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  • ✓Engineers with 3+ years and multiple roles to show
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  • ✓Developers who want skills visible without burying experience

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Chloe Barlow
Principal Software Engineer
chloe.barlow@example.com(555) 328-7741github.com/chloebarlowDenver, CO
Skills
Languages: Go · Java · Python · TypeScript · SQL
Systems: Distributed systems · Event streaming (Kafka) · PostgreSQL and DynamoDB · Caching (Redis) · Observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
Infrastructure: AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · CI/CD · Cost management
Leadership: Architecture reviews · Design docs and RFCs · Hiring and mentoring · Incident command
Education
B.S. Computer ScienceColorado State University, 2010 – 2014
Recognition
Speaker, QCon San Francisco 2025: migrating a $2B monolith without a maintenance window
Patent, US 11,xxx,xxx: idempotent ledger posting under partial failure (2020)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional, 2023
Summary

Principal engineer with twelve years building backend platforms for payments and logistics companies. Led the migration of a monolith handling $2 billion a year into 40 services with no customer-facing downtime, cut infrastructure spend 38%, and grew a platform group from 4 to 22 engineers. Writes the design doc first and the on-call runbook before launch.

Experience
Principal Software Engineer03/2021 – Present
Ridgeline Systems · Denver, CO
  • Own the technical direction of the platform group, 22 engineers across 4 teams, for a logistics SaaS with 900 customers
  • Led the monolith-to-services migration of a system processing $2 billion a year with zero customer-facing downtime over 18 months
  • Cut cloud spend 38% ($1.9 million a year) through right-sizing, spot fleets and a storage tiering policy
  • Designed the event backbone (Kafka, 120,000 events a second at peak) that three product teams now build on
  • Run the architecture review board and the engineering ladder; promoted 9 engineers in three years
Staff Software Engineer06/2017 – 02/2021
Skyward Payments · Denver, CO
  • Built the ledger service for a card-issuing platform: 4,000 transactions a second, exactly-once, audited clean four years running
  • Reduced p99 authorization latency from 310 ms to 85 ms by moving hot paths to Go and adding a read-through cache
  • Led the PCI DSS re-architecture that took the cardholder data environment from 60 hosts to 6
  • Mentored 6 engineers; two became tech leads within two years
Software Engineer07/2014 – 05/2017
Boulder Data Labs · Boulder, CO
  • Built ingestion pipelines processing 3 TB a day of sensor data with Spark on AWS
  • Wrote the query service behind the customer dashboard; median response under 200 ms at 50 million rows
  • Introduced continuous deployment; release cadence went from monthly to daily
  • Built the on-call rotation and runbooks for a 6-engineer team; pages a week fell from 30 to 4

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