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Brijendra Rao

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Talent Acquisition Lead at Atlassian
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Brijendra Rao is a Talent Acquisition Lead at Atlassian with 12 years of experience in technology hiring, specializing in scaling R&D teams in India and the APAC region. He is a graduate of Visvesvaraya Technological University. Colleagues frequently describe him as professional, detail-oriented, and genuinely caring in his approach.

He is a passionate advocate for Diversity & Inclusion and has deep expertise in sourcing talent from non-traditional channels and developer communities like GitHub, Stackoverflow, and Kaggle. Brijendra focuses on continuous improvement, holding certifications in inclusive branding and workplace productivity to better enable high-performing teams.

Interesting fact: His LinkedIn profile was ranked among the top 1% most viewed in 2012.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Talent Acquisition Lead
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Scaling Tech Teams
He has a proven track record of building R&D centers from the ground up, scaling one center from 9 to over 190 employees.
Talent Leadership
He has four years of experience leading recruiting pods for the APAC and India regions, where he coached team members on stakeholder management.
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Career

Work history

12-2024
Talent Acquisition Lead
Atlassian
9-2021 - 12-2023
Talent Acquisition Lead
Elastic
6-2017 - 9-2021
Lead Recruiter - India and APJ
Cloudera (Merged with Hortonworks)
11-2015 - 5-2017
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Intuit
12-2014 - 11-2015
Channels Specialist - Talent Acquisition
Google
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Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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