JOHN SMITH
San Francisco, CA | (555) 123-4567 | john.smith@email.com | linkedin.com/in/johnsmith | github.com/johnsmith
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 8+ years of professional software development experience architecting, building, and shipping complex, user-facing web applications to production. Proven expertise in leading the design of robust, scalable, and secure features using modern tech stacks including React, Node.js, and TypeScript. A technical leader with strong product intuition, a passion for mentoring engineers, and a track record of partnering with product managers and designers to solve real-world user problems.
SKILLS
Full-Stack Development:
- Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, SQL
- Frontend: React, Next.js, Redux, Vue.js, Angular
- Backend: Node.js, Express, Python (Django, FastAPI), GraphQL
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
Cloud & DevOps:
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), GCP, Azure
- CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
EXPERIENCE
Lead Full-Stack Engineer | QuantumLeap Innovations
San Francisco, CA | August 2021 – Present
Acted as a technical leader for a team of 5 engineers, guiding architectural decisions and taking ownership of complex projects from idea through to deployment and maintenance.
- Led the design and development of a robust, user-facing full-stack feature using Next.js/React and a resilient RESTful API backend, directly impacting customer productivity and success.
- Architected and maintained services on our cloud platform (AWS), leveraging Kubernetes (EKS) and infrastructure-as-code principles with Terraform to ensure reliable and cost-effective systems.
- Drove technical excellence by identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in a high-throughput system processing over 1 million transactions per second.
- Championed best practices for CI/CD by establishing automated pipelines with GitLab CI for all services, ensuring consistent, secure, and reproducible deployments.
Senior Software Engineer | DataSphere Analytics
Seattle, WA | June 2018 – July 2021
Partnered closely with product managers and designers to refine requirements, scope projects, and deliver high-quality solutions for the company's core analytics platform.
- Owned the end-to-end development of a complex, full-stack application using React, Redux, and Python, shipping a solution that solved a critical real-world user problem.
- Led the transition of a legacy backend to a microservices-based architecture using Node.js and MongoDB, improving system resilience and scalability.
- Improved application performance by 40% by containerizing services with Docker and deploying them on a Kubernetes (GKE) cluster.
- Mentored junior and mid-level engineers through thoughtful code reviews and guidance on best practices for secure API design and efficient cloud resource management.
Software Engineer | WebScale Technologies
Austin, TX | September 2016 – May 2018
Developed and maintained high-traffic, full-stack web applications, successfully shipping features to a production environment with over 500,000 daily active users.
- Engineered and maintained a scalable e-commerce platform using a modern back-end framework (Node.js/Express) and MongoDB.
- Designed and deployed a resilient RESTful service on AWS that integrated with third-party systems to enhance platform functionality.
- Implemented automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, paying down technical debt and reducing production errors by 30%.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley | 2016
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2014