Increasingly curious about where hiring signal breaks down — and what you do instead.
Building Salient's AI and Engineering practice. Partnering with founders, CTOs and engineering leaders on strategic technical hiring across software engineering, AI/ML, platform, infrastructure, data and engineering leadership. Working with frontier labs, founding teams and venture-backed startups scaling AI into production.
Alongside the search work, leading AI adoption and operational improvement across the business. Knowledge management, internal tooling, workflow design and a longer-term candidate intelligence platform.
Working with early-stage startups, pre-seed to Series A, mostly software and AI engineers, retained. Close enough to the business to help shape the brief, often acting as a talent partner before a search formally starts. Built on a network of 1,000+ CTOs and engineering leaders across Australia's startup ecosystem.
Led specialist recruitment across Software Engineering and Digital — senior, principal-level and hard-to-fill roles. The ones where getting it right changes how a company grows. Mostly startups but also key strategic hires for larger scale-ups including Canva and SafetyCulture. Promoted to Associate Director in seven months. Founded Tech Leaders Collective Sydney alongside it — about 250 CTOs and engineering leaders, built to make tech leadership less isolating.
Eight years building deep expertise in technical hiring across the UK. Started placing software and mobile engineers into London FinTechs, ended up leading a team of eleven and running searches for engineering leaders at some of the UK's highest-growth companies. Founded London Tech Collective because understanding what was happening on the ground in startups made every search better.
Started in engineering. Structural refurbishment and temporary works — real consequences if you got it wrong. That foundation in analytical thinking and stakeholder management still shows up in how I approach a brief.
Built by someone who's seen the game from the inside. Sit in the recruiter's chair and try to find the signal everyone's learned to game.
Started as me arguing with ChatGPT in the gym and got out of hand. Proper periodised programming — year goals, six-week blocks, weekly structure. I still use it every day.
Internal BD tool surfacing Australian startups showing forward hiring signals before roles are posted.
Founded and ran leadership communities connecting CTOs, engineering leaders and startup founders across two cities. Events, workshops, knowledge-sharing — built to make hiring better for everyone in the room.
Topics: startup hiring, scaling teams with limited resources, leadership collaboration in high-growth environments.