Leadership

Built by practitioners,
not recruiters

Vettara was founded by people who’ve been on both sides of the hiring table—as engineering leaders frustrated by broken processes, and as talent experts who know how to fix them.

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Anton Mishel

Founder & Principal Vetter

Principal-level technologist who has personally vetted 500+ engineers across enterprise architecture, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and AI/ML. The person conducting your candidate’s deep-dive has built and scaled the systems your engineers will work on.

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Iuliana

Co-Founder & Head of Talent Operations

15+ years in technical recruiting across EMEA and North America. Built and led talent acquisition teams that have placed hundreds of engineers. Iuliana brings the recruiting operations expertise that turns great vetting into great hires.

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Murad Alaev

Co-Founder & Advisor

Brings deep expertise in business operations and technology services. Murad’s strategic guidance ensures Vettara scales without compromising the quality that makes our protocol work.

Advisory Board

Vettara is guided by an advisory board of CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and talent leaders from growth-stage and enterprise companies. Our advisors validate our protocol, open doors, and keep us honest about what hiring managers actually need. Details coming soon.

How It Works

From call to engineer—
in days, not months

1
DAY 1

Strategy Call

30-minute call to understand your technical requirements, team dynamics, and hiring priorities. We define the role profile and assessment criteria together.

2
DAYS 2–5

Candidate Sourcing & Protocol Scheduling

For Scale & Search: we source from our pre-vetted talent network across LATAM and North America. For Vetting: you send us your candidates. All candidates are scheduled for The Vettara Protocol.

3
DAYS 5–8

The Vettara Protocol

60–90 minute live technical deep-dive with a principal-level interviewer. Architecture decisions, debugging methodology, system design trade-offs, production war stories, collaboration patterns. Structured scorecard generated within 24 hours.

4
DAYS 7–10

Shortlist & Decision

You receive vetted candidates with detailed scorecards, risk flags, and hire/no-hire recommendations. Your hiring managers interview pre-qualified finalists—not a pipeline of maybes.

5
DAY 11

Engineer Onboarded

For Scale: engineer is onboarded to your Slack, Jira, and codebase. Managed workstation provisioned. For Search: offer extended to your chosen candidate with our 90% acceptance rate supporting a smooth close.

Proven Results

Numbers from 4+ years
of real operations

These aren’t projections. They’re verified results from hundreds of engagements across enterprise architecture, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and AI/ML.

95.7%
Client Satisfaction
Industry average: ~80%
11 days
Avg. Onboarding Time
Industry average: 30–45 days
90%+
Contract Renewal
Industry average: ~70%
~90%
Offer Acceptance
Industry average: ~65%
90%+
Post-Probation Retention
Industry average: ~75%
30–40%
Cost Savings vs NA FTE
Industry average: 15–20%

We went from spending six weeks trying to fill a senior architect role to having three vetted, interview-ready candidates in under two weeks. The quality of the technical assessments was unlike anything we’d seen from other agencies.

— VP of Engineering, Series C Fintech