Raj Kubadia
Raj Kubadia Lead Technical Recruiter ✓

Ahmedabad, India — U.S. engineering & federal hiring

The roles nobody
else can fill.

Full-cycle technical recruiting across mechanical, electrical, systems, manufacturing and software engineering — plus cleared federal and defense programs.

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  • 6+ yrs full-cycle
  • 30%+ over hiring goals
  • 25% faster time-to-fill
  • 6,200+ following
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Where I hire

Deep, evergreen pipelines built for niche skill sets — not a résumé pass-through. Sourcing runs on Boolean and X-ray search, LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, niche platforms and AI-driven talent mapping.

Engineering

  • Mechanical
  • Electrical
  • Systems
  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Product development
  • CAD / CAM
  • Automation
  • Lean manufacturing

Hardware & silicon

  • RF
  • FPGA / digital design
  • VLSI
  • Semiconductor
  • Embedded systems
  • Hardware design
  • Satellite communications
  • High-speed digital & analog

IT & cloud

  • DevOps
  • Cloud
  • Cybersecurity
  • Network engineering
  • IT infrastructure

Levels & scope

  • Early career → senior leadership
  • Full-cycle ownership
  • Technical screening
  • Offer strategy
  • Compensation negotiation
  • Selective finance hiring
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Cleared, federal
& defense

Sourcing cleared professionals for DoD-aligned programs, with compliance held to the standard the contract is written to — not discovered at offer stage.

Clearance levels Secret · TS/SCI · security-eligible
Compliance ITAR · CMMC · FAR / DFARS
Programs supported Army · Navy · Air Force · federal civilian agencies
Functions Systems engineering · aerospace · cybersecurity · program management
Client type Defense & government contractors, commercial primes
03

The record

Numbers as reported across six years of full-cycle delivery at KTRIAN, NewEra Logic and IMS People Possible.

Performance against hiring goals
30%+ over target
Time-to-fill reduction
25–35% faster
Offer acceptance rate lift
20%+ increase
Recruiting team led, hands-on
10+ recruiters
Full-cycle recruiting experience
6+ years
Professional network on LinkedIn
6,200+ followers
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Experience

Six years across agency, RPO and in-house delivery — engineering-first throughout.

  1. Senior Technical Recruiter

    NewEra Logic

    Jun 2021 — Present · Remote, United States · Full-time

    Engineering and federal delivery for U.S. clients, run remotely end to end.

  2. Lead Technical Recruiter

    KTRIAN

    Jan 2022 — Present · Ahmedabad, India · On-site

    • Built and led a team of 10+ recruiters while staying hands-on across engineering, IT and finance hiring.
    • Designed and scaled pipelines for hard-to-fill engineering roles in manufacturing, industrial and product-driven environments.
    • Spearheaded federal and defense recruitment — cleared professionals for DoD-aligned programs under ITAR, CMMC and FAR/DFARS.
    • Optimised operations across Bullhorn, E-Recruit and JobDiva; sourcing across Monster, Dice, CareerBuilder, Indeed and ZipRecruiter.
    • Cut time-to-fill 25–35% and lifted offer acceptance 20%+ on competitive technical roles.

    Previously Senior Technical Recruiter at KTRIAN, from Nov 2020 — full-cycle ownership across mechanical, electrical, systems, manufacturing, software, RF, FPGA and VLSI engineering, plus DevOps, cloud, cybersecurity and network roles.

  3. Recruiter

    IMS People Possible

    Jul 2019 — Jun 2020 · Ahmedabad, India · Full-time

    Engineering-led hiring with supporting coverage across IT, sales, finance, retail and construction. Advanced X-ray and Boolean sourcing; ATS work in RecruitX, Bullhorn, E-Recruit and JobDiva; pipeline reporting and recruiting analytics.

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Toolkit

The stack behind the pipelines.

Applicant tracking

Bullhorn · JobDiva · E-Recruit · RecruitX

Sourcing channels

LinkedIn Recruiter · Boolean & X-ray search · Dice · Monster · CareerBuilder · Indeed · ZipRecruiter · referrals · niche platforms

Intelligence

AI-driven talent mapping · market & competitor analytics · pipeline reporting · workforce planning

Practice

Full life-cycle recruiting · RPO · talent management · technical screening · US hiring · IT and non-IT

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Credentials

MBA, Human Resources Management & Services

SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

Jun 2021 — Jan 2024

Master of Business Administration — Human Resource Management

NMIMS CDOE — certification

Issued Jan 2024

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)

S.M. Patel Institute of Commerce, India

2015 — 2018

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