Technical Lead

DO:

• •Highlight architectural decision-making
• •Show microservices migration or scalability projects
• •Include mentoring and team-building
• •Mention collaboration with cross-functional teams

DON'T:

• •List responsibilities without outcomes
• •Ignore code quality or design reviews
• •Overlook leadership responsibilities

DO:

• •Show project impact on millions of users
• •Highlight incident reduction or performance improvements
• •Include CI/CD and automation initiatives
• •Mention agile delivery practices

DON'T:

• •Use generic 'led projects' statements
• •Forget to tie technical delivery to business outcomes
• •Exclude team velocity or sprint results

DO:

• •Include mentoring and coaching outcomes
• •Highlight hiring and onboarding contributions
• •Show 1:1 performance reviews and growth plans
• •Demonstrate cross-functional leadership

DON'T:

• •Forget team ramp-up improvements
• •Ignore career development contributions
• •Focus only on individual coding tasks

Performance Metrics:

• •Reduced API response time by 60%
• •Improved release success rate by 90%
• •Delivered 30% faster incident resolution

Scale Metrics:

• •Led backend team serving 4M+ users
• •Orchestrated scrum ceremonies improving predictability by 25%
• •Architected payment system scaling to 1M transactions/day

Business Metrics:

• •Improved user conversion by 12% via A/B testing
• •Reduced downtime by 80% through service decoupling
• •Optimized infra reducing costs by 20%

Leadership:

Team Mentorship, Technical Strategy, Architecture Reviews, Agile Delivery, Hiring

Technical Skills:

Java, Python, Go, TypeScript, React, Spring Boot, Node.js

Infrastructure:

Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK