Keynisha Adebisi

Keynisha Adebisi

Talent Acquisition Lead - Ex Microsoft Tech Recruiter

  • Former Microsoft Technical Recruiter
  • 13 Years in Tech Recruiting
  • Hired for Microsoft, Amex & MongoDB
Keynisha Adebisi has spent 13 years on the hiring side of the table at some of the most competitive employers in tech. As a Technical Recruiter at Microsoft, she delivered 70+ engineering hires a year across six organizations in Cloud and AI at a 97% close rate, and led a diversity hiring overhaul recognized for the most diverse interview pipelines on her team. At American Express she filled 60+ requisitions a year at a 97% offer acceptance rate, and at MongoDB she recruited some of the hardest-to-find engineers in the industry, specialists in database kernels and distributed systems. Earlier she built the recruiting function from scratch at video-tech startup eko and recruited across eight engineering organizations at Xandr (formerly AppNexus) through its AT&T acquisition. Today Keynisha runs Forward Fluent, a fractional talent acquisition consultancy for founder-led startups and Web3 teams like Wormhole Foundation, and Tech Resume Help, where she writes ATS-optimized resumes for software engineers, data scientists, and product managers. She holds a BA in Finance from Johnson & Wales University and a Principles of HR Success certificate from Cornell University. She is based in Brooklyn.

Fakten

She knows what a recruiter looks for in the first eight seconds of a resume scan because she screened thousands of them at Microsoft, American Express, and MongoDB, and sat in the debriefs where offers were decided.

At Microsoft she made 70+ engineering hires per year at a 97% close rate; at American Express, 60+ per year at a 97% offer acceptance rate.

She now rewrites resumes for the exact roles she used to hire for: software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and engineering managers, with ATS optimization based on real screening criteria.

Erfahrung

  1. Founder, Talent Acquisition Lead

    2023 - Heute

    Forward Fluent / Tech Resume Help

  2. Technical Recruiter, Engineering TA

    2021 - 2023

    Microsoft

  3. Senior Technical Recruiter

    2020 - 2021

    MongoDB

  4. Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition

    2020 - 2020

    eko

  5. Senior Technical Recruiter

    2018 - 2019

    Xandr (AppNexus)

  6. Technical Recruiter, Global TA

    2015 - 2018

    American Express

Ausbildung

  1. BA in Finance and Financial Management Services

    Johnson & Wales University