Vamo vs LinkedIn Recruiter

LinkedIn Recruiter searches what members say about themselves, as of their last update. Vamo is a live feed of what engineers build, with LinkedIn as the filter. A LinkedIn Recruiter alternative for hiring software engineers.

How Vamo matches 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

Example search “Engineers in New York City, all five boroughs”

Ranked strongest first, with why each one fits

  • Hippolyte Barraud
    @HippoBaro
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    Distributed systems engineer with a virtual actor framework on the side

    Maintains distributed systems infrastructure at Datadog. Works on DataDog/glommio, a library for writing parallel asynchronous applications, and ships ultramarine, a framework for virtual actors.

  • Alex Rattray
    @rattrayalex
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    Founder and CEO driving code formatting and AI SDK work at Stainless

    Lands changes across code formatting and AI SDK libraries, after software engineering at Stripe. Contributes to prettier/prettier, a code formatter, and pushes to openai/openai-python, a library for the OpenAI API.

LinkedIn Recruiter returns a LinkedIn profile for each person.

Vamo vs LinkedIn Recruiter at a glance

Vamo compared with LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter
Searches What you search acrossWhat engineers build, live What members say, as of their last update
Each result What comes back for each matchTheir work, history and score A LinkedIn profile
Ranking How results are ordered and judgedScored on Vamo’s own benchmarks of engineer quality Title and filter match
Outreach How you reach peopleSkill files to personalize outreach at scale InMail
Where Where you use itDirectly in your AI tools, over MCP or the API Recruiter app

What Vamo does, next to what LinkedIn Recruiter says on its own public site, checked November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Vamo and LinkedIn Recruiter?
LinkedIn Recruiter searches what members say about themselves, as of their last update. Vamo follows what engineers build, live, uses LinkedIn to filter by place and background, and scores everyone on its own benchmarks of engineer quality.
Do I still need LinkedIn Recruiter?
Vamo identifies who to message and gives you skill files to personalize outreach at scale. You can still send it through LinkedIn Recruiter or your own email tools.
Where do Vamo results show up?
Directly in your AI tools, over MCP or the API, in Claude, ChatGPT and others. Our team builds skill files for your use cases, so Vamo fits how you already work.

LinkedIn shows what people say. Vamo shows what they build, live.

Analytics, rankings and deep research on engineers, inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Codex. Setup is one click.