Software Engineer Resume Example

Alex Johnson
alex.johnson@email.com | (415) 555-0192 | linkedin.com/in/alexjohnson | github.com/alexjohnson

SUMMARY
Backend-focused Software Engineer with 5 years of experience building scalable distributed systems. Reduced API latency by 40% at Fintech Corp and shipped 3 major product features serving 2M+ users.

EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Engineer — Fintech Corp, San Francisco, CA | Jan 2022 – Present
• Redesigned payment processing pipeline using Go and Kafka, reducing average latency from 320ms to 190ms (40% improvement)
• Led migration of monolithic Rails app to microservices, cutting deployment time from 45 min to 8 min
• Mentored 4 junior engineers; introduced code review standards that reduced production bugs by 28%
• Collaborated with product and design to ship mobile-first checkout flow, increasing conversion by 12%

Software Engineer — DataScale Inc, Remote | Jun 2019 – Dec 2021
• Built real-time analytics dashboard (React + Python/FastAPI) processing 500K events/day
• Implemented OAuth 2.0 SSO integration adopted by 15 enterprise clients
• Optimized PostgreSQL queries for reporting module, improving load time from 8s to 0.9s
• Automated CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, reducing release cycle from bi-weekly to daily

EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science — UC Berkeley | 2019

SKILLS
Languages: Python, Go, Java, TypeScript | Frameworks: React, FastAPI, Rails | Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes | Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB | Tools: Git, Jira, Datadog