Senior Engineer
Staff Software Engineer · 2019–2024
Led architecture of distributed event
streaming platform handling 2M+ events/s
Reduced p99 latency by 340ms through…
12 direct reports, 3 teams across…
Product Manager
Principal PM · Fintech · 2021–present
Shipped checkout redesign → $4.2M ARR lift
Defined 0→1 B2B product strategy for…
Managed roadmap across 6 engineering…
NPS improved 28 points in Q3 2023
Data Scientist
ML Engineer · Series B · 2022–2024
Built fraud detection model: 94.2% recall
Reduced false positives by 67% vs baseline
Python, PyTorch, Spark, Databricks
Patent pending: real-time anomaly…
Engineering Lead
Tech Lead Manager · FAANG · 2020–2023
Designed microservices migration: 40%
infra cost reduction on $12M spend
Mentored 8 engineers to senior level
On-call SLA: 99.97% uptime maintained
Designer → PM
Senior PM · SaaS · 2023–present
Transitioned from IC design to product
Launched 3 features: 1.2M MAU total
Figma → Jira → Shipped in 6 weeks
Stakeholder alignment across 4 orgs
Digital Atelier · Opening 2026

A private studio for senior engineers, PMs, and data scientists who refuse to let five years of exceptional work disappear into a recruiter's trash folder.

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The Manifesto
01

Recruiters spend six seconds on your resume.

We spend six hours.

The average technical recruiter spends 6.2 seconds deciding whether you exist. That window isn't cruelty — it's arithmetic. Three hundred applications. One afternoon. Your ten years of distributed systems work rendered invisible by a margins problem. Craft treats those six seconds as the design brief it actually is.

Recruiter Attention Span
6seconds
Name & title95%
Current role82%
Education60%
Everything else18%
02

ATS didn't reject you. Your formatting did.

Machines read before humans do.

Seventy-five percent of resumes never reach a human eye. Not because the candidate was underqualified — because a table, a text box, or a non-standard font confused a parser that was built to process 1997-era documents. We know which patterns fail. We've mapped every major applicant tracking system. Your accomplishments will survive the filter.

Resume Survival Rate
300
Submitted
75
Passed ATS
12
Human review
3
Interview

75% of resumes never reach a human reviewer. Craft engineers for both audiences.

03

Impact is not a list of technologies.

Shipped ≠ Built. Built ≠ Mattered.

You led the migration. You built the pipeline. You reduced the latency. But the resume says "worked on infrastructure initiatives using Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS." That sentence describes activity. Hiring managers at the companies you want are reading for consequence — the before, the after, the delta that proves you were the reason.

Impact Transformation
Before

“Worked on infrastructure initiatives using Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS to improve system performance.”

After Craft

“Migrated 40-service monolith to Kubernetes on AWS, cutting infra spend 38% ($2.1M/yr) while improving p99 latency from 420ms to 85ms across 200M daily requests.”

04

One page is a constraint, not a limitation.

Every pixel must earn its rent.

Constraints are the medium. A novelist doesn't apologize for having only 26 letters. The limitation of a single page forces exactly the editorial discipline that makes a resume devastating — ruthless prioritization, surgical word choice, whitespace as punctuation. We don't ask what to include. We ask what must stay.

Page Real Estate Audit
Redundant responsibilities 34%
Wasted whitespace 22%
Generic skills lists 18%
Quantified impact 26%

Average resume wastes 74% of available space on unverifiable claims.

The Craft Process

Six hours of deliberate attention for six seconds of decisive impact.

We don't use templates. We don't use AI to write your bullets. Every engagement is a collaboration between your expertise and our editorial precision — the same rigor a book editor brings to a manuscript.

Not a template service

Every document is built from scratch. Every engagement is singular.

We take on a limited number of clients each month. Not because of capacity — because quality requires scarcity. You get a dedicated writer with direct experience in your domain.

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01Intake
45 min

A structured interview — not a form. We excavate the work you minimized, the systems you actually built, the leadership you never claimed.

Async voice notes + async written responses. No calendar games.

02Archaeology
2 hrs

We reconstruct impact from raw material: PRs, post-mortems, Slack threads, performance reviews. The numbers are in there.

Proprietary impact framework for technical roles.

03Architecture
2 hrs

Every word earns its position. Verb selection, metric precision, white space as hierarchy. This is where the resume becomes a document.

ATS-optimized structure. Role-specific keyword mapping.

04Iteration
1 hr

Two revision rounds. We argue about sentences. The goal is a document you can defend in any interview room.

48hr turnaround on revisions.

6 hrs
Average engagement depth
vs. 45 min industry average
94%
Interview conversion rate
within first 30 applications
3.2×
Median offer improvement
total comp, first 6 months
48 hr
Turnaround guarantee
or your next revision is free
Outcomes

The document changed. Then the conversations changed.

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I'd been sending applications for four months. Same resume, no responses. After Craft, I had three onsite interviews within two weeks — FAANG, growth-stage, and a Series B. The document finally matched the work I'd actually done.
M.R.
Staff Engineer → Principal
Infrastructure · NYC
3 onsites in 14 days
The writer pushed back on every bullet I thought was strong. Not in a dismissive way — they kept asking 'what was the before?' and 'what happened because of you?' By the end I understood my own impact better than I did going in.
P.K.
Senior PM → Director · FinTech · San Francisco
$40K comp increase
Bootcamp grad, 18 months of experience, applying to mid-level roles. I was convinced I'd need to lie or exaggerate. Craft found real accomplishments I'd dismissed as 'just doing my job' and made them defensible, specific, and compelling.
A.S.
Junior → Mid-level Engineer · SaaS · Remote
Landed first mid-level role
Five years of ML research and I couldn't explain it to a non-technical hiring manager. The Craft writer had an ML background. They didn't dumb it down — they translated it. Now I can speak about my work in any room.
D.L.
ML Researcher → Applied ML Lead
AI Lab → Big Tech
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