Crest resume & CV template
A letterspaced serif name with the title alongside it and a rule beneath, over a hairline-split page.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Backend Engineer, Vantage Pay
Jun 2022 – Present
London, UK
- 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
Backend Engineer, Meridian Health
Sep 2019 – May 2022
Manchester, UK
- 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
BSc, Computer Science, University of Manchester
Sep 2016 – Jun 2019
Manchester, UK
CERTIFICATES
Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CNCF
Feb 2023 – Feb 2023
AWS Solutions Architect — Associate, AWS
Nov 2021 – Nov 2021
What defines this layout
- Serif typeface
- Single column
- No photo
- Headings over a full-width rule
- Dates right-aligned against each role
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 Crest as a CV
Crest works as a British or Australian CV as it stands, where CV and resume name the same two-page document. The second column is the thing to check before sending: copy the text out of the exported PDF and confirm it reads in a sensible order.
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 Crest the right choice?
Who it suits
Serif applications where the title carries as much weight as the name — consultants, specialists, anyone whose role is the pitch.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns with a rule under the header. The inline title extracts alongside the name.
At two pages
Comfortable; the serif face carries it.
Use something else if
Cypress for the sans version, or Argent if the title is less important.
Other templates
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