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👋 Hi, I’m Dheeraj — Founder | Builder | Hiring Optimist
🚀 What I’m Building
I’m creating a remote hiring platform for IT startups to find developers who truly align with their mission — not just their tech stack.

Think:
✅ Culture-fit > Resume
✅ Shared vision > Transaction
✅ Purpose-driven matches > Just skills

🔍 Why This Matters
🎓 It started in 2013...
At my first campus interview, I saw hundreds of students chasing jobs they didn’t understand — driven by fear, not clarity.
That’s when I asked:

“How can you choose a job if you don’t even know what it’s about?”

Later that year, I lost my father in a car accident. I was 19.
That grief made me fearless. I promised myself to build something that helped others.

💼 17 Jobs Later...
I worked at 17 companies — searching for a team I aligned with.
I never found it. So in 2019, I started my own agency with my wife.
We even built a mud-walled, nature-filled office.

Clients came — Canva, SmartData, IIT Roorkee — but I saw the same old hiring problems:

Resume obsession

No curiosity

Misaligned teams

💡 The Turning Point
In 2023, I tried to solve it. Built an internal team. It failed.
Why? They weren’t aligned with the mission.

“You can’t build culture without the right people.”

I started studying hiring deeply — from books to behavioral psychology — and built a system focused on:
✅ Curiosity
✅ Culture-fit
✅ Honest work

It worked.

🛠️ Now, I'm building…
A remote staffing platform where:

Startups find developers aligned in purpose & values

Developers find work that fits their mindset

Both sides are matched based on real compatibility, not just keywords

✨ Features: culture-fit filters, real feedback, purpose-based profiles, and a trust-driven reputation score.

🙏 What I Need
I’m in the ideation stage, and learning from founders like you.
If you’ve ever struggled to build a team that cares — let’s connect.

Thanks for reading 🙏
Let’s build something better than job portals — something with heart.

Dheeraj Khandare

🔥 The HR Meetup That Changed How I Think About Hiring

Last week, I attended an HR meetup in Indore with 50–60 HRs — and the insights shared by the panelists were powerful.

Special thanks to Siddharth Sharma for inviting me.

A big thank you to
 👉 Swapnil Jain
 👉 Harmeet Chhabrra,
 👉 Suyesh Sabnani,
 👉 Shweta Joshi, and
 👉 Sandeep Pandey

 for sharing honest, eye-opening truths about today’s talent mindset, culture, curiosity, uniqueness, and value creation.

I’ve compiled all the key lessons, mindset shifts, and the product ideas this meetup sparked for Coderfarm in my latest newsletter.

 And as a small gesture…
 👉 All HRs & company owners who attended the meetup will get their first hire on Coderfarm completely free.

If you’re in HR, hiring, or managing teams — this edition is worth reading.

📩 Read the full newsletter:
 https://lnkd.in/duH6gYCC


#HRMeetup #HiringInsights #Recruitment #CultureFit #FutureOfWork #HRCommunity #TalentAcquisition #IndoreEvents #StartupLife

Talks about #nodejs, #reactjs, #leadership, #remotedevelopers, and #extremeprogramming

I help you hire developers who match your tech stack, values & working style — so they perform better, stay longer & feel like part of the team from day one.

Day 1 of our 90-Day Challenge is in the books. We're building a new platform to connect clients, agencies, and freelancers, and we're documenting the entire process.

Today's focus: The landing page (now 90% complete in We-web flow) and defining the UI for our three distinct user portals.

My biggest takeaway from Day 1: Talk to your users immediately.

After just a few interviews, I realized our main value proposition was off. We're pivoting the headline from "Find developers who truly fit your culture" to "Find developers who are truly interested in what you are doing". It’s a small change in words but a massive shift in perspective.

Tomorrow's goal: Making the sign-up and login functional.

I'm sharing the full (and unfiltered) update in the video. What do you think of the new headline?

#BuildInPublic #StartupJourney #90DayChallenge #Wewebbflow #SaaS #UserFeedback #Founder

Sharing what I learned from the HR community this week and how it’s inspiring new features on our hiring platform.

Elevate Packaging, Inc.

ELEVATE PACKAGING is a Leader in Circular Compostable Packaging systems, enabling companies of every size seeking Zero-Waste, plastic-free solutions to meet their sustainability goals and reduce their carbon footprint.

We make sustainability easy and simple.

Visit ElevatePackaging.com to find the widest range of compostable products (bags, pouches, labels, shipping supplies, food service supplies) shipped within 24 hours, with No Minimums!
Get fully custom and full color printed compostable solutions with speedy expert service.

Elevate enables your sustainability success with a frictionless on-ramp to sustainability leadership.
For 25 years, we're the #1 trusted expert and leading source for circular compostable packaging solutions for natural, organic, and sustainable brands.

President and Founder

US Composting Council

Collaborating with stakeholders to accelerate composting infrastructure.  Believing that compost manufacturing and compost utilization are central to creating healthy soils, clean air and water, a stable climate, and a sustainable society.

Founding Member, Corporate Compost Leadership Council 

UL Solutions

SaaS sustainability data management solutions for global businesses. Architected efficient and effective process workflows to manage and analyze sustainable business operations in centralized cloud database. UL purchased CR360 in 2016.

Senior Business Development Manager

Artelys

Fully responsible for all business functions, business development and strategy.  Developed growth within domestic and international markets and built new markets for KNITRO software, a world-class non-linear mathematical optimization algorithm for advanced optimization software programs. Ziena was purchased by Artelys.

Director

University of Illinois Chicago

Lectured on International Strategic Planning.  This program was focused toward professional in global organizations and was a joint collaboration with Bradley University.

Adjunct Instructor

Precision Software

Led teams at mid-sized client sites to customize, integrate and implement Global Trade Management Software within Client's ERP supply chain and logistics system.  Improved existing international supply chain processes to create seamless and efficient exports and imports for our global business clients.

Senior Project Manager

Loyola University Chicago

Lecturer on JAVA Programming to undergraduate students.

W.W. Grainger, Inc.

► International strategic planning (China and Latin American markets)
► Corporate strategy development with key executives of the company's business units
► Competitive research and analysis for C-level decision making
► Developed innovative technologies applications using emerging technologies  (mobile e-commerce network design, RFID, network architecture, genetic algorithms, neural networks).
► Managed concurrent projects and initiatives
► Business process design, documentation, and implementation
► Technology Innovation and Conceptual Modeling

Strategy and Business Development Manager

► Managed an application development team to support company's systems for this $50M business
► Re-organized technology group and a $1M+ technology budget to strategically retool business for next generation technology capabilities.
► Led team to design, implement and train IT department on ISO9000 quality processes to improve efficiencies.

Technology Manager, PCA

Northern Trust Bank

► Software Applications Programmer using COBOL, PL/1, JCL, IMS, VSAM, FOCUS Relational Database for CRM application.

Programmer

🌎 On a Mission to Eliminate 1 BILLION Pounds of Plastic Annually! 👉 Let’s connect today!

I'm dedicated to eliminating BILLIONS of pounds of plastic by making circular compostable packaging a reality for every brand.  We've made circular compostable packaging solutions easily accessible, and help brands get them effectively composted, powering sustainability impact to drive brand value and financial success.

With 25 years at the helm of Elevate Packaging, I have pioneered and led the charge in providing world leading, reliable, high-quality compostable packaging solutions for the leading sustainable brands.

Our mission is to make it easy for your business to seamlessly move beyond traditional plastics to circular compostable packaging, making sustainability an easy choice and a big win for your business.

Leveraging my deep expertise in strategy, technology, and business innovation, I've identified and developed market leading solutions to reduce packaging waste, introducing industry-first compostable products and enabling circular packaging systems.

As a speaker, investor, and a key contributor to sustainability councils, I strive to lead by example in both my professional and personal life and promoting a healthier planet for future generations.

Let's make a difference together!

Rich Cohen

This statement rings so true:
➡️“An economy built on plastic is an economy built on financial risk.”

The debate isn’t whether we CAN recycle disposable #plastics.
Decades of data show we have failed to date and still unable to recycle all plastics reliably at scale without incurring massive downstream costs.

Plastic is a liability.⚠️

Plastic drives expenses at every stage: waste management, contamination, EPR fees, regulatory risk, and long-term environmental harm. 
#Microplastics as a serious human health issue is likely the next significant costly liability for plastics.

👍🏽Compostable, circular materials turn waste into value.
🚫Plastic turns waste into cost.

The choice isn’t plastic vs. compostable.
It’s liability vs. circular value.

#businessstrategy #plasticpollution

Europe is fighting over cheap plastic imports when the real crisis sits at the heart of the material itself.

INEOS has warned that “time is running out” for Europe’s chemical industry. Brussels is drowning in anti-dumping cases. Politicians are scrambling to protect an industry crushed by high energy costs, collapsing demand and a wave of cheaper plastics from abroad.

Noise that masks a deep systemic failure. An economy that depends on plastic is an economy built on financial risk. 

Investors know this already. In 2025, the chemicals sector has become one of the most downgraded globally, with credit agencies flagging weak demand, overcapacity and collapsing margins. Ineos is just one example: its debt has swollen to nearly €12 billion, and ratings agencies have pushed it deeper into junk territory as bond values fall.

And the litigation risk hovering over the entire plastics value chain is only accelerating. Independent analysts project more than 20 billion dollars in plastic-related liabilities this decade, with no sign of the curve slowing.
 
So while we point fingers at “cheap imports”, the real story is a material whose economics no longer stack up. 
Plastic carries rising financial risk, rising legal exposure and rising harm to the people who bear its pollution. Almost 80 percent of the global population now live in areas where plastic waste has exceeded their waste management capacity.

We keep treating this as a trade problem. It feels more like a reality check. 

Maybe this is the moment to shift the conversation. Europe can protect its future by cutting its dependence on a material that drags down our health and our economy. Or we can keep giving in to Big Plastic’s propaganda that puts every one of our futures at risk.

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