Jake Gibbons

Hi nice to meet you I'm Jake, a few facts about me:

• I have an AirTag on my house keys because this is a frequently misplaced item. 
• Once I went fishing for 72 hours consecutively and caught nothing. 
• As a kid I performed in part of the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.

I help GPU cloud providers, neoclouds, AI platforms and sovereign compute businesses hire the engineers and leaders who design, deploy and run AI infrastructure at scale.
 
 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗼
→ Partner with founders and leadership teams from early stage through hypergrowth, shaping hiring plans as well as filling roles
→ Build founding technical teams and executive leadership: CTO, VP AI Infrastructure, VP Datacentre Operations, Director of Bare Metal Services, Director of AI Platforms
→ Headhunt passive, high-calibre talent from tier-1 neoclouds, hyperscalers and high-growth start-ups
→ Run simultaneous searches across the UK, Europe and the US for clients scaling internationally
 
 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗜 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁
→ GPU clusters: NVIDIA, InfiniBand, RoCE, RDMA fabrics, NCCL, MIG
→ Orchestration: Slurm, Kubernetes, Ray, bare metal provisioning
→ AI platform engineering, MLOps and LLMOps
→ HPC, optical and cloud networking, NetDevOps and automation
→ Storage infrastructure, SRE, monitoring and observability
→ GPU kernel and performance engineering, cluster deployment
→ Commercial: GPU compute and sovereign cloud sales, customer solutions engineering, managed AI services
 
 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸
→ Hired the founding technical leadership team for a partner of a leading AI lab delivering a gigawatt-scale GPU deployment, and now supporting their phase 2 operational hiring
→ Scaled a UK and US AI infrastructure start-up from 5 to 17 people across SRE, software engineering, growth, sales and leadership
→ Trusted talent partner to several of Europe's leading GPU cloud and neocloud providers
 
 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀
Founded in 2014, Hamilton Barnes is a specialist recruitment partner for datacentre, AI infrastructure, networking and security. With offices in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Austin, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, we speak to over 100 candidates a day and stay close to the technologies and people shaping the market.
 
If you're building AI infrastructure and need people who've done it before, or you're an engineer or leader weighing your next move in the space, let's talk.