Lindsey Thorne

About Lindsey Thorne

Our passion is connecting great people. Through this, we have helped our clients scale their teams, enabling them to go public or be acquired. Many of our clients engage us immediately after raising Series A funding, when they have around 20-25 employees. However, we have also helped seed-stage and stealth-mode startups find critical members of their initial team, as well as larger organizations find highly technical talent.Our roots are in open source technology. We participate in the broad open source community in order to truly understand the space. We connect with thought leaders, support their talks, attend industry conferences and meetups, and work with non-profit foundations, such as the Linux Foundation and Apache Software Foundation.With our history, we’re attuned to the unique needs of startups and highly technical engineering organizations. We understand the importance and challenges around expanding with the correct team. In addition to finding the right talent for a team, we can provide managed services, in which we help a startup develop and implement their recruitment process and manage it for as long as needed.As a boutique team backed by a national firm, we provide the expertise and flexibility to enable you to successfully scale your team, so you can spend more time doing what you do best, grow your business, and achieve your goals.Vaco is the Talent Solutions division of Highspring, a leading global professional services organization. With expertise in Accounting and Finance, Technology and Digital, and Human Resources and Operations, Vaco provides Contract Staffing and Direct Hire solutions. Vaco’s parent company, Highspring, helps clients with two additional integrated service offerings: Consulting and Managed Services. With more than employees across more than 45 offices worldwide, Highspring gives partners the agility to thrive, address challenges, and seize opportunities in a rapidly changing world. Get to know us at vaco.com.Focus on Seattle and San Francisco. Strong passion and expertise for the Open Source Community. Currently managing recruitment at Lineage Logistics Data Science Team and MHE Engineering.My team has also managed the entire Recruitment Process for companies like NGINX, ForAllSecure, Inc, TigerGraph, Stormpath and Silicon Valley Data Science (SVDS).** I have MS (Multiple Sclerosis), it important to me that I stay connected to my community and I am available to anyone who may have any questions.

Experience

1. Managing Director - Technology

   Vaco by Highspring

   Apr 2012 — Present

   My team and I specialize in recruiting for emerging technologies—whatever is new, exciting, and shaping the future. In 2012, it was distributed systems and \'big data.\' Today, it\'s LLMs and AI. If it’s niche, we’re likely already connected. If it’s a buzzword, we probably understand the space better than you’d expect.\"

Education

• Olympic College

  General Education

  1996 — 1998

Skills

• Technical Recruiting
• Recruiting
• Puppet
• Hbase
• Staff Development
• Information Retrieval
• Machine Learning
• Open Source
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Staff Augmentation
• Pig
• Team Building
• Hive
• Chef
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Mapreduce
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Apache
• College Recruiting
• Hiring
• Cold Calling
• Benefits Negotiation
• Talent Acquisition
• Screening Resumes
• Data Mining
• Permanent Placement
• Staffing Services
• Human Resources
• Java
• Ruby
• Performance Management
• Natural Language Processing
• IT Recruitment
• Nlp
• Cassandra
• Couchdb
• Mysql
• Customer Service
• Distributed Systems