McAfee

Actively sourcing and recruiting, I am building Machine Learning, Data Science, and Data Engineering teams at scale to protect families and make for a safer online experience.

If you're a builder hungry to innovate and push beyond the mundane, this is your call. It's not about just coding; it's about redefining the digital landscape. If that's you, if you're ready to step out of your comfort zone and into a realm where creation meets revolution, and let's make the extraordinary happen. 




Actively looking for leaders, innovators, and collaborators with experience:

Apache Airflow Kubeflow MLflow TensorBoard RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation Transformer GPT4 BERT RNN LSTM Encoder Decoder Attention Prompt Language model Fine-tuning Pretraining NLP Token Sequence-to-sequence Word embeddings Bidirectional Contextual Self-attention Embedding Inference Hugging Face OpenAI Attention mechanism Natural language understanding Generative AI Stable diffusion Recurrent neural network Semantic analysis Data augmentation Perplexity Transfer learning Text generation Style transfer Paraphrasing Fine-tuned model Hyperparameter Multimodal Multilingual Transformer architecture Text classification Knowledge graph N-gram Noise injection Few-shot learning Pretrained weights Prompt engineering Latent space Gradient descent Variational autoencoder huggingface

Talent Acquisition Partner

Twitter

I'm leading a global team of sourcers that empowers Twitter's Engineering Leadership to make critical hiring decisions with ease, speed, and confidence. By engaging with passive and active talent, this Technical Sourcing team fuels the hiring process with interested, educated, and qualified candidates.

A few of my accomplishments include:

- Spearheading the global Machine Learning and Research talent strategy at Twitter, collaborating with leadership to establish a global hiring strategy, and serving as the primary contact for all Research and Machine Learning recruitment efforts.

- Overhauled and implemented a new hiring process and interview framework, redesigning existing methodologies to tailor a system specifically suited for AI domain recruitment.

- Formulated an employer branding strategy that encompassed outreach and events (e.g., NeurIPS, NAACL, AML), enhancing the company's presence and attraction within the machine learning community.

- Identified and sourced target ML companies for potential acquisition and acquihire, coordinating with Legal, Engineering, Research, M&A teams to pinpoint suitable candidates for Twitter's strategic growth in the ML and Research sectors.

Global Technical Sourcing Manager, Talent Acquisition

Are you a software engineer looking to build and innovate? Do you see yourself stretching outside of your comfort zone?

If you are an engineer and you answered yes, let’s connect and schedule a time to chat!

Life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with a conversation. At Twitter, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what’s right (not what’s easy) to serve the public conversation.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

- Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing and assessment approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
- Recruits passive candidates and gauge both technical skills and chemistry of candidates for fit, and understand candidate motivation
- Builds and maintains a network of potential candidates through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management;
- Conducts in-depth interviews with candidates and demonstrates the ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios (1 offer to every 4.38 on-site loops);
- Recommends and executes ideas and strategies that contribute to the long-range growth of diverse hiring strategies as a member of the DICE (Diversity Inclusion Champions for Equity) team, focused on implementing new recruiting processes and fine-tuning standard processes that fit within Amazon's mission to deliver raise BLNA/URM representation by 10% overall;
- Ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, continually seek new sourcing options and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer;
- Strong communication skills, organizational, and negotiation skills;
- Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management.

Senior Sourcing Recruiter

RentPath

- Owns the full candidate recruitment experience, directly responsible for the overall recruitment, on-boarding, administration, coordination and evaluation of the human resource function.
- Delivers 10+ qualified candidates each week to hiring managers with an 84% conversion from introduction to phone interview, 80% conversion from phone interview to onsite interviews.
- Develops sourcing models and plans to generate a talent pipeline.
- Works with managers to discern job requirements and then create job descriptions.
- Continually contributes to the knowledge base of the recruiting group by leading bi-weekly recruiting lunch and learns and sharing new information about industries and talent pools or profile types.

Our goal here at RentPath is to innovate the apartment rental industry through engaging user experience and exciting new technology. 

Our team of Engineers are forward-thinking, world class and not afraid of cutting-edge technology. They are building and scaling systems that drive our applications and continuously improve our engineering practices. 

From adopting new frameworks and languages like React and Elixir to implementing machine learning in voice search engines are just some examples of the innovative technology that we use.The RentPath Engineering Team is looking for new members who are excited at the prospect of working on our portfolio of brands. We are proud to innovate and create new consumer experiences backed by reliable, performant code. We are diverse in the technologies we use, ranging from Clojure, Elixir, Ruby, and JavaScript, and are investing heavily in React / Redux and the BFF pattern. We are in the process of completing our move to continuous deployment, we leverage micro-services, and invest heavily in creating components that are reusable and provide a framework for our portfolio of sites.

Apple

Check out the details for the two teams that I'm supporting here at Apple. If you have a strong Java background, we should be talking. If you have a strong NLP background, we should be talking.

What is the Apple Media Products Core Services team?

The AMP Core Services team provides APIs for our personalized and unpersonalized customer features to internal and external clients. Amongst other uses, these APIs are directly used on the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac and Windows by Apple applications such as the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes Store, Podcast, iTunes U, Videos, iBooks, Watch, Health, Maps. The nature of our work involves architecting, implementing and managing performant client server protocols. As part of providing these APIS we manage the core Content Index service and the Editorial service that houses all the meta data associated with content that we sell on the stores. We provide means to get a bulk feed of this content meta data through our Enterprise Partner Feed program.

What about the Universal Media Team?

We are seeking an outstanding applied data scientist to join the Universal Media Team responsible for building a comprehensive data platform for powering Universal Search, Siri, TV app, Safari search and more services across all Apple platforms. Candidate should be a self starting, energetic individual with excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization. She/ He will take ownership of projects that focus on topics such as classification, attribute ranking, filtering, mapping or enriching of entity records or their data. Implement standard and proprietary algorithms for handling and processing data. Use distributed data processing and analysis methodologies. Work closely with engineers to implement solutions to the highest standard possible.

Senior Technical Sourcing Recruiter

Relus Technologies

Relus Cloud is an Atlanta-based AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, trusted by hundreds of organizations nationwide. We create an “all-in” approach to AWS and we empower clients with tailored public cloud, big data, people, and training solutions.  Our practice areas include cloud migrations, DevOps, cloud managed services, big data solutions, as well as IT staffing and recruitment. Our Talent Delivery Practice focuses on filling the skills gap that exists wth many of our clients. Just like our Cloud and Infrastructure teams, we are architects, only we are building the most disruptive companies of our generation. We have a mission and immense dedication to build technology-focused companies of lasting value. 

You might find me focusing on:
► Data Science - Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Python, R, MATLAB, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Search, Visualization
► Open Source - Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, Flask, Perl, PHP, Scala, Go, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, Node.js
► Java, C, C++, C#, .Net
► Front-End - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Angular.js, Backbone.js, Ember.js, Knockout.js, jQuery
► Microsoft .NET - C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL, Azure
► Mobile - Android, iOS, Mobile Web
► Technical Operations - DevOps, QA, Automation, Operations

Lead Technical Recruiter & Trainer

Kabbage, Inc

Focused on thinking up new ways to find great people and engage our teams with great talent, I'm engaging with outstanding professionals that want to push the envelope and disrupt the status quo. At a glance, I focused on:

- Manages efficient, fast-paced, full-cycle recruiting operations which support Kabbage’s rapid hiring growth.
- Coach, develop and mentor US and India recruiting teams.
- Partners with executives and hiring managers to thoroughly understand the company's hiring goals and plan effectively.
- Create and execute a talent acquisition strategy aligned with Kabbage’s business objectives and culture in order to meet aggressive hiring goals, with a focus on proactive sourcing including social networking, internet research, cold calling, regular networking at events and conferences
Architected and installed all new new processes, optimized the transition to, and deployment and use of Greenhouse ATS, and created reporting metrics.
- Partnered with VP’s and Team Leads to build out and launch LinkedIn network referrals and direct hiring manager outreach.
- Constructs job specs for hiring managers and managed posts to Indeed, LinkedIn, Internal and external job boards. 
- Managed vendor agreements and partnerships with vendors to support executive search, recruitment marketing, employment branding, and sourcing applications.
- Implemented on-going quarterly outreach and marketing to passive candidates via Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter.
- Direct and oversee the use and implementation of tools, processes, and metrics related to performance management, succession planning, talent assessment, diversity and other related activities.

Director of Recruiting

Velossent, LLC

Working with VC & PE-backed companies, I specialized in the placement of top performing executives, recruiters, technologists, and engineers nationally. Frequently with working with Founders and Executive Leadership, I worked to maintain an extremely high standard, delivering proven high achievers who mesh with their culture and direction.

Also, I love working with and leading my teams - teaching and training recruiters and sourcers to build high performance recruiting teams is my speciality!

At a glance, I focused on:
• Responsible for full lifecycle recruiting of enterprise sales executives, front-end & back-end developers, infrastructure architects, recruiters, human resource business partners, product managers, project managers, and C-suite leadership.
• Created and led practice group for placing HR & Recruiting professionals.
• Coached candidates and clients through the recruitment process in order to arrive at a mutually beneficial candidate placement. 
• Created a recruitment road map with hiring managers to set clear expectations of skill requirements, personality preferences, interview timeline and offer negotiation.
• Designed and implemented repeatable sourcing and recruiting strategy training and onboarding for new recruiters and sourcers.
• Researched and led transition from CBIZOne ATS to Bullhorn.
• Utilized LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Indeed, Meetup.com, Dribbble, BeHance, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Slack, BitBucket, Instagram, and YouTube to create and engage online talent communities.

Specifically placed a variety of professionals including:
• COO
• CTO
• Vice President of Engineering
• Vice President of Product Management
• Vice President of Human Resources
• Director of Talent Acquisition
• Director of Data Science 
• Director of Product Management
• Senior HRBP
• Product Manager 
• UX Engineer 
• Python Engineer 
• Corporate Recruiter 
• Product Manager
• . NET Developer

And many more!

Recruiting Manager

ZocDoc

Initially contracted for 3 months to drive sales management and executive leadership recruiting for NY HQ including. Contract extended through onboarding of new VP of People. At a glance:

• Focused on full-lifecycle that included sourcing, qualifying, and interviewing candidates all the way through offer and onboarding stages.
• Designed and implemented sourcing strategies via LinkedIn, Facebook, Meetup.com, Indeed, and NY networking events to grow a diverse and qualified candidate pool.
• Led team of 3 to open Phoenix, AZ, sales office in under 30 days.
• Worked with hiring managers and C-Level leadership to establish a set of core competencies for each role on the Hospital Systems team and develop effective lines of questioning to be used during interviews. 
• Partnered with VP's, Directors and team leads to build out procedural guides for two new candidate sourcing initiatives (LinkedIn network referrals and direct hiring manager outreach). 
• Utilized analytics and tracking tools inside applicant tracking systems including Taleo, Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter to provide team leadership with weekly/monthly/quarterly updates on pipeline and candidate sourcing effectiveness. 
• Assisted in the development of job specs used to attract talented applicants to Zocdoc via job boards and LinkedIn.

Executive Recruiter

VMG, Inc.

I work with a team of experienced, certified recruiters who effectively and efficiently bring the right candidates front-and-center for ongoing talent acquisition projects with Fortune500, Deloitte Technology Fast500, privately-held Inc500, and emerging companies. These deep relationships in managed services, financial, medical (DMD/DME/DurableMedical & Pharmaceuticals), advertising, telecommunications, SaaS, technology, hardware, software, technology solutions, integrated media, and niche markets are testimonials to our pursuit and placement of exceptional talent. 

Fueled by passionate search consultants, scalable processes, and agile technologies, VMG offers a progressive solution to the need to attract and retain exceptional sales and marketing professionals. Instead of relying on the mythologies of traditional search, my team and I design, roadmap, execute, and guarantee to deliver exceptional professionals - ready for their next challenge - to their dream careers!

TL;DR: I enjoy bringing people together to solve complex problems, build great products, and get things done. As an Author, Speaker, and TA professional, I'm bringing together technology leaders, teams, and organizations to build great products and amazing experiences.

The longer version: Hi, I'm Brian Fink, a talent acquisition partner who breathes life into recruitment strategies, turning them into robust pipelines teeming with top-tier candidates. With a keen eye for talent and a knack for building relationships, I consistently deliver high-quality hires that drive organizational growth and innovation. I'm not just filling positions; I'm strategizing talent solutions that align with company culture and long-term goals.

My commitment to understanding candidates' and companies' unique needs and aspirations is at the heart of my success. I leverage cutting-edge recruitment technologies and data-driven insights to enhance his search efficiency and effectiveness. 

As an internationally recognized speaker, I frequently share my insights to shape the future of talent acquisition.

Whether navigating the complexities of tech hiring or finding the perfect fit for niche roles, my approach is always personalized and proactive. My goal is simple: to not just meet expectations but exceed them, ensuring that each hire is not only a fit for today but a cornerstone for tomorrow's success.

Specializations:
► Data Science - LLM (Large Language Models), Generative AI, Python, Transformer, NLP, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Conversational AI, Chatbot Development, Sentiment Analysis, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Hugging Face, and MLOps.
► Open Source - Python, Django, Flask, Perl, Scala, Go, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, Node.js, Elixir, Clojure
► Cloud Technologies - Kubernetes (K8s/GKE/EKS/AKS), Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, On-Premise Hardware

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