My name is Mark Rafferty and I recruit engineers and other force multipliers for early-stage startups.

I handle recruiting operations that don’t scale so a founder can focus on building.

I have been working independently since 2021 as stay-at-home dad, but am scaling up operations in 2024 with my children now in school full-time.

Engagements: 

Web3 VC Firm (Internal hiring) 

1 Engineering hire (Snap, Meta), 1 Admin Assistant hire. Ongoing Operations searches. ~30 person growing firm.

Comm - Seed Stage Encrypted Messaging App for Communities (NYC)

Recruited 7 contractors (3 Engineering, 1 Researcher, 2 Marketing, 1 Operations) and helped bring on a design firm as well. Searches included Principal Engineer, Design, Chief of Staff, Marketing/Community. Worked closely with Founder on multiple other projects as well including general networking with passive talent, coordinated a local Rust meetup, planned their Seed Round Summer Party, etc.

Callin (acquired) - Social Podcasting App, worked with after they raised their Series A.

Hired 2 iOS Engineer hires from Meta and Uber in a short period of time.

“Mark did some amazing work for us at Callin, sourcing two key product hires with top-notch backgrounds. Highly recommend working with him / Reqshop” - Andrew Ziperski, Former COO at Callin, now at Craft Ventures

You can view more my recommendations here.

Recruiting Career:

Reqshop Talent: Sep 2021 - now

DFINITY: April 2018 - June 2021

Scaled the team for 3+ years from 20 to 200+, hired in the Bay Area as well as Switzerland and Germany. I handled full-cycle recruiting for multiple verticals including infrastructure, networking, SDK, marketing, etc. 

Meta (fka Facebook): April 2013-April 2018

Engineering Manager and Director level hiring in Menlo Park and Seattle

Riviera Partners: Apr 2011 - Apr 2013

Contingency search recruiter for 2 years. Worked directly with companies like Snap and Lyft in their infancy to help them recruit early engineers.