Oddly enough, I had to write a bio for a conference this morning as well. I decided to keep it short and simple.
I took the third person approach along the lines of:
{Name} is from {City, State} where he/she works as an {Title} at {Company}. He/She has {#} years of experience with {Technology Name} with a focus on {Technology Focus}. In his/her spare time, {Name} enjoys {Personal Interest #1} and {Personal Interest #2}.
Former Java engineer turned Ruby engineer who is trying to understand Ruby and Rails, MacOS and a lot of other things. Worked at Flywheel, FNBO, ACI Worldwide.
Former Java engineer turned Ruby engineer who is trying to understand Ruby and Rails, MacOS and a lot of other things. Worked at Flywheel, FNBO, ACI Worldwide.
And here is what I came up with using your format:
Christine is from Omaha, Nebraska where she works as a full stack Ruby on Rails engineer at Flywheel, WordPress hosting for creatives. She has 12 years experience as a Java software engineer with a focus on APIs and micro-services and took the plunge into Ruby just this May. In her spare time she is an avid long form reader, lover of all true-crime podcasts and is attempting to work through the primary Ashtanga yoga series.
Harshdeep works as a QA Engineer at Collegedunia. He has 1.5 years of experience with Software Testing with a focus on Automated Testing. In his spare time, Harshdeep enjoys videogames and football.
I think this template is fantastic. I love being able to convey relevant info in as short of a paragraph as I can. The thing is, it is saying the summary is too long. Maybe I need to shorten my name or the world limit has decreased for the same...
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Oddly enough, I had to write a bio for a conference this morning as well. I decided to keep it short and simple.
I took the third person approach along the lines of:
{Name} is from {City, State} where he/she works as an {Title} at {Company}. He/She has {#} years of experience with {Technology Name} with a focus on {Technology Focus}. In his/her spare time, {Name} enjoys {Personal Interest #1} and {Personal Interest #2}.
Thanks so much for the template! Sounds great and it hits all points I would think you would want to write about.
And here is what I came up with using your format:
Christine is from Omaha, Nebraska where she works as a full stack Ruby on Rails engineer at Flywheel, WordPress hosting for creatives. She has 12 years experience as a Java software engineer with a focus on APIs and micro-services and took the plunge into Ruby just this May. In her spare time she is an avid long form reader, lover of all true-crime podcasts and is attempting to work through the primary Ashtanga yoga series.
Thanks so much @rdumais
I think this template is fantastic. I love being able to convey relevant info in as short of a paragraph as I can. The thing is, it is saying the summary is too long. Maybe I need to shorten my name or the world limit has decreased for the same...