Back-End Developer CV Example
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Mason Reed
Senior Back-End Developer
9 years of experience building distributed systems, microservices, and API platforms for financial and logistics organizations.
Experience
Senior Back-End Developer
CoreStream Systems, Full-time
2019-03-01 – Present
Seattle, WA, US
Core API and event-processing scale — Kafka orchestration, PostgreSQL query tuning, and OpenTelemetry observability.
- Scaled core APIs and event processing for enterprise integrations
- Redesigned a payment orchestration service using Kafka and outbox patterns, improving exactly-once processing reliability during peak traffic.
- Optimized PostgreSQL query plans with partial indexes and partitioning, reducing p95 report generation latency from 14s to 2.8s.
- Added OpenTelemetry tracing across Go services, enabling root-cause diagnosis for cross-service timeout chains in under 10 minutes.
Back-End Developer
Harbor Metrics, Full-time
2016-02-01 – 2019-02-01
Chicago, IL, US
Resilient API and data services for logistics — OAuth2 partner auth, async workers, and CI migration safety gates.
- Developed resilient API and data services for logistics clients
- Implemented OAuth2 token exchange and fine-grained scopes for partner APIs, passing SOC 2 security review without remediation findings.
- Built asynchronous document generation workers in Python with Celery and Redis, increasing throughput 4x over synchronous endpoints.
- Introduced schema migration gates in CI with rollback checks, preventing destructive DDL from reaching production databases.
Junior Back-End Developer
Orbit Ledger, Full-time
2013-01-01 – 2016-01-01
Amsterdam, Netherlands
API delivery and backend quality — audit-logging middleware, ERP integration tests, and API documentation.
- Supported API feature delivery and backend quality initiatives
- Implemented audit logging middleware with tenant-aware correlation IDs across Express services.
- Created integration tests for external ERP adapters using WireMock, reducing release regressions in sync workflows.
- Documented internal APIs with AsyncAPI and OpenAPI examples that accelerated onboarding for new engineers.
Education
Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
2013-09-01 – 2017-06-01
Bachelor's-level training in computer engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Completed coursework in Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, capstone projects, and collaborative assignments that prepared for professional roles.
Skills
Certifications
Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE Developer
Oracle
2023-06-01
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS
2022-06-01
Languages
English (Native)
CV writing guide
- Show how your designs handle failure modes, retries, and partial outages.
- Include measurable API reliability and latency improvements.
- Explain data modeling choices and migration safety practices.
- Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE Developer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka