This works. I have the same name as a Pulitzer prize winning author, and it's pretty hard to find me by name. And since I've mostly worked at popular user-facing companies, searching for my name + employer just has stuff about him with share links that use my employer's services. Well except for the guy with my name in Florida who got arrested in connection with using my employer's service.

What's not fun is hearing promos about upcoming interviews of your namesake on the radio and stressing out because you were unprepared for a conversation with Terry Gross.