About

Sunita Gopal is an Executive Leadership Recruiter at Facebook, with over 19 years of experience in executive and technical recruiting, talent management, and startups. She is a passionate thinker with a deep interest in technology, research, and strategy that drives results. Sunita has a proven track record of hiring top-tier talent for companies like Facebook, Microsoft, and Ozlo Inc. At Facebook, Sunita is responsible for hiring top SWE Leadership for infrastructure and machine learning. She is a matchmaker of opportunities and talent, with specialties in leadership, applied machine learning, data scientists, applied scientists, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering. Her expertise in these areas has helped her identify leads for niche roles at all levels and build talent pipelines across business functions. Sunita’s past experience at Microsoft as a Strategic Recruiter for Pivotal Talent Strategy & Research has been instrumental in driving growth by hiring top-tier talent. She was part of the team that hired game changers and provided in-depth analysis and market intelligence for data and applied scientists at Microsoft. Her research on AI domains and expertise across all engineering teams, including AI & Research, Bing, Cortana, A&E, Holo Lens, Xbox, Office 365, and Azure Machine Learning, has helped her develop a scalable strategy to map out talent pools and identify talent trends. Sunita is also a cross-functional advisor and resident expert for SRE Recruiting at Microsoft. She partnered with HR, recruiters, and hiring managers to hire game changers for SRE in various engineering groups, including Azure Cloud and Enterprise, Windows Store, CRM Dynamics, Bing, and Outlook. She successfully hired senior leadership, partner/director level, principal level managers, and principal engineers. Sunita’s talent strategy, advising, and recruiting for early-stage startups funded by VC have been instrumental in building successful teams. She has specialized in hiring top talent in search relevance, intent, machine learning, NLP, linguists, product engineers, and early engineers. Sunita holds an MS in Computer Science from California State University, East Bay. Her tech stack includes SRE, research scientist, ML, AI, infra, Azure, information retrieval, Python, NLP, software engineer, computer vision, deep learning, test, Java, and search.