Fresher Software Engineer resume example

No full-time experience yet? Projects, internships and hackathons are your experience section. Make each one show what you built and what changed.

Summary

Computer science graduate (B.Tech, 2026) who builds full-stack web apps in React and Node.js. Shipped 3 deployed projects and a 6-month internship feature used by real customers.

Experience bullets

Each follows action verb + what you did + measurable result.

Built a college-events app in React and Supabase used by 1,200+ students in its first semester
Reduced API response time by 40% during internship by adding caching and fixing N+1 database queries
Wrote 120+ unit tests in Jest, raising coverage on the payments module from 35% to 80%
Placed top 10 of 300 teams at a 36-hour hackathon with a real-time bus-tracking prototype
Solved 400+ problems on LeetCode, focusing on arrays, graphs and dynamic programming

Illustrative examples. Swap in your own real numbers; never invent results.

Skills to list (if you have them)

JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Node.js
SQL
Git
REST APIs
Data structures

Tips for this role

Put Education and Projects above everything else; recruiters hiring freshers look there first.
Link GitHub and live demos. A working URL beats a long description.
Mention CGPA only if it's strong for your college (roughly 7.5+), and keep it to one line.