Ryan Cavalier Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Founded on 10 years of 0 to 1 Talent Acquisition experience in high-growth companies like Uber, Tesla, Cloudkitchens, Zipline and Facebook.EQ Engine brings data-driven, human-centric engagement and relationship building strategies that deliver inspired, high-quality candidates to your interview process in record time. Recent Hires•hired Staff Mobile Tech Lead into seed stage startup in the AV/perception space in 1 month•hired Staff Mechanical Engineer into Series A… Show more Founded on 10 years of 0 to 1 Talent Acquisition experience in high-growth companies like Uber, Tesla, Cloudkitchens, Zipline and Facebook.EQ Engine brings data-driven, human-centric engagement and relationship building strategies that deliver inspired, high-quality candidates to your interview process in record time. Recent Hires•hired Staff Mobile Tech Lead into seed stage startup in the AV/perception space in 1 month•hired Staff Mechanical Engineer into Series A Robotics startup with incredibly high bar for talent•hired Staff Product Manager into seed-stage AI-powered B2B SaaS startup in the biotech space in 31 days•hired Technical Lead - Backend Engineering into top-VC backed AI-powered platform startup •hired Senior Backend Engineer into top-VC backed AI-powered platform startup •hired Senior Backend Engineer into top-VC backed AI-powered platform startup •hired Staff ML Tech Lead into top-VC backed AI-powered platform startup •hired Senior ML Engineer/Senior Data Scientist into Seed stage B2B data/ML startup •hired ML Lead into top-VC-backed Seed stage search infrastructure startup •hired Mechanical Engineer into Seed stage Clean Energy startup in 14 days •hired Backend Engineer into Seed stage B2B data/ML startup •hired Staff Systems Engineer into Seed stage Clean Energy startup •hired two female Software Engineers in 75 days into a Series B startup focused on cutting carbon Current Searches:•executing a retained search for a top-VC backed Series A ML/AI startup•executing a retained search for a top-VC backed seed stage AI assistant startup•executing a retained search for a top-VC-backed Series A Robotics startup •executing a retained search for a top-VC-backed Series B Robotics startup Bandwidth:•open to retained/RPO search, consulting, contract workContact Info:ryan@eq-engine.com Show less

•Proved the value of scalable sourcing practices to Zipline's CTO, Technical Leaders and Recruiting Leaders as the first sourcer hired in company history. •Held weekly meeting with Zipline CTO, Keenan Wyrobek.•Focused heavily on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [DEI or DE&I] so I learned a great deal about how to source for, and partner with stakeholders to build balanced teams...and as such, we were able to build a very diverse team and organization!•Worked as Hiring Manager and… Show more •Proved the value of scalable sourcing practices to Zipline's CTO, Technical Leaders and Recruiting Leaders as the first sourcer hired in company history. •Held weekly meeting with Zipline CTO, Keenan Wyrobek.•Focused heavily on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [DEI or DE&I] so I learned a great deal about how to source for, and partner with stakeholders to build balanced teams...and as such, we were able to build a very diverse team and organization!•Worked as Hiring Manager and People Manager for all Sourcers @ Zipline, a team of 5 upon departure.•Hired, mentored and managed direct reports across Engineering, G&A, Operations, Legal verticals. •Partnered on high-priority searches from intake all the way through the close. •Worked with nearly every technical Hiring Manager in the company. Subsequently learned a ton about our tech, business and the broader industry. •Established and built a sourcing culture and framework that scales from the ground up.•Collaborated to ensure we selected the right tooling/automation, and had processes in place that protected our hiring brand as we scaled.•Delivered a 'Tech Weather Report' in our weekly Recruiting Team Meetings that aims to inform the team of industry trends and happenings in an effort to promote awareness>growth :) Show less

Los Angeles, California, United States

•43rd employee •brought 40 Staff Software Engineers to offer in 2 years•backend, infra, product engineering, engineering leadership

Palo Alto, California

Accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy.

San Francisco Bay Area

•First boots on the ground in the Technical Sourcer function at Uber.•Hired the founding mobile engineers that architected and deployed new products including UberEATS, UberPool, UberRush and scaled them globally over the next three years.•Contributed majorly to building the bedrock engineering teams that transformed Uber from a black car service to a global logistics platform. In other words, from 1,000 employees to 18,500 in 3 years. •Sourced 120+ mobile engineering offers in 3… Show more •First boots on the ground in the Technical Sourcer function at Uber.•Hired the founding mobile engineers that architected and deployed new products including UberEATS, UberPool, UberRush and scaled them globally over the next three years.•Contributed majorly to building the bedrock engineering teams that transformed Uber from a black car service to a global logistics platform. In other words, from 1,000 employees to 18,500 in 3 years. •Sourced 120+ mobile engineering offers in 3 years. •Regularly interfaced with engineering, VP to IC.•Open source research, strategic engagement, follow the data, repeat. •Selected to the Strike Team; a team of key stakeholders within the org brought together to help push big projects and initiatives forward.•Subsequently executed cross-functional projects to improve targeting, quality of outreach & engagement and pipeline across tech, corporate and ops recruiting orgs.•Interviewed, trained, educated, mentored junior sourcers (global team of 80 upon departure from Uber).- - - LinkedIn, GitHub, Connectifier, APIs, YesWare, Aevy, Outwit, Social Media, Stack Overflow, Quora, beyond.Objective-C, Swift, iOS, C/C++, Android, Java, Dagger, Otto, Retrofit, Picasso, JavaScript, Open Source, SDKs, APIs, Jenkins, Gradle, mobile applications, mobile platform engineering, real-time engineering (Node.js), cutting edge JavaScript libraries, web platform and beyond. Show less

Menlo Park

Hiring smart, talented, and impact-driven engineers to build products for over a billion users.

San Francisco Bay Area

Executed searches for a portfolio of early stage startups including: Sprig, Neonmob, Xero and Goodsearch.Grit Matters was founded with the desire to establish a new approach in identifying and hiring exceptional talent. We partner with your leadership team as a powerful on-site resource managing the recruiting process.We have successfully completed hundreds of searches on behalf of our clients, results we believe reflect not only our ability to effectively recruit for and staff… Show more Executed searches for a portfolio of early stage startups including: Sprig, Neonmob, Xero and Goodsearch.Grit Matters was founded with the desire to establish a new approach in identifying and hiring exceptional talent. We partner with your leadership team as a powerful on-site resource managing the recruiting process.We have successfully completed hundreds of searches on behalf of our clients, results we believe reflect not only our ability to effectively recruit for and staff projects in highly competitive markets, but also our philosophy of developing lasting relationships that enable us to add increasing value to your company over time. Show less

San Francisco, Ca

Co-creator, Creative Director and promoter of a San Francisco-based ­­­­­creative collective. Pop-ups, club nights, murals, culinary experiences & community building.Created with the intent to promote and sustain San Francisco's innate creative culture.

San Francisco Bay Area

Jobspring Partners is a nationwide contingency recruiting firm, specializing in the hiring and placement of open-source and .NET engineers; front-end developers; and network managers and engineers. We generate breakthrough recruitment results through lean management techniques, a focus on client relationships, and a unique team-based recruitment approach. Our offices are in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC… Show more Jobspring Partners is a nationwide contingency recruiting firm, specializing in the hiring and placement of open-source and .NET engineers; front-end developers; and network managers and engineers. We generate breakthrough recruitment results through lean management techniques, a focus on client relationships, and a unique team-based recruitment approach. Our offices are in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC. Jobspring Partners is part of the Motion Recruitment Partners family of innovative recruitment companies. SpecialtiesJava, J2EE, jQuery, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JSP, MySQL, noSQL, node.JS, Android, iPhone, PHP, LAMP, CSS, CSS3, XHTML, HTML5, Javascript, Flash, Actionscript, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Python, Perl, Apache, Linux, Unix, Amazon Web Services, Wordpress, QA, Coffeescript, Cucumber, ASP.NET, C#, Mobile, UI/UX, Frontend, iOS, AJAX, Hadoop, Lucene, Selenium, Recruiting, Job Placement Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

Creator of copy for a wide array of marketing materials and products including but not limited to websites, press releases, brochures, presentations, catalogs, etc.

dubFrequency [Los Angeles]Intern - Artist InterviewsJan 2011 - May 2011Blow Up Records [London]Booking/A&R InternOct 2010 - Dec 2010Wells Fargo Bank [San Francisco]Client Engagement InternMay 2009 - December 2010Sony Pictures [Los Angeles]Creative Music Affairs InternMay 2009 - May 2010

Bachelors, English, Writing Emphasis

Activities and Societies: Dean's List, Los Angeles Miscellany (Literary Magazine), Los Angeles Loyolan (Newspaper), Men's Lacrosse (Rookie.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Lacrosse, Varsity Soccer, Contributing writer to newspaper, Kairos leader, East Los Angeles immersion