Making your GitHub profile match your resume
35 min · Intermediate
Your GitHub profile is the public page at github.com/your-name that shows your repositories and activity. When a resume links to it, an interviewer may open it before the interview, so it should show the same projects, explained clearly and free of mistakes like committed passwords.
Topics in this lesson
- Profile README template
- Pinning the projects listed on your resume
- A good project README
- Clean commit history and no committed secrets
- Archiving half-finished repositories
Interview questions this lesson answers
- Why is your GitHub link on your resume?
- Walk me through this repository.
- Why are there so few commits in this project?
- Is all the code in this repository yours?
- How do you write a good commit message?
- How do you keep passwords out of your code?
- What would you do if you accidentally pushed an API key?
- What is .gitignore?
- What do you put in a project README?
- How do you know your setup instructions work?
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