Anthony Farelli

About Me

Recruiter. Builder. AI Engineer.

I've spent 15 years recruiting engineers, data scientists, and product leaders at startups and public companies. I know what great technical talent looks like, how to find them, and how to get them to say yes.

At Machinify, I personally hired over 70% of the technical staff from Series A through acquisition - grew the company from 20 to 150+ people. Along the way I started building my own tools: AI agents for sourcing, a Chrome extension that catches fraudulent candidates, an analytics dashboard on top of Greenhouse. Turns out when you recruit engineers all day, you start thinking like one.

Now I spend my time doing both - leading recruiting teams and writing the software that makes them dramatically more effective. I'm particularly focused on using LLMs and AI agents to automate the parts of recruiting that shouldn't require a human in the loop.

150+

Hires Placed

15+

Years Recruiting

Products Built

Recruiting Domains

AI / Machine Learning Data Science Backend Engineering Frontend / Fullstack Product Management MLOps / LLMOps GenAI / NLP Computer Vision UI/UX Design Platform / Infra Executive Hiring R&D

Builder Skills

JavaScript Next.js TypeScript React Tailwind CSS Chrome Extensions Cloudflare Workers Claude AI Vercel

Experience

Where I've been and what I've done

Machinify the AI platform for healthcare payments

4 years

Director | Technical Recruiting

2025 – Present · San Francisco Bay Area

Run technical recruiting across Data Science, Engineering, and Product for an AI healthcare payments startup (acquired, 2025)
Personally hired 70%+ of the technical staff from Series A to acquisition - took the company from 20 to 150+ people
Built Verif_Hire, a Chrome extension that screens candidates for fraud before they hit the interview pipeline
Built and deployed AI agents using Claude for candidate sourcing, discovery, and process automation across the recruiting org
Built a Next.js analytics dashboard for Greenhouse reporting (TypeScript, Tailwind, Vercel)
Own recruiting process design, headcount planning, comp analysis, leveling, hiring manager training, and talent branding

Promotion History

TikTok

3 years

Sr. Technical Recruiter

2020 – 2022 · 2 years

Full-cycle recruiter and team lead covering Data Science, Engineering, and Product
Averaged 2 senior hires per month across a 10-15 req load
Drove new-req intake process - scoping roles, aligning with hiring managers on requirements
Rebuilt the sourcing playbook and candidate experience from scratch

Promotion History

Farmingdale Group

8 years

Founder

2011 – 2019 · Acquired, 2019

Started a technical search firm focused on building engineering and data teams at public companies and startups
Grew it from zero and sold the business in 2019

Projects

Verif_Hire

Verif_Hire - Fraudulent Candidate Detection

Candidate fraud is a massive problem in technical recruiting right now. I built a Chrome extension that cross-references candidate data against multiple intelligence sources to flag suspicious profiles before they waste interviewer time. Integrates directly with your ATS.

JavaScript Chrome Extension API Cloudflare Workers Intelligence APIs

Live Site

Recruiter Hiring Manager Department Job

Greenhouse Analytics Dashboard

Greenhouse's built-in reporting is limited, so I built my own. A Next.js app that pulls data from the Greenhouse API and gives recruiting teams the pipeline visibility, pass-through rates, and performance metrics they actually need to make decisions.

Next.js TypeScript Tailwind CSS Vercel Greenhouse API

Test It Out Live Demo

AI Recruiting Agents

A set of Claude-powered agents I built and deployed across our recruiting org. They handle candidate discovery, sourcing research, outreach drafting, and a bunch of the operational busywork that used to eat up hours every week. The goal is simple - let recruiters spend their time talking to people instead of doing data entry.

Claude API AI Agents Process Automation Recruiting Ops

Tools & Skills

What I recruit for and what I build with

Recruiting

Greenhouse Ashby LinkedIn Recruiter Gem Levels.fyi Notion Carta Gusto

Building

JavaScript TypeScript Next.js / React Tailwind CSS Cloudflare Workers Vercel Chrome Extensions

AI & Automation

Claude ChatGPT AI Agents LLM APIs Process Automation