Rick Blagg
Technical Recruiting focusing on AI, Machine Learning & Data Science
- Role
- Talent Advisor at Cisco
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rick Blagg
Technical recruiting with 18+ years of experience building high-performing engineering teams across SaaS, cybersecurity, AI/ML, and enterprise technology environments. My approach centers on talent intelligence and ecosystem mapping—identifying top engineers through open-source communities, research publications, technical conferences, startup engineering teams, and specialized technical forums. By analyzing signals such as GitHub contributions, architecture experience, and emerging technology trends, I engage highly skilled passive talent that traditional recruiting methods rarely surface. I focus on advancing modern recruiting practices that emphasize data-driven sourcing, technical credibility, and long-term talent pipelines aligned with the standards used by leading technology companies and AI research labs such as Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, where data-driven sourcing, technical credibility, and talent intelligence are critical to identifying the world’s top engineering talent.
Experience
Talent Advisor
Apr 2021 — Present · Denver, CO, US
AI Developers and Engineers, ML and LLM Developers, Data Scientists, SDE\'s, Python, Java, Scala, Golang, Spark, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Docker
Education
Colorado State University
BA, Economics & Sociology
Colorado State University Global
Organizational Development
2016
Regis University
MBA, Finance
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