First U.S. recruiter expanding DBeaver's GTM functions here. I'm currently hiring for sales, support, sales engineering, marketing, product, and community management. DBeaver is a universal database management tool that makes possible for all kinds of people and organizations to leverage all kinds of data. We have a full-featured data solution that easily adapts to users' needs, from open-source tools to all-in-one enterprise software. Our vision is to seamlessly integrate data into the routines and decision-making processes of every professional

Recruited distributed systems engineers at all levels (SDE2-Senior Staff), including other engineering positions (IT, Product, etc.). Specialized in Go, Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Infrastructure, Reliability, Resiliency, Scale. Temporal is an open source microservice orchestration platform for writing durable workflows as code. All of our engineers have a knowledge of distributed systems and the general concepts of concurrency, such as Locks, Semaphores, Monitors, Race Conditions, Deadlocks, Compare and Set/Swap, Re-entrancy, Blocking Queues, Memory Read/Write barrier semantics, CPU bound vs I/O bound

Tigera is the open source company behind Project Calico. Tigera provides security and observability products for containers, Kubernetes, and the cloud. I joined Tigera to rebuild and manage the recruiting team, driving scalable growth across the U.S., Canada, England, and Cork, Ireland. I reported directly to the CFO.I was also a Full Lifescycle Recruiter (sourcing through offer) primarily in Vancouver, B.C., and diverse U.S. locations, as well as in Ireland as needed. I hired ~25+ full-time employees, primarily in backend engineering, sales, technical pre-sales engineers and post-sales, technical marketing, product management, G&A, and business development

Transparent Financial Systems was a FinTech company building a new B2B payments system to ease the pain and complications associated with today’s legacy financial infrastructure. Transparent closed in 2023I joined Transparent as the second hire for the People team to be a dedicated recruiter for the company after its Series A in December 2019. However, due to the ultimate Covid hiring freeze from April 2020 through my departure, I assumed additional HR responsibilities and collaborated across teams to advance Transparent's MVP objectives.

NGINX was acquired by F5 Networks in May 2019. NGINX Software, Inc. is the company behind the popular open source web server project.Roles:May 2019-December 2019: Senior Technical Recruiter, NGINX BU @ F5 NetworksFebruary 2018-May 2019: Lead Recruiter (NGINX was acquired by F5 Networks in May 2019)March 2017-February 2018: Technical Recruiter -As NGINX’s first internal recruiter, I spearheaded NGINX's transition from an external recruiting model to an in-house program. I reported to the Director of HR.-Established a robust talent pipeline and managed the full lifecycle recruiting process for roles across NGINX's global offices, contributing to the company's expansion from ~100 employees and 2 offices to ~250 employees and 5 global offices at the time of acquisition-Led the growth and development of a 3-4 person global recruiting team-Led the recruiting for NGINX’s new international offices in Cork, Ireland (until a local recruiter was hired); Sydney, Australia; Singapore; and Tokyo, Japan-Recognized with the APAC Sales Support award at the 2019 SKO for exemplary contributions to hiring in the APAC region-Primarily recruiting for engineering (backend and frontend), pre-sales engineers/solutions architects, technical marketing, product management, IT, support engineers, accounting, G&A-Additional roles (depending on year or need): account executives, sales development representatives, various marketing disciplines, operations, etc. -Achieved a substantial reduction in agency hires from 63% to 17% over a 2-year period-Partnered closely with hiring managers and VPs to develop effective recruiting and interview strategies-Transitioned NGINX’s recruiting processes and systems to F5, providing training to NGINX hiring managers and interviewers on F5 processes and systems, and training F5 recruiters on NGINX products-Additional responsibilities included implementing Greenhouse as the ATS, redesigning NGINX's career website.

Open source and big data are not tech buzz words for me, but my world:-Guest Speaker: The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe, Lindsey Thorne's "Technical Resume Writing Workshop,” Virtual, October 2020 -Guest Speaker: The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America, Lindsey Thorne's “Technical Resume Writing Workshop,” Virtual, August 2020-Co-Organizer: Seattle Spark Meetup (2014-2018) and Seattle Mesos User Group (2014-2015)-Workshop: Accepted into and completed Seattle Django Girls “Intro to Django” Workshop, November 2016-Speaker: SFDC Women in Tech User Group, San Francisco, June 2016, “Career Planning” Panel-Speaker: WTIA Panel, Seattle, May 2016, “How to Attract Top Talent: Big Mistakes Startups Make in Recruiting”-Speaker: Unstructured Data Science Popup, Seattle, October 2015, “Understanding When You Are Looking For a Data Scientist vs. Data Engineer”Select Publications: -NGINX.com/blog, July 2019, “#Culture@NGINX”-Opensource.com, November 2016, “Top 3 Questions Job Seekers Ask in Open Source”-Dataconomy.com, June 2016, “What Recruiters and Hiring Managers are Looking for in a Data Scientist”-HIT Leaders and News, May 2016, “Does Your Hospital System Need a Data Scientist?”-Greythorn.com, July 2014, “Spark: From a Recruiter’s Perspective”

The Big Data and Open Source Team at Greythorn specialized in placing full-time employees with software startups and companies in Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, and NYC. Greythorn North America was acquired by Vaco in October 2016.Roles: Recruiting Manager, "Big Data" and Open Source Team, April 2015-PresentTechnical Recruiter, "Big Data" and Open Source Team, April 2014-Present-Achieved top performance as a full lifecycle recruiter, adept at engaging both passive and active candidates-Successfully filled mid- to VP-level technical positions, encompassing roles such as data scientists, software engineers, DevOps engineers, QA/SDET engineers/architects, sales, pre-sales, as well as senior- to VP-level positions in marketing and sales-Supervised a team of 4-6 recruiters, guiding priorities, formulating recruiting strategies, monitoring pipeline activity, resolving issues, conducting training sessions, and managing performance-Actively participated in client interactions, handling tasks from conducting position qualification meetings and drafting job descriptions to coordinating interviews and negotiating offers-Played a key role in maintaining Greythorn’s Retained Services Program, involving the creation, analysis, and optimization of internal recruiting programs at select clients like NGINX and Stormpath. This included collaboration with hiring managers and internal candidates, as well as management of external recruiting agencies and candidates-Regularly engaged with the local open source community by attending meetups and industry conferences

MAQ Consulting specializes in contract positions and project roles for Microsoft.-Full lifecycle recruiter responsible for candidates from sourcing to placement and onboarding-Responsible for business development with Microsoft hiring managers

Community Data & News Services, a division of Journatic LLC, provides hyper-local news in a variety of markets. Primarily, I helped develop business-sponsored content. I interacted with clients, account managers and writers to develop hyper-local, SEO-optimized press releases, articles and blog posts for major newspapers and companies. Main Responsibilities:-Managed new projects-Edited and developed unique content (business news releases, articles and blog posts) to conform with a variety of styles, including PRWeb and AP styles-Optimized content with SEO keywords and geographic locations-Coordinated with clients across the country to ensure that the content promoted their company according to their wishes-Interacted with account managers concerning account information, benefits and issuesSecondary Responsibilities:-Developed, wrote and edited content by specific request and need-Aided managing editor in writer management and feedback

Tower Publications published three community magazines: Senior Times Magazine, distributed throughout Alachua and Marion counties; Our Town Magazine, focusing on the areas of Alachua, High Springs, Jonesville and Newberry; and Our Town Magazine, focusing on Gainesville.Accomplishments: -Consistently called upon and trusted to handle last-minute feature stories, despite 6-hour time difference. -Increasing responsibility: from freelance writer to part-time editor to creating community calendar for each issue, etc. Responsibilities:-Created complete feature story packages with research, interviews, photos, cutlines, sidebars and headlines/subheads-Responsibilities grew to encompass copyediting stories for grammar, structure, consistency, accuracy, and length; compiling the calendars for all three magazines; and researching/writing for the tapas section of Senior Times Magazine

Right after college, I moved to the border of the St. Genis-Pouilly, France; and Geneva, Switzerland. I hung out with a ridiculous number of physicists, learned to appreciate wine and the French baguette, stumbled my way through the French language, and worked on a Master's degree. Quite simply, spending so much time out of the U.S. at such a young age is the reason I'm the world-traveled, open-minded, independent woman that I am now. If you speak to me in French, I might panic or I might speak French back...depends on my mood. Oh, and I also brought home my two amazing guinea pigs (aka the munchkins) who have now traveled from Switzerland to Florida to Georgia to Chicago to Seattle. And yes, flying guinea pigs costs the same as flying a human being.