Ravi Vijay
Talent Partner at Merge Labs
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRavi Vijay is a Talent Partner based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a rare blend of software engineering background and deep recruiting expertise across Web3/crypto, gaming/metaverse, social media, healthcare, and finance. Over a 15+ year recruiting career he’s built and led high-performing teams at Facebook, Roblox, Protocol Labs and OP Labs, consistently cutting time-to-hire and boosting diversity through data-driven programs like DEI Jams and Sourcing Labs. He designs practical frameworks—such as the DEI Golden Circle, 3P Candidate Engagement, and APA Hiring Manager Sync—that have been adopted across teams to standardize hiring and improve hiring manager satisfaction. Comfortable with AI-assisted sourcing and rigorous A/B testing for messaging, he leverages modern tooling (ChatGPT/Gemini, web scraping, X-ray techniques) to scale intelligence-driven hiring. Notably, he created the PLN Dedicated Recruiting model to support startups and grew Protocol Labs’ job board into a leading Web3 talent marketplace. Pragmatic, metrics-oriented, and publicly vocal on inclusive hiring, Ravi combines technical fluency with hands-on recruiting operations to hire hard-to-find technical talent.
1 year of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MCA, Computer Science, MCA, Computer Science at Alliance Business AcademyProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
ravivj-db/unitycatalog
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Open, Multi-modal Catalog for Data & AI
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 months
unitycatalog/unitycatalog
Jun 2024 - Oct 2024
Open, Multi-modal Catalog for Data & AI
Contributions:123 reviews, 26 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
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