PD Wanjari

“PD was one of the best Hiring Managers I have worked with in my decade long career at companies like Amazon, Microsoft and GoDaddy. PD and I worked together at GoDaddy and PD always went out of his way to collaborate with the recruiting team, he was always helping create strategies to attract and retain the best possible talent with an eye on diversity. He was one of the few Hiring Managers who knew how to look beyond the resume, he not only read the resume and cover letters, but looked beyond them to evaluate potential, passion and professionalism of a candidate. Good Hiring managers don’t procrastinate and PD was always quick to establish a connection and begin the screening process which is how he made multiple strong hires on his team. PD used his insight into the company’s direction to hire talent for future needs too and the candidates that he hired several years ago have all grown professionally and some of them are now managers themselves. He used all kinds of management meetings, workforce analytics, market forecasting and labor force predictors to determine what’s next and what’s needed to make one stellar hire after another. PD received the best hiring manager of the year award for joining forces and collaboration while at GoDaddy. With his strong bias for action and ready smile PD was a pleasure to work with. I’d work with PD again in a heartbeat. ”

“PD was my manager here at GoDaddy; more than a manager he was a great coach, a leader and a mentor. PD always ensured that teams across the organization have the appropriate engineering lifecycle that provides for task estimation, design and code review, bug triage, code check-in, test targeting, and performance standards to meet customer and business goals. PD has been great at attracting, developing and retaining talent in his team. He always provides immediate feedback with related action strategy. He built a diverse team with capabilities needed to achieve current and future business objectives. PD always delivered results through team work. PD also had a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the end-to-end product quality. PD also took several cross team initiatives like performance testing, fault injection testing, strategy around testing in production and external services like SauceLabs which helped several organizations within GoDaddy. I strongly recommend PD and any organization would be lucky to have him as a leader.”