Marie Mikhail is a seasoned talent acquisition leader with 15 years of experience building technical and cross-functional teams, now serving as Sr. Manager of Talent Acquisition at Ferrara. She has progressed through increasing responsibilities at Ferrara since 2019, combining hands-on recruiting with strategic hiring processes and team development. Marie’s background includes agency recruiting for tech roles and corporate recruiting at fintech and consumer brands, giving her a keen sense for matching culture and capability across early hires to leadership. Fluent in Spanish and experienced teaching language at the university level, she brings strong communication and cross-cultural insight to global talent efforts. An early contributor to a real-time log-monitoring open-source project demonstrates she understands engineering workflows and can credibly partner with technical stakeholders. Based in Chicago, she pairs data-informed sourcing with empathetic candidate experience to scale high-performing teams.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla Mexico
Academy of Holy Angels
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences International and Area Studies Latin America; Spanish, Bachelor of Arts and Sciences International and Area Studies Latin America; Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis
Contributions:11 releases, 151 commits, 33 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Marie primarily focused on updating the project's dependencies, specifically regarding Socket.IO. They addressed compatibility issues with newer versions of Socket.IO, providing warnings and fixes to maintain functionality. The user also worked on setting up the build process, installing required dependencies through npm, and integrating a daemon process with `forever` to run Log.io in the background. Furthermore, they upgraded various components, transitioning to Socket.IO v0.8 and implementing changes to custom events, and room-based broadcasting, updating the core backend codebase.
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Marie Mikhail - Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition at Ferrara