Garnet resume & CV template
A deep red header band with a round photo, and a red rule under every heading in the tinted rail alongside.
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
- Sans-serif typeface
- Two columns with a tinted rail
- Includes an avatar or photo
- Headings with no 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 Garnet as a CV
Garnet carries a photo, which is what a continental European CV expects alongside the personal details a British one leaves out. For the UK, Ireland or Australia, turn the photo off in Customize — the layout closes up around it and the rest of the page is unchanged.
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 Garnet the right choice?
Who it suits
Anywhere a deep red reads as confident rather than aggressive — creative direction, hospitality, front-of-house roles.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns under a solid band. The band is a fill; the name inside it is real text.
At two pages
The band does not repeat and the rail runs dry, so the second page is noticeably plainer.
Use something else if
Mulberry for a darker take, or Vermillion if you want the red without a sidebar.
Other templates
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