Kushla Egan

Recruiter

London, England, United Kingdom7 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in technical recruiting for software engineering roles.
Passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in hiring.
Experience scaling tech-led businesses from pre-revenue to post Series B.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a technical recruiter specializing in SaaS and diversity-focused hiring.

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Skills

Core Skills

RecruitingDiversity & Inclusion

Other Skills

CommunicationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Diversity MarketingDrinking waterEmojisEmployer BrandingExecutive SearchGluten FreeHigh spirit and a clear mind :-)Scrolling through LinkedInTeamworkTrying to look on the bright side :-)Watching TikToksWomen's Issues

About

G'day! I am a specialist technical recruiter with a key focus on Software Engineering, but I also have experience recruiting Product, CX, and Marketing roles. I'm a storyteller who loves a challenger brand & am a total scaleup ecosystem geek. I'm based in London, working with the beautiful folks at Cleo to scale our product engineering squads. Cleo is more than just a money app or an AI reading a bank balance. We're on a mission to help millions of people improve their financial health & relate to them in a way their banks never could. 🤎 Back home in Australia, I worked at affix for 5+ years, a boutique recruitment and advisory consultancy that specialised in scaling tech-led businesses from pre-revenue to post Series B. I'm passionate about inclusion + diversity, and I believe recruitment should (and can) be a positive, empowering experience for everyone. Slide into my DMs to chat 💌 kushla.e@meetcleo.com

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Cleo

2 roles

Senior Talent Partner | Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Talent Partner | Engineering

Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 · 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Cleo, a Forbes Next Billion Dollar Start-up, is an app that helps the young and relentless build a life beyond their next paycheck. Using generative AI and bringing the best data driven minds together, we're building tools that help people improve their credit score, budget, save and build better money habits.
Ruby, React, and React Native engineers, let’s connect. View our open roles here > https://web.meetcleo.com/careers
💌 > kushla.e@meetcleo.com

Affix

2 roles

Lead Talent Partner | Tech & Digital

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Talent Advocate

Nov 2019 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

At affix, we help our customers transform, innovate and grow through connecting niche talent. ✨
As a Talent Advocate I drive end-to-end talent acquisition strategies and build relationships with our clients & candidates. Day-to-day you can find me in... client workshops, employer branding initiatives, inclusion and diversity strategies, candidate research and market mapping, building talent communities, stakeholder engagement and account management, candidate coaching, consulting, scaling recruitment processes and practices... and more.

99designs

Talent Partner | Engineering (onsite via affix)

Nov 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Hybrid

As a part of affix's embedded solutions team, I spent 2 years partnering with 99designs by Vista through a real time of scale after their acquisition by Vistaprint. I worked onsite in their software engineering group, growing the team + hiring folks from the junior - senior engineering manager level, including hiring for 2 annual junior engineering program cohorts.
Their tech stack was across React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Golang, and AWS, & with a little bit of legacy Ruby & PHP kicking around.
DEIB was a big part of this project. I had a mandate to triple the size of their software engineering group whilst increasing the representation of women at all levels in technical roles. 40% of the software engineers we hired were women, including 4 at the senior leadership level - something I'm really proud of.
99ers are the real deal. I loved being a part of their journey as an extension of their team. Some of the most inclusive, humble, fun, + big hearted people you'll ever meet. 🧡

Work180

2 roles

Business Development Manager

Promoted

Aug 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

WORK180 is a global platform that connects women with employers that have been vetted on their equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives.
A product startup flipping the traditional job platform model on its head. 🙃 Empowering job seekers by assessing employers & publicly sharing their corporate "CVs" - the policies, benefits, and initiatives they have in place to support their people.
At WORK180 I was on the business development team, consulting with organisations on their inclusion and diversity journey. Initially I worked as a Client Engagement Representative, partnering with technology startups & scaleups, before being promoted to a Business Development Manager role and managing larger enterprise accounts.
I provided strategic recruitment advice, shared insights on next practice policies and initiatives, and employer branding. My goal was to support employers to become more inclusive, attract and retain diverse talent, & to future-proof their business.