Adding your resume and GitHub profile to LinkedIn

LinkedIn and a resume serve overlapping but slightly different purposes: LinkedIn is public, ongoing, and browsed casually by recruiters; a resume is submitted deliberately, for a specific job, and read closely at least once. Keeping both in sync, and cross-linked, is worth the ten minutes it takes.

Uploading a resume to LinkedIn

There are two common places to attach one. On your profile itself, under the “Featured” section, you can upload a PDF that shows up prominently to anyone visiting your profile. This is the version worth keeping current if you want your public LinkedIn presence to double as a portfolio. Separately, when applying to a specific job through LinkedIn’s own application flow, you upload a resume just for that application, and it can be tailored to that specific role rather than being your one general-purpose version.

These are independent: updating your Featured resume does not change what gets submitted with a job application, and vice versa.

Linking your GitHub profile

Add your GitHub URL to the “Contact info” section of your profile, and consider also adding it as a custom link under your headline or About section, where it is visible without a click. If you have a profile README written well, that link is doing real work: it gives anyone browsing your LinkedIn a fast path to actual code, not just a description of your skills.

Keeping the two consistent

A common, avoidable problem: a LinkedIn profile that lists five years of backend experience in Go, next to a GitHub account with no visible Go repositories. The mismatch does not necessarily mean anything is wrong, a lot of real work is private, but it does create a question a reviewer now has to resolve themselves instead of just trusting what they read. Where you can, make sure the languages and projects emphasized on LinkedIn actually appear in what is publicly visible on GitHub, or add a line explaining the gap.

Keeping the resume itself current

Since a resume uploaded to LinkedIn’s Featured section is meant to represent you generally, not one specific application, it is worth treating it the way you would treat a personal site: current, accurate, and reflecting your best recent work rather than something written two jobs ago.

resumefromgit.com generates that kind of resume directly from your public GitHub profile, a visual CV and a downloadable, ATS-safe PDF, built from your actual repositories and languages, which makes it easy to keep the version on LinkedIn and the reality on GitHub pointing at the same story.