Senior Engineer Resume Audit for Length and Signal

Cut a long engineering resume down to its strongest evidence.

Added October 15, 2026. Written with AI assistance and checked for clarity and placeholders; not reviewed by a lawyer, accountant, clinician or other professional. How these prompts are made

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Review my resume as a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience. Resume: [RESUME_TEXT]. Roles I want next (staff, lead, architect): [TARGET_LEVEL]. Page limit I want to meet: [PAGE_LIMIT].

Identify what to cut, merge or shorten: old technologies, duplicated responsibilities, tool lists with no outcomes, and early roles that no longer add signal. Check that scope (team size, systems, scale), decisions and measurable results appear for the last three roles, and that leadership is shown through actions, not adjectives.

Give a keep, trim or drop decision for every section with the reason, a scored rubric from 1 to 10 for seniority signal, specificity and readability, and a rewritten version of the most recent role at the length you recommend. Do not invent numbers; use [ADD NUMBER] where a metric is missing.

Add a review of the technical skills section: group by relevance, remove technologies I no longer use, and show depth for the three that matter most. Suggest how to present open-source work, talks or mentoring without bloating the document, and what to move to a linked page.

Then run a second pass as a hiring manager reading for ninety seconds. State what you remember after reading only the top third, which three accomplishments stood out, and which claims you did not believe. Check that scope grows credibly across roles, that titles match the responsibilities described, and that technology choices are explained by the problem they solved. List the questions you would ask in a screening call and mark any that the resume should answer in advance. Finally, produce a one-page and a two-page version of the document, explain what each leaves out and why, and give a rule for choosing between them depending on whether the job is at a startup, a large company or a consultancy. Keep every fact as I supplied it, and mark anything I should confirm with a former colleague before using it in writing.

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Decisions by section (invented 3-page resume)
Summary: keep, cut from 90 to 45 words; remove "results-driven". 
Experience, last role (2021 to now): keep, add scope: team of 6, service handling 40 million requests a month (confirm).
Experience, roles before 2014: drop to one line each.
Skills: 38 items in a block; trim to the 10 used in the last three roles.
Publications and talks: move to a link.
Scores: seniority signal 6, specificity 4, readability 5.
Rewrite of latest role (2 lines): "Led migration of billing to event-driven services; cut incident pages from 14 to 5 a month over two quarters. [ADD NUMBER] for savings."

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