Senior Technical Recruiter
& TA Leader
10+ years helping companies hire exceptional engineers, AI/ML talent, and technical leaders across Europe and global markets.
“I help companies hire exceptional engineers, AI/ML talent, and technical leaders — and become the kind of place exceptional people want to join.”
Experience across leading organisations
About Me
I've spent 10+ years doing one thing really well
I'm not a generalist recruiter. I specialise in engineering, AI/ML, product, and leadership hiring — the kind of roles that are hard to fill, high stakes, and genuinely shape a company's future. This includes AI and machine learning roles — from ML Engineers and AI Researchers to Data Scientists and LLM specialists — where the talent pool is small, the bar is exceptionally high, and standard sourcing approaches simply don't work.
But here's what I believe deeply: a great recruiter is not just a talent finder. They're a salesperson, a marketer, and a brand ambassador — all at once. Every candidate interaction is a chance to sell the company's mission, culture, and vision. Every conversation is marketing. Every offer is a closing deal.
My career has taken me from building founding engineering teams at fintech ventures from scratch, to leading a global TA function at a fully licensed bank, to advising early-stage founders as a fractional partner.
What Sets Me Apart
- Deep AI/ML & engineering hiring specialist
- Salesperson, marketer, and brand ambassador
- From seed to scale — every growth stage
- Europe, Asia & North America hiring experience
- Founder & C-level partnership focus
When I represent a company, I become its face in the talent market — and I do that with conviction, energy, and genuine belief in what we're building together.
— Neo Nabeel
My Hiring Philosophy
Hiring is one of the most strategic things a company can do
The people you hire determine what you can build, how fast you can move, and what kind of culture you create. Here's what separates companies that get it right from those that don't.
Every candidate is a future colleague
Most people who interview with you won't get the job — but they'll remember how you made them feel. Candidate experience is brand building. I treat every touchpoint as an opportunity to leave a lasting positive impression.
Recruiters are salespeople and marketers
The best recruiters don't wait for candidates to come to them. They lead with a compelling story and close with conviction. I approach every search like a sales campaign — targeted, personalised, relentless.
Hiring managers are partners
When TA and engineering leadership are genuinely aligned — sharing context, calibrating on what good looks like, giving fast feedback — the whole process accelerates. I build those relationships deliberately.
Data over gut feel
Gut feel has its place. But the best hiring decisions are made on evidence — structured interviews, consistent scorecards, calibrated debriefs. I design processes that surface real signal and remove unconscious bias.
Diversity is not a checkbox
Building diverse teams isn't just the right thing to do — it makes companies stronger. In Europe especially, this is not optional — it's essential. I've led D&I initiatives at the leadership level throughout my career.
Hiring is not a support function
Get it right and hiring becomes your biggest competitive advantage. Get it wrong and it quietly becomes your biggest bottleneck. I've seen both — and I know exactly what separates them.
Experience
A decade building and scaling technical teams
From founding engineering teams at zero to leading a global TA function at a fully licensed bank — each chapter taught me something different about what great hiring actually looks like.
After Solaris SE, I chose to take on independent work while exploring the right senior in-house opportunity in Europe.
- Acting as founding TA partner for early-stage companies with no existing hiring infrastructure
- Defining senior tech and leadership roles from scratch — EM, Tech Lead, CTO-level
- Designing interview frameworks, scorecards, and hiring calibration processes
- Hands-on sourcing, screening, and closing of senior technical candidates including AI/ML profiles
- Advising founders on hiring strategy, TA function setup, and employer brand
- Delivering recruiter coaching and hiring manager training to build internal hiring capability
Specialisations
Deep expertise across the full technical stack
AI & Machine Learning
ML Engineers · AI Researchers · LLM Specialists · Data Scientists
Data Engineering
Data Engineers · Analytics Engineers · Data Platform
Backend Engineering
Java · Kotlin · Go · Python · Elixir · Ruby
Platform & DevOps
AWS · Kubernetes · SRE · Cloud Infrastructure
Frontend Engineering
TypeScript · React · Next.js
Mobile
iOS · Android
Cyber Security
App Security · Infrastructure · Incident Response
Technical Leadership
EMs · Staff Engineers · CTOs · VPs Engineering
Product & Design
PMs · Product Designers · UX Researchers
Diversity & Inclusion
Building diverse teams — intentionally
I believe diverse teams build better products, make better decisions, and create stronger companies. This isn't a value I talk about — it's something I've actively worked on throughout my career. In Europe and Germany specifically, D&I is not a trend — it's a business and legal imperative.
- Led gender diversity initiatives in engineering and leadership hiring — supporting targets to increase women in leadership from 20% to 30%
- Implemented diverse shortlisting practices — ensuring underrepresented candidates are always represented at every stage of the funnel
- Audited and rewrote job descriptions to remove exclusionary language and unconscious bias
- Designed diverse interview panels — ensuring candidates meet a range of perspectives
- Built structured interview frameworks that reduce gut-feel decisions and surface consistent evidence-based hiring
- Tracked D&I metrics at every funnel stage — application, screen, interview, offer, hire — to identify and address drop-off points
- Delivered hiring manager training on inclusive interviewing, bias awareness, and structured decision making
By the Numbers
10+
Years in tech hiring
500+
Engineering & product hires
7+
Fintech ventures built
10+
Countries hired across
6
Recruiters led globally
5,000+
Hours of structured interviews
3
Continents hired across
Published Work
Book by Neo Nabeel
The Success Mindset
How to Stop Overthinking & Start Building the Life You Deserve
Shaped by conversations with hundreds of professionals and founders, this book explores what consistently holds people back from progress — and how clarity, discipline, and consistent action drive meaningful results. A direct, practical guide for anyone building something that matters.
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Ready for my next
senior in-house opportunity
I'm currently exploring senior in-house TA opportunities across Europe — at companies where hiring is taken seriously and the work genuinely matters.
The companies that excite me most are scaling fast, building something real, and understand that hiring is one of the most strategic investments they can make. I want to be the person who becomes the face of your talent brand in the market.
Based in Berlin · Open to roles across Europe