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How to put open source on your resume
You got a PR merged. Nice — that's real work, reviewed by people who didn't have to say yes. Here's how to make it count on one page: where it goes, how to write it, and how to talk about it.
Nothing merged yet? Pick a repo first — then come back.
1Where it goes
Right in Experience, written like a job. It's real work — reviewed, merged, used by other people — so give it what any job entry has: a title, an organization and dates.
Education
Experience
Put it here
Projects
Skills
Experience
1Hugging Face Transformers (Open Source)2Sep 2026 – Present
3Software Engineer4Remote
- • Optimized batched inference by vectorizing tokenizer padding with PyTorch ops, cutting latency 18% (PR #XXXX)
- • Developed pytest regression tests for 3 tokenizer edge cases, closing 2 open bug reports
1Project Its name, then "(Open Source)" so it's clear at a glance.
2Dates First merged PR to latest, or "Present".
3Title The work you did, e.g. Software Engineer.
4Location Remote.
Did GSoC or Outreachy? Same spot: the org you worked with, then "(Google Summer of Code)" instead of "(Open Source)", with the program's dates.
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