The person https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvoss/ seems to exist, I even have a mutual linkedin connection. What makes you think the “person” behind it doesn't even appear to exist?
I can't log-in to linkedin right now, but here's a few things:
- the profile picture is almost certainly (like 99%, certainty) AI-generated (I can even tell you it's ChatGPT-generated, the style is way too characteristic to miss).
- the LinkedIn profile shows prolific activity for the past few days, but almost nothing before that, I'm not sure the profile existed before.
- the github account is just 2 weeks old.
Having a mutual connection doesn't mean much, the interesting question would be who's the mutual and for how long has he be a connection. It's not hard to get to 500 LinkedIn connections on LinkedIn in a few days, you just need to add headhunters and other hiring specialists, they'll never refuse an invitation from a profile that look interesting. They could also have added someone who interacted with their LinkedIn slop submission, making the person more likely to accept the invitation.
- the profile picture is almost certainly (like 99%, certainty) AI-generated (I can even tell you it's ChatGPT-generated, the style is way too characteristic to miss).
- the LinkedIn profile shows prolific activity for the past few days, but almost nothing before that, I'm not sure the profile existed before.
- the github account is just 2 weeks old.
Having a mutual connection doesn't mean much, the interesting question would be who's the mutual and for how long has he be a connection. It's not hard to get to 500 LinkedIn connections on LinkedIn in a few days, you just need to add headhunters and other hiring specialists, they'll never refuse an invitation from a profile that look interesting. They could also have added someone who interacted with their LinkedIn slop submission, making the person more likely to accept the invitation.