Your Name
Go Developer
City, Country · email@example.com · linkedin.com/in/yourname · yourportfolio.com
Professional summary
Go (Golang) Developer with 4 years building high-throughput microservices and gRPC APIs for cloud-native platforms. Designed services processing 50K events per second, reduced infrastructure cost by 30% through profiling and concurrency tuning, and runs production workloads on Kubernetes with Prometheus monitoring.
Skills
Go · Goroutines · REST APIs · gRPC · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · Kubernetes · Microservices · Linux · Git · Prometheus
Experience
Senior Go Developer — Company Name
2021 – Present
- Built an event ingestion service in Go handling 50K events/second using goroutines, worker pools, and Kafka.
- Cut p99 latency from 300 ms to 90 ms by profiling with pprof and removing lock contention in a hot path.
- Replaced internal REST calls with gRPC and Protocol Buffers across 8 services, reducing payload size by 60%.
- Deployed services to Kubernetes with Helm and added Prometheus metrics and Grafana alerts, lowering MTTR by 40%.
- Reduced cloud spend by 30% by rewriting a Python batch job in Go with bounded concurrency.
Projects
URL Shortener Service | Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker
- Built a REST API with net/http and the chi router, with Redis caching for hot links.
- Added rate limiting, click analytics, and graceful shutdown with context cancellation.
- Wrote table-driven tests and benchmarks; load-tested at 5K requests/second.