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Skillsync

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Hire engineers based on what they’ve shipped

Winter 2026Founded 20252 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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AI Talent Sourcing & RecruitingSaaSTech companies and startups hiring engineersMedium competition
Moat
Proprietary GitHub code indexing and shipping history analysis; network effects as more engineers get indexed.
Key risk
Privacy concerns around scraping GitHub; competition from traditional recruiters adding AI; developer adoption friction.
Why now
GitHub has become central to engineer identity; AI agents can surface talent at scale; enterprise shift to outcomes-based hiring.
Competitors
LinkedIn Recruiter, AngelList, GitHub directly, traditional technical recruiters

About

Skillsync is an AI recruiter that hires engineers based on what they've shipped. The best engineers are not on LinkedIn. They're on GitHub, busy shipping code. But GitHub is massive, chaotic, and nobody had made it searchable for hiring. Skillsync changes that. Companies search directly for capabilities and we surface engineers already building in their domain. Companies like Ramp, Bun, and Zed use Skillsync to hire for critical roles, with Bun seeing 5x improvement in conversion rates. We're starting with open source and expanding to research papers, private repos, and every surface where real work happens. We're building the LinkedIn for the AI era

Founders Β· 2

Narayana Aaditya Ganeshkumar
Narayana Aaditya GaneshkumarFounder

Co-founder & CEO of Skillsync. I helped take an open-source Rust project from zero to 30k+ GitHub stars and saw firsthand how many world-class engineers are hiding in the long tail of open source. With a background in engineering, product, and organizational psychology, I’m building Skillsync to map real technical talent from actual work like code and research, not resumes

Nishant Joshi
Nishant JoshiFounder

Co-Founder CTO @ SkillSync Inc. | Top 1% Rust dev. Went from building type-safe payment infra to people search. Now fixing how companies find engineers like me.

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