How to Ghost Old White Men With Your GitHub Flex
Ritvika Nagula, a Microsoft software engineer, practically hacked the late-stage capitalism job game by landing FOUR offers out of grad school, including from Amazon and eBay. She insists, 'the rĆ©sumĆ© is definitely the most important thing' for engineers, and flexed her side hustleāa Facebook chatbot powered by GoodReads APIāto show off that passion. Her secret weapon? GitHub, the anti-cover letter, where you prove you're not just copy-pasting from ChatGPT: 'Having the code out there... proves that you actually did something about it.' It's networking, hustle, and coding sauce all in one!
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(1 of 3)Tell me you're landing four mega tech job offers without telling me you're 100% grinding on GitHub while the old boys in suits still use fax machines. This is giving big 'I reinvented the hiring game while you reboot Excel' energy.
This rĆ©sumĆ© game is basically the software engineerās version of 'I got my million-dollar startup idea while you snoozed through board meetings.' Spoiler: The chatbot didnāt build itself, unlike those recycling old white dude jokes.
Forget cold-calling, Ritvika's out here turning GitHub into the new LinkedIn ā but like, cooler, with less old white dudes calling their own references. If your code ain't public, do you even exist in tech?
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/6/2025 | Author: Kelsey Vlamis
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