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The best of Indian tech talent for discerning teams across the world
High intellect, high energy, high agency engineers who love the craft — matched to the rare teams worth their attention.
A teams.
I connect A players with A teams.
Everywhere, the same complaint. Finding people is hard. Finding good people is impossible.
What if I told you there is no lack — only a lack of attention.
Talent is everywhere — if you know how to find it. In a Mumbai "backwater" I went diving and found pearls: young developers with a Monad implementation in JavaScript working for 4 LPA in a code sweatshop, a kid from Dharavi with his own framework who went on to lead a team at Disney Hotstar. Spotting talent takes an eye, and the courage to hire on conviction.
And what you seek is seeking you. The best talent is desperately searching for a good place to work — somewhere they can learn and grow. During the Great Resignation, my team at Invideo saw negligible attrition; no one left for money. That is the power of a good workplace and a seasoned team.
The tragedy is that A players and A teams keep crossing like ships in the night. HR selects the safest CVs, which turn out to be duds with no spark. Meanwhile the interesting nerds spend their twenties adventuring from startup to startup, only to be penalised in their thirties for "being volatile." I want to hire a different way — one that doesn't leave everyone competing for the same handful of impeccable CVs.
If you can be such a workplace, I can build you your dream team — high intellect, high energy, high agency individuals that embody the programmer spirit and work with passion and integrity.
How do I know A players? Because I am one. The best talent doesn't interview — when they want a new adventure, they call some friends. I'm one of the friends they call.
I've been part of the developer community for decades — writing a newsletter read in the best companies of the land and running a discord of ~2,500 talented engineers.
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If you're an A player, you already know it.
High intellect, high energy, high agency — the kind who reads the source, writes the framework, ships on conviction. The kind HR keeps passing over for a safer CV. You don't need another job board that buries you under three hundred cattle-call listings.
Maybe you were cracked in college and took a founding-engineer role with a senior — stepped into the chaos and made it work somehow. You know things now. Or you went deep into something spiky, some narrow area you're genuinely expert in. Either way, a keyword filter was never going to see it.
Upload a CV once. The system maps your work, your craft, and the shape of your ambition — then puts you in front of the rare teams actually worth your attention. No cold applications. No interview gauntlet. Just conviction.
The deal: skip the LinkedIn easy-apply, skip the ATS, skip HR. Get past me, and the next person you speak to is your hiring manager.
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