About Exiqus
I'm Salim, and I built Exiqus after a weekend experiment analyzing developer portfolios turned into something more significant.
I don't come from traditional tech - I work in local government by day and build software at night. While working on my main project Koru, I needed a break and spent a weekend creating a portfolio analyser. What started as casual exploration evolved into a serious question: why do only 30% of hiring managers look at GitHub profiles when they contain everything needed to assess candidates?
After months of development and 'The Great Purge' (removing all subjective scoring for pure evidence-based analysis), Exiqus emerged. It translates developer work into plain English insights and interview questions that anyone can understand and use.
The platform analyses actual code contributions instead of algorithmic puzzles. Real work, not performance theatre.
Building the First Dataset
Exiqus is the first platform systematically analyzing GitHub portfolios as evidence for hiring and building the world's first validated dataset connecting developer work patterns to hiring outcomes.
While companies like Zed Industries spend months manually reviewing candidate code, we're systematizing what they do intuitively:
- Zed Industries hires via 6-10 months GitHub observation—we deliver that insight in one analysis
- NeetCode (Navdeep Singh), an individual creator who built a $1M+ interview prep platform, admitted LeetCode is "not directly useful on the job"—proving even those profiting from the system know it's broken
Built by someone outside tech who can see the hiring system's problems clearly because I'm not invested in maintaining them.
Evidence-Based
No subjective scores or ratings. Just factual evidence from actual code.
Plain English
Technical insights translated for anyone to understand and use.
Real Work
Analyzes actual contributions, not leetcode puzzles.
