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A CV for developers with professional experience: results with figures instead of lists of technologies, skills grouped together, and projects in a section of their own.

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Daniel Krüger has been building backend software in C# and .NET for eight years and is the technical lead of a small team. The person, companies and figures are fictional.

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Why this CV is built the way it is

  • Every role says what came of it

    Build time down from 38 to 11 minutes, two million requests a day, test coverage up from 20 to 75 per cent. Technologies appear in brackets where they were used.

  • Skills are grouped and rated

    Eight entries instead of thirty. If you list everything you have ever come across, you hide what you are good at.

  • Projects get a section of their own

    The move to independent services was bigger than one line under a job. The open-source project is work that anyone can look at.

  • Links to GitHub and LinkedIn sit in the header

    People who hire developers look at code. They should not have to search for the address.

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Daniel Krüger

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

daniel.krueger@beispiel.example, +49 40 0000000, 22765 Hamburg

Profile

Backend engineer with eight years of experience in C# and .NET, focused on APIs, databases and running services in the cloud. Technical lead of a team of four engineers for the past two years.

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer03/2021 – present

Hafenlogik GmbH, Hamburg

  • Build and run the booking API (C#, ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL), which handles around 2 million requests a day
  • Moved the platform from a monolith to six independent services in 14 months, with no downtime
  • Cut build and test time from 38 to 11 minutes with parallel test runs and caching
  • Technical lead for four engineers: code reviews, onboarding and sprint planning

Software Engineer01/2018 – 02/2021

Nordwind Systems AG, Bremen

  • Developed a billing module for energy suppliers in C# and SQL Server
  • Introduced automated testing and raised the module’s coverage from 20% to 75%
  • Set up container-based delivery (Docker) with a pipeline in Azure DevOps

Junior Software Engineer10/2016 – 12/2017

Beispiel IT-Service GmbH, Oldenburg

  • Maintained and extended a warehouse management system (C#, WinForms, SQL Server)
  • Fixed defects reported through customer support, around 15 tickets a week

Skills

C# / .NET (Expert) · ASP.NET Core (Expert) · PostgreSQL, SQL Server (Very good) · Docker, Kubernetes (Very good) · Azure (Good) · TypeScript, Angular (Good) · Automated testing (xUnit) (Very good) · Git, CI/CD (Very good)

Projects

Migration to independent services01/2022 – 02/2023

Hafenlogik GmbH

  • Technical lead. Split the booking platform into six services, each with its own data store; releases went from fortnightly to several times a day.

Open-source validation library05/2020 – present

Personal project

  • A small .NET library for validating input; around 300 stars and regular contributions from other developers.

Education

BSc Computer Science10/2013 – 09/2016

Beispiel-Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg

  • Dissertation: Load balancing in distributed queues (grade 1.7 on the German scale, where 1.0 is the best)

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate06/2022

Languages

German (Native) · English (C1)

What this structure is good for

  • Developers with around two or more years of professional experience
  • Applications for senior and lead roles
  • Also for administration, DevOps and data roles, once you swap the skills

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