Planning and Budgeting, Leadership Hiring, Campus Hiring, Vendor Management, Team Management, and setting up Recruitment Policy and Processes. Currently working as a Senior Technical TA at Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, Kartik is passionate about transforming the way people and organizations operate. He is at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Kartik has previously worked as a Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant at Sophos and a Talent Acquisition Partner at Automation Anywhere. He has successfully recruited seasoned professionals across various levels of SDLC like Development, Testing, Support, Product Management, Technical Architect in JAVA, Full Stack, AWS, Cloud Wi-Fi, Firewall, VPN, Quality Engineer, Flash Developer, etc. He has also hired for different departments like Engineering, QA, Documentation, Product Management, Program Management, DevOps, CloudOps, Marketing, IT Support, Finance & Training, and different technologies like .Net, Java, Python, RPA, AI, ML, SDET, DevOps, CloudOps, Process Mining. Kartik has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)(PGDM) in Marketing/Human Resource from M.S. Ramaiah Instt. of Mgt and a Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA in Finance, General from KLE Society Rajajinagar. He has a diverse Tech Stack that includes AI, Mobile, QA, AWS, Java, SDET, Test, Product Manager, ML, Data Scientist, DevOps, Search, Senior Software Engineer, and Python. Kartik is interested in opportunities related to Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and HR Business Partner. He is a proactive and results-driven professional with 10.45 years of relevant experience.