New Graduate resume example

A complete example below. The person is invented; the writing is not. The notes on the right point at what's worth copying — swap in your own names, companies and numbers.

Phone:(555) 010-0000
Email:sicheng.li@example.com
Location:Boston, MA
Summary
Class of 2026 computer science graduate working in Java. One five-month backend internship and two course projects, each with shipped or load-tested numbers behind it. Solid fundamentals, happy to start on debugging, and I write down what I break.
Sicheng Li
Backend Engineer (New Grad)
Education
2022 - 2026State UniversityB.S. Computer Science
Data structures, operating systems, networks, database systems. GPA 3.6/4.0, top 15% of the major, merit scholarship twice.
Experience
Jun 2025 - Nov 2025Enterprise Software CompanyBackend Engineering Intern
Built and integrated 6 endpoints in the order service covering creation, lookup and state transitions
Found and fixed an oversell bug under concurrency using optimistic locking with a unique-index fallback; zero oversells under the repro script
Added 38 unit tests to core endpoints, taking module coverage from 41% to 76%
Joined two production investigations and learned to use tracing on slow queries — one took an endpoint's P95 from 1.2s to 340ms
Projects
Feb 2025 - May 2025Campus MarketplaceBackend lead, team of 4
A second-hand marketplace for students; coursework project, piloted on campus.
Owned schema and endpoints for listings, orders and messaging on Spring Boot, MySQL and Redis
Cached hot listing pages in Redis, taking load-tested throughput from 240 to 1,100 QPS
320 students registered during the pilot with 87 completed transactions
Oct 2024 - Dec 2024Distributed URL ShortenerSolo project
A practice project focused on ID generation and cache breakdown.
Segment-based ID generator benchmarked at 8,000 QPS on one node; Bloom filter for lookups of codes that don't exist
Skills
Solid Java: collections, concurrency, JVM memory model
Spring Boot and MyBatis, including transaction propagation and its usual traps
MySQL indexing and execution plans; able to track down slow queries
Redis data structures and handling of cache penetration, breakdown and avalanche
Plain-text (Markdown) version

Paste it into Word, Notion or ChatGPT — the structure survives.

Three mistakes this example avoids

  • Padding with club titles and generic personality traits
  • Listing courses instead of what you built in them
  • Two pages of nothing — one dense page is stronger

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