Building exceptional Cloud & Platform Engineering teams since 2018
I specialise in connecting ambitious tech companies with exceptional Cloud, Platform and Software engineering talent. After eight years working with start-ups, scale-ups, and established names, I founded Named Later to continue doing proper recruitment, with a more personal touch.
Specialisms
Cloud & Platform Engineering
AWS, Azure, GCP. From ARM Templates to Terraform, AKS to EKS via GKE and beyond.
Software Engineering
Backend, full-stack: .NET, Java, Go, Node/TypeScript.
Engineering Leadership
From Tech Leads and Engineering Managers through to VP/CTO level hires.
How I Do It
Assess
Dig deep to understand your readiness to hire. Interrogate processes and offer frank, actionable feedback to improve outcomes.
Calibrate
Work in tandem to ensure our partnership adds genuine value. Tailor solutions based on scope, urgency, and budget.
Link
Craft the connection between you and your next hire. Multichannel sourcing with cutting-edge software and deep talent pools.
Geography
Assess
Dig deep to understand your readiness to hire. Interrogate processes and offer frank, actionable feedback to improve outcomes.
Calibrate
Work in tandem to ensure our partnership adds genuine value. Tailor solutions based on scope, urgency, and budget.
Link
Craft the connection between you and your next hire. Multichannel sourcing with cutting-edge software and deep talent pools.
I help technology companies scale their engineering teams with efficient, equitable processes where the candidate experience is really good and the hiring team's problem is solved without fuss. As a solo founder, there's nowhere to hide if I make a bad match—this focuses the mind brilliantly.
What They Say
"He genuinely cares and wants to build and maintain a long term relationship. Understands requirements and wants to ensure candidates and roles match as well as possible. John would easily be my first choice to recommend to anyone looking for candidates in Cloud/Platform."
"Open, straight to the point and always helps where he can to get a good outcome for both sides, I would absolutely recommend John."
"Knows the DevOps market as well as anyone, finds good candidates and acts with integrity."