About

Suhasini Gali is a Strategic Talent Acquisition Specialist currently working at Microsoft IDC. She has an impressive 14.88 years of relevant experience in the field. Her current role is as a Global Talent Researcher/Sourcer at Palo Alto Networks, where she leads a team of 15 talent acquisition professionals spread across India, with Bangalore at the center. Her mission is to identify top-tier diverse talent for Palo Alto Networks in over 65 countries around the globe. Suhasini's expertise lies in sourcing diversity from the market pool of engineering tech and non-tech roles and ensuring that every diverse lead/candidate (applicants, referrals, sourced) is curated for just-in-time globally. She maintains close partnerships with stakeholders to ensure the talent provided meets/exceeds the bar at Palo Alto Networks. She identifies creative sourcing techniques like Github, Stackoverflow, Meet-ups, Prophet, recruit’em, and identifies and taps into talent from diversity events, sororities, LinkedIn groups, diversity Boolean search strings, colleges, etc. She also talent maps diverse qualified candidates globally and provides organization analysis of competitors. Suhasini has previously worked at Uber and Microsoft, where she managed recruiting for IDC-R&D engineering teams in Hyderabad and Bangalore. She hired top-notch technical talent to work on some of the complex/challenging projects and sourced talent across different engineering product/services groups. She has a good understanding of the recruitment lifecycle from identifying candidates, screening till the onboarding stage. She identified the right talent for open roles across Core, Pivotal and Niche requirements. She also identified/mapped a list of good technology startups that could be targeted for IDC requirements and followed a structured approach to identify and outreach candidates from startups. Suhasini has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Human Resources Development from Osmania University and a B. Tech in EEE from Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, JNTU. Her tech stack includes Research Scientist, SQL, Senior Software Engineer, Search, Data Engineering, Mobile, Frontend, Backend, Software Engineer, and Azure. Suhasini is actively looking out for new opportunities and is currently working at Microsoft IDC. She is a strategic talent acquisition specialist with a proven track record of identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent.