Eight methods, from free to paid: pattern guessing, GitHub commit mining, personal site scraping, and the finders worth paying for, plus how to verify before you hit send.
Eight proven methods to find contact information for candidates and hiring managers. Ordered from easiest to most advanced.
Most companies use predictable email formats. Try these patterns against the company domain:
Verify with email validation tools before sending.
Dedicated tools that find and verify professional email addresses:
Use Google operators to find emails hiding in plain sight:
Every git commit contains an email address. If someone has public repos:
Speakers at tech conferences often list contact info in their bios:
Many engineers have personal websites with contact info:
For senior researchers and inventors:
When email fails, go where they actually respond:
Company email patterns (first.last@company.com covers a large share of companies), GitHub commit history for engineers, personal websites, and conference speaker pages all yield addresses at zero cost.
Every git commit carries its author's email. For engineers with public repositories, appending .patch to a commit URL reveals the address they actually use, which is often personal and long-lived.
Always. A bounce hurts your sender reputation and future deliverability. Use a verifier or send-time validation so invalid addresses never get mailed.
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