Jack Perkins, principal of Oryx Search, has been bringing software engineers together for well over two decades. He has worked with hundreds of Silicon Valley startups as well as recognized technology icons. Always an independent and never an inside recruiter, he has a unique perspective gained from the many CEOs, CTOs, and engineers he has had the pleasure to work with. In addition to his daily efforts to connect clients with interesting software engineers, Perkins is a shareholder in and adviser to RightJoin.io, a startup in Israel that makes peer-to-peer web software that helps connect engineers to engineers -- sans recruiters.