Is the Academic CV resume template ATS-friendly?

Yes. It's a single column of real, selectable text with standard section headings — no tables, text boxes or images — so applicant tracking systems parse it cleanly.

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Academic CV resume template ✓ ATS-safe single column

A free, ATS-friendly academic cv resume template — best for research, academia and PhD applications. It's a clean, single-column, parser-safe layout you can fill with your own details and export to PDF in seconds, no signup. Here's the template with sample content:

Alex Rivera

Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems

alex.rivera@email.com · +1 (555) 018-2431 · linkedin.com/in/alexrivera

Summary

Backend engineer with 5 years building payment and data services at scale. Cut p99 latency 40% and led a 4-person team through a zero-downtime migration.

Experience

Software Engineer · FinPay2021 — Present

Cut checkout p99 latency 40% by adding read-replicas and a caching layer serving 8M requests/day
Led a zero-downtime migration of the ledger service; reconciliation errors dropped to 0.3%
Mentored 2 juniors; introduced trunk-based CI that cut mean PR-to-deploy from 3 days to 4 hours

Junior Developer · Cloudset2019 — 2021

Built REST APIs in Go used by 30+ internal teams
Added contract tests that caught 12 breaking changes before release

Skills

GoPythonPostgreSQLKafkaDockerKubernetesAWS

Education

B.Tech Computer Science

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