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Brijendra Rao

Evaluator · DISC type Csd
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
Personality Overview

How Brijendra shows up

Fast But Analytical
Thorough Evaluator
Hard To Convince

They have a unique set of diverse traits where they are decisive and methodical but can sometimes be extra cautious and skeptical They are not very likely to become strong advocates of your product or service They focus on the results, but can still be quite procedural and analytical about how to get there

Priorities

Topics Brijendra cares about

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
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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