Zac Wallis

Zac Wallis

Head of Talent @ XBOW

About

Currently Head of Talent at XBOW where we are bringing AI to offensive security, augmenting the productivity of pentesters, bug hunters and security researchers. XBOW’s mission is to stay ahead and defeat the bad actors. We are building XBOW because it must be built, and we’re the best team to do it. All of us are deeply committed to making the technology available in a safe and responsible way. I am a Talent Acquisition Manager & Partner, passionate about the developer ecosystem and highly experienced at building software engineering teams at the forefront of Data/AI, Application Security, Compilers and Programming Languages. As a Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition, I lead a team of recruiters and talent partners who work closely with GitHub's engineering and security teams to source, attract, and engage exceptional candidates across all of our locations and numerous products. My core expertise include: * Embedding into engineering organisations to understand the developer ecosystem & the hiring requirements. * Developing strong collaborative relationships across teams & functions to improve processes. * Championing inclusive behaviours and implementing process improvements for greater equity in hiring. * Applying data and insights to effectively scale hiring efforts I have a strong network and knowledge of the open source community, the security research industry, and the software engineering market. I am always interested in connecting with people who share my vision of making software development more accessible, collaborative, and secure. If you have expertise in any of the areas mentioned above, please reach out to me at zacwallis@github.com.

Country

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City

United Kingdom

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Start-ups, Start-up Consulting, IT Recruitment, Spring, Big Data, Java, Python, JavaScript, NoSQL, Hadoop, Open Source, Sales, Git, Technical Sales Presentations, Business Development, MVC, Account Management, Apache, XML, Data Science

Experience

XBOW

Head of Talent

XBOW

LinkedIn
2025-3 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

United Kingdom

All things hiring!

Kraken

Senior Recruiter - Engineering

Kraken

LinkedIn
2024-5 - 2025-3 · 11 mos

Remote

Helping Kraken scale our engineering teams!

GitHub

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition (Engineering)

GitHub

LinkedIn
2019-10 - 2023-11 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Remote, United Kingdom

Talent Acquisition Manager & Partner for GitHub Engineering. Responsible for the rapid growth of our teams in the US and Internationally (namely Europe, ANZ, India & Japan). Primarily focused on the following product areas: - Copilot and the GitHub data teams - Advanced Security products and security research - CodeQL, programming languages, runtime and compilers - Scalability & Cloud Development - Developer tooling and ecosystem

Semmle

Engineering Recruitment Manager

Semmle

LinkedIn
2019-1 - 2019-10 · 10 mos

Oxford, United Kingdom

Responsible for all technology and engineering recruitment for one of the world's most exciting and innovative software companies. Actively hiring for a number of positions across all of our offices (Oxford, San Francisco, Copenhagen and Valencia) in the areas of: - Security Research and Development - Software Engineering - Web Development - Software Language Analysis and Programming - Static and Variant Analysis - Open Source Developer Advocacy Please contact me for more details: zac@semmle.com

Reqiva

Technology Recruitment Manager

Reqiva

LinkedIn
2018-5 - 2018-12 · 8 mos

Reading, United Kingdom

At Reqiva, we’re on a mission to redefine the term ‘specialist recruitment partner’ through the delivery of expert and quality-driven, collaborative consultancy. Technology and Engineering expertise is ingrained in Reqiva’s DNA. We cover a range of niche vertical markets to source exceptional talent and unique opportunities, within our permanent and contract divisions. Since 2008, Reqiva has worked with some of the largest global enterprises, through to the smallest SMEs. Our leading reputation in finding unique candidates has contributed to our expanded service offering and we now consult with existing clients to also source talent for Sales, Marketing, HR and Leadership teams. We take the time to deliver genuine specialist consultancy that always exceeds expectations and enables businesses and professionals to achieve their full potential. Contact us today and find out how Reqiva can help you #BeMore

Spencer Ogden

Technology Recruitment Manager

Spencer Ogden

LinkedIn
2016-3 - 2018-4 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Singapore

Modern technology recruitment continues to change and, in order to stay at the forefront of these changes it is imperative that we focus on being community leaders within the tech & digital industry. Here at Spencer Ogden we pride ourselves on this approach - leveraging deep market expertise to be highly proactive in our candidate acquisition and representation. We regularly host tech meet-ups and are always keen to partner with groups and companies to host other events and hackathons (please get in touch!) As a company we have technology in our DNA! We were one of the first recruitment companies globally to roll out Cloud Computing across all our systems as well as using real-time data analytics in every office. We are keen to offer this innovative approach and technical expertise to all of our partners. With a strong presence in key locations, we are strategically placed to accommodate the needs of clients and candidates alike. Since 2010, our wealth of expertise and influence has enabled us to successfully exceed our clients’ expectations on time, every time. We represent professionals at all levels and recruit for clients internationally within: Technology Research & Development Engineering Aviation & Avionics SMART Tech & Utilities Automotive Built Environment Energy & Power Generation - Nuclear - Renewable - Oil & Gas As a company we are committed to delivering high quality candidates to our clients and providing a world-class service by investing in the best people, infrastructure, services and training. We have established an innovative culture and new way of recruiting that has been recognised by multiple awards and accreditations, including: 'The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade', IS09001, 'International Growth Business of the Year' at the 2014 National Business Awards, Sunday Times 'Fast Track 100' company and a Sunday Times 'International Track 200' company. Reg no: R1655922 L: 13C6321

Reqiva

Team Lead - Software Engineering & Open Source Technologies

Reqiva

LinkedIn
2010-12 - 2016-2 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Reqiva Technology Recruitment is a highly specialist candidate and client focused recruitment organisation. We provide staffing solutions within niche areas of the UK technology sector and take pride in the unique level of service that we offer. My areas of expertise focus around Software, Big Data & Data Science: - Big Data & Data Science, Machine Learning, Algorithmic Development, Cloud Computing, NLP, Relational Mapping, Data Engineering & Mining, Analytics, Deep Learning, AI - Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, HBase, Hive, BigTable, PIG, Cassandra, NoSQL, AWS, MongoDB, CouchDB, ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper, Kafka, Storm, DynamoDB, Neo4j, ElasticSearch, Solr - R, Matlab, Minitab, Octave, S-Plus - Functional Programming; GOlang, Scala, Akka, Lift, Play, Haskell, Clojure, Erlang - Cloud development & deployment, Amazon AWS, EC2, S3, OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku - JVM, CoreJava, JEE, J2EE, J2SE - Open Source Frameworks & ORM (Spring, Struts, Hibernate...) - JSP, Servlets, JSF, EJB's, JPA, JDBC, - Swing, JavaGUI's, GWT, AWT, SwingX - JMS, JMX, JNDI, JSP, Java Web Services, RESTful, SOAP, MQ - Websphere, JBOSS, Apache, Tomcat, Jenkins, WebLogic - Python, Django, NumPy, SciPy, Flask, Twisted, NetworkX, SymPy, Jython, CherryPy - JavaScript, Node.JS, React.JS, Angular.JS, Backbone.JS, Prototype.JS, Mustache.JS I am always keen to talk to clients and candidates interested in these areas so please feel free to connect or drop me a message.

G2 Recruitment Solutions

Consultant

G2 Recruitment Solutions

2009-9 - 2010-11 · 1 yr 3 mos

IT Recruitment; Development and Analysis; Java & Sun Technologies; Oracle & SQL

Education

University of Hull

University of Hull

LinkedIn

History

2006 - 2009 · 3 yrs

Zac Wallis's Contact Information

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