Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Modal most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 50% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y

Not Modal's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 24 people on a map of 67,181, No. 1,055 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.

People on the map
24Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
There now
1771% of the people here
Moved on
729% of the people here
Median tenure
1ymiddle half 5m to 2y

Put Modal 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 Modal yet.

After Modal

  • 50%Joined a startup4
  • 50%Elsewhere

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

How long people stay

44%<1y
28%1-2y
16%2-4y
12%4-7y
0%7y+
1y median tenuremiddle half 5m to 2y

25 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

2017 to 2026: 25 joined, 8 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (13).

Titles held here

  1. Member of Technical Staff9
  2. Forward Deployed ML Engineer4
  3. Software Engineer4

3 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 8% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. UC Berkeley29.2%
  2. MIT16.7%
  3. Stanford12.5%

The 3 most listed schools among the 24 people here with a school on file.

7 of the 24 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 4 list MIT and 3 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.

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

54% of the people who have worked at Modal and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.

Modal
Everyone on the map
  • 54%SF Bay Area13 · map 41%
  • 42%New York10 · map 18%

All 24 people who worked at Modal 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 Modal: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.

Key facts

  • 24 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Modal: 17 are there now, 7 have moved on.
  • Median tenure at Modal: 1y, middle half 5m to 2y.
  • Of the people with a recorded next move after Modal, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 50% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
  • Most common title held here: Member of Technical Staff, then Forward Deployed ML Engineer.
  • Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 7 of the 24 people here with one on file (29.2%). Then MIT (4).
  • 54% of the 24 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% 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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