# John Doe

Austin, TX | john.doe@example.com | 555-123-4567
linkedin.com/in/johndoe | github.com/johndoe

## Summary

Senior backend and platform engineer with 6 years of experience building and operating distributed systems on AWS and Kubernetes. Track record of reducing cloud cost and improving developer velocity through internal tooling. Comfortable owning services end-to-end from design through on-call.

## Technical skills

**Infrastructure and cloud:** AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, VPC), Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker
**CI/CD and automation:** GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Buildkite, custom GitOps workflows
**Monitoring and observability:** Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, structured logging
**Languages:** Go, Python, TypeScript, Bash
**Databases and storage:** PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka

## Experience

### Acme Corp — Senior Platform Engineer
**March 2022 to present, Austin, TX**

- Cut AWS spend 40%, from $85K to $51K per month, by right-sizing EKS node groups and migrating batch workloads to spot instances.
- Led migration of 22 services from ECS to EKS with zero customer-visible downtime. Kept legacy ECS definitions running in parallel for two weeks to de-risk cutover.
- Built internal developer platform on top of Backstage. 40+ engineers now self-serve new services from template without filing tickets.
- Designed multi-region Postgres topology handling 15K transactions per second at peak. Wrote failover runbooks and ran quarterly game days.

### Globex — Backend Engineer
**June 2019 to March 2022, Remote**

- Rewrote billing service in Go, reducing p99 latency from 800ms to 90ms.
- Shipped event-driven notifications pipeline using Kafka, processing 400M events per day.
- Mentored two junior engineers through their first promotions.

### Initech — Software Engineer
**July 2017 to June 2019, Austin, TX**

- First engineering hire after the founders. Built the original REST API and Postgres schema.
- Owned production deploys. Set up basic CI and the first monitoring dashboards.

## Education

**BS Computer Science**, University of Texas at Austin, 2017

## Certifications

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional (2023)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2021)
