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Discussion on: What's your bio? One paragraph describing your personal/professional life

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Ryan

Oddly enough, I had to write a bio for a conference this morning as well. I decided to keep it short and simple.

I took the third person approach along the lines of:

{Name} is from {City, State} where he/she works as an {Title} at {Company}. He/She has {#} years of experience with {Technology Name} with a focus on {Technology Focus}. In his/her spare time, {Name} enjoys {Personal Interest #1} and {Personal Interest #2}.

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christine

Thanks so much for the template! Sounds great and it hits all points I would think you would want to write about.

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christine

And here is what I came up with using your format:

Christine is from Omaha, Nebraska where she works as a full stack Ruby on Rails engineer at Flywheel, WordPress hosting for creatives. She has 12 years experience as a Java software engineer with a focus on APIs and micro-services and took the plunge into Ruby just this May. In her spare time she is an avid long form reader, lover of all true-crime podcasts and is attempting to work through the primary Ashtanga yoga series.

Thanks so much @rdumais

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HarshdeepSinghChauhan • Edited

I think this template is fantastic. I love being able to convey relevant info in as short of a paragraph as I can. The thing is, it is saying the summary is too long. Maybe I need to shorten my name or the world limit has decreased for the same...