I'm extremely scared my career is fucked. My GitHub username is linked to my real identity. However if someone were to search my username up, the reddit profile of someone who posts regularly on porn subs and tweets inflammatory political shit appears.
Searching my name brings up that GitHub. I changed my username on GitHub, but searching my name still shows some Chinese github archival site that links me and my old GitHub name together. I tried emailing the admin and he won't remove it. There's no plausible deniability because that site also lists my projects.
My name is also very unique. I'm so scared. This has been stressing me out for the past few weeks.
There could only be two people in the world with your name, you and the other guy, and the situation is the same. "That's not me" is the only thing you need to say. Professionals will understand.
It's fine, most places won't search your github username on a search engine. It's mostly just the places which require security clearances that do background checks that deep. So you'll be fine as long as you're not joining CP0 or smth.
Ah I misread that,
If I were you, I'd just make your GitHub look as professional as possible. So that in the extremely rare chance that someone does Google you, it's obvious that the the accounts aren't linked.
That being said, your career is not over and the anxiety you have is all in your head.
Since the universal response seems to be that I'd be fine (not a single person said I'd be screwed or deal with much setback) I'm trying my best not to worry about it now.
Pretty sure you can change your GitHub username. At least I did, but it's been awhile. When I got serious about my career I changed my professional online presence to use my real name.
Iirc it said something like, urls using your old username continue to work until someone comes along and makes a new account using your abandoned name.
Make a reddit account titled TheRealYourName. Split time between commenting how cute puppy photos look, how good certain attractions are in your local sub, and some actually insightful comments on some domain specific subs.
After a few months you'll have a track record you can point to.
If it's that bad, change your name. There's nothing special about our names. They are just unique identifiers. Pick a new one and be more reserved about what you post.
Then your last chance is to ask either google to remove the reference of this archive in the search engine, either to delete your twitter account and other problematic social accounts.