GitHub search matches READMEs and code by keyword, often missing professional depth and even location. Vamo reads code and social signals together and knows who each person is. A GitHub search 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 “Stripe engineers, past or present, with a 500+ star repo”
Developer tooling veteran behind websocketd, now at Stripe
Leads experimental software projects at Stripe, after directing engineering in Apple's Special Projects Group. Creator of websocketd, a tool that turns programs into WebSocket servers.
CRACKED
Active 1 month ago
San Francisco, United States
Leads experimental software projects at Stripe, after directing engineering in Apple's Special Projects Group. Creator of websocketd, a tool that turns programs into WebSocket servers.
2,826 contributions this year
Co-founder who builds JavaScript games with a Flexbox twist
Ships JavaScript games and web apps, after indie hacking at Stripe. Creator of tower-defense, a CSS Flexbox tower defense game, and contributes to lynnetye/ember-trix-editor, a Trix editor wrapper for Ember.js.
CRACKED
Active 12 days ago
New York City, United States
Ships JavaScript games and web apps, after indie hacking at Stripe. Creator of tower-defense, a CSS Flexbox tower defense game, and contributes to lynnetye/ember-trix-editor, a Trix editor wrapper for Ember.js.
389 contributions this year
GitHub search returns a GitHub account for each person.
| GitHub search | ||
|---|---|---|
| Searches What you search across | Code and social signals together | READMEs and code by keyword |
| Each result What comes back for each match | The engineer, with LinkedIn, location and career | A GitHub account |
| People Whose work you can find | Contributions across the ecosystem | Owned repos only |
| Ranking How results are ordered and judged | Scored on Vamo’s own benchmarks of engineer quality | Best match, followers, repos |
| Ideal for Who it suits best | Who to hire, and why | A repo or user you already know |
What Vamo does, next to what GitHub search 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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