Software engineer CV example
A mid-level software engineer CV that leads with what the engineer shipped and what changed because of it, not a list of every technology they have touched.
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What this example does well
- Each bullet names a result: a time saved, an error rate cut, a cost reduced. Hiring managers skim for outcomes.
- Technologies appear inside the work they were used for, so the skills list confirms the story rather than replacing it.
- One side project, chosen because it shows something the day job does not: open-source collaboration.
- The summary is three lines and says what kind of engineer this is, not that they are "passionate".
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Priya Raman
Backend-leaning software engineer with six years’ experience building and running web services in TypeScript and Go. I like owning a service end to end, from design to on-call, and making it cheaper and calmer to run.
Experience
Software Engineer II
Larchfield Payments
Manchester
Mar 2023•Current position
- Led the move of card-authorisation checks from a monolith into a Go service handling 1,200 requests a second, cutting p95 latency from 340 ms to 90 ms.
- Introduced contract tests between eight teams’ services, after which integration incidents fell from roughly two a month to one a quarter.
- Wrote the team’s on-call runbooks and halved the median time to resolve a page.
- Mentor two junior engineers; both now lead features on their own.
Software Engineer
Brightwater Digital
Leeds
Jul 2020•Feb 2023
- Built the booking API for a regional rail operator’s mobile app in TypeScript and PostgreSQL, used by 400,000 people a month.
- Replaced a nightly batch import with an event-driven pipeline, so timetable changes reached the app in minutes rather than the next morning.
- Cut the CI pipeline from 25 minutes to 8 by splitting and caching the test suite.
Graduate Developer
Brightwater Digital
Leeds
Sep 2019•Jun 2020
- Rotated through the web, API and data teams, shipping fixes and small features in each.
Education
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, First Class
University of Northfield
Sep 2016•Jun 2019
Certifications
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
May 2022
Projects
Maintainer, open-source rate-limiting library
Technologies: Go, Redis
Jan 2021•Present
Co-maintain a small Go library for distributed rate limiting; reviewed and merged contributions from 30 outside developers.