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.
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.