Today, I got an email. I got a lot of emails every day, but one that directed me personally and encouraged a reply is rare. How I wish there are more of these so that I can justify my Hey account better. Anyway, back to the email.

A tech recruiter followed me on GitHub and sent me a personal email from the address he got from my GitHub profile. Basically a "hello, keep in touch even if you don't need a job right now". Cool. This is the first for me. Getting "cold call" by someone scouring GitHub for a Malaysia programmer.

This is, of course, a wide net cast and I was in it just because I put my country as Malaysia. The headhunter's company work in Malaysia and its main business is matching talent for Malaysian companies. I have no excitement from getting yet another mail from a recruiter. What amused me is the method of finding me.

Because I have tried the very same method before. Well, didn't manage to try since my startup project failed to secure a contract in the end. I did, however, start a list of GitHub developers who worked with Cloudflare Worker. By typing "Cloudflare Worker" in the search term and going through each repository, one by one, to find a decent project written by a real programmer, and add them to a list for future "cold calling".

The list is done after one week of work. But it hasn't got a chance to shine yet.

Then I became the target of the cold call. Cheers!