Exa has people search across the open web: broad, unopinionated and unstructured. Vamo is focused and structured: every engineer scored on proof of work, always looking for the hotspots. An Exa alternative for hiring software engineers.
We go beyond raw data to decide what makes an engineer good.
1Index
Vamo matches GitHub and LinkedIn into one profile.
2Research
Vamo finds hotspots of developers and technologies.
3Rank
Vamo scores everyone on its own benchmarks.
4Match
Vamo backs every result with proof of work.
Example search “AI lab engineers who contribute to vLLM”
Meta AI Research Scientist behind LLM serving systems
Develops LLM serving systems at Meta, after Member of Technical Staff work at OpenAI. Commits to vllm-project/vllm, a serving engine for LLMs, and openai/gpt-oss, an open-weight language model.
CRACKED
Active 12 days ago
San Francisco, United States
Develops LLM serving systems at Meta, after Member of Technical Staff work at OpenAI. Commits to vllm-project/vllm, a serving engine for LLMs, and openai/gpt-oss, an open-weight language model.
926 contributions this year
CTO building LLM inference tooling at Inferact
Builds LLM serving and inference tooling at Inferact, after a Member of Technical Staff role at Thinking Machines Lab. Contributes to vllm-project/vllm, a serving engine for LLMs, and skypilot-org/skypilot, an AI compute platform.
CRACKED
Active 11 days ago
Berkeley, United States
Builds LLM serving and inference tooling at Inferact, after a Member of Technical Staff role at Thinking Machines Lab. Contributes to vllm-project/vllm, a serving engine for LLMs, and skypilot-org/skypilot, an AI compute platform.
877 contributions this year
Exa returns pages and broad profiles for each person.
| Exa | ||
|---|---|---|
| Searches What you search across | Every project an engineer touches | The open web, with a people category |
| Each result What comes back for each match | One engineer, their work and history, structured | Pages and broad profiles |
| Ranking How results are ordered and judged | Scored on Vamo’s own benchmarks of engineer quality | Relevance to the search |
| Depth on a person What you learn about each engineer | Benchmarked code activity and social signal | Unstructured pages |
| Ideal for Who it suits best | Finding the best engineers | Broad web and people search |
What Vamo does, next to what Exa says on its own public site, checked November 2026.
Analytics, rankings and deep research on engineers, inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Codex. Setup is one click.
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