Dan Kirkpatrick
Founder Search Partner at TTN Talent
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Kirkpatrick is a founder and specialist search partner with over two decades of experience building and leading technology and engineering recruitment teams, now focused on hiring for AI, machine learning, and frontier research roles. He founded TTN Talent to cut through high-volume, AI-inflated hiring signals by offering tightly scoped searches (typically 3–5 at a time), rigorous candidate qualification, and candid market insight. Previously he led data science and ML recruitment at JAM Recruitment and held broad operational roles spanning bid management, data analysis, legal, and sales ops—skills that give him a rare combination of commercial, analytical, and sector-specific hiring expertise. Dan began hiring AI talent as early as 2005, well before the field went mainstream, and leverages that long view to advise startups and scale-ups seeking thoughtful, precise hires. Based in the United States, he pairs an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics with practical recruitment leadership to translate technical hiring needs into the right long-term hires.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Social Research Methods and Statistics, MSc, Social Research Methods and Statistics at The University of ManchesterAmpleforth College
Github Skills (94)
high-availability10
security10
scheduling10
microservices10
bare-metal10
kubernetes-cluster10
proxies10
ansible10
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
plugin10
aws10
service-mesh9
mesos9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NephTek/Public_Notebooks
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 33 pushes in 4 months
dankirkpatrick/dankirkpatrick.github.io
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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