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Jane Doe

Senior Software Engineer · Distributed Systems

jane@example.com+1 555 014 2234Brooklyn, NYjanedoe.devlinkedin.com/in/janedoegithub.com/janedoe

Summary

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.

Experience

Senior Engineer, Payments Platform · Stripe · Remote
2022-04 – Present
  • Architected the idempotency layer powering 14M/day charge retries; reduced duplicate-charge incidents from 3/qtr to 0
  • Led a 4-engineer team rebuilding the disputes state machine in Rust — shipped behind flag, zero customer-visible regressions
  • Authored the internal "Quiet Deploys" standard now adopted across 8 teams
Software Engineer · Segment · San Francisco, CA
2019-08 – 2022-03
  • Built the schema-evolution pipeline that de-risked 200+ customer schema changes/month
  • Cut p99 on the event delivery path from 820ms to 310ms by restructuring the dispatcher pool
  • Mentored 3 engineers into mid-level promotions

Projects

stabledepsgithub.com/janedoe/stabledeps
  • OSS pnpm plugin that catches transient registry failures before they corrupt lockfiles — 2.1k stars

Education

Carnegie Mellon University · B.S., Computer Science
2014 – 2018

Honors thesis on lock-free data structures. GPA 3.87.

Skills

Languages: Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python
Infra: Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Temporal
Practices: Incident response, Design reviews, Mentorship

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect — Professional — Amazon Web Services
2024
Certified Kubernetes Administrator — CNCF
2023

Why this matters

A resume that lists MOS codes, unit numbers, or OER/NCOER language gets skimmed and discarded by civilian recruiters. They need the scope (budget, headcount, geography, equipment value) in dollars and counts — not in operation names or rank structure.

Section order

Put the right things at the top.

Hiring managers for veterans read top-down and stop early. We surface the sections they care about first.

  1. 01Summary
  2. 02Experience
  3. 03Skills
  4. 04Certifications
  5. 05Education

Vocabulary the ATS scans for

Keywords that actually register.

leadershipteam managementlogisticsoperationssecurity clearanceTop SecretTS/SCImission planningcross-functionalhigh-stakes decision-makingtrainingPMPSix SigmaLeanbudget managementcrisis managementsupply chainveteran

Bullet starters

Lead with verbs like these.

LedManagedCoordinatedTrainedDeliveredReducedOversawPlanned

Numbers to quantify

Budget managed ($), personnel led, equipment/inventory value ($M), geographies operated in, security clearance level, training hours delivered, readiness improvements (%), promotions earned, certifications completed.

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