Bachelor’s Degree

At Neuralink, I helped scale the company from 60 to over 250 engineers and scientists, recruiting some of the world’s most specialized talent across neuroscience, robotics, and machine learning. Every hire was held to an incredibly high bar, including CEO sign-off from Elon Musk, and I built a process that consistently met that standard. Beyond just filling roles, I focused on finding people who became foundational to Neuralink’s most ambitious projects. It was one of the most complex and high-stakes recruiting environments I’ve ever worked in, and one of the most rewarding.

Head of Talent

Senior Technical Recruiter

Bringing together the world's greatest Talent Executives to build next generation technology companies.

Co-Founder

· Designed/Architected candidate scrapes in Amazon’s internal Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Every day thousands of inbound Amazon candidate applications go unseen based on the volume of applicants per job, the high percentage of unqualified applicants, and the likelihood of qualified candidates already being in process with another Amazon team. Built several timestamp based search filters into ICIMS. Used a combination of custom filters and boolean strings to identify only the active applicants that are not already in process with another team (99% accurate). This saved countless hours of sorting through applicants that were already engaged by another Amazon team resulting in 81 hires over the past 12 months ~4x quota. · Built/Presented "Advanced Systems Sourcing" training monthly. Walked through the functionality of a 1-click candidate engagement email and coding assessment process to evaluate talent that has been identified using the ICIMS scrape explained above. This process allo

Senior Technical Sourcing Lead (AWS Databases/Analytics/AI)

At Endorsed, I’m focused on redefining how ambitious teams discover and hire elite engineering talent. After years of building high-impact teams at organizations like Neuralink, Amazon, and Chef Robotics, I know firsthand how traditional recruiting tools often fall short, especially for startups looking to compete with industry leaders. That’s why I’m helping to build the sourcing product I always wished existed. AI-native but designed by recruiters for recruiters. The flagship feature, Talent Maps, is a true game changer. It allows you to reverse engineer the hiring strategies of top companies, revealing exactly where they source their best talent so you can engage high-potential engineers before they become unreachable. No more generic keyword matching. No more wasted hours. Endorsed understands your open roles, team culture, and hiring history to create a custom, actionable talent map tailored to your needs. If you’re tired of AI recruiting tools that promise magic but deliver noise

Product Advisor

At Promise, I lead all aspects of talent strategy to build a world-class team transforming the way government agencies serve their communities. My role focuses on developing scalable hiring processes, cultivating an exceptional candidate experience, and attracting top-tier talent across product, engineering, and leadership roles.

Associate, Private Equity

Yodle (www.yodle.com) is a leader in the digital marketing space, supporting small and medium sized businesses. In 2016, we were acquired by Web.com, and now have over 3.4 million customers with 20+ global locations. Our team creates, tests, and supports an end-to-end comprehensive platform that makes online marketing easy, affordable, and transparent for our local business clients. At Yodle, we use cutting-edge technology to give nimble business owners a competitive advantage in their customer interactions. We work on a broad range of business initiatives and objectives by leveraging a wide set of technologies and tools. Our tech stack is based on Java, Angular, Play, and Scala. Our purpose-built applications are designed as microservices and integrate with technologies such as Kafka, Storm, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Redis. We have a leading-edge continuous deployment pipeline that leverages Mesos, Docker, Marathon, Puppet, and Bamboo to provide rapid on-demand releases. Our develop

Experienced technical talent leader focused on AI — Mike has led recruiting at Neuralink, Chef Robotics, and Promise.

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