0-resume-template.md

https://github.com/[yourname]

Ambition

[Describe ambitions: type of work, attributes of team, what you want to learn & teach]

Experience

[in reverse chronological order, list at most 5 positions or 10 years back, whichever is fewer]

[date start]–[date end] - [company name] - [non-bullshit, normalized title]
Team: [# engs. on your team]; Total: [total engs. at company]
[One sentence description of software you worked on.] I left because [reason you left].

[date start]–[date end] - [company name] - [non-bullshit, normalized title]
Team: [# engs. on your team]; Total: [total engs. at company]
[One sentence description of software you worked on.] I left because [reason you left].

[date start]–[date end] - [company name] - [non-bullshit, normalized title]
Team: [# engs. on your team]; Total: [total engs. at company]
[One sentence description of software you worked on.] I left because [reason you left].

Education (Optional)

["Auto-didact", "University", "College"; name optional]
[Specializations / majors]

Favorite Book

[title of favorite book], by [author name]

brad-as-engineer-example.md

https://github.com/h3h

Ambition

I want to work with a fun, smart, and motivated team on high-quality web applications that delight people. I work to foster a culture of friendship among coworkers and strive to give other creative workers the freedom and happiness they need to be most productive. Most of all, I am interested in embracing and increasing quality, pervading products, people, and life.

Experience

January 2012–April 2012 - Return Path - Senior Software Engineer
Team: 6; Total: 75
I worked on back-end data processing systems written mostly in Ruby, including email parsing, automated redaction and storage in Redis, MySQL, S3 and memcached. I left because I was promoted to Director of Engineering for the department.

November 2010–December 2011 - Gowalla - Software Engineer
Team: 5; Total: 10
I worked on the gowalla.com front end, the Rails platform and the Ruby services that supported the Gowalla 4.0 API. I left because Facebook bought the company and shut it down. I didn't want to move back to California or work for Facebook.

November 2007–October 2010 - Causes - Software Engineer
Team: 5; Total: 8
I worked on the Rails app that powered the Causes Facebook application and causes.com website. I did everything from MySQL query optimization and cache storage tuning to front-end HTML, CSS and JavaScript for tens of different features. I left because I hated living in the Bay Area and I was disillusioned with the company leadership.

July 2006–November 2007 - Eventful - Lead UI Engineer
Team: 4; Total: 10
I led the front-end team for eventful.com, working directly with product managers, marketing, back-end developers and design to set the pace of development, refine features and deliver against deadlines. Mostly PHP, Perl, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I left because I was disillusioned with the company leadership and I thought I had to move to San Francisco to have upward career mobility.

November 2005–July 2006 - Eventful - UI Engineer Intern
Team: 4; Total: 10
I worked with lots of PHP, Perl, HTML, CSS and JavaScript improving the eventful.com website and API. I left because I went full-time and was promoted to Lead UI Engineer.

June 2005–September 2005 - Amazon.com - Software Development Engineer Intern
Team: 3; Total: Thousands
I first worked on a back-end Perl service, but quickly transitioned to work closely with two senior JavaScript developers on a widget framework to power the Amazon.com browse experience.

Education

Univerisity of California, San Diego
Mathematics-Computer Science, Philosophy

Favorite Book

Lila, by Robert Pirsig