INTRODUCTION

As part of this and some upcoming blogs, I intend to help the fresh college grads or new joiners from any industry, gain some perspective of how the real world works.

I present the highlights from my resume concluding this blog series.

Disclaimer

Neither do I claim to be an expert in the field of resume building ( if there is indeed such a field ), nor have I consulted many HRs or recruiters.

I have appeared in and have conducted multiple interviews. The following information is based on my own experiences, knowledge gained from the experiences of my juniors, peers and mentors, and some brainstorming sessions with friends.

Summary

Software engineer lead with several years’ experience implementing large back-end systems in Java and its family of technologies, including more than a dozen as a lead/architect; led re-architecture of a critical system that processes and reports up to 10 million records/ day, improving performance by 100 %. Process time reduction saved the organization approx. 10k $ a day.

Re-designed the second biggest business process for the client, to improve the performance by 500%. The improvement enabled the client to look for a major revamp of the business process, subsequent business helped our company get business to the tune of 500k $.

Awarded performers’ trophy by the client VP, given to top 2%, for bringing in visible impact to the firm with technology changes. <<some more info>>.

Skills:

Projects:

Sample of how the projects would have content, edited and formatted.

Project	Application migration
Tech Stack	Java, Websphere, EJB, Tomcat, Spring MVC, Spring JMS
Description	Task: Migrated a 14 years old application from WebSphere to Tomcat, saving the company 100k $ in the current year and 130k $ in projected costs next year. – Successful implementation of the project resulted in requests to migrate 4 other applications, fetching business of 80k $ to our organization. – Websphere provides plugins for processing like – transaction management, messaging, session management, etc. We found parallel libraries in the market and modified the existing application to use open source technologies – Analyzed libraries like Camel vs Spring, Spring JPA vs Hibernate to find the right fit. – Programmed and finally integrated the app with unit and integration tests (using Mockito) to provide a product and not just an application.
Role	– Individual contributor/ programmer.

Experience Summary:

Surprise ! we never talked about this section, and intentionally so !

I felt that my resume did NOT make it easy for the recruiter to evaluate my work, and therefore I added a half-page summary at the bottom of my 4-page resume.

Once again, Should everyone do it ? Not really !

Feel free to follow the norms, but it’s YOUR playground, so make YOUR rules !

●Software engineer with ~11 years of experience.

●Domains: Banking & capital markets, Entertainment & Hospitality, and startups.

●Tech stack: Back end and middle tier (DB and business logic)

●Tech skills

○Data-structures/ Algorithms

○Java/ Spring/ Hibernate

○Android

○DB2/ Oracle/ MySQL/

○Other tech skills

○NoSQL DB: Mongo/ Couchbase

○Kotlin

○Unix scripting

○<some other skills>

●Type of work: 80% technical and 20% managerial.

○Technical – design, code, review, POC creation (proof of concept), issue resolution, etc.

○Managerial – task delegation, progress tracking, release management, etc.

●Managed team: Size 3-10

●Managed projects: size 100k $ to 500k $

●Worked at: Offshore and Onsite(Minneapolis, US)

●Experience timeline:

○<First position>

○<Second position>

Thank you

We started with what to write, moved on to how to write it, and finally worked on the presentation. In each of these steps, I tried to define

●Both the why and the what of writing resume details.

●Both the outline and the fine-grained details.

Also, I tried to define my success criteria clearly, and hope I did justice to my intentions. In case you have questions or feedback .. feel free to reach out.

Having reached the end of this blog, I’d like to thank you for your time and attention.

I’ve heard of bon appetit and bon voyage, but haven’t heard good luck wish for learners. So with a quick google for ‘learn’ in French, I wish you

Bon apprendre !!

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