TUB: A Shelved Go-Based Recruitment Engine Built to Fight Geographic Hiring Bias

A developer from Namibia built Talent by UnitBuilds (TUB), a high-concurrency recruitment engine in Go, after repeatedly failing to land international jobs despite strong technical skills — solely due to his geographic location. TUB uses a strict one-candidate-to-one-job matching model, pairing AI-driven candidate onboarding with deep web crawling to identify roles that precisely fit a candidate's background and project history. The system sends a single, highly personalized pitch to a target employer's HR team, accompanied by an interactive profile page designed to demonstrate verified capability over mere credentials. Unlike traditional recruiters who charge employers 15–25% of a candidate's annual salary, TUB takes no upfront fee, instead earning a recurring referral cut from an Employer of Record partner's monthly management fee. The project was ultimately shelved despite being functional and optimized, and is now being shared as part of the developer's ongoing 'Shelved Projects' series on DEV Community.
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