I partner with technology and security leadership to scale high-skill teams — org design, capability frameworks, and retention strategies for high-growth environments. Six years across two Tata group companies.
Six years as an HR Business Partner across Tata Advanced Systems and Tata Boeing Aerospace — working with engineering, manufacturing, and cybersecurity businesses through periods of rapid scale.
My path into HR started in mechanical engineering, which is why I'm most at home partnering with technical leaders: I speak the language of the people I hire, develop, and retain.
I believe the best HR work is invisible — it shows up as teams that scale without breaking, leaders who make better people decisions, and critical talent that stays.
Now: building AI tools for HR problems & writing about itNot generic lifecycle HR. Focused business partnering for organizations where a single critical exit hurts the business.
Org design and workforce planning with business and security leadership. Performance calibration, annual operating plan inputs, and people strategy that leaders actually use.
Structured capability frameworks for technical roles, learning programs people actually attend, and peer-learning systems that scale knowledge without scaling cost.
Workflow automation with Power Automate, dashboards that drive decisions instead of decorating decks, and hands-on AI applied to real HR processes.
HR runs on repetitive questions, manual workflows, and underused data. I'm building small, practical AI tools that give that time back — and documenting what works.
First up: a Policy Q&A agent that answers employee policy questions instantly, built on sample HR policies with no-code tools.
Follow the build →On HR business partnering, technical talent, and applying AI to people problems. No corporate filler.
Placeholder — publish this post before applications go live in October.
AI × HRPlaceholder — write this as the Policy Q&A build log, part one.
CareerPlaceholder — your positioning manifesto. This one gets shared.
Open to conversations about HR business partnering, technical talent strategy, and AI in HR.
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