Prog.ai wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code

Companies already have a wealth of tools at their disposal for headhunting technical talent, but a new startup wants to give recruiters a leg-up by bringing together the worlds of GitHub and LinkedIn to create a database of the most suitable candidates for a specific software development role — and it’s doing so by using AI to “infer” skills from code they’ve written. Prog.ai, as the company is called, allows recruiters to search for developers based on their technical skills, libraries they have used or simply the contributions they have made to projects on GitHub. Founded out of San Francisco in 2022, Prog.ai is the brainchild of CEO Maria Grineva, who sold a previous data startup called Orb Intelligence to Dun & Bradstreet back in 2020; CTO Fedor Soprunov, previously a machine learning researcher at Russian tech titan Yandex; and product head Dmitry Pyanov, who has worked in product teams at companies including Yandex and Replika. While hiring is the company’s primary focus initially, with its inaugural product opening for recruiters in closed beta this week, Grineva sees a broad gamut of use cases beyond helping companies fill technical roles. This includes fostering developer relations, such as asking them to
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