Repo Talent

~/repo-talent/by-project v2.3

TARGET LANGUAGE Scores, project discovery and examples all follow this language. Switch any time: scores update instantly.

remember on this computer [?] why & how

GitHub limits anonymous use to 60 requests an hour, about 20 contributor profiles. A free personal token raises that to 5,000 an hour, about 1,500 profiles. The token needs no permissions: it can only read public data. It is sent only to GitHub (api.github.com).

Sign in to GitHub and open Settings → Developer settings → Fine-grained tokens → Generate new token.
Name it something like "Repo Talent", choose an expiration, and set Repository access to "Public repositories". Leave all permissions alone.
Click Generate token, copy it (it starts with github_pat_), and paste it above.

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Employer rules apply to search results; your shortlist always shows everyone you saved. Separate companies with commas. "Inc", "LLC" and similar endings are ignored, so "Google" also matches "Google LLC". Rules are remembered on this computer.

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The C++ score (0–100) is a quick signal of C++ depth built from public GitHub activity. It is not a skills test: use it to decide who to look at first. Hover over any score to see its parts.

30 Work on this project: commit count (1,000+ earns full marks), weighted by how much of the project is written in C++.
25 Their own C++ work: share of their own (non-fork) repos written in C++, how many there are, and the stars those repos have earned.
15 Staying power: time between their first and latest commit here (4+ years earns full marks).
15 Recent activity: full marks for a commit in the last 3 months, tapering to zero after 2 years.
10 Breadth: contributing to several of the projects you searched, plus forks of other C++ projects (a sign they contribute elsewhere).

Bands: 75+ very strong · 55+ strong · 35+ moderate · below 35 limited. GitHub only reports full commit history for each project's top 100 contributors, so staying power can read low for people outside that group.

~/repo-talent/readme

$ repo-talent --help

Find the engineers who actually build open-source software.

  01  Paste a GitHub project above: owner/name or its link. Add several, separated by commas.
  02  Pick your target language. Each contributor gets a language score and a last active date, so strong, current engineers rise to the top.
  03  Group by level, score, activity, country or employer. See name, GitHub, location, LinkedIn and employer.
  04  Press ☆ SAVE to build a shortlist with statuses and notes. People you've already seen are marked.
  05  Export to CSV or copy into a spreadsheet. Do-not-contact people are always left out.

Don't know which projects to search? Open DISCOVER BY SPECIALTY above to find active
projects in your language by area (web backends, game engines, compilers, cloud…) and load several at once.

# tip: add a free GitHub token to load ~1,500 profiles an hour instead of ~20
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