Software Developer Resume Template
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Ryan Carter
Senior Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems
Seattle, WA · (206) 555-3985 · ryan.carter@email.com · github.com/ryancarter
Tech Stack
GoPythonTypeScriptPostgreSQLKafkaKubernetesAWSgRPCFastAPIReact
Profile
Backend software engineer with 7 years building high-traffic services in Go and Python. Shipped a payments platform handling 4M transactions a day and cut cloud spend by 31% through profiling.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
2022 – Present
Northwind Payments, Seattle, WA
- Rebuilt the payment authorization service in Go, raising throughput from 900 to 3,600 requests per second.
- Cut AWS spend by $410K a year by profiling hot paths and moving batch jobs to spot instances.
- Introduced contract tests across 14 services, reducing integration incidents in production by 60%.
- Mentor 4 engineers and run the team's weekly design review.
Software Engineer
2019 – 2022
Cedar Health Tech, Seattle, WA
- Built REST and gRPC APIs in Python/FastAPI for a scheduling product used by 1,200 clinics.
- Moved reporting from a monolith to Kafka event pipelines, cutting report latency from hours to minutes.
- Raised test coverage from 48% to 85% and added CI checks in GitHub Actions.
- Worked with clinicians to redesign booking flows, cutting no-show rates by 9% across pilot clinics.
Junior Developer
2017 – 2019
Harbor Systems, Portland, OR
- Maintained internal tools in Python and React; automated weekly exports, saving 10 staff hours a week.
- Fixed 120+ bugs in the customer portal and wrote the team's first end-to-end tests.
Engineering
System designAPI designPerformance profilingEvent-driven architectureObservabilityCode review & mentoring
Education
B.S. in Computer Science
2017
University of Washington
Certification
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
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Skills to list
- Java/Python/C#
- REST APIs
- Git
- Agile/Scrum
- Cloud (AWS/Azure)
- Unit and Integration Testing
- SQL/NoSQL Databases
- CI/CD Pipelines
Software and tools
- NoSQL
- Spring Framework
- Docker
- Go
- Spring Boot
- GitHub
- PostgreSQL
- Apache Kafka
- Microsoft Azure software
- Node.js
Duties to describe on a software developer resume
- Analyzed user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- Developed or directed software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation.
- Modified existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.
- Prepared reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status.
- Analyzed information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.
- Stored, retrieved, and manipulated data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
Titles along the way
- Junior Software Developer
- Software Developer
- Senior Software Engineer
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