Your Andela profile is what connects you with opportunities. Like a resume or a CV, it summarizes your skills, work history, and attributes. When we find a match for your skillset, we send your profile to the client. Read this article or the PDF attached below to learn more about the importance of your Andela profile.
How it works
Your profile will be pre-populated with information imported from your application. Please carefully review the parsed text and ensure that it is accurate. You can use the profile editing feature to make corrections or add missing information.
Watch the video below to learn more about how to edit your profile.
Your profile is comprised of several sections:
- Skills (Tech Stack)
- Professional Summary
- Work Experience
- Education
- Technical Projects
Skills (Tech Stack)
This section forms the basis of our Matching team’s searches to pair you with the right job. While you may work with many more technologies than that, choose the ones you feel you are an expert in for this section. Additional skills and tools can be mentioned in the other sections of your profile.
Professional Summary
This important section provides a focused snapshot of your experience, skills, and attributes. It’s short but impactful. Think about the big picture—what are you amazing at? What are you passionate about? What can you help clients achieve?—then add specifics where you can to prove it. This is your reader’s first impression, so make it count.
Be sure to include your primary languages, years of experience, leadership experience, certifications, and areas of expertise.
Examples and tips for writing your professional summary:
- Write this section in the third person, talking about yourself as if you were someone else (e.g., “Jonah is a full stack developer…”)
- Mention your primary technology stack, number of years of professional experience, and any industry expertise you have
- Aim for at least three complete sentences
- Some people find it helpful to write this part last after they’ve had a chance to reflect on their work history as a whole
- Don’t forget to include a presentable, professional profile photo.
Professional Summary Samples
- Jon is a full-stack engineer highly skilled at end-to-end software development and leading cross-functional teams. He is a results-driven professional with five years of expertise using JavaScript technologies to create elegant, user-friendly solutions that drive client and customer satisfaction. Jon is passionate about bringing dynamic, high-impact designs to life with React and React Native to help clients build competitive advantage and stay ahead of the game.
- A problem-solver, paradigm-shifter, and change-maker, Mary uses engineering design to push the boundaries of what is possible. She can tackle scalability issues and optimize distributed systems without breaking a sweat. With an excellent track record of spearheading diverse teams to deliver innovative solutions, Mary is a forward-thinking Java developer ready to help businesses make the most of their digital future.
- With a Master’s in Computer Science from one of Egypt’s best-ranked universities and a highly acclaimed portfolio of work, Hanan is a skilled and resourceful .NET engineer. She has developed and designed 10+ advanced applications using Microsoft technologies and leverages her highly-honed technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills to create thoughtful and dynamic solutions for enterprise clients across a variety of industries.
Work Experience
This section provides the Matching team with valuable context about your professional experience. For each job, include a brief overview of the role, along with specific details about your contributions.
It is important to mention the tools and technologies you worked with. Describe not just what you have built but why you chose certain tools and how you accomplished things down to the code level. Don’t be afraid to dive into the technical details of how you delivered solutions.
Work History Samples
- Spearheaded the design of a new, multi-tenant content management platform, whose launch supported 32 websites and delivered over 120 million monthly page views. Collaborated closely with the application development and engineering teams to implement new features and functionalities.
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Tapped into a deep knowledge of enterprise architecture, as well as valuable interactions with the user community, to identify and address important functional and technical requirements. Designed high-level system diagrams for coding, program design, testing, debugging, and documentation.
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- Created a domain-specific language (DSL) that converted pseudocode in the JavaScript codebase to improve testability and maintainability
- Created a highly available customer insight dashboard on service-oriented architecture (SOA) that tracks user interactions to extract customer insights in real-time
- Used excellent coordination skills to organize successful events, including Dev Camps attended by 1000+ people across various cities in Egypt
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Don't forget to also check out our Profile writing best practices article for additional tips for creating a stellar profile. If you would still like more help polishing your profile beyond what is published here, you can reach out to Andela’s Profiles Team at profiles@andela.com who will be happy to proofread it and edit it so that it complies with Andela’s style and quality standards.