Irina Shamaeva is an Executive Recruiter, a Partner, and the Chief Sourcer at Brain Gain Recruiting, an executive search firm that specializes in placing senior level software development, IT, and strategy consulting candidates nationwide. She is an expert and an authority in Boolean, semantic, and deep web search; social networks; and advanced sourcing productivity tools. Irina won the first SourceCon Challenge in 2010, securing her spot to compete in the 2010 SourceCon GrandMaster Sourcing Challenge. While Irina does hands-on sourcing work, she creates innovative sourcing approaches and invents new tips, which she has been sharing with fellow recruiters in presentations and online posts. More than ten thousand people have attended her webinars and corporate training sessions in the last two years. Irina has created successful recruiting communities: the Boolean Strings LinkedIn group, the Boolean Strings Ning network, and Twitter for Sourcing and recruiting group, with a total population of 20K+ members from 70+ countries around the globe. She maintains an active blog, Boolean Strings, where she publishes sourcing advice, that has enjoyed 80K+ visits to-date.

Prior to Brain Gain Recruiting, Irina held engineering and management leadership positions at biotech and high technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Applied Biosystems, MDL, and e-Motion. Irina holds a Master of Science Degree in Mathematics from Moscow University. To learn more about Irina, check out her LinkedIn Profile and follow her on Twitter.