Cirrus resume & CV template
Dates stepped down their own column beside plain headings, with the skills laid out three across. Light and orderly.
SUMMARY
Backend engineer, six years on payments and identity. I like the systems that have to be correct at 3am, and I write the runbook before the incident rather than after it.
EXPERIENCE
Jun 2022 – Present
London, UK
Senior Backend Engineer, Vantage Pay
- Split the checkout monolith into three services, cutting deploys from 40 minutes to under 6
- Brought settlement failures from 2% to under 0.1% by rebuilding the reconciliation job
- Own the on-call rotation for a service handling 40,000 transactions a day
Sep 2019 – May 2022
Manchester, UK
Backend Engineer, Meridian Health
- Built the FHIR integration connecting 14 NHS trusts to a shared records API
- Cut p99 latency on the patient lookup endpoint from 1.9s to 240ms
- Introduced contract testing, ending a class of breakage that had caused 6 outages
EDUCATION
Sep 2016 – Jun 2019
Manchester, UK
BSc, Computer Science, University of Manchester
SKILLS
- Go (Expert)
- PostgreSQL (Expert)
- Kubernetes (Advanced)
- Python (Advanced)
- Distributed systems (Expert)
- Terraform (Advanced)
- gRPC (Advanced)
- Observability (Expert)
LANGUAGES
- English (Native)
- Igbo (Native)
- French (Conversational)
CERTIFICATES
Feb 2023 – Feb 2023
Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CNCF
Nov 2021 – Nov 2021
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate, AWS
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Single column
- No photo
- Headings with no rule
- Dates in their own left column
Every one of these is a setting, not a constraint — accent colour, font, size, spacing and page margins stay yours under Customize, and switching template later re-renders what you’ve written rather than starting it over.
Using Cirrus as a CV
Cirrus needs nothing changed to serve as a UK, Irish or Australian CV — those markets mean by "CV" exactly what the US means by "resume", and this is already that document. Add a photo and personal details only if you are applying into continental Europe.
It sits at a normal density, which lands most histories on the two pages a non-academic CV is expected to fit.
More on the differences: CV templates and CV examples.
Is Cirrus the right choice?
Who it suits
Varied histories with a lot of short roles. The dated column makes the sequence obvious and the three skill columns keep the list from sprawling.
What it does to ATS parsing
Single column. The date column is ordinary text.
At two pages
Strong — the dated left column is what carries a long history.
Use something else if
Signal for a tighter version, or Halyard if you would rather the dates sat on the right.
Other templates
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