MARCO BELLINI
Chicago, IL · marco.bellini@email.com · (555) 010-2302 · linkedin.com/in/marcobellini

SUMMARY
Backend developer owning services in production. Designs APIs other teams can integrate against, handles the failure cases, and carries the pager for what he ships.

SKILLS
Java / Python · REST & gRPC APIs · Relational databases (PostgreSQL) · Caching (Redis) · Message queues (Kafka) · Cloud platforms (AWS) · CI/CD pipelines · Observability

EXPERIENCE
Backend Developer · Lakeshore Logistics · 2022-Present
• Built a Kafka consumer for shipment events with idempotency and replay; removed a class of duplicate-order bugs.
• Split a monolith module into a gRPC service; reduced p95 checkout latency from 480ms to 210ms.
• Added Redis caching to a hot pricing path; cut database read load 34% at peak.
• On-call for order services; cut mean time-to-mitigate from 40m to 11m with better runbooks and dashboards.
• Added contract tests to service boundaries; caught breaking changes before staging.
• Key project — gRPC service template: published a starter with health checks, tracing, and contract tests other teams reused.

Junior Backend Developer · Lonestar Retail Tech · 2021-2022
• Migrated legacy endpoints to a typed client; reduced null-related production errors.
• Added integration tests to an untested service module.
• Tuned slow queries with indexes and rewrites.
• Added structured logging to aid production triage.
• Documented setup and failure modes for onboarding.
• Key project — Job queue with retries: built a queue with dead-letter handling and documented backoff behavior.

EDUCATION
BS Computer Science · Great Lakes Institute · 2021