Resume Curator

Stop sending the same resume into different filters.

Paste the job. See how you really fit. Approve every strategic change. Walk into interviews with a resume you can defend.

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How well do you fit this role?

Your platform engineering background maps to 78% of must-haves. One gap: product discovery ownership.

Stretch fit
Strong
Stretch
Reach
Your backgroundPlatform / infra IC
→
This roleStaff product-minded engineer
Our plan to present you

Lead with scale and reliability wins; bridge discovery with a synthetic 0→1 initiative you approve.

Archetype matchPositioning planDefensible angles
The frustration

You keep applying with a master resume. ATS scores you low. Recruiters skim for ten seconds and move on—even when you're qualified.

The fix

Curator decodes the JD, runs a fit check, proposes strategic interventions, and builds a role-specific resume you approve line by line.

Fit firstStrong, stretch, or reach—before you rewrite
You approveEvery intervention is yours to accept or reject
JD-nativeBullets in the language the posting uses

Know stretch vs mismatch before you invest an hour rewriting

The fit check compares your background archetype to what the role actually wants—so you know whether to reframe, bridge gaps, or build net-new projects in the target domain.

Archetype matchPositioning planDefensible angles
forwarddeployed.app / curator

How well do you fit this role?

Your platform engineering background maps to 78% of must-haves. One gap: product discovery ownership.

Stretch fit
Strong
Stretch
Reach
Your backgroundPlatform / infra IC
→
This roleStaff product-minded engineer
Our plan to present you

Lead with scale and reliability wins; bridge discovery with a synthetic 0→1 initiative you approve.

Archetype matchPositioning plan

Strategic interventions—not blind AI rewrites

Each gap becomes a complete bullet with rationale. Pick between options. Nothing ships until you approve it.

Synthetic projectsMultiple optionsInterview-defensible
Synthetic projectApproved

Launched internal developer portal reducing deploy lead time 40% and onboarding time from 3 days to 4 hours across 6 teams.

Covers JD requirement: developer experience & platform ownership

Bridge gapReview

Ran quarterly discovery with 12 PM partners; prioritized roadmap from support tickets and SLO breaches—shipped 4 features adopted by 80% of eng.

Addresses weak signal: product discovery

QuantifyApproved

Owned multi-region failover drill cutting RTO from 45m to 8m; zero customer-facing incidents during 3 production migrations.

Strengthens reliability competency in posting

Synthetic projectsMultiple options

Export when it reads like you—on a good day

Curated preview, ATS lens per role, PDF and DOCX export. Same experience, impossible to overlook.

Role lensPDF & DOCXStudy pack ready
Roles
Senior Platform EngineerATS 89
Tech Lead — Infra
Staff Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

PDFDOCX
  • Built multi-region control plane serving 2.1B daily events with 99.97% SLO—cut incident MTTR 35% via automated runbooks.
  • Led developer portal initiative adopted by 240+ engineers; deploy frequency +40%, lead time −62%.
  • Partnered with PM org on discovery cadence; shipped 4 roadmap items tied to revenue-impacting outages.
Role lensPDF & DOCX

Candidates who used Resume Curator

Internal AI delivery, healthcare

“My hospital had fourteen AI use cases approved and nobody who could get any of them past legal. I came back from the seminar and ran the intake interview myself. We scoped one use case in a week — same framework, same Studio — and got to architecture review in three weeks.”

Anita R.Operations Director, Regional Health System
Non-engineer writing architecture PRDs

“I thought this was too technical for me. The Studio walked me through every decision — which AI category to pick, why, what the architecture needs to handle. I wrote a PRD with guardrail sections that my CTO called the most rigorous AI document he'd seen from a non-engineer.”

Elena R.Data Analyst, Insurance

Representative stories for marketing—not independent verified reviews.

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How AI Evaluates Your Resume Fit

AI fit scoring compares your resume to a target job description using semantic matching—not a simple keyword count. The Curator extracts must-have requirements from the posting, maps each to evidence in your bullets, and flags gaps where proof is missing. Structural ATS compatibility (headings, layout, parseability) is scored separately from content alignment. Strategic interventions are ranked by impact: critical gaps first, then domain-language reframes you can defend in an interview. You approve every change before export so the final resume stays honest and interview-ready.

Strategic Resume Review

A strategic resume review focuses on the posting that matters right now—not a generic master PDF. Forward Deployed decodes what the role actually tests, surfaces the highest-impact edits, and lets you skip cosmetic changes that will not move the fit score. Each approved intervention updates your ATS preview in real time so you can see movement before paying for export. Pair the curated resume with a study pack and voice mock for the same job so your interview prep matches what you claim on paper.

ATS Friendly Resume Optimizer

An ATS friendly resume optimizer analyzes your document against specific job descriptions to uncover semantic gaps. Modern Applicant Tracking Systems compare meaning, not just exact keywords. By tailoring your bullet points to match the language used by recruiters, an ATS optimizer ensures your qualifications are accurately parsed and scored. Forward Deployed's Curator automatically highlights missing requirements and formatting errors, enabling you to build a highly targeted resume that bypasses automated filters and reaches hiring managers directly.

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