After US Navy
- 20%Joined a startup32
- 19%Joined a big company30
- 61%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave US Navy most often go to U.S. Navy Reserve, Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 5y
Not the US Navy's troop strength: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 224 people on a map of 67,181, No. 104 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2240.3% of everyone on the map
- Serving now
- 146% of the people here
- Moved on
- 21094% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 5ymiddle half 3y 2m to 7y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for U.S. Navy Reserve (4% of recorded departures).
56 recorded arrivals from 54 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
Amazon32%
AWS32%0 of 56 recorded arrivals shown, 56 more from 54 other companies34 of 168 recorded departures shown, 134 more to 121 other companies
How long people stay
6%<1y
8%1-2y
16%2-4y
37%4-7y
33%7y+
242 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
171212
17813
121014
101315
131016
61917
121218
51219
91320
71521
41422
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 116 joined, 168 left.
Caliber
63mediantop 10%79
0Eng Scorer caliber, 79 scored99
Titles held here
- Division Officer7
- Electronics Technician7
- Intelligence Analyst6
- Naval Officer5
- Cyber Warfare Engineer4
- Hospital Corpsman4
- Instructor4
- Program Manager4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 75% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 10%Strong or solid8 people
- 43%Emerging34 people
- 47%Unproven37 people
79 of the 224 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 79 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
27%Titles that rose20 of 73 classified people
- 27%Rose20 people
- 49%Stayed level36 people
- 23%Fell17 people
73 of the 224 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first. For someone with one title here who then left, it's measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- United States Naval Academy16.6%
- Georgia Tech8.3%
- Naval Postgraduate School7.4%
- University of Maryland6.9%
- Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center4.2%
- Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (Nnptc)4.2%
- University of Maryland Global Campus4.2%
- Old Dominion University3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 217 people here with a school on file.
36 of the 217 people here with a school on file list United States Naval Academy, 18 list Georgia Tech and 16 list Naval Postgraduate School. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
20%have a public GitHub account on their profile
45 of the 224 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
46% of the people who have worked at US Navy and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
US Navy
Everyone on the map
- 46%Washington DC102 · map 13%
- 9%SF Bay Area21 · map 41%
- 3%San Diego7 · map 0.5%
- 3%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 3%New York6 · map 18%
- 2%Atlanta4 · map 1%
- 2%Baltimore4 · map 0.7%
- 2%Denver4 · map 0.8%
- 31%Somewhere else69
All 224 people who worked at US Navy 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 US Navy: 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 US Navy, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 224 people on the Zelcast alumni map have served in the US Navy: 14 are there now, 210 have moved on.
- Most leave for U.S. Navy Reserve: 7 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen.
- Median tenure in the US Navy: 5y, middle half 3y 2m to 7y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after US Navy, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 19% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 63 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 79 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Division Officer, then Electronics Technician.
- Top school: United States Naval Academy, listed by 36 of the 217 people here with one on file (16.6%). Then Georgia Tech (18).
- 46% of the 224 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.
- 20% of the 224 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 20 rose, 36 stayed level, 17 fell, out of the 73 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
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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