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Software engineer CV template

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Tharindu Jayasuriya

Senior Software Engineer

Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with six years building payment and logistics systems where downtime costs money directly. I design for the 3am incident as much as the demo — observability, safe rollbacks and clear runbooks come as standard.

99.97%

uptime on payments

18 min

reconciliation, from 4 h

30k/day

dispatch assignments

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

2023 – Present

Fintech scale-up · Colombo

  • Rebuilt the settlement pipeline in Go, cutting end-of-day reconciliation from 4 hours to 18 minutes.
  • Rolled out structured logging and tracing across 12 services; median incident diagnosis fell from 45 to 8 minutes.
  • Led the migration of 3 TB of ledger data to a partitioned PostgreSQL cluster with zero downtime.
  • Mentored four junior engineers, two since promoted.

Software Engineer

2021 – 2023

Logistics platform (remote) · Singapore

  • Built the real-time driver dispatch service handling 30,000 assignments a day.
  • Moved the team from nightly releases to continuous deployment; lead time dropped from 6 days to under an hour.
  • Owned on-call for dispatch with zero SLA breaches over two years.

Software Developer

2019 – 2021

Software house · Colombo

  • Delivered eleven client projects across retail and education in React and Node.js.
  • Wrote the internal component library the team still uses today.
  • Cut average page load on the largest client’s storefront from 4.1 s to 1.3 s.

Selected projects

  • Settlement reconciliation engineEvent-sourced Go service that matches bank statements to internal ledgers and surfaces only genuine mismatches.
  • Open-source retry libraryIdempotent retries with jittered backoff for TypeScript; 800+ weekly downloads.
  • Conference talk, 2025“What our payment outages taught us”, at a Colombo engineering meetup of 200+ developers.

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How an applicant tracking system reads this CV

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ATS-friendly

9 checks passed · 1 to improve

An estimate based on how common ATS systems (Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, Lever) parse CVs.

What an ATS identifies

Name
Found: Tharindu Jayasuriya
Email
Found: tharindu@example.lk
Phone
Found: +94 77 000 0000
Location
Found: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Links
Found: linkedin.com/in/example
Job title
Found: Senior Software Engineer
Skills
Found: 15: TypeScript, Go, SQL, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker…
Education
Found: BSc (Hons) Computer Science (2019)

Work history as parsed

  • Senior Software Engineer at Fintech scale-up2023 – Present
  • Software Engineer at Logistics platform (remote)2021 – 2023
  • Software Developer at Software house2019 – 2021

Profile / Summary section not foundExperience section not foundEducation section not foundSkills section not foundProjects section not foundCertifications section not foundLanguages section not found

ATS-friendliness checks

  • Passed: Contact details can be readEmail and phone are plain text in a recognisable format.
  • Problem: Standard section headingsMissing or unrecognised: Experience, Education, Skills. Use these exact words as headings.
  • Passed: Custom section name“Selected projects” is a heading ATS parsers understand.
  • Passed: Dates an ATS can parseEvery role has dates in a standard format, so your years of experience can be calculated.
  • Passed: Most recent role firstRoles are in reverse-chronological order, the order ATS systems and recruiters expect.
  • Passed: Achievements as bullet points10 bullet points, each short enough to scan.
  • Passed: Plain characters onlyNo emoji, icon fonts or special symbols that could turn into gibberish.
  • Passed: Reading orderThe template is a single column underneath. Sidebars are read after the main column, never mixed into it.
  • Passed: Links written out in fullLinks are shown as readable addresses (so ATS systems read them) and are clickable in the PDF.
  • Passed: Length1 page, within the one-to-two pages most recruiters expect.
  • Note: File formatBoth downloads are ATS-readable: the PDF keeps real, selectable text, and the Word file uses real headings and bullet lists.
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