Keynisha Adebisi

Keynisha Adebisi has spent 13 years on the hiring side of the table at some of the most competitive employers in tech. As a Technical Recruiter at Microsoft, she delivered 70+ engineering hires a year across six organizations in Cloud and AI at a 97% close rate, and led a diversity hiring overhaul recognized for the most diverse interview pipelines on her team. At American Express she filled 60+ requisitions a year at a 97% offer acceptance rate, and at MongoDB she recruited some of the hardest-to-find engineers in the industry, specialists in database kernels and distributed systems. Earlier she built the recruiting function from scratch at video-tech startup eko and recruited across eight engineering organizations at Xandr (formerly AppNexus) through its AT&T acquisition. Today Keynisha runs Forward Fluent, a fractional talent acquisition consultancy for founder-led startups and Web3 teams like Wormhole Foundation, and Tech Resume Help, where she writes ATS-optimized resumes for software engineers, data scientists, and product managers. She holds a BA in Finance from Johnson & Wales University and a Principles of HR Success certificate from Cornell University. She is based in Brooklyn.