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Walter has done a fantastic job recruiting Highly Performant Engineers for us who fit out pace and culture... Looking forward to seeing him make several more key placements across the organization.. Great job, Walter!

Harjot Gill
CEO, Co-Founder, CodeRabbit.ai (Agentic AI Code Review Tool)

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Walter is an amazing recruiter... delivers several highly qualified candidates for us to choose from (in record-timing)... Makes the recruiting process very streamlined... Looking forward to engaging Walter on our next mission-critical recruiting projects.

Wing Lian
CEO, Co-Founder, Axolotl.ai (LLM Onboarding and Training Tool)

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I worked with other recruiters before, but no one sources amazing candidates as fast as Walter does... It is very efficient and saves us a long sourcing process... Walter presents... several of the best candidates in our space... and helps us close them... We've hired multiple senior key roles with him... these hires are among the best we've made.

Lukas Gentele,
CEO and Co-Founder, Loft Labs (Virtual Kubernetes Clusters)

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Walter is an amazing recruiter … has helped numerous companies that I've worked with… from IC level… to VP… I enjoy working with Walter and strongly recommend him…

Shomik Ghosh
VC Partner, Boldstart Ventures (Snyk, CrewAI, Clay, Protect AI, Tessl...)

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Walter... only provides the most relevant candidates... Impressed me... high-level technical role... (candidate) has made a huge difference... and provides strategic leadership for our space.

Yevgeny Pats
CEO and Co-Founder, CloudQuery (Developer-first cloud governance platform)

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Walter is the ideal head-hunter… he totally understands the profile that you need… sells the role and makes them excited... I highly recommend any tech company… to use Walter's services.

Ohad Maislish
CEO, Co-Founder, env0 (Self-service DevTool Portal)

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I have ... worked with Walter for almost 10 years now ... to hire Executive Team and VP levels and in every case, he has found the perfect candidate...

Kevin Barrett
VP
MediData

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I recently attended one of Walter's gatherings for CTOs & tech execs... best networking events I've attended in recent memory.

Ryan Graciano
CTO & Co-founder
CreditKarma

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I have ... worked with Walter for almost 10 years now ... to hire Executive Team and VP levels and in every case, he has found the perfect candidate...

Kevin Barrett
VP
MediData

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Walter does a fantastic job bringing together technical leaders.

Robert Conrad
CTO
CrunchBase

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Walter focuses on quality and has deep understanding of how great technical recruiting should be done... definitely a huge asset for any company.

Ali Ghodsi
CEO & Co-Founder
Databricks

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Attending the Executive Networking Events hosted by Walter has been of immense value to me. I highly recommend these events.

Chetan Pungaliya
Co-founder
VP Engineering
PoshMark

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I've worked with Walter at 2 companies now ... to really build out top notch engineering teams... Walter is my secret weapon.

Bobby Gaza 
CTO
BeatsMusic

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...Delivers well-qualified, quality candidates with surgical precision... helped me build a world-class team

Norman Graham
Engineering Manager
MongoDB

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I used Walter to hire a new SVP... Engineering... His candidate was everyone’s number one choice… knocked it out of the park.

Chris Tennant
CTO
Connect Solutions

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Walter is the ideal head-hunter… he totally understands the profile that you need… sells the role and makes them excited... I highly recommend any tech company… to use Walter's services.

Ohad Maislish
Co-Founder, CEO
env0 (Terraform Cloud Alternative)

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Walter's partnership helped Personalis recruit great talent… reducing recruitment time… The hires… have proved to be a great fit… Highly recommend Walter...

Udy Dhansingh
Sr. Director of SWE
Personalis, Inc.

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Walter's partnership helped Personalis recruit great talent… reducing recruitment time… The hires… have proved to be a great fit… Highly recommend Walter...

Udy Dhansingh
Sr. Director of SWE
Personalis, Inc.

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Walter has exclusively helped us… This includes VP of DevOps… multiple technical leadership roles… closing even the most difficult searches in good time... I would highly recommend him.

Sohail Parekh
Sr. VP of Engineering
CloudPassage, Inc.

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Walter is one of the most skilled technical recruiters I have worked with. He is professional… HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Bart Westerink
Vice President, Security Engineering
MobileIron, Inc.

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Helping CEOs and Technical Founders of AI and DevTool Startups:

- Achieve Their Growth Goals

- By RECRUITING High-Impact Leaders and ICs Globally

- with Proven Domain Expertise