After Valon
- 33%Joined a startup3
- 67%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Valon most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 33% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 6m
Not Valon's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 33 people on a map of 67,181, No. 765 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 33Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2576% of the people here
- Moved on
- 824% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 4m to 4y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Valon yet.
How long people stay
12%<1y
35%1-2y
24%2-4y
29%4-7y
0%7y+
34 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3020
7021
5322
5323
3<324
8<325
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2019 to 2026: 34 joined, 9 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (24).
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer13
- Software Engineer13
- Staff Software Engineer6
- Engineering Manager5
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
Where they studied
- Georgia Tech9.1%
- Stanford9.1%
The 2 most listed schools among the 33 people here with a school on file.
3 of the 33 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech and 3 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
61%have a public GitHub account on their profile
20 of the 33 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
61% of the people who have worked at Valon and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Valon
Everyone on the map
- 61%New York20 · map 18%
- 18%SF Bay Area6 · map 41%
- 21%Somewhere else7
All 33 people who worked at Valon 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 Valon: 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 Valon, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 33 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Valon: 25 are there now, 8 have moved on.
- Median tenure at Valon: 2y 6m, middle half 1y 4m to 4y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Valon, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 33% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 3 of the 33 people here with one on file (9.1%). Then Stanford (3).
- 61% of the 33 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 61% of the 33 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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