by canucker2016 | 2025-05-14 05:16:43+00:00
I'm not going to sugarcoat any of this.

Look at other developer resumes to get an idea of how people are designing their resume. Also view your resume from the viewpoint of the hiring company.

Since you graduated from UofOregon, have you contacted their alumni dept to see if they have any help to get alumni hired? Maybe other UofOregon alumni are hiring?

You have to imagine your resume as a brochure for you as a [insert desired job].

Comments based on Shawn_K_Resume_2025-7.

Github link - one pinned public repo - (4 public repos, 1 of which is AI-generated, so really only 3 public repos by you). Your activity dropped off substantially after 2024 March, only contributions to private repos since 2025 March.

If you put something on your resume, you're calling attention to it. What do you think your GitHub account tells prospective employers? Does that match what you want employers to perceive?

Goals section - remove it from your resume. You want a job - that's why you're applying for the job opening. The company is looking for a person with a certain set of skills (probably not Liam Neeson). Your goals can limit how the company perceives you.

Skills section. I'd say group the skills in appropriate sections - list frontend skills, then backend skills, then soft/personal skills.

You list Laravel framework as a skill, but not PHP? You list Vue and Vuetify. No React experience? see where the market is heading - https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d231...

"SQL & NoSQL". What particular SQL/NoSQL DB's have you used? Postgres? MySQL? sqlite? MongoDB?

In the comments to your post, you've stated that you've learned "30 or whatever" programming languages, but HR people/recruiters have to go through hundreds of resumes, so unless you've ticked all/most required checkmarks, you won't make it past the first cull. Decide on which languages/frameworks to learn and take a few weeks to learn/experience them.

You should list the tech that you used with each project so employers have an idea of the stack you're familiar with compared to their own stack.

Under first listed experience, "Lead Full Stack Engineer - framevr.io":

"Built and maintained maintained GCP infrastructure..."

It seems like you've repeated the word "maintained" again, unless you're trying to say that you "Built and maintained maintained-GCP infrastructure", in which case, the second maintained is redundant.

"Had creative input across the full stack." That sounds weird. How about "Co-designed full stack for project"?

For the second listed experience, "Sr. Full Stack Engineer - CIS.us":

you list "verizon, ATT, Tmobile". Those aren't the actual names that those companies use, "Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile". Is it Cisco and separately Meraki? A web search shows Meraki refer to themselves as Cisco Meraki, https://meraki.cisco.com/ .

Third experience, "Sr. Full Stack Engineer - shawnfromportland.com":

"... and match thousands of patients a day..." should be "... and match thousands of patients each day..." or "...per day..."

Fourth experience, "Web Dev Instructor - Thinkful.com"

"Taught about a dozen students JavaScript and web development fundamentals, one-on-one."

'about a dozen' is vague.

"Taught students JavaScript and web development fundamentals in one-on-one sessions."

Fifth experience, "Web Dev Instructor - Thinkful.com"

"Represented the backend voice of my agency in-person at Nike world HQ meetings."

What? You went to meetings? That's an accomplishment? If yes, explain why it's an accomplishment. I've never heard of attending a meeting for my team as "Represented the XXX voice..."

Hope some of this helps.