About

Pradeep Kumar Kannekanti is a Talent Magnet at Google (APAC) with a proven track record of expertise in technology hiring. He has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Amazon and Microsoft, where he has honed his skills in spotting world-class talent to bring more value to his organization and help global partners and customers achieve more in their day-to-day activities. Pradeep is a proficient technical recruiter with expertise in Google X-ray search, GitHub, Stack overflow, follower wonk, LinkedIn, hiretual, Angelist, Behance, dribble, instahyre, Google extensions, and all other social media hiring, along with traditional sourcing methods such as Naukri, Monster, Indeed, and IIM jobs. He is also an expert in diversity hiring. Currently, Pradeep is working as a Technical Recruiter for Amazon Development Center India (ADCI), where he is responsible for technology hiring. He is hiring for SDE II positions across PAN India and has sound knowledge of data structures and algorithms. Pradeep is also able to understand scenarios and provide optimized solutions, converting them into working code using any OOP language. He has good work experience in system designing (LLD and HLD) and expertise in OOAD, highly scalable, and distributed systems. In the past, Pradeep has worked as a Talent Acquisition Specialist for Microsoft, where he was involved in the end-to-end recruitment process and building a high-quality talent pipeline as per business needs. He closely worked with sourcing teams and business to ensure positions were closed within TAT and was experienced in product and service-based hiring for active and passive sourcing through different sourcing channels. Pradeep has a post-graduation diploma in management from ICBM - School of Business Excellence and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Princeton College of Engineering & Technology. He also has an intermediate degree from Narayana Junior College and completed his secondary school education from Pragathi High School. Pradeep has a relevant experience of 7.69 years and has a tech stack that includes software engineering, search, AI, Java, data science, research science, Hadoop, DevOps, and Azure. His philosophy is to go, get, chase, win, lead, and guide, and he is always on the lookout for new challenges to help him grow and develop.