Built By An Engineer
I’m Kola — software engineer and the founder of VeriKo.
Before starting VeriKo, I spent years writing production code, primarily within the .NET and Azure ecosystem. I worked inside real delivery teams, building systems, maintaining them, shipping under pressure, and dealing with the long-term consequences of technical and hiring decisions.
That experience is the reason VeriKo exists.
From writing code to fixing hiring
As a software engineer, I saw how broken technical recruitment often was.
Hiring processes were noisy and inefficient. CVs sent by recruiters who didn’t understand the stack, led to engineers being pulled away from the jobs they were hired to do, to interview candidates who were not always a great fit. Roles were misrepresented to candidates just to get them through the door, creating mistrust before day one.
Most frustratingly, the recruiters we worked with viewed software recruitment as a sales activity — not as a technical problem.
But hiring is a technical problem. And engineers feel it immediately when it’s done badly.
VeriKo was born out of that frustration.
Why VeriKo is different
VeriKo is built from an engineer’s perspective.
Because I’ve written the code myself, I understand:
• What actually matters on a CV versus what’s just noise
• How different software roles vary in practice, not just in title
• Why team context, codebase maturity, and engineering culture matter as much as skills
• How costly a bad hire is — technically, operationally, and personally
VeriKo doesn’t play the numbers game; we don’t flood inboxes or simply try to maximise interview counts. Instead we prioritise precision by: deeply understanding the role, validating candidates properly, and protecting the time of software teams.
The VeriKo approach
Instead of looking to persuade engineers to take the next available job, we work hard to align real software talent to great roles. That means we don’t start by constructing a job description; we start with proper technical discovery.
We believe in making recruitment a part of the build process, not a distraction from it. Software recruitment should work the same way software engineers expect systems to work: clearly defined, well-understood, and built properly from the ground up.