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Lena Kowalski, Computer Science Student
Lena Kowalski is a final-year computer science student with a 3.8 GPA, one summer internship on a payments team and two shipped side projects, applying for a graduate software engineering post. A graduate hire is judged on evidence of shipping rather than on years, so this resume gives the internship a result and a test count, puts both projects on the page with what they were built in and who used them, and lets the hackathon placings and the grades stand as sections of their own.
Why this resume works
- The profile states the GPA, the internship and the two projects in its first sentence, which is the whole case a student can make before a role is read.
- The internship carries a scale, around 40,000 webhook events a day, and two results, dropped notifications down 90% and coverage from 41% to 86% over 120 tests.
- Both degrees carry their grade on a line of their own, 3.8 and 3.9 out of 4.0, with the years ranged against the right edge where a recruiter looks for them.
- Each project has its dates on the title row, one paragraph with a user count, 1,200 sign-ups or a library’s 30 rooms, and a line naming the stack it was built in.
- The hackathon section counts the field, 4th of 140 teams, and names the award, so the results read as facts rather than participation.
- The seven technical skills carry their level in brackets, Python at expert down to Docker at intermediate, which is more honest than an unrated list.
