Sovereign resume & CV template
A navy rail carrying the contacts and skills with no photo at all. The dark-sidebar look for people who would rather not send one.
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 dark rail
- No 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 Sovereign as a CV
Sovereign 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 Sovereign the right choice?
Who it suits
Everyone who wants the organisation of a dark sidebar and would rather not send a photograph. There are good reasons not to, and this is the template for them.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns with a filled rail. Check the extracted order.
At two pages
The rail runs out before the history does.
Use something else if
Onyx if you change your mind about the photo, or Sydney for the rail on the right.
Other templates
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