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Akilan Paramasivam

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Senior Technical Recruiter at Pure Storage
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Akilan Paramasivam is a senior technical recruiter at Pure Storage, focusing on building engineering teams for their Portworx cloud-native business unit. With an MBA from SDM IMD, he has extensive experience at VMware, Dell, and Fujitsu. Colleagues describe him as proactive, structured, and thorough.

Akilan shows a strong interest in team morale and employee recognition, publicly endorsing tools for team appreciation. He also actively supports diversity, promoting events for women in technology. He follows emerging AI trends and their impact on the data management industry.

Unique fact: He was instrumental in building the entire VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid team from the ground up in India.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Senior Technical Recruiter
Job Level
Junior
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Cloud-Native Talent
He specializes in recruiting for cloud-native technologies, particularly Kubernetes and container platforms for Pure Storage's Portworx and previously VMware's Tanzu team.
Women in Tech
He actively promotes and shares events like "Innovate Her, " which are designed to support and empower women within the technology industry.
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Career

Work history

12-2021
Senior Technical Recruiter
Pure Storage
3-2018 - 12-2021
Talent Acquisition
VMware
8-2016 - 2-2018
Principal Recruiter
Fujitsu India Private Ltd.
6-2015 - 7-2016
Talent Acquisition
Dell
3-2014 - 5-2015
Recruitment Professional, Talent Acquisition
Intel Security
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Education
2012 - 2014
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
SDM IMD
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