A title only means something in the context of an organization. Titles refer to boxes on org charts and rows in a pay scales spreadsheet. Look at all of the ti

A title only means something in the context of an organization. Titles refer to boxes on org charts and rows in a pay scales spreadsheet. Look at all of the titles in your job history and re-word them into descriptive labels if necessary. "Senior Programmer" works across organizations, "Code Wrangler II" does not. Titles don't have any consistent meaning in the programming field. If you want to call out work done outside of an organization describe it in clear language: open source contributor, side project, hobby project, etc. Some employers may see side projects as a negative. They might wonder if you will just take a job to finance a startup, or work on your side projects on their time or with their resources. I suggest thinking through that possibility and only presenting side projects if they have some relevance to the job, and you can assure the potential employer you won't use their time to do your own thing, or quit as soon as you get a few paying customers for the side gig.