Resume template · Updated October 2026
Resume template for coding bootcamp graduates
Short answer
FAANGPath fits a coding bootcamp graduate: it prints your languages and frameworks before any job, then experience, then the apps you built, with the bootcamp certificate in education. The fictional sample spent six years managing a restaurant, finished a 16-week full-stack program in 2026 and has since built two paid client sites. The old career stays on the page, cut to two bullets.
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Mateo is a fictional Full-Stack developer. Replace every detail with your own before you send it.
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Why FAANGPath suits a coding bootcamp resume
FAANGPath is the template for technical candidates who want their stack read first: skills print above experience and projects print above education, so React, Node and PostgreSQL appear before the restaurant years and the two apps sit above the bootcamp entry. Its centred black and grey layout with full-width rules keeps attention on the code.
Second choice: Meridian. Meridian prints sections in the same order with no colour; it is the steadier pick if you are aiming at IT support or analyst roles rather than engineering.
What goes in each section, in FAANGPath's order
FAANGPath prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Professional Summary. Name the stack you trained on, the length of the bootcamp and what you have shipped since. One clause about your earlier career helps when it connects to the job, such as restaurant operations for a company that sells software to restaurants.
- Skills. Languages, frameworks, databases and tooling in separate labelled rows. List only what your projects use; an interviewer will pick a skill from this list and ask you to walk through code that uses it.
- Work Experience. Paid development work, even short freelance contracts, goes first. The earlier career follows with two bullets that show something a team values: running a schedule, training staff, handling money.
- Projects. For most bootcamp graduates this section carries the page. For each app give the stack, where the code lives, what you built yourself in a team project and one sign of engineering judgment, such as tests or a performance fix.
- Education. The bootcamp gets its own entry: program title, provider, start and finish months, with the hours and main topics in the detail line. A previous degree sits below it on one line.
The sample resume as text
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Mateo Alvarez
Full-Stack Developer, React and Node.js
Denver, CO | mateo.alvarez@example.com | (720) 555-0123 | github.com/sample-mateo-alvarez | linkedin.com/in/sample-mateo-alvarez
Full-stack developer who finished a 16-week immersive bootcamp in March 2026 after six years in restaurant management. Builds React front ends on Node and PostgreSQL back ends, with tests, and has shipped two paid sites for local businesses. Looking for a junior developer role, ideally on a product used by small businesses.
Experience
Freelance Web Developer, Self-employed, Denver, CO (04/2026 to Present)
- Built a booking site with an admin dashboard for a two-location bike repair shop, which now takes most appointments online.
- Rebuilt a family bakery's ordering page with a simple card checkout and showed the owner how to update the menu.
- Hand over a short guide with each site and fix bugs reported in the first month at no charge.
General Manager, Larkspur Kitchen, Denver, CO (05/2019 to 08/2025)
- Ran a 70-seat restaurant with a staff of 22, covering scheduling, hiring and weekly ordering.
- Replaced paper inventory sheets with a shared spreadsheet and small scripts, cutting the weekly count to under an hour.
Projects
ShiftSwap: shift trading app for hourly teams: Solo project in React, Node.js, Express and PostgreSQL, 2026; live demo and public repository on GitHub.
- Designed the data model and REST API for shifts, swap requests and manager approval.
- Wrote unit and integration tests with Jest covering about 80% of the API.
- Piloted for four weeks by a restaurant team of 15 staff, who reported two bugs that were fixed the same week.
Pantry Finder (bootcamp group capstone): Four-person team, React and a public map API, 02/2026 to 03/2026.
- Owned the search and filter components and their keyboard accessibility fixes.
- Set up the team's pull request template and code review rota.
Education
Certificate, Full-Stack Web Development, Larimer Street Code School (03/2026). 16-week full-time immersive, about 640 hours: JavaScript, React, Node.js, SQL, testing
Bachelor of Arts, Hospitality Management, Western Slope State University (05/2018)
Skills
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js and Express, PostgreSQL, REST API design, Git and GitHub, Jest, Docker basics, Netlify, Client communication, Training non-technical users
How to make the sample yours
Lead with a project you scoped yourself
Many cohorts build the same practice apps. Put first the project you designed, ideally one with a real user, and move tutorial builds lower or off the page.
Link code you would happily walk through
Put your GitHub in the header next to LinkedIn and pin the two repositories this page mentions, each with a README that explains how to run it.
Describe the bootcamp plainly
Use "Certificate" or the provider's own wording, the program title and the dates. Do not call it a degree, and leave marketing words such as "elite" or "top-ranked" off the page.
Give freelance work real scope
Name the client type, what you delivered and whether it is live. Two small paid sites prove you can work to a brief and a deadline, which coursework cannot show.
Reorder the stack for each posting
Move the posting's language and framework to the front of each row. If a job asks for a tool you touched in one exercise, leave it out rather than stretch.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Node.js
- Express
- PostgreSQL
- REST APIs
- Git
- unit testing
- responsive design
- full-stack development
- deployment
- code review
- Agile
Mistakes to avoid
- Listing every technology a lecture mentioned. Keep the ones your projects actually use.
- Projects with no link, or group builds with no word on which part was yours.
- Dropping the previous career entirely. A blank stretch before the bootcamp raises more questions than two short bullets about running a restaurant.
- A "senior engineer" headline with no paid development history. "Full-stack developer" is accurate and enough.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 5 of 5 | 10 of 10 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 5 of 5 | 10 of 10 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 5 of 5 | 10 of 10 |
Frequently asked questions
How do I list a coding bootcamp on my resume?
In education, as its own entry: the program title, the provider, the city or "Online", the start and end months and the hours or core topics. Write "Certificate" if that is what you received.
Should I include my previous career on a developer resume?
Yes, briefly. Two bullets per job keep your timeline complete and show work habits; the technical evidence comes from your projects and any paid development work.
How many projects should a bootcamp graduate show?
Two or three you can explain in depth. One project you designed yourself counts for more than several tutorial builds.
Does freelance work count as experience after a bootcamp?
If clients paid you and the work is real, yes. List it as self-employed with the dates, the client types and what you delivered.
Where should my GitHub link go?
In the header with LinkedIn, and again in the description of each project that has a public repository.
Will applicant tracking systems read this FAANGPath PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 5 section headings and all 10 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
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