Platform engineer with nearly 8 years in infrastructure and developer tooling, building internal platforms that let product teams ship without filing tickets. Launched a self-service developer portal that cut new service setup from 2 weeks to 20 minutes. Brings Kubernetes, golden paths and a product mindset toward internal developers.
Experience
Senior Platform Engineer, Corvid Health Platform (Remote)
Apr 2022 – Present
Launched a Backstage portal with golden-path templates, cutting new service setup from 2 weeks to 20 minutes for 350 engineers
Built a Crossplane-based abstraction letting teams request databases and queues through pull requests
Standardized 180 services on shared Helm charts and runtime defaults, ending snowflake deployments
Measured developer experience quarterly, raising platform satisfaction scores from 3.1 to 4.3 out of 5
Built Java billing services and owned their Jenkins pipelines
Wrote a deployment CLI later reused by 4 other teams
Education
B.A. Computer Science, Grinnell College (Aug 2015 – May 2019)
Skills
Platform: Backstage, Crossplane, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD
Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Vault, Istio
Languages: Go, TypeScript, Python
Practices: Golden paths, platform as a product, developer experience metrics, DORA metrics
How to write a Platform Engineer resume
A strong Platform Engineer resume shows the systems you built, the scale they run at, and the measurable effect on speed, reliability or cost. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
Sections, in order
Summary
Experience
Projects
Skills
Education
Length: One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Summary: Write two or three lines: your role, your strongest skills, and one result that proves them.
Skills to feature
Programming languages
System design
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
CI/CD
Testing and code review
Databases and SQL
Observability
Security fundamentals
APIs and integrations
Technical documentation
Example bullet points
Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2M monthly users
Introduced contract tests and staged rollouts, reducing production incidents by 45% in two quarters
Migrated 30 services to Kubernetes with Terraform, lowering cloud spend by $250k a year
Tips from recruiters
Group skills by category (for example "Languages: Go, TypeScript") so recruiters and ATS parsers find them quickly.
Link to a repository, demo or write-up for at least one project you can talk about in depth.
Name the stack inside each bullet; keyword matching happens at the bullet level, not only in the skills list.
Recommended templates
Classic (ATS-friendly): Jake's-style LaTeX classic: small caps and hairline rules
Tech (ATS-friendly): Developer style: mono headings and tags, sans body
Modern (ATS-friendly): Clean single column with accent headings and rules
Platform Engineer resume FAQ
What should a Platform Engineer resume include?
A Platform Engineer resume should show the systems you built, the scale they run at, and the measurable effect on speed, reliability or cost. Use these sections in this order: Summary, Experience, Projects, Skills and Education. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
What is the best resume template for a Platform Engineer?
Classic, Tech and Modern work well for Platform Engineer roles. They are single-column with standard headings, so applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse them reliably.
How long should a Platform Engineer resume be?
One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Which skills should a Platform Engineer put on a resume?
Prioritize the skills named in the job posting. Common ones for Platform Engineer roles are Programming languages, System design, Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD, Testing and code review and Databases and SQL.
How do I write strong Platform Engineer resume bullet points?
Start with an action verb, say what you did, and end with a measurable result such as latency, uptime and deploy frequency. For example: "Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms for 2M monthly users."