Meet the Founding Team
24 years combined experience · Engineering & AI talent specialists · Hit the ground running
Ascension Lumsden is founded by two operators who’ve spent their careers running technical hiring from the inside — sourcing, screening, and closing engineers for high-growth teams. We started it because we kept seeing the same thing: companies making their most important hires with no dedicated recruiter, on gut feel and midnight LinkedIn messages. So we built a firm that embeds like an internal team and owns hiring end to end — first conversation to signed offer.
No handoffs, no spray-and-pray, no trial and error on your Req and Reputation. Just the you and us, in the work.
We’re specialists, not a generalist agency working every function at once. Our lane is engineering and AI talent — Founding, Product, Full-Stack, Forward Deployed, and Software Engineers — across the stacks modern teams actually hire on: TypeScript, Python, React, and LLM / agentic AI. We go deep on a focused set of roles so we can tell the difference between a résumé that looks right and an engineer who ships.
MAITREYA DESHPANDE
STRATEGIC TALENT PARTNER
#1 on Google/Waymo. Depth over volume.
Two Clipboard's functions built from zero. Simultaneously.
170+ hires in 6 months. Ran first rounds himself.
FAANG-pedigree Engineering Leaders placed at Turing.
Caught deepfake proxy-interviews. Nobody asked him to.
JEREMY LUMSDEN
STRATEGIC TALENT PARTNER
Versature's sole recruiter for 2 plus years. Every role. Every level.
Took over Clipboard's billing hiring. 40+ hires. 95% close rate.
Startup hiring cadence: Seed through Series B.
Engineering, GTM, sales, ops, leadership. No blind spots.
Closes in thin markets. 20 plus hard-to-fill hires at Nutrien.