How to hire a web3 dev with no hassle?

Hey-hey! It’s Contora team, and today we want to dive into tech Web3 hiring 🤑

With the constant development of the Web3 ecosystem, more and more crypto startup founders are looking for developers who can build on this relatively new technology. In our previous story, we showed the Top crypto projects by their development activity, and Cardano is leading with 358 active GitHub contributors over the last month:

Wow, so many web3 devs! But how do you find and hire one?

The web3 recruitment market is literally the wild west. The founders who raised the round are combing through crypto Twitter and Discord, looking for talented web3 developers. Traditional HR agencies, on the other hand, shrug their shoulders and feel completely powerless — like the ground is slipping under their feet with the increasing interest in Web3. The most iconic recruits happen on the sidelines of the Discord, but not through publicly understandable recruiting.

Developers, in their turn, got the point perfectly. Any developer with only web2 experience, who takes a 2-week solidity course or just digs through the documentation of any blockchain on the weekend, can easily catch the label — web3 engineer.

As you can see, there is complete chaos in this direction of the industry. That’s why we decided to dive deeper into it and outline the vectors of possible solutions for Web3 hiring issues.

This story will be useful to those interested in the web3 market and the hidden drivers of its growth (the hiring speed directly correlates with the industry development speed), as well as those directly involved in tech hiring from one side or another.

As an experiment, we decided to create a database of Web3/blockchain developers, which guarantees the completeness and coverage of >70% of all web3 developers, and is regularly updated so the data in it is crystal fresh. As you know, most crypto projects are open-source, which means that we can easily use this open data to build our database.

For each developer in it, it would be worth having their skill set and also calculating their overall rating compared to other developers. We’re in the process of implementing it 👷

Now, a few words about how we managed to do it and what the results are.

Roughly, we performed the following:
1) gathered all tokenized web3 projects,
2) found their GitHub repos,
3) carefully processed .git repositories files,
4) supplemented the data with professional data from LinkedIn/Twitter profiles.

As a result, we got a database of 40k developers with such fields as:

👷 projects on which developer worked and their timeframes
👷 main programming language
👷 the number of commits
👷 skill set
👷 LinkedIn employment history
👷 working experience
👷 education
👷 location, languages, and more!

For example, here are the top-100 contributors to ETH-based projects sorted by the number of commits:

To sum it up, we trust that a well-structured database (talent pool) with web3 developers, along with their skillset, technology-related data, contact information, and availability, will help to make the web3 recruitment process less painful and bring more achievable and faster hires.

We’ll appreciate any expert opinion on this matter (just leave a comment under this story or reach out to me at vlad at contora.ai)

P.S. Reach out to us if you need to hire Web3 devs or need access to our database for any other purposes. We’re on the alpha stage right now and can add you to our waitlist. The launch is in 1 month.

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