Build an Impressive Github Profile in 3 Steps
By: Khuyen Tran
Tags: Code, Data Science, Github, Programming, Markdown

Build an Impressive Github Profile in 3 Steps

Impress Recruiters with Your Skills and Cool Stats Graph when Viewing your Github Profile

Motivation

If you are looking for a new opportunity in the data science or programming field, you should probably try to optimize your Github profile.

Don’t expect the recruiters to know your skills by investigating each of your repositories. If you have something to show off, put everything about you on the front page so the recruiters do not need to spend a lot of energy to learn about you.

This includes links to your website and social media accounts, your activity on Github, and what you are interested in.

This article will show 3 simple steps to build an impressive Github profile. After this article, you will learn how to create an impressive Github README like below

Picture from my Github Profile

You found a secret!

To add a README.md to your Github profile, hover your mouse to the plus icon in the top left corner and click “New repository”.

Type your Github username in the “Repository name” box. You will see a text like below. Congratulations! You discovered a secret.

Check the box “Add a README file”

then click “Create repository”.

Now you should see a README on top of your profile page. Let’s edit this README to make it look better.

Add Description and Emojis

Click “Edit this file” to edit the README.md file and you will see something like this

Right now, you cannot see the sentences below “Hi there” because they are commented out. To uncomment, delete <!-- and --> . Now you should see the text with emoji in your README

If you are not familiar with the syntax of Github flavored markdown, here is a good resource for that.

Refer to this cheetsheet to add other emojis that you like to your README. Here is the markdown of my README with emojis.



- 🌱 I’m addicted to learning and growing every day

- :earth_africa: I am currently sharing a little bit of my knowledge to the world through my blogs

- 📫 How to find me:

- :bulb: [Medium articles](

- :pencil2: [Daily Tips](

- :office: [LinkedIn](

- :speaker: [Podcast]( - :zap: I love math, programming, data science, and books- 🌱 I’m addicted to learning and growing every day- :earth_africa: I am currently sharing a little bit of my knowledge to the world through my blogs- 📫 How to find me:- :bulb: [Medium articles]( https://medium.com/@khuyentran1476 - :pencil2: [Daily Tips]( https://mathdatasimplified.com/ - :office: [LinkedIn]( https://www.linkedin.com/in/khuyen-tran-1ab926151/ - :speaker: [Podcast]( https://medium.com/@theartistsofdatascience/why-we-should-be-more-like-winnie-the-pooh-khuyen-tran-on-the-artists-of-data-science-c610c91d4c14

Here is the output

Add Github Stats

To add Githut Stats, copy and paste this into your README

Change ?username=khuyentran1401 to ?username=your-username and change Khuyen to your name. You should see something like this

You can also show top languages you use like this

using

[![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Change ?username=anuraghazra to ?username=your-username .

To customize how it looks, find the instructions here.

Show your Articles

If you write articles on Medium and want to show your articles on your README, you can include the link to them. But better yet, including the images of your article so others are more likely to click on the link.

To add your latest article to your Github README, simply copy and paste this

Change @khuyentran1476 with your username. That’s it! Now you should be able to see your latest article like below

To add your second latest article, swap 0 with 1

Do the same with other articles to get the n-th latest article. Here is how my README looks like after adding five of those

Pretty cool, isn’t it? You can find the source code for this here.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have just learned how to create a cool Github README to show off your skills and stats in 3 easy steps. Start creating your Github README now to impress recruiters and other programmers!

I like to write about basic data science concepts and play with different algorithms and data science tools. You could connect with me on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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