About

Michael Chong is an experienced Executive Recruiter with over 16 years of relevant experience in building great teams. He is currently working as a Talent Advisor at daydream, a business that is revolutionizing all businesses and is backed by 8VC, a world-class team, and a growing list of enthusiastic customers. In his previous role as a Senior Recruiter (Technical & Non-Technical, Full Cycle) at Silicon Valley Talent, Michael partnered with founders and hiring executives to set hiring goals and build great teams. He has an impressive list of clients, including LinkedIn, Co-Founder - Eric Ly, Upthere, Co-Founder - Alex Kushnir, Nauto, CTO - Ruslan Belkin, Nauto, VP of Engineering - Lei Pan, Exabeam, EVP of Customer Success - Tony Kolish, Salesforce, SVP of Marketing - Thimaya Subaiya, LendUp, Director of Engineering - David Farrell, and Egynte, Co-Founder - Rajesh Ram. Michael has an offer closing rate between 80% to 100% for executives and individual contributors. He has recruited for various industries and products, including deep-learning based computer vision platforms, cybersecurity intelligence platforms, video sharing, cloud-based data integration platforms, consumer photo & video cloud storage, fintech, and BI data analytics. Michael has also worked as a Senior Technical Recruiter at Nauto, where he improved the recruiting process, mentored junior recruiters, and worked with CTO Ruslan Belkin and current VP of Engineering Lei Pan. He has experience in recruiting for ML Infra, Data Infra, Backend Engineering/Cloud Infra, and leadership to IC’s. Michael holds an MS in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas, a B.S.B.A. in Marketing from The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business, and has studied Engineering and Biology at Virginia Tech. He has also completed a Project Management Professional Prep Course from the University of California, Berkeley. Michael's tech stack includes infra, Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Computer Vision, Blockchain, ML, Frontend, Ruby, and iOS. He is a skilled recruiter with a proven track record of building great teams and achieving high offer closing rates.