Passionate Software Engineering recruiter connected to 1000s of high calibre Engineers across the UK, Europe and US. Managed super-fast hiring drives for a number of start-ups and owned Talent Management at Workshare and Medidata. Scaled up the Software Development team at Trainline and currently hiring elite Developers for Schibsted's new London hub.
Skilled in sourcing and mapping out talent pools across regions and building recruitment collateral to generate hires at scale!
Engineering Recruiter - Schibsted Product & Engineering @ Building a world-class Product and Engineering team using:
Scala, Apache Spark, Amazon Kinesis, Elasticsearch, React.JS, Twitter Finatra. Our Engineering team is tasked to build for super-scale across 250m users. From November 2015 to Present (2 months) London, United KingdomEngineering Recruiter @ Trainline is the UKs leading independent retailer of train tickets online. The number 1 rated travel app and the 5th most visited UK e-commerce site.
Responsible for scaling up the Software Development team with 30 new hires and re-building the Mobile Development team with a dozen iOS and Android Developers. From February 2015 to October 2015 (9 months) London, United KingdomSenior Technical Recruiter/Talent Acquisition @ Medidata Solutions is a hyper growth, high tech software company serving the Life Sciences industry. HQ in NY
My responsibilities involved sourcing and recruiting passive and active candidates for multiple positions ranging from Technology, Sales and Marketing. As well as supporting our EMEA Recruitment Branding through sponsorship of events and construction of collateral.
Employing a wide variety of candidate generation strategies in a highly competitive market e.g LinkedIn Recruiter, Open Web searches. X-ray, Boolean, Blog Searches, Stackoverflow, GitHub From April 2014 to February 2015 (11 months) London, United KingdomEMEA Talent Acquisition Manager @ Recruitment Manager at Workshare responsible for attracting the highest levels of talent across EMEA. Tasked with building a direct Talent Attraction strategy to enable Workshare to continue to scale and grow at a faster pace than ever before.
About Workshare
Workshare is a next-generation enterprise collaboration platform that facilitates multi-party collaboration across departments, between offices, clients and among partners. Workshare solutions increase team and individual productivity and safeguard confidential information, ultimately securing corporate intellectual property, customer relationships and the organization's reputation. From March 2013 to April 2014 (1 year 2 months) Technology Recruitment Manager @ ABRS specialise in recruitment, in Technology, Sales & Marketing, and Operations
Recruitment experts for Marketing, Media, Digital, Operations, IT and Senior Executive Appointments — both permanent and contract.
Key Responsibilities:
Setting up a new office in Central London as an extension to a functioning Software Development Recruitment Delivery team.
Managing the Software Development Recruitment function for abrs consisting of 5 Tech Recruiters supporting recruitment drives for emerging tech Start-ups in TechCity. From April 2008 to March 2013 (5 years) Reading, United KingdomPHP UK Conference Announcer/Organiser @ Voluntary role responsible for supporting PHP London in organising their annual PHP Conference by running conference announcements, attendee lists, introducing speakers, conducting Q&A sessions. From February 2011 to February 2013 (2 years 1 month)
Bachelor’s Degree, Internet and Multimedia Engineering, 2:1 @ London South Bank University From 2004 to 2007 Shjeel Ahmed is skilled in: Recruiting, Ruby on Rails, Hadoop, LAMP, Android, Flex, Java, PHP, Perl, Mobile Applications, Spring, C#, Testing, Set Top Box, Python
Websites:
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