Jake's Resume Template

Jake's Resume is an open-source LaTeX resume template published by Jake Gutierrez on GitHub (the repo jakegut/resume), which has earned tens of thousands of stars and become the de facto standard recommended on r/EngineeringResumes and r/cscareerquestions. It uses standard LaTeX article class with custom commands like \resumeItem and \resumeSubheading, set in a serif body with bold section rules.

It is licensed MIT, so anyone can use, modify, and ship it commercially. The original lives on Overleaf as a one-click template, which is how most students first encounter it. ResuMax implements the same visual structure as a no-code builder so you skip LaTeX entirely.

Jake's Resume is the safest default for computer-science students, bootcamp grads, and early-career software engineers applying to internships and new-grad SWE roles. Because it leads with Education and gives Projects equal weight to Experience, it suits candidates whose strongest signal is coursework, side projects, and hackathons rather than years of full-time work.

It also works well for experienced engineers who want a no-nonsense, recruiter-familiar one-pager. The format is designed to fit a single page—the standard expectation for engineers with under ~10 years of experience and a hard requirement at most big-tech new-grad pipelines.

The template is single-column with no tables, text boxes, columns, images, or icons—exactly the structure ATS parsers like Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, and Lever read most reliably. Section headings use plain words (Education, Experience, Projects, Technical Skills) that ATS keyword maps recognize, and dates sit in a consistent right-aligned position that parsers handle well.

It also encodes good resume mechanics: each bullet is a single \resumeItem, nudging you toward concise, one-line, action-verb statements. Recruiters scan resumes in seconds, and this layout's generous whitespace and clear hierarchy make experience easy to skim.

The canonical Jake's Resume order is: a header (name, phone, email, LinkedIn, GitHub), then Education, Experience, Projects, and Technical Skills. Projects appear above or alongside Experience for students because that's where the strongest signal lives.

Open the Jake's Resume template in the ResuMax builder and fill each section as a form—no LaTeX, no Overleaf compile step. As you type, ResuMax's AI rewrites weak bullets into quantified, action-verb form (e.g., turning 'worked on the API' into 'Cut p95 latency 40% by adding Redis caching to 12 REST endpoints'), and the JD keyword assist flags skills from your target job description that you're missing. When it looks right, export a single-page PDF that parses cleanly through any ATS.

Because content is stored as structured fields, you can tailor a copy per application or switch to Harvard, MIT, Stanford, or Deedy without re-typing anything.