Topaz resume & CV template
A gold serif name with a round photo, headings ruled top and bottom, and the dates in their own column.
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
- Serif typeface
- Single column
- Includes an avatar or photo
- Headings over a full-width 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 Topaz as a CV
Topaz 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 Topaz the right choice?
Who it suits
Traditional serif applications with a photo and a long, dated history. The ruled headings hold it all together.
What it does to ATS parsing
Single column with rules above and below each heading. Very safe.
At two pages
Excellent — the ruled headings and the date column both carry across the break.
Use something else if
Rome for numbered headings instead, or Chiffon for a lighter version.
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