Stackoverflow is part of StackExchange, a “Q and A” platform. At this time it has 2.5 MLN users.
The site Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 offers the users to share their professional information if they are open to new possibilities. Search for these profiles is paid for employers and recruiters. However, you can X-Ray the site (for free).
Here’s what a profile on the “career” site looks like. Once you have found a profile, there shouldn’t be any problem finding additional professional information (if you need it), based on the shared links to social sites, the profile image, the name, and the location.
(Note that these bio/profile pages are separate. and different in structure, from the profiles of Stackoverflow users.)
A straightforward string to X-Ray the bio’s is site:careers.stackoverflow.com -inurl:jobs (add some keywords), for example:
site:careers.stackoverflow.com -inurl:jobs Objective-C PHP MySQL
We can see (interpret) these pages in the same way as resumes on job boards: recent are for active candidates, past are for “passive”.
To find the most recent profiles you can search for
site:careers.stackoverflow.com -inurl:jobs profile “updated * yesterday”
site:careers.stackoverflow.com -inurl:jobs profile updated ..6 days ago
Naturally, when you view the profile showing “3 days ago” in the preview it may be, say, 6 days since it was updated. This gap in dates gives us some idea on how often Google visits the pages.
View the dates when the profiles was last updated by using something like
site:careers.stackoverflow.com -inurl:jobs profile updated on * * *
Now, who can find the profile that has not been updated the longest? 🙂
If you are interested in many more practical ways and examples of sites to search for Software Engineers, feel free to check out the materials for the latest webinar, exactly on that topic.