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Practical guides on researching and sourcing technical candidates through public technical evidence from GitHub, Stack Overflow, and other places developers build and contribute.
Technical Hiring · 12 min read
GitHub shows public technical work that LinkedIn profiles often miss. This guide explains GitHub candidate sourcing: discovering additional candidates, researching public evidence, and what GitHub cannot tell you.
August 28, 2026 · Sonar Air team
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Technical Hiring · 11 min read
A practical recruiter playbook for GitHub developer sourcing - user search qualifiers, three discovery workflows, and a short triage pass before you review the public technical evidence.
August 29, 2026 · Sonar Air team
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Technical Hiring · 10 min read
How to evaluate GitHub sourcing tools without generic listicles - find vs research vs review, evidence quality, tool categories, and when manual search still wins.
August 29, 2026 · Sonar Air team
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Technical Hiring · 10 min read
A GitHub profile is public work evidence, not a hiring score. How to read pinned repos, recency, languages, and collaboration - and which numbers mislead.
August 29, 2026 · Sonar Air team
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Technical Hiring · 12 min read
Research is not the same as finding people. This guide shows recruiters how to review role-relevant public technical evidence before outreach, how to handle missing footprints, and how to keep human judgement in the loop.
October 6, 2026 · Sonar Air team
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Technical Hiring · 10 min read
Public technical evidence is role-relevant public work you can reasonably tie to a person. It can support a closer look. It cannot prove quality. Missing evidence is unknown, not a rejection.
October 6, 2026 · Sonar Air team
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Product · 7 min read
Agents are a new workspace area for evidence-aware assistants that draft strategy, outreach, JD refinements, and screening prep on top of your role profiles - without replacing scans or digests.
July 17, 2026 · Sonar Air team
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Technical Hiring · 8 min read
Many strong engineers rarely maintain LinkedIn. Here is where they show public technical work, and how multi-source public evidence beyond LinkedIn supports developer sourcing.
June 2, 2026 · Vitalijs Mark
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Evidence series · 5 min read
Stack Overflow reputation is one of the most misread numbers in technical recruiting. A 50,000-reputation account can be shallow volume. A 3,000-reputation account with deep tag concentration can be much more useful research evidence. It is still not a hire decision.
June 9, 2026 · Sonar Air team
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