Sandra Prescott-Paoli

About Sandra Prescott-Paoli

Senior Technical Recruiter with 6+ years of experience hiring specialized engineering and IT talent across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and software development. Background includes recruiting within a global public cloud organization, as well as high-growth consulting and enterprise technology environments, and leading internal recruiting efforts for an AWS Partner of the Year organization.Brings a consultative, data-driven approach with proven success delivering an exceptional hiring manager experience, demonstrating strong ownership, responsiveness, and dedication throughout the recruiting lifecycle.Experience includes cloud-first hiring across large-scale public cloud, DevOps, and cloud migration roles, paired with extensive software development recruiting (frontend, backend, full-stack, and engineering leadership), along with infrastructure, network, and security positions.BBA in Finance

Experience

1. Technical Recruiter

   Effectual

   Dec 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Effectual is a two-time AWS Partner of the Year and an AWS Premier Consulting Partner specializing in cloud-first managed and professional services. The company partners with commercial enterprises and public-sector organizations to reduce risk and drive large-scale IT modernization initiatives.Effectual’s deeply experienced team delivers secure, scalable solutions across Amazon Web Services and VMware Cloud on AWS, applying proven methodologies to solve complex business and technical challenges.Effectual is backed by SDC Capital Partners, Catalyst Investors, and Lumerity Capital—private equity firms focused on cloud and data infrastructure investments.Learn more:• Company overview: https://effectual.ai/about/• Awards & recognition: https://effectual.ai/awards/

Education

• Texas State University

  Bachelor's degree, Finance

  2014 — 2018