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Elegant Resume Template

Single-column · Lora · Elegant

Elegant is the one template here that centres its header: a wide-tracked serif name over an uppercase headline, closed by a wine-coloured diamond divider and a hairline rule. It is built for a formal reading, not a scan.

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Who it suits

  • Law, finance, academia and other formal fields
  • A senior CV where restraint reads better than density
  • Anyone who wants a centred masthead rather than a left-aligned one

What it includes

  • Summary
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Skills
  • Key achievements
  • Languages

John Doe

Software EngineerReact & Node.js4 years experience

+1 555 0142john.doe@example.comlinkedin.com/in/johndoeAustin, TX

Summary

Software engineer with 4 years building web products in small teams. Works across a React front end and a Node.js API, owns features from ticket to release, and watches the dashboards after a deploy. Comfortable picking up an unfamiliar service and leaving it better documented than it was found.

Experience

Software Engineer
Feb 2023 - Present
Brightlane Software, Austin, TX
  • Shipped 30+ features across a React and Node.js booking product used by 40,000 customers a month.
  • Cut the checkout API p95 from 1.8s to 620ms by batching three sequential queries.
  • Added integration tests around the payment path, taking release rollbacks from about one a month to none in two quarters.

Self-serve refunds - Owned end to end

Built the refund flow so support stopped filing manual tickets, returning about 200 hours a quarter to the team.

Website · Case study · Demo

  • Frontend: React, TypeScript, TanStack Query, Tailwind CSS
  • Backend: Node.js, Fastify, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Stripe

Checkout rebuild - Led a team of three

Rebuilt the booking checkout as a resumable multi-step flow, lifting completion from 61% to 78% over two releases.

Website · Demo

  • Frontend: Next.js, React Hook Form, Zod, Playwright
  • Infrastructure: Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS, Sentry
Senior Developer
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Meridian Health, Remote

Project: Patient portal - Healthcare services

A portal giving patients access to consultations, appointment booking and health records, with activity syncing from Apple Health and Google Fit.

Website · App Store · Google Play

  • Web: Next.js, GraphQL, Apollo, Ant Design
  • Mobile: React Native, Expo, Reanimated, Detox
Junior Software Engineer
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
Kettleworks, Austin, TX
  • Built the internal admin dashboard that replaced a spreadsheet 12 account managers shared.
  • Migrated 40 legacy jQuery pages to React components, retiring 6,000 lines of duplicated code.

Education

BSc in Computer Science
Sep 2017 - Jun 2021
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Skills

TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, Jest, Git

Key Achievements

Checkout latency cut 65%
Batched three sequential queries and took p95 from 1.8s to 620ms.
Two quarters without a rollback
Integration tests around the payment path catch the regressions first.
Onboarding down to two days
Rewrote the service setup guide every new hire now follows.

Languages

English
Spanish
German

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