About
The recruiter who does the recruiting.
I'm Gamal Aly — a recruiting-execution specialist and native New Yorker who gets in the trenches and does the hiring. Sourcing, screening, closing, and building the recruiting engines that let companies scale. Not advice from the sidelines — delivery.
For the last decade I've run full-cycle searches from IC to executive across engineering, product, data, design, finance, and go-to-market — at Series-stage startups and at enterprise scale. Today I pair hands-on hiring with AI-enabled tooling to lift quality of hire and cut months off of every search.
My work spans three things that rarely live in one person: organizational design that maps hiring to the business plan, full-cycle talent acquisition that closes hard searches fast, and the recruiting infrastructure — systems, automation, and sourcing workflows — that makes it all repeatable long after the first hire lands.
Recruiting Execution · Hands-On Delivery
In the work, not above it.
I don't hand off a plan and walk away — I run the searches, close the candidates, and build the systems myself. The work only counts when the hires land.
Organizational design
Working with founders to map roles, team structure, and hiring sequence to the business plan — then owning the plan through to filled seats.
Talent acquisition & development
Full-cycle hiring from IC to executive, across engineering, product, data, design, and go-to-market — closing hard searches fast without dropping quality.
Recruiting infrastructure
The systems, automation, and sourcing workflows that make hiring repeatable, measurable, and durable long after the first hire lands.
AI-enabled tooling
Putting AI to work across the funnel myself — automated sourcing and outreach, AI-driven screening that lifts quality of hire, and fraud awareness that catches deepfakes, identity spoofing, and interview proxies before they reach an offer.
Execution with clarity.
60 hrs · $25K+
Saved per open role and in interview spend with AI-enabled features using custom Agentic ChatGPT flows
95%
Avg offer approval rate at Earnest
90%
Avg outbound messaging funnel conversion
65K→400K+
Annual inbound applications grown through process redesign
1%→10%+
Qualified applicant conversion improvement
<60 days
To close VP Engineering & VP Product searches
165→56 days
Time-to-hire reduction leading recruiting at OkCupid
46%→82%
Offer acceptance lift while Head of Talent at Fi
Hired across the growth curve.
From Series-stage startups to enterprise scale — I've personally run executive and IC searches across engineering, product, data, design, finance, and go-to-market.