Notes on technology, careers, and the tools I build.
You have the interview next week. You have not put a single answer into words. Reading notes is not rehearsal.
Generic resumes lose to per-role requirements. Tailoring done right reframes your real evidence around what the role wants. It invents nothing.
It looks like your finished resume. It is a thin summary that drops your endorsements, your Featured work, and half your skills. Then people feed it to an AI tool.
I asked this on hiring panels for a decade. It is not a trap. It tests one thing. Here is what sank candidates and what made me lean forward.
I read stacks of resumes from the hiring chair for a decade. The ATS is not the gatekeeper you fear. A tired human deciding in seconds is. Build for that person.
I ran interview panels for years. Then I forgot how to be the candidate. Here is the prep system I built to get sharp again, and the honest role AI plays in it.
I hired solution engineers for a decade. Then I became the candidate. Here is what these tools fix, what they miss, and how to use one without fooling yourself.