Olivia Smith
Senior Business Recruiter at Monzo
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivia Smith is a seasoned talent specialist with 14 years of experience and over five years focused on tech hiring, currently shaping business recruitment at Monzo in London. She has progressed through hands-on sourcing and senior recruiting roles across specialist agencies and startups, pairing deep market knowledge with a knack for building diverse technical teams. As co‑founder of Functional Females she champions women in functional programming, blending community-building with recruitment expertise. Olivia’s background in psychology and criminal investigation gives her a unique edge in candidate assessment and investigative sourcing techniques. Colleagues describe her as a connector who moves seamlessly between enterprise and startup hiring needs, with a practical interest in code, security, and architecture that helps her engage technical audiences.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY at University of LiverpoolMaster's degree, Criminal Investigation and Policing, Master's degree, Criminal Investigation and Policing at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (92)
ioc-container10
proxy10
security10
constructor-injection10
code-generation10
cloud-native10
auth10
code-generator10
sidecar10
api10
golang10
authz10
swagger-codegen10
discovery10
go10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thales-e-security/envoy
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
C++ front/service proxy
Contributions:7 PRs, 68 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
cppservice-proxyproxy
nickrmc83/ioc_container
Jun 2012 - Mar 2020
A C++ IOC container capable of constructor injection and runtime registration of types.
Contributions:176 commits, 3 pushes in 7 years 10 months
constructor-injectioncppioc-container
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