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Technical resume template

Technical puts your stack where engineering managers look first: a tinted sidebar of languages, tools and certifications, beside a dense column of projects and impact. It fits a lot on one page without feeling cramped.

Best for
Engineering, data, IT
Layout
Two columns, tinted skills sidebar
Type
Sans-serif, accent color adjustable
ATS
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Why it works

What Technical does well

  • Skills at a glance

    Hiring managers scan for the stack first. The sidebar answers “does this person know Go and Kubernetes?” in two seconds.

  • Dense by design

    Tighter spacing in the main column leaves room for the project detail technical roles need.

  • Groups your tools

    Skill groups (languages, frameworks, cloud, data) make a long list easy to read instead of a wall of keywords.

A good fit for
  • Software engineers
  • Data analysts and scientists
  • DevOps and SRE
  • IT and systems administrators
  • QA engineers

Is Technical ATS-friendly?

A two-column layout. Most modern applicant tracking systems read it correctly, and NovaCV outputs it as real text in a sensible order, but some older systems can mix the columns together. For big-company or government portals, Minimal ATS or Aurora is the safer choice.

Tips for writing in Technical

  • Group skills by type and list the ones in the job post first.
  • Put metrics in your bullets: latency, uptime, cost, users, deploy frequency.
  • Link your GitHub or portfolio in the header, and make sure what’s pinned there is recent.

Before you send it, run it through the ATS resume checker, and tailor it to the job description you’re applying for.

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