About

Manu Barki is a highly skilled recruiter with over 9 years of experience in technology hiring. With expertise in Cloud, Networking, Security, Storage, and e-commerce domains, he has worked with reputed organizations such as Careernet Technologies, Akamai Technologies, and currently with Microsoft India. During his tenure at Careernet Technologies, Manu worked with the R&D team to hire Networking and Storage clients like Dell R&D, Force10 networks, Sandisk (Western Digital), NetApp, EMC, Vmware, Nutanix, Qubole, and e-commerce clients like Flipkart and Amazon. He also helped startups like Vera Security and Datagres in building strong core teams for their India offices. At Akamai Technologies, a global content delivery network, cybersecurity, and cloud service company, Manu was responsible for core engineering hiring. His key responsibilities included partnering with the hiring managers, market mapping, headhunting, sourcing through various channels, offer negotiation, and post-offer follow-up. Currently, as a Recruiter at Microsoft India, Manu is responsible for hiring UX Designers and Product Managers across all levels for Microsoft IDC (Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Noida). He uses both traditional and new ways of finding and engaging candidates, including LinkedIn, job boards, developer forums (Github, Stackoverflow), Meetup, Kaggle, and other sources. Manu's expertise lies in diversity sourcing, market mapping, and advanced sourcing techniques such as X-Ray/Google advance search, face search, web scraping, and chrome extensions. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Marketing and Human Resources from Karnatak University and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management from the same university. With a relevant experience of 9.87 years, Manu Barki is a passionate recruiter who strives to build strong core teams for organizations by identifying and engaging top talent.