Software Engineer Resume Example

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Alex Morgan

contact available on request • (555) 214-0000 • Austin, TX • linkedin.com/in/alexmorgan • github.com/alexmorgan

Professional Summary

Staff software engineer with 8 years building distributed systems at scale. Expert in Python, Go, and cloud-native architecture on AWS. Proven record leading migrations, platform launches, and cross-functional engineering teams that reduce operational costs and accelerate shipping velocity. Passionate about developer experience and system reliability.

Experience

Staff Software Engineer Meridian Technologies - Austin, TX | 2022 - Present

Architected a real-time event streaming platform processing 4.2 billion events per day, replacing a legacy batch system and reducing data latency from 6 hours to under 90 seconds.
Led a team of 7 engineers through a monolith-to-microservices migration, increasing deployment frequency from bi-weekly to daily and reducing production incidents by 43%.
Designed an internal developer platform adopted by 120+ engineers, cutting new-hire onboarding time from 16 days to under 7 days.
Drove an observability initiative (Datadog + OpenTelemetry) that reduced mean time to detection (MTTD) by 68% across all production services.

Senior Software Engineer Cloudwave Inc - Chicago, IL | 2019 - 2022

Built a multi-tenant API gateway handling 12,000 requests/sec at 99.97% uptime, directly supporting $28M in annualized customer revenue.
Reduced cloud infrastructure spend by 31% by rightsizing EC2 fleets and migrating stateless workloads to Lambda.
Mentored 4 junior engineers; two received promotions to mid-level within 18 months of joining the team.

Software Engineer DataBridge Corp - Chicago, IL | 2016 - 2019

Shipped a customer-facing data pipeline tool used by 3,400+ enterprise customers, generating $1.2M in new ARR in its first year.
Improved unit test coverage from 18% to 87%, reducing QA cycle time by 4 days per sprint and eliminating two class-one regressions per quarter.

Education

B.S. Computer Science University of Illinois - 2016

Technical Skills

Languages: Python, Go, Java, TypeScript • Cloud & Infra: AWS (EC2, Lambda, ECS, RDS, SQS), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform • Data: Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB • Tooling: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, gRPC, GraphQL

Why this resume works

Every bullet opens with a strong action verb (Architected, Led, Built, Drove) and closes with a quantified outcome. Recruiters scan for impact in the first three words.
Latency, uptime, cost reduction, and test coverage numbers are specific and verifiable. Vague phrases like "improved performance" are replaced with real figures that force the reader to pay attention.
The skills section uses the exact terminology found in job descriptions (Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTelemetry), which ATS systems match keyword-for-keyword.
Scope of influence scales visibly across jobs: individual contributor to team lead to platform architect. Hiring managers read career trajectory in seconds.
Business impact is tied to engineering decisions (gateway supports $28M ARR; Lambda migration saves 31%). This speaks directly to engineering leaders who own cost centers.

3 tips for software engineers in 2026

Lead with AI and LLM experience if you have it Roles across every seniority level now list "experience building or integrating LLM-powered features" as a preferred or required qualification. If you have shipped anything touching RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, or AI evaluation frameworks, put it in your summary and a dedicated bullet.
Show system design outcomes, not just implementation The most competitive SWE resumes in 2026 describe architecture decisions and their downstream effects. A bullet that says "designed a caching layer that reduced p99 latency from 850ms to 60ms" beats ten bullets about implementing specific libraries.
Name your ATS keywords exactly as they appear in job postings Parse the job description before you apply and mirror its exact terminology. If a company calls it "Infrastructure as Code" not "IaC," use their phrasing. One keyword mismatch can filter you out before a human ever reads your resume.

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