About
A staffing firm that does not do its own screening
Conntal places senior engineers in the technologies most staffing firms cannot assess. We solved that by not assessing them ourselves: the engineers who screen our candidates work at Ace8, AceMQ and Duczer East, and they run these platforms in production every day.
- RabbitMQ
- Apache Kafka
IBM MQ- ActiveMQ
- Solace
- Cloudera CDP
- Apache Pulsar
- Apache Spark
- Apache Flink
- Elasticsearch
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Java
- Apache Tomcat
- Kong
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Apache NiFi
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- ServiceNow ITOM
- Apache Airflow
- Greenplum
- OpenShift
- Prometheus
Why Conntal exists
The parent practices kept being asked the same question.
Clients of Ace8 and AceMQ did not only want a consulting engagement. They wanted the people. After enough conversations that began “could one of your engineers just join our team”, the sensible answer was a staffing firm with the same technical standard behind it.
Conntal is that firm. It is a separate company with its own bench and its own commercial terms. What it does not have to build from scratch is technical judgement.
How we are different
Three things, all checkable.
Engineers decide, not recruiters
No candidate reaches a client without a practitioner sign-off from the firm that owns that technology.
We publish the screen
Every role page shows the scenario we ask and what separates a senior answer from a mid one.
We say no in writing
Where the bench is thin, the page says so. Our ServiceNow practice is ITOM and we will not send approximate ITSM candidates.
The firms behind the standard
Conntal is the staffing arm of Ace8 and AceMQ.
Conntal is its own company with its own bench and its own commercial terms. What it does not have to build from scratch is the technical judgement: three established consulting practices already run these platforms in production, and their engineers screen every candidate.
Enterprise architecture, DevSecOps, cloud-native, extreme automation, data management and incident response across eight service domains.
ace8.ioMessaging and streaming infrastructure — RabbitMQ, Kafka, Pulsar, IBM MQ, Solace — for regulated enterprises in 26+ countries.
acemq.comCloudera, WSO2, ServiceNow ITOM, knowledge graphs and agentic AI for financial services and healthcare.
duczereast.comAceMQ's figures (130+ enterprise clients, 26+ countries), sourced from acemq.com. They are not Conntal's own.
Leadership
Who runs Conntal
Conntal is owned and operated alongside Ace8, AceMQ and Duczer East.
Russel Le Grange
Account Specialist, AceMQ
Randall McClure
Enterprise Architect, AceMQ
Scott Sternloff
Senior Enterprise Architect, AceMQ
Stephen Wessels
Head of Accounts, AceMQ
Tyler Eastridge
Head of Operations, AceMQ
Dean Dodd
Head of Delivery, AceMQ
Matt Reynolds
Senior Enterprise Architect, AceMQ
Felipe Gutierrez
Subject Matter Expert, AceMQ
Jeff Sogolov
Subject Matter Expert, AceMQ
Tell us the role. A practitioner scopes it, not a recruiter.
Send the requirement — or the job description you are not happy with — and an engineer who runs this technology will tell you what is missing before we source anyone.