// Backend Engineer
Michael Foster
phone: +1 (404) 555-0157
email: [email protected]
location: Atlanta, GA, USA
website: github.com/michaelfoster
01 · Professional Summary ────────────────────────────────
Backend engineer with 5 years in Go and Node.js, specializing in high-throughput distributed systems and database optimization. Skilled in microservices, message queues and cloud infrastructure. Built systems processing millions of transactions daily with high reliability. Focused on observability, testing and operational quality.02 · Work Experience ────────────────────────────────
Backend Engineer@ DataStream Inc.[Mar 2022 — Present]
- Designed and operated 12 microservices (Go, gRPC) handling 2M orders/day.
- Optimized PostgreSQL and Redis caching, cutting API response time by 65%.
- Built monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, halving incident detection time.
- Introduced an event-driven architecture with Kafka to scale horizontally.
Software Engineer@ Keystone Fintech[2019 — 2022]
- Built payment APIs serving 500,000+ users at a 99.95% SLA.
- Wrote automated tests reaching 85% coverage, reducing regressions 40%.
- Containerized services with Docker and deployed on Kubernetes.
03 · Education ────────────────────────────────
B.S. in Computer Science2015 — 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology · Graduated with Honors · GPA 3.6/4.0
04 · Skills ────────────────────────────────
Languages:
Go, TypeScript, Python, SQL, Rust
Stack:
gRPC, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL
Infrastructure:
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI
05 · Projects ────────────────────────────────
Order Routing Platform2023
Real-time order dispatch optimizing routes, cutting shipping cost by 18%.
06 · Certifications ────────────────────────────────
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate · Amazon Web Services2024
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) · CNCF2023