• Know Your Developer™

    Trust in code starts with trust in people. KYD gives developers a portable, private trust profile—recognized across platforms—that proves real contributions and builds confidence with employers.

    Prove My Work

  • Trust Score for Developers

    Know Your Developer™ turns real contribution signals into a verified trust score. Portable, private, and provable—helping developers stand out and helping organizations spot true talent.

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  • Prove Your Work, Earn More

    Know Your Developer™ gives you a profile built from real contributions. Share it when you choose, show your value beyond degrees, and open doors to new opportunities.

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  • Show Real Contributions

    Know Your Developer™ highlights verified signals from your actual work, giving you credit beyond certificates and helping organizations see proven talent.

    Verify Me

  • Carry Your Reputation Anywhere

    Your KYD trust profile is portable across networks and projects, making it easy to showcase your impact wherever your career takes you.

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  • Share When You’re Ready

    Your profile stays private until you choose to share it, giving you full control over when and how you demonstrate your credibility.

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KYD Self-Check™: Shaped by Developers Like You

  • "You may start with one field that you generate an expertise in, over time you may branch out and much of this expertise is developed from experience and not traditional education."

    Developer, Suffolk, NY | July 2025 KYD Developer

  • "I had the skills and had completed similar tasks in personal or volunteer projects, but translating that into a strong application was tough."

    Developer, Cambridge, MA | July 2025 KYD Developer

  • "I have been told I am over qualified for some roles, while others say I lack specific certification even if I have skills and experiences to do the job well."

    Developer, Brooklyn, NY | July 2025 KYD Developer

  • "Lack of formal credentials and specific job titles has made it hard to qualify."

    Developer, Bronx, NY | July 2025 KYD Developer

  • “It’s hard to stand out without a strong personal brand or verified project impact.”

    Developer, Johnson, KS | July 2025 KYD Developer

Solutions

KYD Self-Check™ helps you quickly understand how your professional and technical reputation appears online. With your permission, it brings together trust signals from your public developer presence—such as code repositories, credential platforms, and professional networks—to create a clear, unified view of how you're perceived across the industry.

What You Gain From Your Report

  • Confidence – Display your badge or share your report when it strengthens your case.

  • Credit – Get recognition for your real work and reputation, beyond certificates and degrees.

  • Compensation – Earn more by demonstrating your values and trust profile.

Built for Developers Like You

  • Portable – Your trust profile follows you across networks and platforms.

  • Provable – Your report gives objective scores you can track over time or compare with peers.

  • Private – Your profile stays private until you choose when and how to share it.

Mission

Our mission is to empower developers to clearly and confidently demonstrate their expertise and trustworthiness, ensuring they can be trusted with our nation's most complex and important work. In an era where our infrastructure depends heavily on technology, clarity in developer credibility is critical.

Why We’re Here

At Know Your Developer™ (KYD™), we believe every developer deserves to clearly showcase their capabilities and professional trustworthiness. As a company founded by developers, we created KYD™ to empower our peers—giving developers the tools to understand, aggregate, and confidently present their expertise, credibility, and responsible AI usage from multiple online sources. With KYD™, developers gain clear visibility and meaningful control over their professional narrative.

We also recognize that clarity in developer capabilities and trustworthiness is essential for organizations tackling our nation's most complex and important challenges. KYD™ helps companies confidently engage the right talent by consolidating scattered trust signals into a comprehensive, actionable KYD Trust Profile™.

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