6 complete documents, 96 fill-in fields, US format. Every heading is written the way a parser reads it — and one header an applicant tracking system cannot parse means a recruiter never sees your name at all.
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6 complete documents, 96 fill-in fields, US format. Every heading is written the way a parser reads it — and one header an applicant tracking system cannot parse means a recruiter never sees
In the US a resume-writing service charges roughly $79-$149 to rewrite ONE resume. This pack is 6 documents you fill in yourself in Word, and the free web version lets you check your own draft against your own job posting before y
Buy the full version — $29Full name: Jordan A. Ellis
Location and contact line: Austin, TX · (512) 555-0148 · [email protected]
Professional links: linkedin.com/in/jordan-ellis-dev · github.com/jordanellis
Target job title: Software Engineer — Backend and Distributed Systems
US rule, not a style choice: no photo, no date of birth, no marital status, no age, no nationality. Including any of them is a defect here and some employers will discard the file to stay compliant. HOW TO OPEN: in Word, double-click the file. In Google Docs use File ▸ Open ▸ Upload. In LibreOffice, File ▸ Open. Menu wording differs by version and interface language. Note that Google Docs may shift the font and margins slightly — check the page before you export your own PDF from there, and upload the .docx itself whenever the form accepts it.
Summary statement: Backend engineer with 6 years building Python and Go services on AWS, focused on payment and identity systems that stay up under load.
Keyword alignment line: Core areas: distributed systems, REST and gRPC API design, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, CI/CD, on-call incident response.
The parser and the recruiter both read this block first. Rewrite these two lines for each posting — this is the only part you should retype every time.
Languages: Languages: Python, Go, SQL, TypeScript, Bash
Frameworks and tools: Frameworks and tools: Django, FastAPI, gRPC, pytest, Git, Docker, Terraform
Cloud and data: Cloud and data: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
Keep every skill as comma-separated plain text on one line. Skills placed in a table or a two-column layout are the single most common thing a parser returns as one unreadable string.
Most recent role header: Senior Software Engineer · Northwind Payments, Austin, TX · 03/2022 – Present
Achievement bullet 1: Cut p95 checkout latency from 840 ms to 210 ms by replacing synchronous ledger writes with an event queue, across 4.2 million transactions per month.
Achievement bullet 2: Led the migration of 14 services from EC2 to Kubernetes with no customer-facing downtime, and wrote the runbooks the on-call rotation still uses.
Achievement bullet 3: Reduced on-call pages by 62% in two quarters by adding alert thresholds tied to error budgets instead of raw CPU.
Previous role header: Software Engineer · Cedar Grove Logistics, Dallas, TX · 07/2019 – 02/2022
Previous role bullet: Built the internal shipment-tracking API used by 240 warehouse staff daily, replacing a nightly spreadsheet export.
Reverse-chronological order, newest role first. Do not leave an unexplained gap: a short line such as 'Full-time caregiver, 05/2021 – 11/2021' is normal in the US and answers the question before it is asked.
Degree: B.S. Computer Science · University of Texas at Austin · 2019
Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (valid through 08/2027)
If you have no certifications, delete this heading entirely. An empty heading reads as an unfinished document.