About Ludwig
Hi, I'm Ludwig, nice to meet you!
Talent Acquisition Specialist with 12 years of extensive expertise in talent acquisition and retention, executive search, and stakeholder engagement across technology and engineering sectors. Proven track record of reducing time-to-hire and hiring costs while consistently achieving 100% of hiring targets year after year. Streamlines hiring workflows by augmenting recruitment strategies with AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance decision-making, automate repetitive tasks, and elevate the candidate experience in dynamic, growth-focused environments.
The more complex the search, the more interested I get: I aim to help you hire the people who will take your business to the next strategic stage, I'm all about impact!
I can provide executive search services, traditional recruitment approaches and on-site/embedded and am comfortable operating at any level of your organisation.
I love traveling so feel free to contact me for projects in Europe as well.
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Japanese
Fluent
Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)
Experience
- Qevlar AITalent Acquisition ManagerSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGJanuary 2026 - Today (5 months)London, United KingdomFounded in 2023, Qevlar AI is revolutionizing the SOC with autonomous investigation and, in doing so, solving three key problems for analysts: the cybersecurity talent shortage, alert fatigue, and increasingly complex and sophisticated threats.In preparation for their Series-A round ($30m), the founders brought me back to support their aggressive hiring plan for 2026.Targets:
- Full cycle recruitment: 70% headhunting, 10% referrals, 20% inbound;
- Close business critical positions: Head of People, Finance Director, Legal Counsel, VP Engineering, IT/Security Director, Staff Engineers, Senior Full Stack Engineers, Technical Account Managers, Senior Product Designers and Customer Success Manager;
- Lead the Talent Acquisition function;
- Maintain time-to-hire below 29 days.;
Technical stack: LLM, VLM, python, typescript, vue.js, FastAPI, REST API, kubernetes, GCP, terraform, postgreSQL… - QoveryTalent Acquisition ManagerSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGAugust 2025 - December 2025 (4 months)Paris, Francefor their Series-A round ($13m), the founders were looking for a senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to accelerate their Talent Acquisition strategy post funding:
- Full cycle recruitment: 50% headhunting, 30% referrals, 20% inbound;
- Build a healthy candidate pipeline for the 6 open vacancies;
- Fill 3 business critical positions and 2 Senior Software Engineers across the US, France & EMEA;
- Reduce the time-to-hire from 79 to 35 days;
- Save the company €100,000+ in hiring fees.;
Positions: Product Marketing Manager, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer, USA Account Executive, EMEA Account Executives, USA SDR, EMEA SDR.Technical stack: Rust, Go, Kotlin, spring boot, kubernetes, terraform, AWS, GCP, postgreSQL… - Qevlar AI,TALENT ACQUISITION MANAGER (RPO)TECHApril 2025 - July 2025 (3 months)London, UKFollowing a $14m seed round, the founders were looking for a senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to prepare the arrival of their first internal Talent Acquisition Manager.Design and Execute the Talent Acquisition Strategy:- Full cycle recruitment: 85% headhunting, 5% referrals, 10% inbound;- Build a healthy candidate pipeline for the 14 open vacancies (25 positions to fill);- Fill the 4 business critical positions;- Reduce the time-to-hire from 69 days to 20;- Coach the Hiring Managers through process & tools;- Clear the backlog: 1,000+ applications to sort;- Manage the collaboration with the 2 search agencies recommended by the VC.Positions to be filled: Head of Marketing (UK/EMEA), Senior Product Marketing Manager (USA/UK), Senior Product Manager, SOC Subject Matter Expert, Senior DevOps SRE, AI Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Solution Sales Engineer, Account Executive, Business Development Representative.
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Education
- Bachelor's degree in Software EngineeringParis 6 University2005Java software engineering, cryptography and business intelligence
- Bachelor's degree in JapaneseParis 7 University2006