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Nik A.

Talent Sourcing | Technical/IT | Software Engineering

Hi there 👋 My name is Nik, I'm a Talent Sourcing 🥷 by 🛠️ and a Digital Nomad, living between different locations during the year. Since 2005 I have been working in ICT recruitment (agency and in-house roles) helping people to achieve their personal and business goals. I love my career path and don’t remember a day I didn’t want to wake up and start my sourcing magic. As a freelancer, I engage with multiple businesses where my support is required. Some assignments are not listed on my LI profile due to non-disclosure agreements signed between parties. My domain expertise: • Finance & Fintech • AI & Product Engineering • Cyber Security • Embedded Engineering • E-Commerce Talent sourcing geography: • NOAM: Canada, United States. • LATAM: Mexico, Brazil. • EMEA: The EU, the UK, Ireland, the UAE, and Africa. • APAC: New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, India, Pakistan. My sourcing tool-kit: • Sourcing Tools: recruitment automation/AI, HireEZ, SeekOut, etc., good old x-ray/boolean search (Google, DuckDuckGo, StackOverflow, GitHub, Social Networks, etc), data extraction & enrichment tools (e.g. Waalaxy, Dropcontact). • ATS Knowledge: Greenhouse, BambooHR, Workable, Lever, JodAdder, etc. • Personal database (since 2015): 300k profiles (ANZ, the EU, NOAM). Certifications: • People Sourcing Professional (CPSP), 2025 • Professional Certificate in Sourcing, Social Talent, 2022 • Power Searching with Google, Google, 2020 • Black Belt in Internet Recruitment, Social Talent, 2017 • Boolean Strings Training Library, Online Sourcing Classes, 2015

🇳🇿Auckland, New Zealand$45/hr100% JSS5.00 (1)Since Dec 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)
≈$352

An estimate from an earlier read

World#92,030 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#97 / 622
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $2.1k

Total earnings
$25k

Billed in all: $27k

World#123,010 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#171 / 622
Per project
$8.4k

$2.1k in the last 6 months

World#19,690 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#21 / 622
Projects, last 6 months
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#149 / 622
Projects in all
3
33% fixed67% hourly
World#304,140 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#479 / 622

Earnings, last 30 days

$27.3kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$26.5k$27.0k$27.5k$28.0kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

No data since Nov 5, 2026.

Skill rankings: Top 25% in Email Sourcing

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