Opinion on whether "Ninja" is awesome or uncool is divided even within HN. See recent discussions on "Product is a byproduct" thread. Now, I am trying to imagine how it might be perceived in conservative working environments like Indian workplaces.
IMO, keep the wording and ditch the Ninjas. Ultimately, "what matters in life is how you see yourself"[1]
There must be a way to highlight which are your best skills, like this OP's resume progressbars?
//There must be a way to highlight which are your best skills, like this OP's resume progressbars?//
In fact, I do have one similar to progress bars. Have a look at the skills section in home page (http://veerasundar.com) where I show a strength bar for each skill.
When I ported the skills section, I just decided not to include the progress bar.. may be I should add it there too.
No. That was a good call on leaving it out. For your layout and font size, the progress bars add no value (in fact it has the opposite effect).
For your layout, I would recommend a colour scheme of four colours, with a certain colour denoting expert and certain colour denoting novice, and others in between. Have legend on the top saying what is what and that will provide the same effect.
Checked your profile some more. You have a good show to back up the profile. Nice.
Since you are also using hResume, why not use http://judy.github.com/ which would do a better job of showcasing your side projects like "twitkural" in a better way?
Sometime back, I designed my resume on similar lines. I used hResume microformats and some CSS goodies too.
Here's the live resume: http://veerasundar.com/resume/ and a blog post explaining the design: http://veerasundar.com/blog/2012/06/redesigning-my-resume-wi...