After ODF
- 30%Founded something11
- 24%Joined a startup9
- 8%Joined a big company3
- 38%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave ODF most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 30% found something next and 24% go somewhere small
Not ODF's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 59 people on a map of 67,181, No. 407 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 590.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1627% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4373% 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
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for ODF yet.
The ODF mafia
11 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 30% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars cover the ’20 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
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Who comes and goes, by year
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2016 to 2026: 59 joined, 42 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 41 scored99
Titles held here
- Fellow17
- Founder Fellow5
- Founder Fellowship5
- Odf Fellow3
- On Deck Fellow3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 17%Strong7 people
- 37%Solid15 people
- 34%Emerging14 people
- 12%Unproven5 people
41 of the 59 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
7 of the 41 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 17%. A tier is the band a caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up.
Where they studied
- Georgia Tech8.8%
- USC8.8%
- UCLA7.0%
- Carnegie Mellon5.3%
- Northwestern5.3%
- Penn5.3%
- Stanford5.3%
The 7 most listed schools among the 57 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 57 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 5 list USC and 4 list UCLA. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
49%have a public GitHub account on their profile
29 of the 59 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
47% of the people who have worked at ODF and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
ODF
Everyone on the map
- 47%SF Bay Area28 · map 41%
- 27%Los Angeles16 · map 5%
- 20%New York12 · map 18%
- 5%Somewhere else3
All 59 people who worked at ODF 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 ODF: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside ODF, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 59 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at ODF: 16 are there now, 43 have moved on.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after ODF, 30% went to a founder title next, 24% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 8% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 41 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Fellow, then Founder Fellow.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 5 of the 57 people here with one on file (8.8%). Then USC (5).
- 47% of the 59 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.
- 49% of the 59 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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