About

Santosh Alex is a seasoned Technical Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in full-cycle sourcing and recruiting for engineering roles. Currently working as a Technical Recruiter at Pinterest, Santosh is responsible for recruiting Machine Learning Engineers, Scientists, and Researchers to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. Santosh has a proven track record of helping teams build new capabilities to hire for diversity and hiring at scale. He has experience building partnerships with HRBPs, Comp., Legal, Compliance, and Engineering to enhance processes and impact offer acceptance rates. He is also a firm believer in the adoption of best business practices. Prior to joining Pinterest, Santosh worked as a Staff Engineering Recruiter at Twitter, where he supported Machine Learning, Software Engineering, and Engineering Manager hiring for Discovery Org, RevSci, and Home Timelines team. He also supported hiring for Recommendations, Discovery, and Timeline ML and ML infrastructure teams at Twitter that work on building the best recommendation, discovery, and timeline systems leveraging graph algorithms, NLP, AI, and machine learning. Santosh's past experience also includes supporting Revenue Platforms, Consumer Product/Clients teams, Core Services, and Product Data Science teams at Twitter. He has filled roles in the past that include Engineering Managers, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, Software Engineer – Distributed Systems, Infrastructure, Mobile (iOS & Android), TPMs, and Product Managers. Santosh holds an MBA in Marketing from Christ University and a BS in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from RVCE. He also holds a PUC in Science, Maths from St. Josephs College, Bangalore, and an ICSE from Cathedral High School, Bangalore. Santosh has a diverse TechStack that includes ML, Senior Software Engineer, Data Scientist, infra, AI, NLP, Android, Research Scientist, iOS, Mobile, and Software Engineer. With 21.70 years of relevant experience, Santosh is a valuable asset to any organization he works with.