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Live resume app
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
CAREER PROJECT · Intermediate · 2 weekends
AWS Cloud Resume Application
Turn a resume into a full cloud application with frontend hosting, API, database and CI/CD.
S3CloudFrontLambdaDynamoDBCI/CD
DEFINITION OF DONE
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Architecture diagram
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API counter
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Pipeline
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Cost notes
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
Describe what you actually did.
Built a cloud-hosted resume application combining CDN delivery, serverless API, database persistence and CI/CD.
Use this as a starting structure, then replace it with your real implementation details, metrics and constraints. Do not claim outcomes you did not measure.
STRETCH GOALS
Go deeper if the core is already solid.
Custom domain
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.
IaC
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Monitoring
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