Technical writer resume template

FAANGPath was made for technical candidates who want their tools read before their jobs, and technical writing postings increasingly screen on exactly that: docs-as-code, Git, an API description format, a static site generator. The centred black and grey layout with full-width heading rules looks like good documentation: plain and easy to scan.

Second choice: Meridian. Meridian keeps the same skills-first order with grey rules running beside each heading; it suits writers of end-user help where tooling matters less.

FAANGPath template details and test results

FAANGPath 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.

1. Professional Summary. Your audience (developers, administrators, end users, regulated operators) and your doc types (API reference, guides, release notes, help centre). Then the workflow: docs-as-code, a component content system or a help authoring tool.
2. Skills. Technical rows hold writing and structure skills (API documentation, information architecture, single-sourcing, OpenAPI); Tools holds Git, the site generator, linters and authoring tools. If you can read code or run curl and Postman calls, say at what level.
3. Work Experience. Measure documentation the way product teams do: support tickets, time to first API call, search success, docs released with the feature. Give the size of the doc set and its readers, and keep one bullet on how you work with engineers.
4. Projects. An open-source docs contribution or a public writing sample gives a hiring manager something to read when your work docs sit behind a login. Note that it was merged or adopted.
5. Education. Any degree; English, communications, engineering and science are all common routes. A technical communication certificate can sit on its own line here.

The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.

Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.

• technical writing
• API documentation
• developer documentation
• docs-as-code
• OpenAPI
• Markdown
• Git
• information architecture
• release notes
• style guides
• MadCap Flare
• single-sourcing
• user guides
• content strategy

• Describing documents you produced without saying who reads them or what changed after you wrote them.
• Listing programming languages you cannot read. "Reads Python and JavaScript samples" is honest; "Python, Java, Go, C++" invites questions you cannot answer.
• Leaving out the review process. Hiring managers want to know your docs are checked for accuracy, and by whom.
• Sending only marketing or blog samples when the job is reference material and procedures.

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.

• Writer Resume Example and Writing Guide (Freelance and Staff)
• Software engineer resume
• Technical Skills for a Resume: What Counts and How to List Them
• Editor resume template
• Content writer resume template
• FAANGPath resume template

We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.

1. Google for Developers: Google developer documentation style guide (exact name; editorial guidelines for clear, consistent technical documentation for software developers and other technical practitioners)