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GitHub Résumé

278 points by jmduke 13y ago

krrishd 13y ago
Personally, I like http://osrc.dfm.io http://osrc.dfm.io simply because it provides way more detail and insight into the user. Just my opinion though, this is still pretty cool.
- chourobin 13y ago
  Both awesome links. Thanks!
- john2x 13y ago
  Now that is cool. Thanks for sharing.
- riffraff 13y ago
  methinks osrc.dfm.io doesn't actually look at what you contributed. In my report, it looks a lot at stuff that I starred but I never sent pull requests for.
- jakobe 13y ago
  Also, I'm really flattered by osrc.dfm.io. According to http://osrc.dfm.io/jakob http://osrc.dfm.io/jakob I'm a "high caliber Objective-C coder" in contrast to http://resume.github.io/?jakob http://resume.github.io/?jakob calling me a "newbie github user".
  - agilebyte 13y ago
    It just displays one of the (positive sounding) adjectives next to the most used language in your profile: https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f00ab208bf47f91/osrc/templates/user.html#L17 https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0... Adjectives: https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f00ab208bf47f91/osrc/adjectives.json https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0...
- Cakez0r 13y ago
  "Lewis Ellington is a heavy hitting JavaScripter..." Hmm... I hate javascript and most of my code is in C# C# (76%) JavaScript (7%)
  - X4 13y ago
    Yup, it's pretty inaccurate. I think it's inaccurate to not "deface" people, or an act of nicety. Altough, seeing that someone is 24 coding all week, isn't a good sign of health too.
- X4 13y ago
  Meh, pretty frustrating. All it shows is that I have no life. Wish I could hide my github profile. I don't care to impress employers with how nerdy or willingly to contribute I am. The less they know from 3rd party, but me, the better!
- atmosx 13y ago
  Both projects are awesome, I like the aesthetics, but my profile is seriously twisted :-P in both cases.
- corobo 13y ago
  Wow this one really knows how to spin a resume! "In particular, seems to be a pretty serious PHP expert." I've made one commit to a PHP project about a year ago and it was a minor tweak!
- a_bonobo 13y ago
  Creeped out - it told me I should be friends with someone I follow & talk to regularly on Twitter, but we've never contributed to the same project. How did it know that?
rcthompson 13y ago
Hmm. This is missing my most popular repo, https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-ubiquitous https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-ubiquitous Probably because for historical reasons, my repo is not the "root" on GitHub (it started out an an anonymous snippet on EmacsWiki and someone else put it in its own GitHub repo, which I later forked).
- ghayes 13y ago
  Also, it would nice if it OAuthed and let you add stats about private repos. 99% of my code pushes go to private repos for business reasons.
- jmduke 13y ago
  (Submitter but not the author.) It looks like that's because its using GitHub's timeline API, which -- in addition to GitHub's general repository API -- only retrieves repositories which are actually rooted at the given user. Sort of a shame; I feel like most people's most interesting/important open source activity is on repositories which they don't own.
  - hackula1 13y ago
    At the same time, this probably cuts down on "me too" contributions. I have a repo that has been gaining popularity lately and have been flooded with pull requests that do nothing but add a jshint file or other dev environment changes.
aabalkan 13y ago
This project is at least 3 years old. Interesting it has got picked up by HN folks again. For those not familiar with GitHub pages, somebody got username "resume" in order to create this page. I had to explain this because this actually looks like something GitHub launched, just like http://status.github.com/ http://status.github.com/ but it is not.
- john2x 13y ago
  Glad they're using .io now for user pages. I remember the confusion some of these projects caused.
volaski 13y ago
Alright, this website basically turns https://github.com/mojombo https://github.com/mojombo into http://resume.github.io/?mojombo http://resume.github.io/?mojombo , which is uglier than the original and doesn't even add anything new. How did this get 22 points in 50 minutes and is #1 now?
- hendzen 13y ago
  typical hacker news top comment
  - X4 13y ago
    I wish HN was more about real hacking. Black-, Gray- or Whitehat. The highest upvoted things aren't startup's but privacy related posted (ie. NSA) and HTML5/CSS3 experiments... Not to say, I don't see gem's in here, but most are more interested in webdesign stuff.
    - tinco 13y ago
      You're on the wrong site. This site uses the Stallman[1] definition for hacking, not the The Mentor[2] definition :) [1]http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html [2]http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
      - X4 13y ago
        Ok, I don't know why it got downvoted ; cannot reason the logic. Do people assume "this guy doesn't know the various definitions of the word hacker"? However, thanks for the feedback.
        tinco 13y ago
        It's because you said 'black, gray or white hat'. Those are all computer security hacker types, and have little to do with the topic of this site, which is tech startup news and relevant inspiring/educational material.
gnufied 13y ago
Interesting but deriving anything from this one is near useless. For example, this completely fails to list any of my current open source project because I created them under my organizations name.
ultimoo 13y ago
> As a software startup owner I really enjoy when people send us their résumés and they include their github account so we can see tangible work they have done. I sometimes feel very insecure when I read statements like this. I consider myself a good and a passionate programmer with "above-average programming skills", if there is such a thing. However, I have (so far) never been able to manage contributing to open source projects in any significant way. Sometimes I have been too busy with work projects, sometimes it has been a busy life at grad school, sometimes family, sometimes I have been plain shy, and so on. I have put together a bunch of great hacks at places I have worked, which sadly I cannot open source. But I see dozens of people whom I know who are naturally prolific in their oss contributions, manage to attract a high number of twitter followers, etc. and I wish I were more like them. Do startups really look at github contributions as the ultimate measure of one's tech chops or are looking for people who go that extra bit and make time in their schedules for contributing back to the community?
- Cakez0r 13y ago
  You don't have to contribute to open source to have a github account. I use it to dump all my projects on (most of which are incomplete). I've made only one pull request to OSS (months ago) and it's still sitting in the request queue!
- ics 13y ago
  I've always had the impression that it's just an easier way of dealing with potential hires but by no means the only way. If the company you are applying to is an active contributor to OSS then it would probably be more important as a gauge of some workflow they'd like to see. Maybe I'm wrong though– I've never gone through that process myself.
- icelancer 13y ago
  >Do startups really look at github contributions as the ultimate measure of one's tech chops or are looking for people who go that extra bit and make time in their schedules for contributing back to the community? When I was hiring, yes. There is no easier and simpler way to evaluate someone before bringing them in for an interview than checking their verifiable OSS contributions. It's low friction. Doesn't mean we didn't consider others, but for obvious reasons people who actually could prove they had done work went to the head of the line. It's just how it is.
outside1234 13y ago
To be useful, this needs to also crawl the projects I contribute to, not just the ones under my account. I am a maintainer of a project under another github account but that completely escapes this tool.
- rhizome31 13y ago
  Agreed. My modest contributions to widely used projects are at least as important as my personal projects that nobody uses.
- mindcrime 13y ago
  Yeah, same here. Almost all of my meaningful commits are to repositories that belong to my Organization, and not to my personal account. But this generator only seems to factor in the personal ones. And then you have to consider the way Github routinely detects the wrong language for repos. I see Grails apps detected as "Javascript" all the time, including one of mine right now. sigh I don't know why GH don't give developers the ability to declare the (primary) language(s) of the project explicitly. I don't care if there's 6 billion lines of JS in libraries that nobody ever touches, and only 10 lines of Groovy code, it's still a "Groovy project" in every meaningful sense, if that's what people need to hack on to modify the project. :-(
hackernewsguy 13y ago
Some of my most important projects are open sourced under my company's account and this won't show any of them even though I contributed 90% of the code. This only shows my personal side projects that are done for fun. Any chance this could change in the future?
priyadarshy 13y ago
I would not want an employer to use this to evaluate me because it is called my "github resume" and somehow implies that it is my summary of my experiences, abilities, skills and potential. You don't need to be an active github user to be a good developer (I am not even a good developer) and you should be able to present your resume as you deem fit. Obviously if this allowed me to own my account and easily customize how my github works gets displayed I'd be more interested. Until then, this feels like pushing my github work through a meat grinder and evaluating the sausage instead of me.
binarnosp 13y ago
This is spiraling out of control
- deleted 13y ago
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philip1209 13y ago
Intriguing - I was expecting a Jekyll-based static resume
lifeisstillgood 13y ago
This is pretty fantastic. Some combination of this and LinkedIn will mean I can give up word docs forever !
CatsoCatsoCatso 13y ago
The use of percentages within the example resume's made me wince.
bergie 13y ago
I thought this was a lot more interesting GitHub visualization: http://osrc.dfm.io/bergie http://osrc.dfm.io/bergie
draegtun 13y ago
See also... Perl Résumé which works of your CPAN account (via MetaCPAN) - http://perlresume.org http://perlresume.org
seivan 13y ago
This also pretty cool http://osrc.dfm.io http://osrc.dfm.io
lucianp 13y ago
Personally, I don't like the idea of a GitHub/OSS resume. While for others this is great, it does not work for everyone. Many of us are not able to contribute to open source projects... How many professionals are asked by their future employer about the work they do for free in their spare time? Would you ask a doctor how many patients he/she treated for free? Or a lawyer how many cases he/she did for free in their spare time? I don't think so... By all means, I think contributing back to the community is a noble, great thing to do (and we should all strive to do it), but this should not be considered the sole measure of one's technical skills.
- pc86 13y ago
  No, but I do care about what cases my attorney takes on pro bono or what community service my doctor participates in. It goes to showing what one does to give back to the community, whether it's geographically (putting your volunteer/civic organizations on your resume) or professionally (putting your GitHub account on your resume). Having a doctor or lawyer who gives back is important to a lot of people, and I'm sure that translates into wanting to hire employees who give back to their communities as well.
  - lucianp 13y ago
    Yes, I agree. But I'm not sure that for a doctor or a lawyer there is the same pressure to "give back to the community" as for a software developer.
- azakai 13y ago
  > Personally, I don't like the idea of a GitHub/OSS resume. While for others this is great, it does not work for everyone. Many of us are not able to contribute to open source projects... Of course, not everyone can. But likewise, not everyone can go to college and get a degree in computer science, which is generally pretty important for one's resume. Open source contributions on github should not be the sole or even most important measure of one's technical skills, and neither should having a college degree. But the more options there are to prove one's skills, the better a chance talented people have. In other words: For those that can't afford to go to college, but are good at programming, github can make the hiring process more fair.
philliphaydon 13y ago
This doesn't work for me :( shows me just repositories I create for blog posts, but not the organizations I own to show my main repositories.
bendmorris 13y ago
Unfortunately, this ignores forked repositories. The open source contributions I'm most proud of were to projects that I didn't start, so none of them are listed here.
- chalst 13y ago
  I think that's probably by design. From the point of view of "project as CV items", most forked items have very little in the way of useful contribution to them - that doesn't defeat your point that some forks are very cool indeed.
  - bendmorris 13y ago
    You're probably right that most forks aren't very interesting - I wonder if it would be possible to parse out actual diffs made by the user on the fork. I've contributed a fair amount of code to BioPython, which is going to be impressive to people in my field. To contribute you work on your own fork and submit a pull request. Under this scheme a single person is getting credit for all the work of the BioPython developers on their own development forks that gets merged into the main repo (or maybe no one is getting credit, as the central repo is owned by an organization.)
taude 13y ago
One thing that struck me as painfully obvious about this is that the actual coding aspect of someone's job is only a small fraction of what makes them a good hire. Not to mention, they might have JavaScript or what-ever language is good for an open source part of a system, but if they're working in DevOps, DB guru, etc. none of that comes through in this. I don't think I'd call this a GitHub Resume, more of a formatted GitHub summary that could be part of someone's Resume. Sure, if you're inundated with so many resumes that you can't decide where to start (doubt this is a problem most companies have) this might be a good place to start.
bennyg 13y ago
As a guy who routinely has his resume tossed because of a lack of technical degree, Github is a godsend for the auxiliary benefit of companies that want to take me serious can find my code there. I routinely have stuff trend in Objective C and it's slightly frustrating when interviewers think the toughest question is what's different between an NSArray and NSMutableArray because my resume says "Majored in Graphic Design." I love contributing to the community, and that's obviously the first reason why I push OSS, but that extra hiring benefit is extremely helpful for other coders like me who don't have a technical degree.
- seivan 13y ago
  Same here man. http://osrc.dfm.io http://osrc.dfm.io makes me sound good as well, top 2% Objective-c
  - bennyg 13y ago
    Woah that's awesome! I'd never seen that site before. Top 5% here. http://osrc.dfm.io/bennyguitar http://osrc.dfm.io/bennyguitar
mpermar 13y ago
As I haven't seen any comments about it. Some friends of mine created already a while ago Masterbranch http://www.masterbranch.com http://www.masterbranch.com It does not only builds your resume from Github but from many other repositories as well. Not sure what is the current status of the project though.
parennoob 13y ago
Any employers looking to use this to seriously evaluate candidates -- you are wide open to having your analytics gamed by people looking to get their foot in the door. And commits are much easier to fake out and automate than degrees. :)
nilkn 13y ago
It would be nice if it included gists, because I have some interesting non-trivial snippets on there that it doesn't make sense to put into a full repo on Github.
uladzislau 13y ago
On the related note - if you need a solid looking offline resume and don't want to spend hours formatting it, check out Almagreta Resume Templates - set of 5 great looking Word templates with some cool features. http://almagreta.com/resume-templates/ http://almagreta.com/resume-templates/
- Numberwang 13y ago
  Or just use free ones of you are unemployed and spend the money on food.
clavalle 13y ago
This is great. It reminds me that I need to clean up my github account. Unfortunately I use github for two separate functions -- putting up projects some other people may be interested in and for throwing up scratchpad projects. So I end up with a lot of garbage on my account. The bulk of my really interesting stuff is in private accounts.
- burntsushi 13y ago
  > for throwing up scratchpad projects I've replaced almost all my scratch projects with gists using the `gist` command [1]. It's a nice utility because it authenticates as your GitHub account, and you can modify existing gists (which can contain 1 or more files) with the `--update` flag. Really works great for those one-off things. [1] - https://github.com/defunkt/gist https://github.com/defunkt/gist
joelle 13y ago
Great idea. love this.
needacig 13y ago
This is dumb. It merely duplicates the exact same information that is available front and center on everyone's GitHub profile to begin with, but in a worse format. Only idiot VCs would think this is cool or useful. Coincidentally, the creator of "GitHub Résumé" thinks Coin is a great idea and wants to invest: https://twitter.com/davidcoallier/status/401075383971627008 https://twitter.com/davidcoallier/status/401075383971627008
ondrae 13y ago
This is awesome and just what I've been wanting. One request would be to show the repos I contribute to the most instead of just the ones on my account. I went and looked up the open source report card which used to work the same way. Looks like they've recently changed it though to pull from your most contributed repos, so for me is much more accurate of my activity on Github. http://osrc.dfm.io/ http://osrc.dfm.io/
lispylol 13y ago
reminds me of this: open source report card http://osrc.dfm.io/ http://osrc.dfm.io/
ffrryuu 13y ago
LinkedIn is better. You rise above all that coding bs as you get older and has a career. Instead of just a code monkey forever...
jrochkind1 13y ago
This is neat. Improvements might be allowing you to hand-pick which repos to highlight. Also, I'd love a way to highlight my contributions to popular open source projects on github that _aren't_ in my own repo, or a 'team' repo I belong to. For instance, I have, I think, 2 or 3 commits in Rails -- but you aren't going to find that out from looking at my github account, or from this resumé thing. I have yet to figure out _how_ to figure it out in fact!
jtratner 13y ago
This doesn't include contributions to other people's repos, which makes it not so useful (and a bummer if someone tries to use it to summarize my GitHub work). I spend the majority of my time contributing to pydata/pandas, which doesn't show up at all. Bummer.
happiily 13y ago
Kudos. This is a great start. As someone constantly on the look for great technical talent (as both an entrepreneur and investor), I am constantly looking for tools that help me source candidates in a credible way. I have looked at several sites like this and using GitHub to query and then present is smart. Some suggestions: 1) Find a way to notify the user when their resume has been built. This could be a great distribution tactic. 2) Allow the user to reveal non-detailed summaries of their private repos. This is where the real power of a tool like this would come in. Allowing a generalized summary of the private repo's could lead to an "IMDB for programmers"

278 points by jmduke 13y ago

Personally, I like http://osrc.dfm.io http://osrc.dfm.io simply because it provides way more detail and insight into the user. Just my opinion though, this is still pretty cool.

chourobin 13y ago
Both awesome links. Thanks!
john2x 13y ago
Now that is cool. Thanks for sharing.
riffraff 13y ago
methinks osrc.dfm.io doesn't actually look at what you contributed. In my report, it looks a lot at stuff that I starred but I never sent pull requests for.
jakobe 13y ago
Also, I'm really flattered by osrc.dfm.io. According to http://osrc.dfm.io/jakob http://osrc.dfm.io/jakob I'm a "high caliber Objective-C coder" in contrast to http://resume.github.io/?jakob http://resume.github.io/?jakob calling me a "newbie github user".
- agilebyte 13y ago
  It just displays one of the (positive sounding) adjectives next to the most used language in your profile: https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f00ab208bf47f91/osrc/templates/user.html#L17 https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0... Adjectives: https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f00ab208bf47f91/osrc/adjectives.json https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/b39630fd5a6366c30bb7280f2f0...
Cakez0r 13y ago
"Lewis Ellington is a heavy hitting JavaScripter..." Hmm... I hate javascript and most of my code is in C# C# (76%) JavaScript (7%)
- X4 13y ago
  Yup, it's pretty inaccurate. I think it's inaccurate to not "deface" people, or an act of nicety. Altough, seeing that someone is 24 coding all week, isn't a good sign of health too.
X4 13y ago
Meh, pretty frustrating. All it shows is that I have no life. Wish I could hide my github profile. I don't care to impress employers with how nerdy or willingly to contribute I am. The less they know from 3rd party, but me, the better!
atmosx 13y ago
Both projects are awesome, I like the aesthetics, but my profile is seriously twisted :-P in both cases.
corobo 13y ago
Wow this one really knows how to spin a resume! "In particular, seems to be a pretty serious PHP expert." I've made one commit to a PHP project about a year ago and it was a minor tweak!
a_bonobo 13y ago
Creeped out - it told me I should be friends with someone I follow & talk to regularly on Twitter, but we've never contributed to the same project. How did it know that?

rcthompson 13y ago

Hmm. This is missing my most popular repo, https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-ubiquitous https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-ubiquitous Probably because for historical reasons, my repo is not the "root" on GitHub (it started out an an anonymous snippet on EmacsWiki and someone else put it in its own GitHub repo, which I later forked).

ghayes 13y ago
Also, it would nice if it OAuthed and let you add stats about private repos. 99% of my code pushes go to private repos for business reasons.
jmduke 13y ago
(Submitter but not the author.) It looks like that's because its using GitHub's timeline API, which -- in addition to GitHub's general repository API -- only retrieves repositories which are actually rooted at the given user. Sort of a shame; I feel like most people's most interesting/important open source activity is on repositories which they don't own.
- hackula1 13y ago
  At the same time, this probably cuts down on "me too" contributions. I have a repo that has been gaining popularity lately and have been flooded with pull requests that do nothing but add a jshint file or other dev environment changes.

aabalkan 13y ago

This project is at least 3 years old. Interesting it has got picked up by HN folks again. For those not familiar with GitHub pages, somebody got username "resume" in order to create this page. I had to explain this because this actually looks like something GitHub launched, just like http://status.github.com/ http://status.github.com/ but it is not.

john2x 13y ago
Glad they're using .io now for user pages. I remember the confusion some of these projects caused.

volaski 13y ago

Alright, this website basically turns https://github.com/mojombo https://github.com/mojombo into http://resume.github.io/?mojombo http://resume.github.io/?mojombo , which is uglier than the original and doesn't even add anything new. How did this get 22 points in 50 minutes and is #1 now?

hendzen 13y ago
typical hacker news top comment
- X4 13y ago
  I wish HN was more about real hacking. Black-, Gray- or Whitehat. The highest upvoted things aren't startup's but privacy related posted (ie. NSA) and HTML5/CSS3 experiments... Not to say, I don't see gem's in here, but most are more interested in webdesign stuff.
  - tinco 13y ago
    You're on the wrong site. This site uses the Stallman[1] definition for hacking, not the The Mentor[2] definition :) [1]http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html [2]http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
    - X4 13y ago
      Ok, I don't know why it got downvoted ; cannot reason the logic. Do people assume "this guy doesn't know the various definitions of the word hacker"? However, thanks for the feedback.
      - tinco 13y ago
        It's because you said 'black, gray or white hat'. Those are all computer security hacker types, and have little to do with the topic of this site, which is tech startup news and relevant inspiring/educational material.

gnufied 13y ago

Interesting but deriving anything from this one is near useless. For example, this completely fails to list any of my current open source project because I created them under my organizations name.

ultimoo 13y ago

> As a software startup owner I really enjoy when people send us their résumés and they include their github account so we can see tangible work they have done. I sometimes feel very insecure when I read statements like this. I consider myself a good and a passionate programmer with "above-average programming skills", if there is such a thing. However, I have (so far) never been able to manage contributing to open source projects in any significant way. Sometimes I have been too busy with work projects, sometimes it has been a busy life at grad school, sometimes family, sometimes I have been plain shy, and so on. I have put together a bunch of great hacks at places I have worked, which sadly I cannot open source. But I see dozens of people whom I know who are naturally prolific in their oss contributions, manage to attract a high number of twitter followers, etc. and I wish I were more like them. Do startups really look at github contributions as the ultimate measure of one's tech chops or are looking for people who go that extra bit and make time in their schedules for contributing back to the community?

Cakez0r 13y ago
You don't have to contribute to open source to have a github account. I use it to dump all my projects on (most of which are incomplete). I've made only one pull request to OSS (months ago) and it's still sitting in the request queue!
ics 13y ago
I've always had the impression that it's just an easier way of dealing with potential hires but by no means the only way. If the company you are applying to is an active contributor to OSS then it would probably be more important as a gauge of some workflow they'd like to see. Maybe I'm wrong though– I've never gone through that process myself.
icelancer 13y ago
>Do startups really look at github contributions as the ultimate measure of one's tech chops or are looking for people who go that extra bit and make time in their schedules for contributing back to the community? When I was hiring, yes. There is no easier and simpler way to evaluate someone before bringing them in for an interview than checking their verifiable OSS contributions. It's low friction. Doesn't mean we didn't consider others, but for obvious reasons people who actually could prove they had done work went to the head of the line. It's just how it is.

outside1234 13y ago

To be useful, this needs to also crawl the projects I contribute to, not just the ones under my account. I am a maintainer of a project under another github account but that completely escapes this tool.

rhizome31 13y ago
Agreed. My modest contributions to widely used projects are at least as important as my personal projects that nobody uses.
mindcrime 13y ago
Yeah, same here. Almost all of my meaningful commits are to repositories that belong to my Organization, and not to my personal account. But this generator only seems to factor in the personal ones. And then you have to consider the way Github routinely detects the wrong language for repos. I see Grails apps detected as "Javascript" all the time, including one of mine right now. sigh I don't know why GH don't give developers the ability to declare the (primary) language(s) of the project explicitly. I don't care if there's 6 billion lines of JS in libraries that nobody ever touches, and only 10 lines of Groovy code, it's still a "Groovy project" in every meaningful sense, if that's what people need to hack on to modify the project. :-(

hackernewsguy 13y ago

Some of my most important projects are open sourced under my company's account and this won't show any of them even though I contributed 90% of the code. This only shows my personal side projects that are done for fun. Any chance this could change in the future?

priyadarshy 13y ago

I would not want an employer to use this to evaluate me because it is called my "github resume" and somehow implies that it is my summary of my experiences, abilities, skills and potential. You don't need to be an active github user to be a good developer (I am not even a good developer) and you should be able to present your resume as you deem fit. Obviously if this allowed me to own my account and easily customize how my github works gets displayed I'd be more interested. Until then, this feels like pushing my github work through a meat grinder and evaluating the sausage instead of me.

binarnosp 13y ago

This is spiraling out of control

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philip1209 13y ago

Intriguing - I was expecting a Jekyll-based static resume

lifeisstillgood 13y ago

This is pretty fantastic. Some combination of this and LinkedIn will mean I can give up word docs forever !

CatsoCatsoCatso 13y ago

The use of percentages within the example resume's made me wince.

bergie 13y ago

I thought this was a lot more interesting GitHub visualization: http://osrc.dfm.io/bergie http://osrc.dfm.io/bergie

draegtun 13y ago

See also... Perl Résumé which works of your CPAN account (via MetaCPAN) - http://perlresume.org http://perlresume.org

seivan 13y ago

This also pretty cool http://osrc.dfm.io http://osrc.dfm.io

lucianp 13y ago

Personally, I don't like the idea of a GitHub/OSS resume. While for others this is great, it does not work for everyone. Many of us are not able to contribute to open source projects... How many professionals are asked by their future employer about the work they do for free in their spare time? Would you ask a doctor how many patients he/she treated for free? Or a lawyer how many cases he/she did for free in their spare time? I don't think so... By all means, I think contributing back to the community is a noble, great thing to do (and we should all strive to do it), but this should not be considered the sole measure of one's technical skills.

pc86 13y ago
No, but I do care about what cases my attorney takes on pro bono or what community service my doctor participates in. It goes to showing what one does to give back to the community, whether it's geographically (putting your volunteer/civic organizations on your resume) or professionally (putting your GitHub account on your resume). Having a doctor or lawyer who gives back is important to a lot of people, and I'm sure that translates into wanting to hire employees who give back to their communities as well.
- lucianp 13y ago
  Yes, I agree. But I'm not sure that for a doctor or a lawyer there is the same pressure to "give back to the community" as for a software developer.
azakai 13y ago
> Personally, I don't like the idea of a GitHub/OSS resume. While for others this is great, it does not work for everyone. Many of us are not able to contribute to open source projects... Of course, not everyone can. But likewise, not everyone can go to college and get a degree in computer science, which is generally pretty important for one's resume. Open source contributions on github should not be the sole or even most important measure of one's technical skills, and neither should having a college degree. But the more options there are to prove one's skills, the better a chance talented people have. In other words: For those that can't afford to go to college, but are good at programming, github can make the hiring process more fair.

philliphaydon 13y ago

This doesn't work for me :( shows me just repositories I create for blog posts, but not the organizations I own to show my main repositories.

bendmorris 13y ago

Unfortunately, this ignores forked repositories. The open source contributions I'm most proud of were to projects that I didn't start, so none of them are listed here.

chalst 13y ago
I think that's probably by design. From the point of view of "project as CV items", most forked items have very little in the way of useful contribution to them - that doesn't defeat your point that some forks are very cool indeed.
- bendmorris 13y ago
  You're probably right that most forks aren't very interesting - I wonder if it would be possible to parse out actual diffs made by the user on the fork. I've contributed a fair amount of code to BioPython, which is going to be impressive to people in my field. To contribute you work on your own fork and submit a pull request. Under this scheme a single person is getting credit for all the work of the BioPython developers on their own development forks that gets merged into the main repo (or maybe no one is getting credit, as the central repo is owned by an organization.)

taude 13y ago

One thing that struck me as painfully obvious about this is that the actual coding aspect of someone's job is only a small fraction of what makes them a good hire. Not to mention, they might have JavaScript or what-ever language is good for an open source part of a system, but if they're working in DevOps, DB guru, etc. none of that comes through in this. I don't think I'd call this a GitHub Resume, more of a formatted GitHub summary that could be part of someone's Resume. Sure, if you're inundated with so many resumes that you can't decide where to start (doubt this is a problem most companies have) this might be a good place to start.

bennyg 13y ago

As a guy who routinely has his resume tossed because of a lack of technical degree, Github is a godsend for the auxiliary benefit of companies that want to take me serious can find my code there. I routinely have stuff trend in Objective C and it's slightly frustrating when interviewers think the toughest question is what's different between an NSArray and NSMutableArray because my resume says "Majored in Graphic Design." I love contributing to the community, and that's obviously the first reason why I push OSS, but that extra hiring benefit is extremely helpful for other coders like me who don't have a technical degree.

seivan 13y ago
Same here man. http://osrc.dfm.io http://osrc.dfm.io makes me sound good as well, top 2% Objective-c
- bennyg 13y ago
  Woah that's awesome! I'd never seen that site before. Top 5% here. http://osrc.dfm.io/bennyguitar http://osrc.dfm.io/bennyguitar

mpermar 13y ago

As I haven't seen any comments about it. Some friends of mine created already a while ago Masterbranch http://www.masterbranch.com http://www.masterbranch.com It does not only builds your resume from Github but from many other repositories as well. Not sure what is the current status of the project though.

parennoob 13y ago

Any employers looking to use this to seriously evaluate candidates -- you are wide open to having your analytics gamed by people looking to get their foot in the door. And commits are much easier to fake out and automate than degrees. :)

nilkn 13y ago

It would be nice if it included gists, because I have some interesting non-trivial snippets on there that it doesn't make sense to put into a full repo on Github.

uladzislau 13y ago

On the related note - if you need a solid looking offline resume and don't want to spend hours formatting it, check out Almagreta Resume Templates - set of 5 great looking Word templates with some cool features. http://almagreta.com/resume-templates/ http://almagreta.com/resume-templates/

Numberwang 13y ago
Or just use free ones of you are unemployed and spend the money on food.

clavalle 13y ago

This is great. It reminds me that I need to clean up my github account. Unfortunately I use github for two separate functions -- putting up projects some other people may be interested in and for throwing up scratchpad projects. So I end up with a lot of garbage on my account. The bulk of my really interesting stuff is in private accounts.

burntsushi 13y ago
> for throwing up scratchpad projects I've replaced almost all my scratch projects with gists using the `gist` command [1]. It's a nice utility because it authenticates as your GitHub account, and you can modify existing gists (which can contain 1 or more files) with the `--update` flag. Really works great for those one-off things. [1] - https://github.com/defunkt/gist https://github.com/defunkt/gist

joelle 13y ago

Great idea. love this.

needacig 13y ago

This is dumb. It merely duplicates the exact same information that is available front and center on everyone's GitHub profile to begin with, but in a worse format. Only idiot VCs would think this is cool or useful. Coincidentally, the creator of "GitHub Résumé" thinks Coin is a great idea and wants to invest: https://twitter.com/davidcoallier/status/401075383971627008 https://twitter.com/davidcoallier/status/401075383971627008

ondrae 13y ago

This is awesome and just what I've been wanting. One request would be to show the repos I contribute to the most instead of just the ones on my account. I went and looked up the open source report card which used to work the same way. Looks like they've recently changed it though to pull from your most contributed repos, so for me is much more accurate of my activity on Github. http://osrc.dfm.io/ http://osrc.dfm.io/

lispylol 13y ago

reminds me of this: open source report card http://osrc.dfm.io/ http://osrc.dfm.io/

ffrryuu 13y ago

LinkedIn is better. You rise above all that coding bs as you get older and has a career. Instead of just a code monkey forever...

jrochkind1 13y ago

This is neat. Improvements might be allowing you to hand-pick which repos to highlight. Also, I'd love a way to highlight my contributions to popular open source projects on github that _aren't_ in my own repo, or a 'team' repo I belong to. For instance, I have, I think, 2 or 3 commits in Rails -- but you aren't going to find that out from looking at my github account, or from this resumé thing. I have yet to figure out _how_ to figure it out in fact!

jtratner 13y ago

This doesn't include contributions to other people's repos, which makes it not so useful (and a bummer if someone tries to use it to summarize my GitHub work). I spend the majority of my time contributing to pydata/pandas, which doesn't show up at all. Bummer.

happiily 13y ago

Kudos. This is a great start. As someone constantly on the look for great technical talent (as both an entrepreneur and investor), I am constantly looking for tools that help me source candidates in a credible way. I have looked at several sites like this and using GitHub to query and then present is smart. Some suggestions: 1) Find a way to notify the user when their resume has been built. This could be a great distribution tactic. 2) Allow the user to reveal non-detailed summaries of their private repos. This is where the real power of a tool like this would come in. Allowing a generalized summary of the private repo's could lead to an "IMDB for programmers"