Kelly Sexton

Most talent advisors can tell you what a good engineer looks like. As an AI talent decision advisor, I can tell you which engineer will change the trajectory of your company and I can tell you in the first 10 minutes.

Inside the companies that led each major technology wave, before they defined it. Designed the startup hiring architecture that scaled HashiCorp through their $14B IPO. Advisor to Anthropic's AI safety research programs and Constellation's Astra Fellowship, the leading AI safety research pipeline placing researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and the UK AI Security Institute. Built engineering and product teams at Stripe ($95B) and Square/Block during the fintech revolution. Helped build Twitter during its defining growth era. Built teams across enterprise technology at Microsoft at global scale. Served as a talent architect for AI safety fellowship ecosystems and advised research organizations on designing talent architecture at the intersection of AI research and applied science. Earlier: multiple IPO-track hypergrowth companies across AI infrastructure, cloud infrastructure and enterprise software.

100,000+ network across Bay Area AI and infrastructure. Global talent architecture across North America, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

I do not fill roles. I build the judgment infrastructure that makes every hire after me better.