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Haneul Kim
Backend Developer · 6 years
haneul@example.com
Core strengths
• Designing and speeding up high-volume order APIs
• Building incident response and monitoring
• Code review and onboarding for junior developers
Career details
Example Commerce · Order Platform Senior Developer
2022-03 – PresentResponsibilities Designs and runs the order and payment APIs.
Order API response time
2023-02 – 2023-08Role Backend lead · Team Team of 4 · Contribution 60%
Technologies Java · Spring Boot · Redis
• Added a cache layer and cut average response time from 820ms to 210ms.
• Lowered the peak-hour error rate from 1.2% to 0.2%.
Payment incident response
2022-06 – 2022-12Role Development and operations · Team Team of 3 · Contribution 50%
Technologies Grafana · Kafka
• Redefined 18 alert rules and detected incidents 12 minutes sooner on average.
• Introduced a postmortem template and cut repeat incidents from 6 to 3 per quarter.
Example Studio · Service Development Developer
2019-01 – 2022-02Responsibilities Built the backend of a booking service.
Booking search rebuild
2020-05 – 2021-01Role Backend development · Team Team of 5 · Contribution 40%
Technologies Node.js · MySQL
• Redesigned search queries and cut lookup time from 3.4s to 0.9s.
• Booking conversion rose 14% in the three months after launch.
Reason for leaving Moved on to work with large-scale traffic
Skills
Languages and frameworks Java · Spring Boot · Node.js
Data and infrastructure MySQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS
Education
Example University
2012-03 – 2018-02Computer Science · B.S. · Graduated
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Projects and results, company by company
Start with this template ↗Haneul Kim
Backend Developer · 6 years
haneul@example.com
Core strengths
• Designing and speeding up high-volume order APIs
• Building incident response and monitoring
• Code review and onboarding for junior developers
Career details
Example Commerce · Order Platform Senior Developer
2022-03 – PresentResponsibilities Designs and runs the order and payment APIs.
Order API response time
2023-02 – 2023-08Role Backend lead · Team Team of 4 · Contribution 60%
Technologies Java · Spring Boot · Redis
• Added a cache layer and cut average response time from 820ms to 210ms.
• Lowered the peak-hour error rate from 1.2% to 0.2%.
Payment incident response
2022-06 – 2022-12Role Development and operations · Team Team of 3 · Contribution 50%
Technologies Grafana · Kafka
• Redefined 18 alert rules and detected incidents 12 minutes sooner on average.
• Introduced a postmortem template and cut repeat incidents from 6 to 3 per quarter.
Example Studio · Service Development Developer
2019-01 – 2022-02Responsibilities Built the backend of a booking service.
Booking search rebuild
2020-05 – 2021-01Role Backend development · Team Team of 5 · Contribution 40%
Technologies Node.js · MySQL
• Redesigned search queries and cut lookup time from 3.4s to 0.9s.
• Booking conversion rose 14% in the three months after launch.
Reason for leaving Moved on to work with large-scale traffic
Skills
Languages and frameworks Java · Spring Boot · Node.js
Data and infrastructure MySQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS
Education
Example University
2012-03 – 2018-02Computer Science · B.S. · Graduated
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Start with this template ↗Haneul Kim
Backend Developer · 6 years
haneul@example.com
Core strengths
• Designing and speeding up high-volume order APIs
• Building incident response and monitoring
• Code review and onboarding for junior developers
Career details
Example Commerce · Order Platform Senior Developer
2022-03 – PresentResponsibilities Designs and runs the order and payment APIs.
Order API response time
2023-02 – 2023-08Role Backend lead · Team Team of 4 · Contribution 60%
Technologies Java · Spring Boot · Redis
• Added a cache layer and cut average response time from 820ms to 210ms.
• Lowered the peak-hour error rate from 1.2% to 0.2%.
Payment incident response
2022-06 – 2022-12Role Development and operations · Team Team of 3 · Contribution 50%
Technologies Grafana · Kafka
• Redefined 18 alert rules and detected incidents 12 minutes sooner on average.
• Introduced a postmortem template and cut repeat incidents from 6 to 3 per quarter.
Example Studio · Service Development Developer
2019-01 – 2022-02Responsibilities Built the backend of a booking service.
Booking search rebuild
2020-05 – 2021-01Role Backend development · Team Team of 5 · Contribution 40%
Technologies Node.js · MySQL
• Redesigned search queries and cut lookup time from 3.4s to 0.9s.
• Booking conversion rose 14% in the three months after launch.
Reason for leaving Moved on to work with large-scale traffic
Skills
Languages and frameworks Java · Spring Boot · Node.js
Data and infrastructure MySQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS
Education
Example University
2012-03 – 2018-02Computer Science · B.S. · Graduated
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