eTeki is on a mission to supply the world with interviews-as-a-service to scale and optimize technical hiring.
Where the World Goes to Qualify Talent
eTeki supplies hiring teams with interviews-as-a-service to scale and optimize technical hiring. Our expert talent pool has sellers in 100 countries and every role/tech stack. Through eTeki onboarding, sellers become certified interviewers. Buyers get an extensive candidate report and video in 24 hours or less. Full concierge services and self service marketplace options available. Save time, save money, and reduce bad hires with the most advanced technical interviewing platform.
Our Company Values
Integrity – We do what’s right, every time, no matter what.
Accountability – We speak up and meet deadlines to achieve shared positive outcomes.
Innovation – We dream big, take planned risks, and continuously learn and improve.
Collaboration – We respect and help each other since we grow more and better together.
Our Team
VP of Commercial Operations
Amanda Cole
Amanda Cole has more than 20 years experience developing innovative programs staffed by non-traditional workforce’s including freelancers, paid & unpaid interns, boards of directors, special event volunteers, and skill-based volunteer programs. The annual value of services rendered for the largest programs exceeded $18M. She is a communications professional with a superior facilitation and training skills, an engaging public speaking presence and a fanatic about synergistic business relationships.
Amrut Patil
Amrut Patil is a seasoned software development professional with over 12 years of experience in designing and building architecture around mobile applications. Amrut has worked across different technologies and different business verticals. He is passionate about learning new technologies.
Andrew Geisel
Andrew Geisel, a 20-year HCM professional, held leadership positions for industry leaders such as PeopleSoft, Vurv, Accenture, and Softscape. He has consulted many HCM companies in the areas of international expansion/strategy and channels including a lengthy time as head of international for iCIMS. Andrew completed international business studies at the University of Arizona, and has a BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio.
Founder
Bala Nemani
Bala Nemani is an IT solutions and staffing executive with a passion for candidate fit. His quest to rapidly hire the best technical talent for team members at Amzur Technologies and his client’s teams led to the creation of eTeki. Amzur Technologies recently made Inc. 5000 for the 5th consecutive year and is also being recognized for the 2nd consecutive year in the TechServe Excellence Award . The management team includes three directors
Cesar Jimenez
Cesar’s has expertise in leading an organization’s strategic client strategies, talent acquisition, training and marketing. Cesar is known as an entrepreneur who instills a culture of hustle and hard work that drives business, and permeates every aspect of his staffing services to clients. Prior to founding prosourceIT, Cesar served in various leadership, sales management and client relationship positions with a nationally recognized Technology Staffing organization in South Florida. Cesar brings 20 years worth of successful leadership, sales management and marketing experience to the board.<br/>
Diana Valenzuela Allen Bio
An accomplished technical business leader with 15+ years of experience in larger, complex organizations providing global strategic vision and direction. Delivering innovative solutions and solid leadership while synthesizing client needs with organizational goals to develop strategic plans. Strong ability to translate business needs into strategic roadmaps and align corporate systems, culture, and organizational structure to ensure consistency with the strategy.
Diana’s diverse background and experience combined with servant leadership have contributed to her success as a Latina woman in technology. She currently serves as an Information Services Senior Business Analysis Manager with Ultimate Software in Weston, Florida.
CEO & Co-Founder
Hans Bukow
Hans Bukow brings 25+ years experience in founding and leading innovative venture backed enterprise software and Web companies. Hans is recognized for co-creating $3B+ software centric technology categories: Manufacturing Execution Software (MES), Professional Project Work Marketplaces-Exchanges, and Vendor Management Systems (VMS). His significant successes include FASTech (#22 Inc500) now Applied Materials Global Services, WorldPlay which sold to AOL and became Games Channel with EA, and eWork Exchange’s cloned company eWork Group (EU-Nordics) that post IPO was valued at nearly $2B – see (EWRK:SS). Hans was last CEO and largest shareholder of Provade VMS which sold to SmartERP in 2018. Mr. Bukow has also advised and invested in many other innovative companies with global expansion ambitions. Hans speaks four languages and 3 citizenships and is thought leader on the work from anywhere global future-of-work – eworking.
Mark DeChant
Mark DeChant is a senior sales and operations leader with significant experience in the areas of human capital, marketing automation, employment advertising and contingent recruiting. Mark currently owns a sales staffing agency, and over the last 21 years, has held roles at Findly Talent, CareerBuilder, Bayard Advertising, Randstad Talent and eBay.
Director - Delivery & Operations (India)
Meher Goru
17 + years of significant, progressive experience and performance driven IT expert, with primary focus and key strategist/adviser on SaaS based Product Development, Product Management, IT Delivery and Operations, Presales, IT Bids and Proposals, Project Management, IT services consulting, business processes and re-engineering complex processes, software based solutions presales, digital marketing, business analysis and exemplary customer-support skills, along with commitment to excellence.
Philippe DeLosSantos
Philippe DeLosSantos, a veteran systems administrator and engineer, has 20 years experience managing infrastructure of Fortune 100 financial services firms at a magnitude of 460+ clusters, 3400+ physical hosts, and 76,000+ virtual machines. He is well versed in both Linux and Microsoft operating systems including Hyper-V, VMWare, and ESXi; and has created automation scripting to improve efficiency, reduce complexity, and enhance team member experiences. As an infrastructure architect and team lead, he is often called on to serve in cross-functional teams and thus has been directly engaged in other IT projects involving: data centers, data warehousing, cloud technologies, cyber security, quality assurance and validation. Philippe began his technical career in the U.S. Navy and was active duty during Operation Desert Storm.
Raja Chandra Rangineni
Raja Chandra Rangineni is currently working as Senior Architect – BigData/Cloud at Harte Hanks. A seasoned Enterprise Architect in technologies ranging from BigData/Hadoop, Cloud, DataScience, Analytics, Mobile, ERP, etc. and helping enterprise clients in Defence, Banking, Financial Technology, Digital Marketing verticals in building new products and service offerings that builds value proposition.
Reed Hyde
Reed Hyde brings a globe-spanning mix of business and technology expertise. While serving as product owner of the NTT / Dimension Data worldwide cloud, he and his team relaunched the company’s public cloud and grew the company’s portfolio with new private and hybrid cloud, reversing the company’s decline in cloud sales. As an advisor to founders and CTOs, he currently helps companies find success translating their business strategy and goals into elegant products and services that harness the rapidly changing worlds of cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT), DevOps and security. He has built engineering organizations in the United States and abroad, experiences that solidify his commitment to eTeki’s vision of revolutionizing the recruitment of talented technical professionals.
VP, Global Interview Operations
Sam Velu
Sam Velu has over 20+ years’ experience in staffing and solutions delivery of human capital for various domains, as well as technical recruiting training. Sam is passionate about people analytics and finds joy in helping companies optimize delivery leveraging metrics and social data resulting in high yielding recruitment results. Mr. Velu’s recruiting teams have been repeatedly recognized nationally for recruiting excellence. Sam’s prior contributions to the industry include serving on the TechServe Alliance Taskforce on IT & Engineering Talent Shortage and speaking at numerous industry conferences.
Sarah Davidson
Sarah Davidson has broad experience that ranges from founding successful businesses to leading marketing programs for both multinational corporations and startups. She helps startups and entrepreneurs craft innovative marketing strategies to amplify their visibility, accelerate growth and leap ahead of their competition. Sarah is also an advisor at PS27 Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Jacksonville, FL.
Steve Levy
Steve Levy brings an atypical combination of recruiting expertise and a technical experience to his performance-focused engagements with clients. A founding member of the recently launched <a href=”http://www.atapglobal.org/” target=”_blank”>Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals</a>, Steve is widely known as a talent acquisition influencer across many industries and has been recognized as one of the most influential technical recruiting thought leaders, one of the top people to follow in social media recruiting, and a Top 100 Twitter Accounts Job Seekers MUST Follow. Check out his blog <a href=”https://recruitinginferno.com/” target=”_blank”>Recruiting Inferno</a> or catch him as a respected speaker at sourcing and recruiting conferences.
Surendra Pepakayala
Surendra Pepakayla has over 18 years experience in implementing enterprise, web, cloud and DW/BI solutions, leading teams of 15-100 developers/software engineers, DBAs, architects, and project managers on project/product budgets ranging from $100K to $80M in revenue. He worked for startups, a medium sized boutique consulting firms and multinational companies in Insurance, Telecom, Retail, Manufacturing, and Education.
Tom Janz
Seasoned, published thought leader in talent sourcing, assessment, and development, Tom Janz co-authored a book on the selection interview titled “Behavior Description Interviewing: New, Accurate, Cost Effective.” He currently serves as Chief Scientist at PeopleAssessments and Chairman & Chief Science Officer for Plenarium, as well as HRExaminer.com’s Editorial Advisory Board. Tom is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Tom has served on the advisory board for the Institute for Human Resources (HR.com), as a founding member of Global Talent Advisors, and as Chair of the SHRM-ANSI standards work group.