Greg Banks
Sr. Recruiter at Aircall
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Banks is a senior technical and leadership recruiter based in Seattle with 15 years of experience scaling engineering teams across Big Tech, startups, and Web3. He blends data-driven strategies and AI-enabled sourcing to lead full-cycle hiring for executive and senior engineering roles at companies like LinkedIn, Lyft, Meta, Phantom, and now Aircall. Known for building bespoke hiring processes with engineering leaders, he also mentors recruiters and optimizes pipelines using metrics to reduce time-to-hire and improve diversity. A former software contributor to distributed systems (improving stability and tooling in the open-source Voldemort project), he brings rare empathy for engineering trade-offs that informs better candidate selection. His background includes nontraditional leadership experience—from collegiate coaching to professional football—giving him a competitive, team-first approach to recruiting and talent development.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Bachelor at University of Michigan
Github Skills (10)
data-storage10
javas10
system10
distributed-systems10
architectures10
java10
architecture10
performance-optimization9
error-handling8
jmx8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
voldemort/voldemort
Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
An open source clone of Amazon's Dynamo.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 20 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality and stability of the Voldemort distributed storage system. They added features such as a tool to automate cluster zone expansion, improved error reporting, and fixed bugs related to JMX unregistration. Further contributions involved refactoring and cleaning up code related to memory management, and read-only storage functionality. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of the system's internal workings and focus on improving its robustness and efficiency.
reactnosqltransactionalamazonbig-data
novaprova/novaprova
Apr 2011 - Jul 2021
new generation testing framework for C and C++
Contributions:1087 commits, 13 PRs, 168 pushes in 10 years 4 months
testingcpptesting-framework
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