Find anyone in open source
👋 We’re Nars and Nishant, founders of Skillsync (W26).
TL;DR: Skillsync helps companies find elite engineers to hire based on their code – not their resumes.
Imagine asking Skillsync: “find me engineers who have experience with WASM compilers” and finding the top 20 engineers in the world who have done that exact thing.
Skillsync is the first hiring platform that helps companies source engineers based on what they’ve actually built. We analyze public GitHub contributions and turn them into structured skill profiles that recruiters and hiring managers can search.
We’ve seen first-hand how hard it is to hire off of Github. My co-founder and I ran an open-source project with hundreds of contributors and 20k+ stars. When we wanted to hire our most elite contributors full-time, we couldn’t believe how tedious it was to find them.
And that was in our own project - imagine how hard it would be for a company just looking to hire the best!
Skillsync is the answer. Instead of keyword matching on resumes, Skillsync lets you search directly for capabilities, shortlist engineers already building what you need, and engage them without needing them to maintain a profile or even sign up.
Skillsync is uniquely good for hard engineering domains like low-level systems, robotics, or infra, where real signal lives in code. Many of the top candidates in these fields don’t maintain LinkedIn profiles!
One more thing…
Want X-ray vision into any GitHub profile? Add the word “skills” to a github URL – like skillsgithub[dot]com/username – to learn the unique capabilities of that engineer and qualify them faster for your open positions!
Open source hides a long tail of quiet capability waiting to be discovered.
We’re on a mission to organize the world’s talent and if this resonates with you, try Skillsync today at https://skillsync.wiki
You can also reach us at founders@skillsync.wiki
