FDEOS Trending is the weekly ranked snapshot of who's shipping the most-cited AI implementer work — measured from public GitHub activity, contributions to AI-adjacent libraries (Anthropic SDK / OpenAI / LangChain / LangGraph / MCP servers / Vapi tools / n8n nodes), and recency of meaningful commits. The ranking is mechanical — no editorial curation — and the top of the list is dominated by OSS maintainers and frontier-lab contributors whose work flows back into the daily implementer toolchain. Several appearing in the Top 50 are currently `open-to-conversations` for FTE roles or `consulting-available` for Lane C engagements; others are flagged unclaimed and will appear anonymized until they claim. If you're on this list and want to update your profile, [claim it here](/directory).
Editorial commentary reflects the broader market — the strip above reflects only roles ingested through our ingest pipeline (subset).
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Scored from GitHub public profile + top-repo data + AI-adjacent contribution graph. Anonymized profiles use first-name-and-initial + country only. Claimed profiles show full identity. Score breakdown is available on each profile page. Snapshot refreshed Monday 09:00 ET.