About

Lazar Selvaras is a TA Agile Strategist, Career Enabler, and Recruiting Evangelist with over 16 years of relevant experience. His passion for recruitment started by accident, but he soon realized it was his calling. He thrives on interacting with people from various walks of life, understanding their wants and needs, and matching them with the right organization. Lazar has worked in a variety of domains, including Product hiring, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Storage, Cloud Computing, and more. He has a deep structural understanding of the TA Hiring process, which, along with his analytical mindset, has enabled him to create, lead, and implement innovative recruitment strategies for niche, complex, and hard-to-find technology skills. He is adept at filling a variety of senior-level, managerial, and executive positions and is highly skilled in competency-based leadership hiring. Lazar has excelled in building teams from the ground up for various organizations, such as EMC's IONIX team, Redhat’s Storage R&D, IBM's Software Labs, Reliance Jio’s Artificial Intelligence CoE, AJIO, and currently for Swiggy’s Instamart, Minis, Genie, and the New Initiatives. He is fascinated by unconventional recruitment methods to source passive candidates through various source channels and search methodologies. Lazar's tech stack includes AI, Search, Software Engineer, ML, Flutter, Senior Software Engineer, SDET, Big Data, and Microservices. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Marketing from Bel FGC. Lazar is currently the Senior Manager Talent Acquisition - Technology Hiring at Swiggy. He has also worked as the Manager Talent Acquisition at Swiggy, where he was responsible for strategic sourcing and talent acquisition, and as a Senior Manager Talent Acquisition at Reliance Jio, where he built a world-class team of AI researchers, data scientists, big data engineers, software engineers, product managers, subject matter experts, and visionaries. Lazar's focus on ensuring the best possible candidate and interview experience delights and motivates him. He is a recruiting evangelist who is always looking for new and innovative ways to find the right talent for the right organization.