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Shaila Man is a Senior Technical Recruiter at Airtasker, with a background as a Senior Software Engineer and a role as the Director and Technical Coordinator at MusesCodeJS.

With over 20 years of hands-on experience in the tech industry, Shaila is passionate about hiring software engineers at all levels and across various domains, from frontend to SRE & SecOps.

Her expertise lies in creating modern hiring strategies and implementing data-driven solutions to recruitment challenges, particularly focusing on maintaining high standards while scaling up the hiring process.

Shaila collaborates closely with the CTO at Airtasker to elevate the technical talent within the engineering teams, leading initiatives like organizing hiring committee meetings, training interviewers, market mapping, and ensuring a positive candidate experience.

As a proponent of diversity in tech, Shaila serves as a director at MusesCodeJS, where she promotes gender diversity by conducting free coding workshops for women, non-binary, and trans individuals.

Her technical skill set includes proficiency in JavaScript, React, Redux, Ruby, Rails, Laravel, Git, NodeJS, AWS, PHP, Linux, Go, TypeScript, GraphQL, DevOps, Agile, TDD, Jasmine, Jest, Postgres, and SQL.

Outside of work, Shaila enjoys interests like rare breed chickens, cooking for the homeless, tennis, mountain biking, fresh sheets, and fabulous shoes.