The Honest Résumé — Read My Git History, Tell Me Who I Am
Read my commits, my PR descriptions, my closed issues. Now write the résumé that's true — what I'm actually good at, what I avoid, what role I should be in but am not.
Why this exists
Humans write the résumé they wish was true. We polish the verbs, inflate the scope, and quietly delete the years we'd rather not explain. Then we wonder why the role we landed feels like someone else's job.
Your commits don't lie. Neither do your PR descriptions, your closed issues, the bugs you keep volunteering for, the work you keep dodging. A long-context model can read all of it and tell you the gap between the story and the evidence. That gap is the career advice you've been paying coaches to approximate.
What you get back
- A citation-backed list of your real strengths — the patterns the commits prove, not the ones you claim.
- The work you systematically avoid, with timestamps. The tickets that sat untouched. The reviews you never picked up.
- The role you keep performing in standups versus the role your actual output suggests you should hold.
- The claims on your current résumé that don't survive contact with the evidence — and the ones you've been too modest to make.
When to reach for this pattern
Career inflection points. When you're deciding whether to chase a promotion, switch companies, switch disciplines, or take a sabbatical. When the title on your business card has stopped matching the work that energizes you. Before a 1:1 with a manager you trust enough to hand the output to. Any moment you catch yourself rehearsing a story about your work and want to know if the story is still true.
Read my git history, my commit messages, my PR descriptions, and my
closed issues. Now write the résumé that's true — not the one I'd
write. What I'm actually good at. What I avoid. What role I should
be in but am not. What I keep claiming I do that I clearly don't
enjoy. Cite the commits. Make me uncomfortable.Paste this into Claude, Cursor, or Copilot. Change one thing that matters to you.
What I learned shipping it
- Résumés are aspirational fiction. They describe the person you'd like to be remembered as.
- Commits are revealed preference. They are what you actually chose to do at 4pm on a Tuesday with no one watching.
- The gap between the two is the most useful career data point you will ever get — and the one you are least likely to ask for.