Windward resume & CV template
A navy rail carrying the photo and the details, with the skills run together on one line opposite.
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
- 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 Windward as a CV
Windward 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 is set tight, which helps on the two-page limit most non-academic CVs are read against.
More on the differences: CV templates and CV examples.
Is Windward the right choice?
Who it suits
Dark-rail pages that need to stay short. Skills on a single line save more room than any other setting available.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns with a filled rail. The inline skills extract as one run.
At two pages
The rail empties, but the inline skills help you avoid needing a second page.
Use something else if
Fjord for a listed version, or Sovereign if you would rather not include a photo.
Other templates
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