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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Iuliana Tanase

Co-Founder & CEO

8 years of recruiting experience across EMEA and North America, with 5 years fully focused on technical hiring. Iuliana drives Vettara’s vision and growth strategy, turning world-class vetting into world-class hires.

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Anton Mishel

Co-Founder & Head of Advisory Board

Principal-level technologist who has personally vetted 500+ engineers across enterprise architecture, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and AI/ML. Anton leads Vettara’s advisory board, ensuring our protocol stays ahead of what engineering leaders actually need.

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Murad Alaev

Co-Founder & Head of Operations

Deep expertise in business operations and technology services. Murad ensures Vettara’s delivery engine runs at scale without compromising the quality that makes our protocol work.

Advisory Board

Led by Anton Mishel, Vettara’s advisory board includes 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. All sourced candidates are scheduled for The Vettara Protocol.

For Vetting: you send us your candidates and we schedule them directly into the protocol. No sourcing needed—just assessment.

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, AI fluency assessment, production war stories, collaboration patterns. Skills-first 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. In a market where only 18% of organizations are getting talent right and 59% of HR leaders can’t find digital talent, these numbers matter.

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