Resume template · Updated October 2026
Engineering manager resume template
Short answer
Catalyst fits an engineering manager whose current team is the case for the next job: it opens on work experience and prints no summary, so headcount, hires, promotions and delivery results are read first. The fictional sample manages 11 engineers in two teams at a Raleigh freight software company after eight years as a software engineer and tech lead, with change lead time cut from about six days to under one and on-call pages down by two thirds.
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Why Catalyst suits an engineering manager resume
Catalyst starts with work experience under a large left-aligned name and leaves the summary out, which suits a manager whose latest role (team size, hiring, delivery) carries the application. The headline under the name states the scope, and the teal headings over full-width rules keep people results and delivery results easy to find.
Second choice: Leslie. Leslie also puts experience ahead of skills but keeps a summary, useful for a first-time manager who needs two sentences to explain a tech lead background.
What goes in each section, in Catalyst's order
Catalyst prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Work Experience. Open the current job with the shape of the team: engineers, direct reports, how many teams and what they own. Then split the bullets between people results (hires, promotions, retention) and delivery results (lead time, incidents, a shipped product). Keep one bullet showing a technical decision you made or reviewed.
- Skills. Put management practice on the Technical row (hiring, performance reviews, planning, incident management) and the stack your teams run on the Tools row. Hiring managers for hands-on roles look for the languages and cloud platform, so list them even if you rarely write production code now.
- Education. One line per degree. Catalyst prints education low on the page, which suits a manager whose degree is a decade behind the work; a bootcamp or a degree outside computing needs no explanation here.
- Leadership beyond the team. A short Leadership beyond the team list for work that crossed team lines: a career ladder, interviewer training, an incident commander rotation. It shows readiness for wider scope without padding the job bullets.
The sample resume as text
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Adrian Velasquez
Engineering Manager, Route Planning and Driver App (11 engineers, 2 teams)
Raleigh, NC | adrian.velasquez@example.com | (919) 555-0147 | linkedin.com/in/sample-adrian-velasquez | github.com/sample-adrian-velasquez
Experience
Engineering Manager, Tidewater Freight Software, Raleigh, NC (04/2022 to Present)
- Manage 11 engineers in two teams that own the route planning API and the driver mobile app; hired 5 of them and had each one ship a production change within two weeks of starting.
- Cut median change lead time from about six days to under one by moving both teams to trunk-based development, feature flags and separate service deploys.
- Reduced on-call pages from about 30 a week to 10 by funding alert cleanup and one reliability sprint per quarter.
- Planned and shipped live shipment tracking with product and design over two quarters; about 40% of shipper accounts now use it.
- Promoted three engineers (two to senior, one to staff) through the company calibration process, with one voluntary departure from the teams in two years.
Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead, Piedmont Parcel Systems, Durham, NC (06/2014 to 03/2022)
- Led a five-person team building the carrier rate engine in Go and PostgreSQL.
- Designed a rate cache that brought peak quote response times from about 900 ms to 180 ms.
- Mentored four junior engineers and ran the team interview loop, including a rewrite of the take-home exercise.
Leadership beyond the team
- Co-wrote the engineering career ladder now used for about 60 engineers.
- Trained 14 new interviewers to run structured system design interviews.
- Incident commander in the company-wide rotation since 2023.
Education
BS, Computer Science, Neuse River University (05/2014)
Skills
Hiring and interview design, Performance reviews and promotions, Quarterly planning, Incident management, System design reviews, Service ownership and on-call, Go, TypeScript, React Native, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, LaunchDarkly, Datadog, Jira, One-on-one coaching, Planning with product and design, Clear written updates
How to make the sample yours
State the team in numbers
Engineers, direct reports, number of teams, the product areas they own and whether you report to a director or straight to the CTO. A reader compares scope before reading results.
Balance people and delivery
Aim for two or three bullets of each. A page of shipped features reads like a tech lead; a page of one-on-ones and career talks reads like HR. Engineering managers are hired for both.
Quote the delivery metrics you tracked
DORA describes five software delivery metrics: change lead time, deployment frequency, failed deployment recovery time, change fail rate and deployment rework rate. Use only the ones your teams measured, with a before and after for a named service.
First manager job after tech lead
Show the management work you already did: interviews, onboarding, mentoring, running a quarterly plan. Keep your real title on the old job and let the bullets carry the argument.
Say how hands-on you are
Some postings want a manager who still codes or takes on-call, others want pure people leadership. One phrase in the headline or first bullet (reviews designs, carries a pager, writes no production code) helps the reader place you.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- engineering management
- people management
- technical leadership
- hiring and onboarding
- performance management
- career development
- one-on-ones
- sprint planning
- roadmap planning
- cross-functional collaboration
- DORA metrics
- incident management
- on-call
- system design reviews
- mentoring
Mistakes to avoid
- Velocity or story points as results: they do not compare across teams and an outside reader cannot check them.
- Details of a performance plan, a dismissal or the personal situation of someone you manage, even with the name removed.
- Claiming every feature the team shipped as your own; say what you decided, unblocked or staffed.
- A skills list of twenty languages from your engineering years and nothing about how you manage.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
Frequently asked questions
How technical should an engineering manager resume be?
Technical enough to show you can judge designs and run an incident: the stack on the skills rows and one or two bullets about architecture or reliability calls. The rest should cover the team and what it delivered.
How do I show management experience if my title was tech lead?
List the management work under the tech lead job: people you interviewed and onboarded, engineers you mentored, plans you ran with product. Keep the real title; the bullets make the case.
Which metrics belong on an engineering manager resume?
Delivery measures your team actually tracked (lead time, deployment frequency, change fail rate, recovery time), reliability numbers such as pages or incidents, and people numbers: hires, promotions, retention. Give a before and after and name the service.
Should I list programming languages as an engineering manager?
Yes, the ones your teams use and you can still follow in a code review. Drop languages you have not touched in years.
Is one page enough for an engineering manager?
For one or two manager roles, usually. With a long engineering career before it, shrink the older jobs to a line or two each rather than adding a second page.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Catalyst PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 4 section headings and all 8 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
Guides and templates for this resume
Sources, checked 29 October 2026
We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.
- DORA: DORA software delivery performance metrics (five metrics: change lead time, deployment frequency and failed deployment recovery time (throughput); change fail rate and deployment rework rate (instability); meant to be applied per application or service)
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