Editorial resume template
A magazine serif — Merriweather — with generous leading, which gives the page the rhythm of print rather than of a form. Its headings are set at deliberately tight tracking, because bold uppercase Merriweather split into one run per character at the tracking this style usually invites, and a heading that extracts one letter at a time is a heading no parser will ever match. It suits writers, editors, marketers, academics and anyone whose work is language.
What it is not good for
Generous leading is expensive. This is one of the least dense templates here, so a long history will need the compact setting or a second page — and it is a serif, which some engineering and design readers find dated.
What an ATS extracts from it
Below are the first lines of page one, taken from a real render of our sample resume in this template and extracted with pdfjs on . Line breaks are the extractor’s.
Priya Raghunathan
Senior Backend Engineer
[email protected] | +1 (415) 555-0142 | San Francisco, CA, USA
| linkedin.com/in/priyaraghunathan | github.com/praghunathan
SUMMARY
Backend engineer with eight years building payment and identity systems at scale. Led the migration of a
monolithic billing service to event-driven microservices serving 40M requests a day. Comfortable owning a
system end to end, from schema design through on-call.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Backend Engineer Mar 2022 - Present
Northwind Payments San Francisco, CA
Led the decomposition of a 400k-line billing monolith into eight event-driven services, cutting median deploy
time from 45 minutes to under 4.
Designed an idempotent ledger write path that eliminated double-charge incidents entirely across 40M daily
requests.
Cut p99 checkout latency by roughly 35% by replacing synchronous fraud checks with a queued scoring
pipeline .
Mentored four engineers and ran the team's on-call rotation and incident review process.
…Its score on our own rubric
Our sample resume, rendered in this template at normal density, scores 92 out of 100. The deductions that remain are properties of the sample’s writing, not of the template — which is the point of showing it: the layout is not what is costing points.
| Category | Scored |
|---|---|
| Contact completeness | 12 / 12 |
| Parseability | 20 / 20 |
| Section structure | 12 / 12 |
| Dates | 10 / 10 |
| Bullet quality | 15 / 16 |
| Quantification | 10 / 12 |
| Skills coverage | 6 / 8 |
| Length & density | 7 / 10 |
How each category is weighted and what loses it.
Length at each density
The same sample resume, in this template, at the three spacing settings the editor offers:
- Compact: 2 pages
- Normal: 2 pages
- Roomy: 2 pages
Your own resume will differ — this is one document measured in eight templates so the comparison between them means something.