Steve Ganesh, our Founder
Summary
- I will be your Lead Recruiter for any positions engaged to work. Please view the Testimonials tab or click on the LinkedIn link to view my track record and ability to deliver hires. My passion with working with early stage start-ups (typically Seed to Series A/B)
Recruiting Accomplishments
- Many years working with SF Bay Area Startups [Seed, Series A/B & C] enabling them to scale like EarnIn (a “Series C” Fin-Tech startup) and Drawbridge (a “Series A/B” Ad-Tech startup) by meeting/exceeding hiring goals across Engineering, while saving them $750,000 and $250,000 in agency fees respectively
- Voted top Technical Recruiter at Amazon out of 125 Agencies & Headhunters for filling their SDE II & III roles - I was later invited to Amazon's HQ in Seattle twice, to meet the Recruiting and Engineering teams to work on special recruiting projects for them, and paid upfront in incentive bonuses which I comfortably met and exceeded.
- I have serviced many startups over the past decade, placing mainly Software Engineers, as well as Data Science/Product/Security/IT & Robotics/Mechanical Engineering
Background
- TRACK RECORD: Recruiting Software Engineers successfully (sourcing-to-closing) across Engineering/Data Science/Product/Security/IT for Bay Area start-ups
- PROVEN TRACK RECORD: Last 15 years of successfully recruiting top talent for companies across various industries: Fin-Tech/ Hi-Tech/ Ad-Tech/ Ed-Tech/ Ag-Tech/ Geo-Tech and more
- FULLY LOADED: I come fully loaded with my own resources, tools and candidates databases (ideal for startups with limited branding or recruiting budget), exclusively used for my clients, as well as utilizing the standard recruiting tools out there like Indeed, etc...
- ATS SYSTEMS: Proficient using ATS systems like Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Jobvite, etc... plus being a Tekkie, I have built my own online ATS system and relational databases
- RELATIONSHIP BUILDING: Being a former “Big 4” IT Manager myself allows me to quickly forge and win over Engineering & Technical Hiring Managers, with both my knowledge, experience and ability to deliver
- TECHNICAL BACKGROUND: My former technical roles include being a "Big 4" IT Manager/ Technical Architect at EY.com (San Francisco office), and building Financial Trading systems for the London Stock Exchange
- DEGREE: Bachelors in Mathematics from Queen Mary College, London University, England
Engineering placements made over the past 15 years
- Backend Microservices Engineers
- Big Data/ Platform Engineers (Hadoop, Map-Reduce, Kafka, Docker, Finagle, Scala)
- DevOps/ SysOps Engineers, DBAs, Network Engineers
- Full Stack Engineers
- Front-End Engineers
- Hardware Engineers - Design - Validation - Test - Firmware - RF - DSP - ASIC - FPGA
- Java/C++/Perl/Python/Rails OOAD Software Engineers
- Machine Learning Data Scientists
- Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineers
- Mobile & Gaming Engineers (both Client-Server) - iOS and Android
- Robotics Engineers
- Security Engineers
Other Hobbies
- Soccer, Cricket, Swimming, Choral & Barbershop Singing, Cooking, etc... and doing fun things with the family
Degree
- Bachelors in Mathematics, Queen Mary College (London University), England