Emma Breen
Recruitment Business Partner - Technical Research & Development at Novartis
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolEmma Breen is a strategic talent acquisition leader with a decade of experience specialising in technical recruitment across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Currently partnering with Novartis TRD, she designs data‑informed hiring strategies and builds trusted stakeholder relationships to fill critical R&D roles. Her background spans agency and in‑house hiring for software development stacks and high‑growth startups, giving her a rare blend of volume hiring, senior search and employer‑branding expertise. Emma has run onsite recruitment programs for clients like Fenergo via Harvey Nash, delivering measurable improvements in process and candidate experience. She also codes as a hobbyist software engineer and publishes independent projects on GitHub with employer permission, reflecting a hands‑on appreciation for the roles she recruits for. Based in Dublin and grounded in a sociology and geography BA, she brings both analytical insight and people‑first instincts to talent strategy.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Castleknock Community CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology and Geography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology and Geography at Maynooth University
Github Skills (13)
synthesis10
audio10
frontend10
music10
resampler9
windows6
linux6
macos6
menu3
java3
javafx3
python1
fundamental1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
titinko/frq0003gen
Feb 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 8 months
titinko/macres
Jan 2018 - Oct 2021
Resampler for UTSU that works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 19 commits in 3 years 10 months
windowslinuxmacresamplerutau
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