Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, October 2025 — Tessell, a rapidly growing AI-native data infrastructure company, has announced the appointment of Poojitha Balachandran as its new Head of HR & People Operations. In this strategic role, she will lead people strategy, organizational development, and HR transformation as Tessell continues its global expansion and strengthens its position as a leader in multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS).
Poojitha brings over 14 years of rich HR and business transformation experience across technology, consulting, and HR tech sectors. She joins Tessell from Darwinbox, where she served for nearly six years, most recently as HR Transformation & Customer Success Leader (North Americas Region). In this role, she led large-scale HR digital transformation projects and established strategic partnerships and alliances with global consulting firms, driving scalable growth and customer success across multiple markets.
Before her tenure at Darwinbox, Poojitha was Associate Director – People Practice at Capillary Technologies, where she spearheaded HR strategy alignment, talent management initiatives, and digital HR systems implementation to enhance employee engagement and operational excellence. Prior to that, she worked as an Independent Consultant, designing talent interventions for organizations seeking strategic HR transformation.
Earlier in her career, Poojitha spent over two years with EY (Ernst & Young) as a Manager in the People Advisory Services, delivering HR solutions across sectors such as pharmaceuticals, retail, technology, and manufacturing. She also held HR roles at Infosys, where she contributed to building the HR Academy and designing shared services models, and at Dell Technologies, where she began her HR journey as an HR Generalist.
Poojitha holds a PGDPMIR in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI Jamshedpur, one of India’s premier management institutes. Her diverse experience across HR transformation, technology enablement, and leadership advisory positions her well to drive Tessell’s people agenda as it scales globally.
About Tessell
Tessell is redefining enterprise data infrastructure through its AI-native, multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform, designed for both transactional and analytical workloads. The company’s intelligent control plane unifies database management, automates provisioning, and optimizes performance using AI, enabling enterprises to modernize data systems with reduced complexity and cost.
Trusted by Fortune 500 and digital-native enterprises, Tessell’s platform supports leading open-source engines such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, and integrates natively across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI. Backed by WestBridge Capital and Lightspeed with a $60 million Series B funding, Tessell is building the future of cloud-native, conversational, and intelligent data ecosystems for global businesses.
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