Developer resume

The dev resume that shows what you’ve built,
not just a list of technologies

Drop your existing resume, your GitHub and your projects. Fileify groups your stack by depth, adds product context to every role and quantifies impact — designed for ATS (Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby) and for a tech lead’s skim.

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  • 12,400+ resumes built
  • Stack grouped, not alphabetised
  • Quantified impact
  • ATS-safe HTML
  1. Upload your old CV
  2. AI extracts your experience
  3. CV + cover letter generated
  4. ATS-ready PDF export

Why most dev resumes miss

A dev resume isn’t a list of technologies in alphabetical order

Tech recruiters and engineering leads spend 20 to 30 seconds on a resume. The ones that don’t land almost always share the same issues: they confuse skills with tools, list without proving, and forget the product.

  • A soup of technologies ("React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, HTML, CSS, JS, TS…") with no level or context — and often "Git" listed as a skill.
  • Responsibilities described as tasks ("feature development", "bug fixing") with no measurable impact.
  • No GitHub link, public repo or live demo: no way to gauge level without code to look at.
  • An overly creative format (two columns, "JavaScript 87%" skill bars, icons standing in for text) that breaks the ATS of large employers.
  • Student internships listed as senior roles, while real production projects get buried in the flow.

Fileify reads your existing resume, your GitHub and your projects — and rebuilds a resume that says what you shipped, with what stack, for what outcome.

Why Fileify for dev resumes

Specific to tech profiles

Fileify tells a language apart from a framework apart from a tool, groups each separately, and places the stack under each role’s title — not piled into a list at the end.

Stack grouped, not alphabetised

Languages, frameworks (Next.js, Django, FastAPI), data (PostgreSQL, Redis), cloud (AWS, GCP), tools (Docker, Terraform): each group organised separately and ranked by actual depth, not alphabetical order.

Quantified impact, not task description

p95 latency cut by 80%, build time divided by 3, rollout to 40k users: Fileify turns "worked on performance" into outcomes a tech lead can verify at a glance.

GitHub, projects, talks

Your main GitHub in the header, 1-3 public projects (repo or live demo) in a dedicated section, your talks and articles if any — the kind of links tech recruiters actually click.

Clean for large-company ATS

Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby: linear single-column HTML, no skill bars, no icons standing in for text — the resume still parses correctly even when the design stays polished.

Before / after

From vague mission to a bullet a tech lead will open

Fileify keeps your facts, adds product context, quantifies impact, and puts the stack where it belongs.

Old resume

Full-stack developer

  • Developed features across front and back.
  • Performance optimisation.
  • Code reviews and unit tests.

Resume generated by Fileify

Full-stack engineer · B2B SaaS logistics · 40k users · 2021 – 2024

  • Next.js · TypeScript · Hono · PostgreSQL · AWS — 8-engineer team, monolith → services.
  • Optimised the product query → cut p95 latency by 80%, shipped behind a feature flag.
  • Introduced integration tests (Vitest + Playwright) — +24 pts of coverage.

Product context added, stack inline under the title, impact quantified from your own sentences.

What a good dev resume actually says

What tech leads really look for

Engineering hiring managers aren’t looking for "someone who knows React". They’re looking for someone who solved a problem close to theirs, in a context close to theirs.

  1. 01

    Stack, grouped and weighted

    Separate languages (TypeScript, Python), frameworks (Next.js, Django, FastAPI), data (PostgreSQL, Redis), cloud (AWS, GCP), tools (Docker, Terraform). Show depth — daily mastery vs. occasional exposure — and drop the "JavaScript 87%" progress-bar skill charts: they break ATS parsing and make any tech lead flinch.

  2. 02

    One line of context before every role

    "B2B SaaS logistics app, 40k users, 8-engineer team, Rails monolith → Go micro-services" — before even listing your responsibilities. Without product and team context, the tech lead can’t tell a solo side project from a critical production codebase.

  3. 03

    Quantified impact, not task description

    "Optimised the product query → cut p95 latency by 80%, shipped behind a feature flag" beats "worked on performance optimisation". Fileify automatically suggests impact-first rewrites from your original sentences.

  4. 04

    Clickable links: GitHub, project, talk

    A recruiter or tech lead who clicks a link is a candidate already on the short-list. Put your main GitHub in the header, direct links to 1-3 projects you’re proudest of (public repo or live demo), and your talks/articles if you have any.

Dev resume examples

Templates designed for tech profiles

Our Nucléus (tech & data) and Boréalis (research & biotech) collections are built for engineer, developer and data profiles — clear structure, legible typography, ATS-safe layout.

  • Stack well organised
  • Impact front-and-centre
  • Clickable projects
  • ATS-ready PDF

Frequently asked

Developer resume FAQ

Yes. If you paste your GitHub URL and a few project links, Fileify uses them as context: technologies, project size, dates. Combined with your existing resume, that’s often enough to generate a complete dev resume in a few minutes.

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