Brain Gain Recruiting’s founding partners Julia Tverskaya and Irina Shamaeva are former software engineers and managers with broad prior experience in the corporate and start-up world as well as recruiting agencies.
We understand the meaning of the company culture and provide service tailored to your needs.
We have earned a reputation for being resourceful and creative, constantly inventing new and clever ways to find and reach potentially interested candidates. We keep in close touch with our candidates throughout their interviews.
Irina is an expert and authority on Boolean, semantic, and deep web search; LinkedIn and all other social networks; and advanced sourcing productivity tools.
Irina is responsible for the sourcing function for our recruiting needs as well as providing sourcing for several corporate teams on a contract basis.
Irina has created successful recruiting communities: the Boolean Strings LinkedIn group and the Boolean Strings Community on Facebook, with a total population of 75K+ members from 100+ countries around the globe. She maintains an active blog “Boolean Strings” where she publishes sourcing advice. In March of 2012 Irina founded the Sourcing Certification Program that is supported by a team of talented sourcers and is quickly taking over the world!
Before Brain Gain Recruiting, Irina held engineering and management leadership positions at biotech and high technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Irina holds a Master of Science Degree in Mathematics from Moscow University.
Julia has an unmatched capability to match candidates against jobs. If Julia pre-screens and submits a candidate, employers agree with her choices in 98% of the cases! Her talents allow Brain Gain Recruiting to maintain an excellent reputation (and on-going vendor relationships) with many top global consulting and software companies.
Before Brain Gain Recruiting, Julia held engineering and management leadership positions at biotech and high technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Julia has an MS in Applied Linguistics and a strong background in software engineering and management.
When he’s not teaching sourcing and recruitment best practices, he is putting them into practice as a recruiter and sourcer for Brain Gain Recruiting. His background is entirely in an agency (third party) search, providing him an extremely broad background regarding positions filled and industries served.