Minimal resume template
For people whose content is strong enough to carry the page alone. There is no rule under the headings, no accent colour and no ornament — just a tight grid and a lot of white. It photographs well as a PDF attachment, prints cleanly on any office printer, and it is the safest choice for academic and research applications, where anything decorative reads as unserious.
What it is not good for
With no rules or colour, section boundaries rely entirely on spacing. If your sections are uneven in length, the page can read as one long block.
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.