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James Carter
Software Engineer
+1 (512) 555-0148
james.carter@email.com
linkedin.com/in/jamescarter
Austin, USA
Summary

Software engineer with 6+ years building reliable, high-scale backend systems. Ships clean, well-tested services and mentors junior engineers.

Experience
Software Engineer · Stripe
2021 - Present
•Designed a payments service handling 8k requests/sec at 99.99% uptime.
•Cut API p95 latency 42% by re-architecting the data layer.
•Mentored 4 engineers and led the migration to gRPC.
Software Developer · Dell
2018 - 2021
•Built internal tooling that saved the team 15 hours/week.
•Reduced build times 60% with an incremental CI pipeline.
Skills
Languages: Go, Python, TypeScript, SQL
Tools: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Postgres, gRPC
Education
BS, Computer Science, UT Austin2014 - 2018
Key Achievements
•Scaled a service to 8k req/sec at 99.99% uptime.
•Cut p95 latency 42% across core APIs.
Certifications
•AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
Languages
English - NativeSpanish - Conversational