Customer reviews & testimonials

We would be pleased to hear about your hiring aims and explore ways we can collaborate and help bring your plans to life.

You can read more about our approach to hiring here, and as ever, please be in touch any time!

"As a Bristol-based scaleup company, we were looking for recruitment support beyond the usual cv-pushing services offered elsewhere. techfolk have been invaluable in helping us scope, and recruit to, a range of brand new roles for Sennen. From ensuring the job and person specifications are accurate, through proactive marketing and search, assistance with assessment and onboarding, they really feel an extension of the Sennen team. Candidates in our hiring processes are also hugely complimentary of their experience with techfolk, which is all too rare in the tech recruitment sector. As the first contact they have with 'us', this is really important to me, and is another reason I recommend techfolk."

Alexandra Allen | COO | Sennen

Sennen is a 'clean tech' or 'tech for good' scaleup SaaS software provider of global offshore wind farm and renewable energy management solutions including investment, wind farm operation, data management and safety & maintenance. Customers include: Foresight, London Array, EDF Renewables, Octopus Energy, Orsted. We've supported Sennen since 2020, hiring a remote-first team spanning full-stack (React, TypeScript, Node.js, functional JS), delivery management, AWS platform operations, product design, API integrations and account management.

Together we've enabled Sennen to further its growth and maturation, hiring key team members adept in the skills sought and who want to shape the technology that builds a more sustainable world. We are both passionate about building 'tech for good' that helps the world change its ways to avoid disastrous climate change.

"We have worked closely with techfolk over the last 10 years to recruit for new roles in our organisation, a complex and unique organisation. Each time we have found excellent candidates and the help that techfolk has given throughout the recruitment process has been invaluable. techfolk's experience, hands-on involvement and excellent communication throughout the process have meant that we have succeeded with each recruitment drive. I would strongly recommend the entire team at techfolk to help with recruitment and I expect to be working with them for the foreseeable future whenever we need to recruit both for permanent and temporary positions."

Rory Davidson | CIO | SNOMED

SNOMED International is a non-profit and open source 'tech for good' clinical terminology standards organisation with 48 member nations worldwide and growing - including the UK and the NHS - which can rely on its data standard for accuracy in clinical and medical data, underpinning their nations' healthcare and hospital systems. SNOMED also releases integrated web-based data and knowledge engineering tools, supporting a progressive and active community of health information users, open source developers and partners.

techfolk has supported SNOMED since 2013, hiring a fully-remote team across software engineering (Java, description logic, linked data, semantic web), DevOps, front-end, release, SDET/QA, project management and delivery.

Together, we secured people with shared values around working contributing to open source for the health benefit of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

James Irwin | Director of Product Support Engineering | Graphcore

James's team within Graphcore supports customers adopting and operating Graphcore's ML compute and platform products, underpinning significant ML projects globally. This entails supporting and evolving the product and application layers, the SDK, and the infrastructure of the managed platform 'GraphCloud'.

To supplement Graphcore's in-house recruitment team, we supported hiring for James' team during 2021, hiring software engineering skills (embedded, C++, Python, Keras, CUDA, OpenCL, PyTorch, TensorFlow) and MLOPs/SRE skills (Python, Linux, K8's, Docker, PaaS, cloud, OpenStack and systems infrastructure).

Together, we secured some key hires soon promoted to team leader level and also the first person dedicated to Graphcore's platform offering.

"techfolk provide a considered approach to recruitment which appears to work well for both clients and candidates. At StackHPC we enjoy working with the team at techfolk and value the service that they provide for our business."

Stig Telfer | CTO | StackHPC

StackHPC is a UK-based SME that provides professional services and solutions for AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud computing. The company specialises in designing, building, and supporting HPC and cloud infrastructures for scientific and engineering research organisations, government agencies, and private companies. StackHPC has a team of highly experienced HPC and cloud experts who have worked on some of the world's largest and most complex on-premises cloud infrastructures, e.g. StackHPC is helping to build and run the new Dawn AI system housed at the University of Cambridge, partnered with Dell and Intel.

techfolk has supported StackHPC since its inception in 2018, hiring OpenStack developers (Python, cloud and systems engineering, HPC) and graduate-level Python and cloud infrastructure engineers to advance its technical services delivery and open source product development.

"techfolk has helped us to reach the calibre of candidate we'd never have been able to attract on our own."

Alan Parry | Director of Engineering | YellowDog

YellowDog is a mature startup building the world-class cloud native scheduling, source of compute and intelligent provision products. Partners include AWS, OCF, AMD, Storm FX. Customers span life sciences, finance, enterprise, startup and AI/ML. We've supported Alan since 2019, hiring software/system engineering skills and QA/SDET (Java, cloud systems, Python, big data, automation, ML and HPC).

"Publisher Discovery is a late-stage SaaS startup in the affiliate advertising sector. We have managed to be successful by having a very focussed team in which every member has an active role in the product. We wouldn't have been able to grow this team without the help of techfolk. They are very proactive in their brief, and often help us to better understand our own requirements. When specifying new roles, techfolk's experience in the market is invaluable, and it shows in the quality of the candidates that techfolk bring to us. I have previously used techfolk at a different business, and it is their commitment to easing the hiring process, and bringing us only quality candidates, which has led us to engage exclusively with techfolk when growing our team."

Rob Haswell | CTO | Publisher Discovery

We've supported Publisher Discovery since 2020, hiring skills spanning full-stack (React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres), and data engineering (Python, asyncio, big data and GCP). 

Together we've enabled Publisher Discovery to build out a high quality product, hiring key engineering team members who have progressed within the business and helping build out all-new products to maximise commercial opportunity, while entering a new chapter of enhanced efficiency, automation and maturity.

"techfolk brought clarity to our plans. We could talk in depth about our roadmap and technology choices. Together, we translated this into a hiring strategy that resulted in hires who reflect our values and are already transforming how we build out. We'd not known we could get this from any recruiter, let alone one that has become a friend of the business."

Martyn Jennings | Co-Founder | Virtual Pricing Director                                                                                                                 

"It has been a refreshing change working with techfolk. A totally different approach to what we have previously experienced from other recruiters - a few CVs fired in our direction. Instead their thorough approach to really understanding our needs as a startup has meant a much more targeted process and a better fit of shortlisted candidates. We look forward to enlisting their support to further develop the team as we grow."

Richard Burcher | Co-Founder | Virtual Pricing Director

"I have used techfolk with numerous different clients and they have always excelled. Their approach to recruitment is refreshingly different and their candidate research and vetting process is different from your typical recruiter - I only get the best candidates to review - a promise other recruiters give but fail to deliver on. techfolk does genuinely care and give every role the focus it needs. Highly recommended."

Mat Diss | Interim IT Director | Freeman Clarke 

Freeman Clarke is the UK’s largest and most experienced team of part-time CIOs, CTOs and IT Directors. We've supported Mat Diss on a range of digital and agile transformation assignments since 2016, hiring the developers, engineers and technology leaders that build out and implement the new strategies and roadmaps.

Together, we adapted the approach to the nuances of each interim assignment, appointing a range of technical hires across the South East and the South West to materialise modern, agile and highly automated approaches.

"techfolk are unlike any other recruitment agency I have known. They genuinely care about the fit of a candidate with the role and can help me shape my requirements. I used them in my previous role and reconnected when I wanted to build a team at Blackout Technologies. The candidates I interview speak highly of their experience with techfolk and those I've hired are surprised and impressed when they follow up to hear how the new role is going. They are my agency of choice."

David Taylor | CTO | Blackout Technologies

Blackout Technologies is a startup 'infosec' and compliance provider. Its proprietary technology regulates non essential smart device functionality by utilising situationally aware technologies. Blackout helps companies protect sensitive data, minimise distractions and improve productivity. Its technology will also protect school students from distracting and potentially harmful phone usage, for improved learning and safer play time. We hired cross-platform skills in native mobile app development and full-stack PHP for the integrated web application and dashboard.

Together we formed the early team that will enable Blackout to build out its core technology for customer trials and commercial growth.

"We’ve worked with techfolk many times as we've grown, and we keep coming back because they genuinely care about getting the right candidate, with a friendly, socially grounded ethos that fits our own. The candidates we've hired always speak highly of their experience with techfolk and we've had many successful hires, still with us years later." 

Alex Coley | MD | Epimorphics

Epimorphics is a mature software and services provider at the forefront of developing standards, tools and applications that enable public and private sector organisations to organise and publish data. Its team includes accomplished computer scientists and data experts who helped define the standards in the semantic web and linked data. Customers include the Environment Agency, the Food Standards Agency, Defra and HM Land Registry. We've supported Epimorphics since 2016, hiring across software engineering (Java, Ruby, front-end, UI), data modelling and technical project management.

You can read more about our approach to hiring here, or please be in touch