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Alex Kedra

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    Senior Technical Recruiter
    0x
    Jul 2025 - May 2026 (11 months)
    • Built hiring pipelines from near-zero for 7 engineering roles (backend, fullstack, mobile), creating early hiring momentum in a highly competitive market
    • Owned hiring across both engineering and business-critical roles, including ~5 hires across GTM, marketing, and sales functions
    • Achieved ~91% outreach open rate, ~75% response rate, and ~96% conversion to recruiter screen, with ~60% progressing to hiring manager interviews across highly competitive technical searches
    • Owned end-to-end hiring, balancing sourcing, stakeholder management, and process design
    • Partnered directly with leadership to define hiring priorities, role scope, and team composition
    • Actively positioned the company in competitive talent m
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    Sourcing & Technical Lead
    Matter Labs
    Sep 2023 - Jul 2025 (1 year 11 months)
    • Led hiring for 19 highly specialised roles across protocol engineering, cryptography, and research in a globally distributed organisation
    • Built and executed sourcing strategies in some of the most competitive technical talent markets, partnering closely with Engineering and People teams
    • Treated sourcing as a signal identification problem, moving beyond traditional channels to map technical ecosystems and identify high-quality contributors
    • Filled niche technical roles with an average time-to-hire of ~45-60 days despite significant market scarcity
    • Built talent intelligence and ecosystem mapping frameworks to identify and engage hard-to-reach candidates globally
    • Partnered with leadership to define hiring pr
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    Founder & Talent Partner
    DecentralRec
    Feb 2023 - Current (3 years 9 months)
    • Acted as a founding talent partner to early-stage companies, designing hiring systems, defining roles, and building teams from 0->1
    • Partnered directly with founders on hiring strategy, organisational design, and workforce planning in high-ambiguity environments
    • Applied system-level thinking to hiring, treating talent discovery as a signal identification problem across technical ecosystems
    • Built and executed hiring plans, interview frameworks, and evaluation systems for both early-stage and scaling teams
    • Hired 50+ founding and senior leaders, including Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, VP Engineering, Research Engineers, and Cryptography Engineers
    • Delivered first hires within ~30-45 days in highly
  • Protocol Labs
    Senior Technical Recruiter
    Protocol Labs
    Oct 2022 - Mar 2023 (6 months)
    • Owned hiring across a globally distributed organisation, partnering with leadership and hiring managers across multiple functions and time zones
    • Led end-to-end hiring for highly specialised roles across distributed systems, infrastructure, and the Web3 ecosystem
    • Operated in a high-complexity, distributed environment, applying structured thinking to hiring processes across multiple teams and regions
    • Built sourcing strategies, talent maps, and market intelligence frameworks to support critical hiring initiatives
    • Facilitated stakeholder alignment through structured hiring reviews, pipeline tracking, and recruitment planning
    • Improved interview processes and evaluation systems to increase hiring consistency a
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    Senior Technical Recruiter
    IO Global
    Sep 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 2 months)
    • Hired 50+ engineers globally across backend, infrastructure, and blockchain teams during a period of rapid organisational growth
    • Led end-to-end hiring for multiple complex technical searches in a highly competitive talent market
    • Built targeted sourcing strategies to engage passive candidates across global talent pools
    • Partnered closely with hiring managers and cross-functional stakeholders to align hiring efforts with business priorities
    • Contributed to scaling engineering teams by building consistent hiring processes and improving pipeline quality
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    Technical Talent Partner
    Currencyclod
    May 2021 - Sep 2021 (5 months)
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    Talent Acquisition Specialist
    Cogniflare
    Jun 2020 - May 2021 (1 year)
  • M
    Recruitment Consultant
    Major Players PR
    Apr 2019 - Jun 2020 (1 year 3 months)
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    AI Recruiting Systems (Built & Deployed)
    Jan 2026 - Current (10 months)
    • Built and deployed a suite of AI-powered recruiting tools used across sourcing, candidate evaluation, and outreach workflows
    • Designed systems for GitHub signal analysis, candidate momentum tracking, and ecosystem-based sourcing in low-visibility markets
    • Adopted internally and used by multiple teams to improve sourcing efficiency and candidate quality
    • Treated recruiting as a product: continuously iterating on workflows, prompts, and data inputs to improve signal detection
    • Live demo: https://alex-ai-sourcing.netlify.app/