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Cedar template

Cedar resume template.

A two-column resume template with a full-width accent band, a right-ranged narrow column with trailing contact icons, bold dark headings and no photo.

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Theo Lindqvist

Director of Software Engineering

Contact

San Jose, CA
(408) 555-0139
theo.lindqvist@mailhub.io
linkedin.com/in/theolindqvist
github.com/tlindqvist

Education

Bachelor of Science

Software Engineering

California Institute of Technology

2006 – 2010

Pasadena, CA

Skills

  • Jira
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Jenkins
  • TensorFlow
  • Spring Boot
  • Apache Hadoop
  • Intrusion detection
  • React Native
  • Selenium
  • Oracle

Work Experience

Director of Software Engineering

Northwind Software

2019 – Present / San Jose, CA

  • Lead a cross-functional group of 48 engineers across four product teams, with production velocity up 23% in the first year
  • Introduced intrusion detection into the platform and cut successful socially engineered attacks to under 1%
  • Rebuilt the delivery pipeline on Jenkins-backed workflows, which lifted the quality of releases by a 54% margin on the defect count
  • Reached a 97% net promoter score and a 4.7 out of 5 rating from end users for the platform’s error-free releases

Senior Engineering Manager

Paylane

2014 – 2019 / San Jose, CA

  • Resolved the app’s incompatibility with a class of mobile devices on AWS and cut user-reported incidents by 92%
  • Brought agile practice into the core processes and cut the average production cycle by 17% across projects
  • Cut mobile app defect density by 31% by moving the client onto React Native components
  • Delivered within budget and timeline for six consecutive releases and held a 94% user satisfaction rating in the feedback surveys

Principal Software Engineer

Quantum Silicon

2010 – 2014 / Santa Clara, CA

  • Optimised the storage and dataset processing on Apache Hadoop for a 47% increase in concurrent user capacity
  • Automated cross-browser testing with Selenium and cut user-reported defects by 68%
  • Led a team of four engineers to build and upgrade the Oracle databases with 98% on-time delivery
  • Cut monthly hosting costs by 28% through cloud infrastructure optimisation

Speaking

  • "Shipping without a release train", QCon San Francisco, 2024
  • "Detection before prevention", LeadDev West Coast, 2023

About the Cedar template

Cedar runs a band of the accent the full width of the head of the page, with the name centred in wide-spaced white capitals and the title in italic capitals beneath it, and no photo. Below it a narrow column on the left ranges everything against the gutter, right-aligned: the contact details with their icons trailing the text, a degree read one fact a line, the school, years and city each on their own, and the skills one a line. The wide column beside it reads from the gutter outward, and every heading in either column, one the writer adds included, is the same bold capitals in dark grey with no rule. A role opens on its title set larger in a normal weight, then the employer in grey, then the dates and city on one line divided by a slash, then its bullets. It suits an engineering director, a senior manager or anyone with a long history who wants one block of colour and a page that stays out of its own way.

Read the software engineer resume shown hereTheo Lindqvist’s resume in full, with notes on why each part works.

How it is built

  • A band of the accent the full width of the head of the page, the name centred in wide-spaced white capitals over the title in italic capitals
  • A narrow left column ranged right against the gutter, its contact details with the icons trailing the text
  • A degree read one fact a line down the narrow column: the degree, its field, the school, the years, the city
  • Every heading the same bold dark capitals with no rule, in either column and on a section the writer adds
  • A role opening on its title set larger in a normal weight, the employer in grey beneath, then the dates and city on one line divided by a slash
Style
Professional · Modern
Best for
Tech & Engineering · Business
Career stage
Mid Level · Senior / Executive
Layout
Two Column · Without Photo
Photo
No photo

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