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Muhammad Peerzada

GradPipe Delta - See exactly what's between you and your dream role

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GradPipe Delta Engine analyzes your profile against engineers who already landed your dream role. Tell it where you want to be (e.g. 'Research Scientist at OpenAI'). It benchmarks you against 5 real people in that role, finds the exact gaps in your profile, and gives you 3 specific projects to close those gaps in 12 weeks. Not generic career advice. Evidence-based, peer-compared, brutally honest. Built on top of GradPipe's AST-level code analysis engine with 1,500+ engineers scored.

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Muhammad Peerzada
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hey, muhammad here. i'm a 3rd year student at IIT Bombay building GradPipe. here's what made us build this: we've been placing engineers at YC startups for the past 5 months. the pattern we kept seeing was engineers who thought they were ready for a role but had no idea what the actual bar looked like. a senior engineer at Google wanted to become a research scientist at a frontier AI research Lab. great resume. strong code. but zero publications, no novel research, no architectural contributions. he didn't know that everyone who got that role had papers at ICLR and NeurIPS. that gap is invisible until someone shows it to you. so we built the Delta Engine. you tell it your dream role. it finds 5 people who actually have that role. it compares your profile to theirs and shows you the specific gaps: skills, experience patterns, credentials. then it gives you 3 concrete projects you can do in 12 weeks to close those gaps. this isn't a career quiz. it's a reality check backed by real data from real people. we built this on top of our AST-level code analysis engine that already scores 1,400+ engineers. the Delta Engine uses that foundation to go beyond 'how good are you' to 'how far are you from where you want to be.' would love honest feedback. what roles would you want to run this against? what would make the report more useful? tell us what's missing
Lakshay Gupta

Super interesting launch fs! What specific signals are you extracting at the AST level that correlate strongly with seniority or depth? Also don't you guys think this system unintentionally favors those engineers who had more free time or OSS exposure etc. which is not bad but still kinda subjective

Muhammad Peerzada
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@lak7 regarding the AST signals, we parse for architectural decisions let's say things like custom abstractions over off-the-shelf libraries, error handling depth, state management patterns, and whether someone is composing systems or just wiring APIs together.(glue guys)

a senior engineer's code looks structurally different from a junior's and it's not because it's "cleaner" but because the decision tree behind each abstraction is deeper and that comes up in our analysis.

we had considered the bias point that you mention and you're right that raw OSS volume would favor people with more free time but we don't measure the volume of commits. 50 commits that show real architectural thinking will outscore 3,000 commits of docs fixes and fork maintenance. (and we have had enough data points to verify that systems depth, architectural thinking has consistently scored higher on our platform)

like i will cite some real examples of our users, we've seen profiles with 50 commits score 85+ and profiles with 3,000 commits score like 41 or even lower

we have tried to make the system how deeply you thought rather than how much a person has built

Pratham Agarwal
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Hi, I am Pratham. 4th year at IITB, and one of the Co-Founders of GradPipe.

Delta engine as the name suggest, tells you what's the 'delta' between you and the role you are chasing.

We have the data of 1500+ strong tech builders and AI researchers, already working in companies/labs where you want to be.

It will give you the 'gaps' that exists and the 'roadmap' to fill those gaps. based on the data of the top 5 people who are already pro in that.

Feel free to drop your feedback here. or on the website itself (there is a Share Feedback button on the top right of the delta page)

Muhammad Peerzada
Maker
@pratham_agarwal29 we are filling the gaps that everyone wanted to be filled 💪
Tec Narayan Brahmachari
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Hey Product Hunt, I am Tec Narayan Brahmachari, co-founder of GradPipe.
Most AI career tools just polish resumes and optimize for ATS keywords. But startups don’t hire formatting, they hire technical depth. In interviews all they care is if you have the tech-depth or not.

Today we're launching Delta Analysis. It doesn't sugarcoat; it tells you exactly why you aren't ready for your target role and how to fix it

You need to know exactly what the top 1% are actually building.

So I built the Delta Engine into GradPipe.

Instead of generating fluff, it:
• Analyzes your exact goal + your knowledge graph.
• Queries our database of 1,500+ real top-tier engineer resumes to find the exact peers who are beating you and aligned with your goal.
• Shows you the evidence-based gaps (e.g., "Peer 3 built a custom eBPF scheduler, you only have basic CRUD apps").
• Ensures every recommendation is backed by real peer data (the kind of mentor you'd love to have).

It’s powered by our proprietary skill graph.

P.S. If you run into any bugs or issues, or want to share a feedback, shoot me an email directly at tecnarayan@gradpipe.com

Muhammad Peerzada
Maker

@tecfury the measurement of architectural depth and then gap identification and connecting it with the role gap is i think what makes gradpipe work for a lot of our users, lfgggg!!!!! @tecfury