The following is a video of me giving this presentation: https://youtu.be/xJlS_2zIkUw Structure, Content, and not lying. The following is a walkthrough of my methodology for assembling a resume as a software developer.

1. Resumes

2. Resume vs CV
Resume
● 2-Pages
● US
● Skills
CV
● Lots of Pages
● Not US, Academia
● Academic

3. Recommend Format
Name
Title/Header
Contact
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Skills
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Education
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Opening Statement
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Key Skill/Accomplishment 1
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Key Skill/Accomplishment 2
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Key Skill/Accomplishment 3
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Patents/Awards
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Name
Contact Info
Current Job
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Previous Job
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Previous Job
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Previous Job
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Previous Job
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4. Filling Space
Name
Title/Header
Contact
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Skills
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Education
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Opening Statement
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Key Skill/Accomplishment 1
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Key Skill/Accomplishment 2
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Key Skill/Accomplishment 3
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Patents/Awards
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Name
Contact Info
Personal Projects
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Current Job
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Previous Job
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Previous Job
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Key Skill/Accomplishment 4
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5. General Advice
● Don’t lie
● Be prepared to answer questions
● Don’t hide keywords in the margins
● Don’t do more than 2-pages
● Don’t copy someone else’s resume

7. LinkedIn

8. Personal Projects

9. Skills
● Categories
● What you know best
● Tied to your role
● Use correct capitalization!
● Will change overtime

10. Education
● ...or certifications
● ...or special courses
● Tied to role
● Not as important as it was

11. Opening Statement
● What you care about
● How you think
● Elevator pitch
● Maybe the only thing read

12. Kell Skills/Accomplishments
● Focus on a Keyword
● Relevant to Position
● Action Focus
● Current Work
Cybersecurity
● A deep understanding of all things cybersecurity having served as a Cryptologic
Warfare Officer for Company C.
● At Company A, implemented, managed, and secured the AWS EKS-based delivery
environment requiring hundreds of simultaneous containers for hosting both
persistent infrastructure and dynamic containers.
● At Company B, used Traefik to enable both HTTPS mutual auth and SNI to secure
vendor REST interactions with internal Cloud Native systems.
Operating at Scale
● At Company A, revolutionized monitoring and alerting to meet the needs of
running web-scale systems at 99.9% availability via Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka,
Elastic Search, and Zipkin (distributed tracing).
● At Company B, built the monitoring infrastructuring around a combination of
New Relic, Zabbix, and Grafana for dealing with AWS EC2 and EKS infra and apps,
capable of predicting certain types of issues prior to occurrence.

13. Job History
Company Title Standard Title Employment
Achievements

14. Avoid Red Flags
● Length
● Typos
● Bad Capitalization
● No longer relevant technologies
● No relevant experience