Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) most often go to a long tail of companies

Not Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 20 people on a map of 67,181, No. 1,283 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.

People on the map
20Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
There now
420% of the people here
Moved on
1680% of the people here
Median tenure
–fewer than 20 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few for a median

Put Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) side by side with another employer.

Came from, went to

Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.

Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) yet.

After Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

  • 50%Joined a big company6
  • 50%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

18%<1y
18%1-2y
35%2-4y
24%4-7y
6%7y+
– median tenure

17 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

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joined left2026 is a partial year

2012 to 2026: 21 joined, 17 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (6).

Titles held here

  1. Program Manager6

1 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 5% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. MIT20.0%

The one school among the 20 people here with a school on file.

4 of the 20 people here with a school on file list MIT.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.

Where they are now

70% of the people who have worked at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Everyone on the map
  • 70%Washington DC14 · map 13%
  • 20%SF Bay Area4 · map 41%

All 20 people who worked at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) list a location, and every share here is over them.

Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.

Key facts

  • 20 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): 4 are there now, 16 have moved on.
  • Of the people with a recorded next move after Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 50% joined one of 10,000 or more.
  • Most common title held here: Program Manager.
  • Top school: MIT, listed by 4 of the 20 people here with one on file (20.0%).
  • 70% of the 20 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.

About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.

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