{"id":96745,"title":"Skillsync: Find elite (but overlooked!) engineers on Github","tagline":"Meet Skillsync, the platform that helps you search and hire engineers from GitHub","body":"👋 We’re Nars and Nishant, founders of Skillsync (W26).\n\n**TL;DR**: Skillsync helps companies find elite engineers to hire based on their code – not their resumes. \n\nImagine 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.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/D2BBNd1IY5w\u003e\n\nSkillsync 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.\n\nWe’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. \n\nAnd that was in our own project - imagine how hard it would be for a company just looking to hire the best!\n\nSkillsync 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.\n\nSkillsync 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!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=96745\u0026key=user_uploads/2980881/b387f6d2-a2b3-46be-8893-fbe32bdfc0b5)\n\n**One more thing…**\n\nWant X-ray vision into any GitHub profile? Add the word “skills” to a github URL – like **skills**github\\[dot\\]com/username – to learn the **unique capabilities** of that engineer and **qualify them faster** for your open positions!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=96745\u0026key=user_uploads/2980881/6e908d20-42cb-46e4-81ca-aad922182117)\n\nOpen source hides a long tail of **quiet capability** waiting to be discovered.\n\nWe’re on a mission to **organize the world’s talent** and if this resonates with you, try Skillsync today at \u003chttps://skillsync.wiki\u003e\n\n\\\nYou can also reach us at [founders@skillsync.wiki](mailto:founders@skillsync.wiki)","slug":"PAP-skillsync-find-elite-but-overlooked-engineers-on-github","created_at":"2026-01-13T21:23:00.942Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:59:47.484Z","total_vote_count":48,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PAP-skillsync-find-elite-but-overlooked-engineers-on-github","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=96745\u0026key=user_uploads/2980881/b387f6d2-a2b3-46be-8893-fbe32bdfc0b5","company":{"id":31133,"name":"Skillsync","slug":"skillsync","url":"https://skillsync.wiki","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9cbaacf18216a2c670dfe6e49d4332b592214780.png","batch":"Winter 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31133"}}