🥇 The best resume for Data Engineers

Data Engineer Resume Example & Tips in 2025

Create a professional Data Engineer resume with our AI-powered resume builder.

247 reviews (4.8 out of 5)

John Doe

Summary

  • Results-driven Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing scalable data pipelines and warehousing solutions. Expertise in building ETL processes, optimizing database performance, and developing data infrastructure. Successfully processed 10PB+ of data while reducing processing time by 60%. Strong background in cloud platforms and distributed systems.

Experience

  • Senior Data Engineer

    Snowflake

    June 2021 - Present, San Francisco, CA

    • Lead development of real-time data processing platform handling 5TB+ daily

    • Architected data warehouse solution reducing query latency by 75%

    • Implemented data quality framework decreasing errors by 90%

    • Mentor 3 junior engineers and contribute to technical design decisions

  • Data Engineer

    Databricks

    March 2019 - May 2021, San Francisco, CA

    • Built and maintained ETL pipelines processing 2PB+ of data monthly

    • Optimized Spark jobs reducing processing costs by 40%

    • Developed automated data validation system

    • Collaborated with data science team to implement ML pipelines

  • Software Engineer

    MongoDB

    June 2017 - February 2019, New York, NY

    • Developed data ingestion and transformation services

    • Improved database performance through query optimization

    • Created monitoring dashboards for data pipeline health

    • Contributed to open-source data tools and documentation

Education

  • Master of Science in Computer Science

    University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA • August 2015 - May 2017 • 3.9 GPA

    • Specialization in Data Systems

    • Research Assistant in Database Lab

    • Published paper on distributed data processing

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

    Minor in Mathematics • Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, GA • September 2011 - May 2015 • 3.8 GPA

    • Magna Cum Laude

    • Data Science Club President

    • Undergraduate Research in Big Data Analytics

Certifications

  • Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

    Google Cloud • 2025

    • Expert level certification in data engineering on GCP.

  • AWS Certified Data Analytics

    Amazon Web Services • 2024

    • Specialization in big data and analytics solutions.

  • Databricks Certified Associate Developer

    Databricks • 2024

    • Expertise in Apache Spark and Delta Lake.

Involvement

  • Technical Writer

    Towards Data Science • January 2021 - Present

    • Author articles on data engineering best practices

    • Reach 50K+ monthly readers with technical content

  • Speaker

    Data Engineering Conferences • June 2020 - Present

    • Present at major data conferences on scalable architectures

    • Lead workshops on modern data engineering practices

Details

john.doe@gmail.com+1 650 555 7890
San Francisco, California, USA
in/johndoe/

Skills

  • Python/SQL

  • Apache Spark

  • AWS/GCP

  • Airflow

  • Data Modeling

  • ETL Pipeline

  • Kafka

  • Data Warehousing

Our resumes are created and reviewed by 120+ recruiters from 90+ companies

What happens when Data Engineers use this resume?

Data Engineers have used this resume
91
Got a job interview within a week of using Rezifine
75
Received a job offer within 3 weeks
62

*Based on a user survey from Feb 14, 2025