For designers
Portfolio URL front and center, room for case-study outcomes, and typography hiring managers at product-led companies actually notice.
Senior Software Engineer · Distributed Systems
Senior engineer with 8 years shipping payments and identity infrastructure at scale. Led the migration that moved 40M daily auth events off a monolith, cutting p99 by 62%. Bias for small diffs, honest estimates, and writing things down.
Honors thesis on lock-free data structures. GPA 3.87.
Why this matters
Designer resumes often feel like apologies for not being the portfolio. The portfolio is the case — the resume is the map. Hiring managers want quick signal on what you shipped, what changed because of it, and what kind of team you thrive on.
Section order
Hiring managers for designers read top-down and stop early. We surface the sections they care about first.
Vocabulary the ATS scans for
Bullet starters
Numbers to quantify
Conversion/retention lifts from designs that shipped, WCAG grade improvements, design-system component count, PR approvals unblocked, team size led, usability test scores, time-to-ship reductions.
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