Talent Scientist &
Recruiting Leader

I lead AI-powered recruiting teams - and build the apps, agents, and systems that help them hire elite talent, fast.

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hi, i'm Anthony

Years recruiting

Technical hires

Startup exits

Products shipped

About me

People. Software. AI.

Summary

I've been recruiting engineers, data scientists, and product leaders for 15 years now - at everything from seed-stage startups to public companies. Along the way I've gotten very good at finding great people and convincing them to take a leap.

At Machinify, I personally hired 70%+ of the technical staff from Series A through acquisition, and grew the company from 20 people to 150+ before our first exit. I also built software to address our hardest recruiting problems - sourcing, fraud detection, and analytics.

Now I do all three: recruiting for our toughest technical roles, leading the recruiting teams, and building the software that powers it all.

Domains I recruit for

AI & Data

AI / Machine Learning
Applied AI
Data Science
Data Engineering
GenAI / NLP
Reinforcement Learning
Search & Recommendations
ML Infrastructure
MLOps / LLMOps
Model Evaluation
Talent Science
People Analytics
Candidate Fraud Detection

Engineering

Backend
Frontend
Full-Stack
Platform
Distributed Systems
Cloud Infrastructure
Site Reliability / SRE
Security
Developer Tools
Mobile

Product & Leadership

Product Management
Technical Product Management
Design
Analytics
Operations
Recruiting Operations
Recruiting Systems
Recruiting Automation
Engineering Leadership
AI / Data Leadership
Product Leadership
Executive Leadership

Autonomy

Robotics
Computer Vision
Camera Systems
Perception
Sensor Fusion
Localization / SLAM
Motion Planning
Controls
Simulation & Validation
Safety Engineering

What I do

Turning talent into a science

I recruit for the hardest technical roles, lead the teams that do it at scale, and build the tooling that makes both faster.

Technical Recruiting

Full-cycle hiring for the roles nobody else can fill - sourcing through close for AI/ML, data, backend, product, and executive talent.

AI Tooling & Automation

Claude-powered agents and apps that automate sourcing, screening, and the operational grind - so recruiters talk to people, not spreadsheets.

Building Software

Production apps, Chrome extensions, dashboards, and edge workers - shipped end-to-end to solve real recruiting problems.

Recruiting Leadership

Process architecture, headcount planning, comp analysis, interview-loop design, and recruiter coaching - building hiring engines that scale.

Experience

Where I've been

Fifteen years building technical teams - from my own search firm to TikTok to a venture-backed AI startup through acquisition.

Machinify

The AI platform for healthcare payments

2022 - Present

Director, Recruiting & Talent AI

Spearhead technical recruiting across Data Science, Engineering, and Product for an AI healthcare-payments startup (acquired, 2025).
Built an e2e talent-AI software stack for sourcing, recruiting, and reporting. 5 products (harvestr, huntr, kickstart, talentDB, anyReport) interconnected to supercharge every aspect of our people org.
Personally hired 70%+ of the technical staff from Series A through acquisition - grew the company from 20 to 150+ people before its first exit.
Hands-on recruiter for the most critical, high-level roles, owning sourcing through close for executive and founding-level hires.
Own parts of recruiting process architecture, tooling, headcount planning, comp analysis, interview-loop design, hiring-manager calibration, recruiter coaching, and offer strategy.

TikTok

2019 - 2022

Sr. Technical Recruiter

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 the new-req intake process - scoping roles and aligning with hiring managers on requirements.
Rebuilt the sourcing playbook and candidate experience from scratch.

Farmingdale Group

Search firm

2011 - 2019

Founder · 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.

Education

Ramapo College of New Jersey

BBA, Marketing

2007 - 2011

Selected work

Things I've built

Four connected products I built to move recruiting forward, from the first role brief to the final report.

harvestr

AI-powered application review and fraud detection

huntr

AI-powered passive candidate search

kickstart

Smarter way to intake/open new roles

anyReport

AI-powered, custom, on-demand reporting

How I work

An AI-powered recruiting process

The same five-step system whether I'm filling one founding role or standing up an entire technical org - refined over 15 years and 500+ hires.

Calibrate

I sit down with hiring managers to define the role, the scorecard, and what "exceptional" actually looks like - before sourcing a single profile.

Source

Deep, AI-assisted sourcing - Claude agents surface and research candidates across the market so the top of the funnel is elite, not just full.

Screen

Every applicant runs through Harvestr for role-specific AI identification of standouts, and Verif_Hire for fraud detection - with identity-stripping.

Interview

Structured loops I design with the team - calibrated rubrics, fast feedback, and a candidate experience that consistently closes great people.

Close

Comp analysis, offer strategy, and high-touch closing to land the hire - then I use the gathered data to keep tightening the whole loop.

My stack

Contact

Let's build something great.

Always happy to talk recruiting, AI tooling, or whatever you're building. Reach out.

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