Cybersecurity · Cloud · AI/ML · Infrastructure · Leadership

Engineers to leaders,
vetted by people who've
actually done the job.

Boutique technical staffing for senior roles. Run by people who have done the technical work and led the teams behind it, so every candidate is screened by someone who understands the role from both sides.

Screened By
Peers
Placement Focus
Senior+
AI Filters
None
Submittal Quality
Selective

Most recruiters submit noise. We submit signal.

If you hire senior technical people, you know how this feels. Applications pour in, resumes look polished, and candidates clear the early screens. The truth only surfaces hours into your own technical interview, hours your team never gets back. We started Lanza Labs because we spent years on the receiving end of exactly this.

More applications have not meant better hires. The right people are still out there, but they are buried under automated submissions and filtered out by keyword matching before a human ever reads them. Candidates use AI to write their resumes, and agencies use AI to screen them. Machine-generated noise, reviewed by machines.

We do the opposite: every candidate we submit is hand-picked and interviewed by a practitioner with two decades across Fortune 100 utilities, healthcare, and financial services. We know the difference between someone who has read about Kubernetes and someone who has debugged a control plane at 3 a.m. We do not chase requisitions or run a resume mill, because getting the right person matters more than getting any person quickly.

Four practice areas. Hard ones.

01 / Security

Cybersecurity Engineering

  • Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Application & Product Security
  • Vulnerability & Threat Management
  • Detection & Response (SOC, IR)
  • AI Security & Governance
02 / Infrastructure

Cloud & Platform

  • SRE & Platform Engineering
  • Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Cloud Architecture & Migration
  • Network & Systems Engineering
03 / AI & ML

AI & ML Engineering

  • LLM & GenAI Engineering
  • ML Platform & Infrastructure
  • MLOps & Model Deployment
  • GPU & AI Cluster Operations
  • Data Engineering & Pipelines
04 / Leadership

Technical Leadership

  • Staff & Principal Engineers
  • VP Engineering, Managers & Directors
  • CISO & VP Security Leadership
  • Head of Infrastructure / Platform
  • Fractional & Interim CISO / CTO

A different kind of partnership.

You work directly with a senior practitioner, from first call to signed offer. The person who vets your candidates is the person who runs your search.

i

Intake & Calibration

Having done this work ourselves, we read what a job description is really asking, the technical bar, the must-haves, the things between the lines, without taking up much of your time.

ii

Sourcing & Screening

Every candidate passes through a real technical conversation before you see their name. We use our network, targeted sourcing, and our own credibility to reach engineers who do not respond to cold InMails. Searches are handled confidentially by default.

iii

Shortlist & Close

We move with deliberate speed. You see two or three exceptional candidates, each one screened, never twenty to sort through.

Two ways to work together.

Built by practitioners and leaders.

A deliberately small, private practice. Most engagements begin by referral.

Founding Partner · 01
Security & Infrastructure
Cybersecurity · Cloud · Enterprise Risk

Senior cybersecurity engineer and enterprise risk lead with 17+ years across Fortune 100 utilities, healthcare platforms, and financial services. Directs enterprise vulnerability management across a 30+ engineer organization, owning security risk from discovery through validated remediation. Hands-on across cloud, infrastructure, identity, and compliance, with an MS in Computer Science.

Founding Partner · 02
Operations & Program Leadership
Enterprise Operations · PMO & Vendor Leadership · Transformation

VP-level enterprise operations and program leader with 15+ years across pharmaceutical and financial services. Has built and run PMO and vendor management offices and led large-scale digital transformation, overseeing $100M+ technology initiatives. Screens our operations, program, and transformation-leadership candidates, and brings the client-side, delivery-first perspective few recruiting firms can match.

Have a role that's hard to fill?

The 30-minute intro call is a conversation, not a pitch. Tell us what you're hiring for. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.