Freelance contractor jobs are the way to go. Easy for people to sack you (...or just not renew) so a lower risk for them. They're typically in a hurry too, so might not be too concerned about long winded interview processes
Perhaps also broaden horizons to typescript and (pains me to say this) react.
Good luck.
Edit: just looked at your resume. It is a bit ... fruity - might be worth sticking to something straight-laced and focusing specifically on skillset until you are out of the danger zone.
I've been focusing on freelancing and contractor gigs, and unfortunately two of them were the ones that I got bit on. I'm still digging, though.
Thanks for the feedback. It's a bit strong, indeed; I've just used the format for so long (normally with great success — even tested it at some point prior to this incident happening) that I hadn't considered the pollution until you brought it up. I'll trim it moving forward.
If I were you I would start from scratch entirely. One page, focusing only on your experience. Nobody cares you've written HTML for 20+ years, and people _definitely_ don't care what your favorite bird is. Take out every single thing that isn't your education and your past job experience. MAYBE keep the projects.
I realize this is harsh, but I'd rather not sugarcoat. Your resume, by area, is like 75% crap and 25% really genuinely good experience. I would take that 25% and stretch it out as much as you can.
>Saved the company more than $600,000 by optimizing infrastructure costs.
Wait, what? Expand on that, my brother! That's a huge win which one should be proud of, I think that could easily be two bullet points. "Optimizing infrastructure costs" is very weak - did you move to a different cloud provider?
I don't doubt you're a strong engineer, I think if you fix the resume you'll get callbacks almost immediately.
Callbacks haven't been an issue and this resume has historically served me well. I've made edits to it, though, based on yours and other suggestions. I appreciate it.
ChatGPT is amazing for neurodivergent folk. When I was applying for jobs this summer, I just word vomited a stream of consciousness professional biography into a text document. I then used this as context for chatgpt to help me write cover letters and resumes. If you want to be especially clever you can also include the job posting. Just be very careful to change up some of the language otherwise it’ll smell like AI.
Interesting that you've had good calls from that resume. - And it might still be that it's interesting at one level, and then kills the job offer once a higher-up needs to approve it.
Perhaps also broaden horizons to typescript and (pains me to say this) react.
Good luck.
Edit: just looked at your resume. It is a bit ... fruity - might be worth sticking to something straight-laced and focusing specifically on skillset until you are out of the danger zone.