I’ve spent over a decade recruiting in some of the toughest markets in the world—London, Dublin, Berlin, Bucharest—building teams for startups, scale-ups, and global companies. Along the way, I saw a pattern: hiring slows companies down more than it should.

So I built something that changes that.

At BrainSource.Network, we run a real-time recruitment platform powered by 1000+ expert recruiters across Europe and beyond. Instead of relying on one agency with limited bandwidth, companies activate multiple niche recruiters per role—often 5, 20, or more. That means CVs in 24–72 hours, not weeks. Roles filled in days, not months.

This isn’t just about speed. It’s about structure, precision, and giving you visibility over the entire process. We’ve helped clients hire fast enough to win funding, avoid project delays, and hit aggressive growth targets without compromising quality.

I grew up in Satu Mare, a small Transylvanian town at the border with Ukraine and Hungary. Built my career in Bucharest, Dublin, and London, and returned to Cluj, Romania in 2020 with a new mindset and a better way to do recruitment. If you’re expanding into new markets or struggling with bottlenecks, we should talk.

Feel free to get in touch on vlad @ brainsource dot io or by phone on:

  +44 204 5025 791 (UK) - London, U.K.
  +353 83 167 0036 (IE) - Dublin, IE
  +4 0757 846 904 (RO) - Cluj-Napoca, RO
  +1 551 2647 903 (US) - Raleigh, U.S.

Vlad Romuald Pop

Here’s an unpopular truth, most CV advice is garbage.

Everyone says, “Just send out 50 resumes a week!"

 or

“Make it perfect and professional!”

Meanwhile, 90% of candidates are doing exactly that. 

And what happens? They get ignored.

The top 10% don’t just hit “apply.” 

They think. They tweak their CV to match the job. 
Not completely rewriting it, just highlighting what matters, using the words the recruiter is looking for, and showing results that actually align with the role.

If the Job posted wants someone with leadership experience, don’t just write your title. 

Show the project you led, the team you managed, and the results that mattered.

That’s the kind of detail that makes a recruiter pause.

You don’t need a perfect CV to get noticed.

You need a strategic CV, one that makes it obvious you understand the role better than everyone else sending the same generic document.

Turning recruitment into a real-time experience | 1000+ niche recruiters across Europe and beyond | Tech-enabled. Outcome-obsessed. Human-led. Talent delivered in hours, not weeks.

Many recruiters (myself included) are overwhelmed.

A single job posting can bring even 2000+ applications these days.

Managing that volume is a challenge. 

AI and other tools help with scheduling interviews, tracking candidates, maintaining workflow.

But when it comes to spotting potential, the story changes.

Evaluating skills, experience, and growth often requires context, nuance, and judgment—things no algorithm can fully capture.

Candidates get filtered out all the time because their résumé doesn’t match expected terms.

Someone who led projects, managed budgets, or ran initiatives as a volunteer might never get noticed if the system doesn’t recognize the organization or title.

In other words, a résumé that doesn’t “fit the template” can hide real potential.

This happens thousands of times a day because some recruiters optimize for polished résumés, not for talent.

AI and technology can support recruitment, but they rarely replace human perspective.

Both play a role. Knowing how to balance the two can make all the difference in identifying candidates who bring real skills and experience.

The lesson is simple: technology should support human judgment, not replace it.

Because a recruiter can spot the spark a filter never will.

Virtual interviews seem like the easiest route for most candidates. 

You Just turn on your laptop, join the link… done.

Except most candidates blow them and don’t even know it.

These are some of the common mistakes I see:
•    Messy background, bad lighting - first impressions matter.
•    Unchecked gadgets: mic, camera, internet.
•    Talking in generalities: “I’m a hard worker” won’t cut it. Show results.

Virtual interviews expose mistakes faster than in-person ones.
Treat your virtual interview like a performance, because it is one.

What’s the worst virtual interview mistake you’ve ever seen or heard about?

Forget coding.

Forget AI.

The #1 skill companies will care about in 2026 isn’t a tool or a language, it’s how fast you can learn.

The tech, tools, and trends you use today will be outdated in a few years. What matters isn’t what you know, it’s how quickly you can pick up what you don’t know yet.

Most resumes brag about the past. The winners of tomorrow will show they can adapt, unlearn, and grow into whatever the future demands.

So here’s the question I ask every candidate, “Are you investing in the skills you have today… or the ones you’ll need to thrive tomorrow?”

Most want to stick to what they know while companies hire the people of tomorrow.

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Senior .NET Fullstack Engineer

FintechIO

𝘊#, .𝘕𝘌𝘛 9, 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘙𝘹𝘑𝘴, 𝘞𝘦𝘣 𝘈𝘗𝘐, 𝘚𝘘𝘓, 𝘌𝘍 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘈𝘻𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴,𝘈𝘻𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘈𝘻𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘖𝘱𝘴, 𝘈𝘻𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘝𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵, 𝘈𝘻𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘉𝘶𝘴, Azure Redis, 𝘈𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘮, 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘒𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘭, etc.

Rakuten Kobo Inc.

𝘊#, .𝘕𝘌𝘛 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘈𝘚𝘗.𝘕𝘌𝘛, 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘙𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘔𝘘, 𝘕𝘏𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘚𝘘𝘓,𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘏𝘶𝘣, 𝘎𝘪𝘵, 𝒆𝒕𝒄.

Gaming Innovation Group

C#, .NET Core 6 & 7, microservices, Kubernetes, GitOps, Kustomize, RedHat OpenShift, RedHat Quay, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, MS Orleans, ArgoCD, Octopus, TeamCity, Jira, Confluence, 𝒆𝒕𝒄.

Technical Lead

8 West Consulting

Used: C#, .NET, Asp.Net MVC, Web API, ADO.NET, SQL, Spring.NET, WCF, multi-tenancy, AWS Workspaces, Azure DevOps

Spencer Stuart

Used: C#, .NET Core 6, Angular 13, TypeScript, Dapper, Web API, Event Sourcing, gRPC, Marten DB, PostgreSQL, AWS SNS/SQS, AWS ECS, AWS Code Commit, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudFront, Mass Transit, Docker, Stencil JS, WCF, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Git, Jasmine, Moq, Launch Darkly, Swagger, Jira, Confluence, TeamCity

ESW empowers the world’s best-loved retailers and brands to make global shopping better, safer, simpler, and faster, end-to-end.

● Obtained 100% synchronization between checkout and offline collection rules by implementing a
shared ID Collection solution that dynamically displayed the necessary fields for collection and applied
the specific rules for fields, while supporting multiple languages.

● Achieved 100% success with the transition of the application to a new domain by contributing to the
migration plan, migrating the secrets from Azure Key Vault to the new domain, recreating the Azure
DevOps alerts, and setting up the application and build configurations.

● Drastically reduced the development time to set up the invoicing for a new customer from up to 2
weeks of development to up to 1 hour, by automating the configuration propagation within the system
and requiring only a few manual changes.

● Helped generate the VAT invoices and credit notes in up to 5 seconds by contributing to all the stages
of the development and implementation of the corresponding country and region-based VAT rules in the distributed system, using Confluent Kafka for asynchronous message processing and a reusable
dynamic solution.

● Reduced the time needed by the business to communicate the order status to the clients from up to 1
day to under 1 minute, by implementing an AppInsights order status dashboard.

● Achieved great code coverage of 90% for all the applications owned by the team to meet the quality
targets set by the development managers by fixing the bugs in the application flagged by SonarQube
and doing code refactoring.

Used: C#, .NET Core, Azure, Angular, Cosmos DB, Entity Framework, Microservices, T-SQL, WCF, .NET Standard, Web API, Git

Spencer Stuart is an American global executive search and leadership consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1956, operates 57 offices in 30 countries, and is privately owned. In 2009, the Wall Street Journal described the firm as the U.S. government's main resource for finding replacement executives for companies bailed out during the Great Recession.

● Achieved 100% intuitive presentation of the data by building dashboards in a single-page application
built with Angular and various chart libraries, with newer and more efficient technologies.

● Reduced the development time for building widgets and dashboards to 1 day from 2 weeks by
implementing a configuration-based solution framework to build and manage dashboards and widgets.

● Reduced the maintenance cost by 500% and increased the system performance by 5X by using
Dynamo DB instead of SQL Server and implementing a high-quality system with up to 2 bugs
discovered by the users.

Used: C#, .NET Core & Framework, MVC, Web API, JavaScript, Angular, TypeScript, AWS, AWS S3, AWS CodeCommit, AWS DynamoDB, NHibernate, StructureMap, WCF, Agile Scrum, SQLite, Git, TeamCity, Jira, Confluence, T-SQL, Swagger

Verizon Connect

Verizon Connect is guiding a connected world on the go by automating, optimizing, and revolutionizing the way people, vehicles, and things move through the world. Our full suite of industry-defining solutions and services put innovation, automation, and connected data to work for customers and help them be safer, more efficient, and more productive.

The Verizon Connect portfolio of solutions and services includes comprehensive fleet and mobile workforce management software platforms, embedded OEM hardware, and Hum by Verizon, a connected vehicle device that helps create a safer, smarter, and more connected driving experience for consumers.

● Met the business requirements and passed 100% of performance tests by building a reusable web API
shared between the Android and iOS mobile applications.

● Solved 100% of issues flagged by Sonar and improved the code coverage by 90% by fixing most of
the bugs in the system.

● Successfully contributed to the design and build of a new Angular application used to display vehicle and driver information, or various alerts.

Used: C#, NET Core, AWS, JavaScript, Angular, Web API, Postman, Microservices, Kanban, Ado.Net, Bamboo, Jira, Wiki, SonarQube, Vehicle data processing

Spencer Stuart is an American global executive search and leadership consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1956, operates 57 offices in 30 countries, and is privately owned. In 2009, the Wall Street Journal described the firm as the U.S. government's main resource for finding replacement executives for companies bailed out during the Great Recession.

● Achieved 100% success in solving business problems by providing my team and colleagues with technical guidance, proposing architectural high-level designs, and ensuring the architecture design is respected.

● Met 100% of deadlines and had close to 0 number of production incidents per team by leading a
development team to implement complex and innovative software solutions.

● Reduced the time of running integration tests from 7 hours to 1 hour, while also reducing the time of
running unit tests from 20 minutes to 7 minutes and improving the overall performance of the system
by 200% by refactoring and applying fixes to the inefficient areas of the system, using newer and more
performant technologies.

● Reduced the cost of loading profile pictures by 4X by migrating the profile photos from the internal file
system to AWS S3.

Used: C#,  .NET Core & Framework, JavaScript, TypeScript, SOLID, ASP. NET 4.5, MVC 5, WCF, WWF, NHibernate, jQuery, AngularJS, RabbitMQ, MSMQ, Redis, AppFabric, Topshelf, SQL Server, StructureMap, SignalR, WIX, HLD, STS, interviews, code reviews, performance reviews, grooming, planning, performance improvements, Rhino Mocks, NUnit 3, Agile, AWS, Jira, TeamCity, SVN, Visual Studio

Technical Team Lead

As a results-driven and quality-focused .NET Engineer with over 10 years of hands-on experience in C# and .NET, Alex has designed and built large-scale applications primarily using Microsoft technologies. Passionate about clean, robust software and industry best practices, he brings a T-shaped skillset across the entire software development lifecycle.
Alex has successfully delivered solutions for clients of varying sizes across multiple business domains, with strong experience in building cloud-based web applications within Agile environments. A collaborative team player with excellent communication skills, he has also served as a technical lead and is committed to continuous learning.
Proficient in backend development with C# and .NET Core, Alex excels at creating scalable, distributed web applications and selecting the right tools and technologies to efficiently meet business needs. Always ready for a challenge, he brings creative,outside-the-box thinking to every project.

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