🇺🇸 GitHub developers in the US: cities and technologies

Updated September 2026 | Data from StarHunt's GitHub index

According to StarHunt's index of the most active GitHub developers in United States, as of September 2026, Python is the most represented technology, and 40% list a public email address, so a large share can be contacted directly. San Francisco has the most active engineers.

1M+ Repos analyzed
15 Cities covered
40% Public email
15 Technologies covered

Which technologies are most represented among United States developers?

Technologies ranked by how represented they are among United States developers on StarHunt, as of September 2026.

Python TypeScript Node.js AWS PyTorch / ML Go / Golang Kubernetes / DevOps Rust C++ Java Azure .NET / C# Ruby GCP Swift / iOS
MongoDB engineers are rare in United States. They are far less represented than Python, about a 78.3× gap, which makes MongoDB talent significantly harder to source.

Which United States cities have the most GitHub developers?

Cities ranked by developer activity, with their leading technologies, their weight in the country, and how many engineers can be contacted directly. Only cities with meaningful activity are shown.

#CityTop 3 technologiesShare of located profilesPublic email
1San FranciscoPython TypeScript AI Agents21.3%40%
2SeattlePython TypeScript AWS16.2%39%
3New YorkPython TypeScript Node.js15.5%36%
4AustinPython TypeScript Node.js7.8%38%
5BostonPython TypeScript Node.js7.0%35%
6ChicagoPython TypeScript Node.js6.0%39%
7Los AngelesPython TypeScript Node.js5.2%39%
8AtlantaPython TypeScript Node.js5.1%37%
9DenverTypeScript Python Node.js4.6%39%
10PortlandNode.js Python TypeScript4.4%43%
11San DiegoPython Node.js TypeScript2.8%41%
12RaleighPython Kubernetes / DevOps AI Agents1.6%42%
13OrlandoTypeScript Python AI Agents1.0%36%
14NashvillePython TypeScript RAG / Retrieval0.9%40%
15DetroitTypeScript Python AI Agents0.7%41%

Public email is the share of developers in that city who list an address on their GitHub profile, which is the difference between writing to them directly and going through a platform. Methodology and the wider picture are in the State of Developer Reachability 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Which technology is most common among GitHub developers in United States?

Python is the most represented technology among United States developers on StarHunt, as of September 2026.

What share of United States GitHub developers list a public email?

40% of the United States developers StarHunt surfaces list a public email address on GitHub.

Which skills are hardest to source in United States?

MongoDB is among the least represented technologies in United States, roughly 78.3× rarer than Python.

Which United States city has the most GitHub developers?

San Francisco leads United States for GitHub developer activity on StarHunt.

About this data

This page is generated from StarHunt's index of GitHub profiles, built by our crawler and refreshed regularly, with this page regenerated weekly. Profiles are sourced from contributors to reference open-source repositories and from GitHub Search, then located via the public GitHub profile field (normalized across common variants). StarHunt ranks the most active developers by their real open-source footprint, part of a worldwide index that grows continuously. Figures reflect the developers ranked in United States.

Profiles are ranked by how well they match a given search rather than by a fixed score, and only developers with a clear signal of activity in the relevant technologies are surfaced.

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