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Airbnb•
4 years experience
Daniel Park
System Administrator → DevOps Engineer
LandedAirbnb•DevOps Engineer•$175,000 + $60,000 sign-on bonus
64 → 89
Resume Score
1 → 7
Interviews
70 minutes
Time to Improve
Background
Industry
Manufacturing
Experience
4 years
Location
Denver, CO
The Challenge
Before Resume Scorer
Applications35
Interviews1
Interview Rate2.9%
Timeline5 months
Main Pain Points
- Resume focused on manual system administration
- Missing cloud infrastructure experience (AWS/GCP)
- No IaC or automation skills highlighted
- Positioned as maintenance, not engineering
The Solution
1
Technical Stack
Before
Server maintenance, troubleshooting, Active Directory
After
Added Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
Impact
DevOps keyword match increased from 28% to 94%
2
Automation
Before
Managed 200+ servers
After
Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reduced deployment time from 2 days to 20 minutes
Impact
Showed engineering mindset, not admin mindset
3
Projects
Before
Maintained system uptime and backups
After
Built CI/CD pipeline serving 500 deploys/day, implemented monitoring reducing incident response time by 70%
Impact
Demonstrated DevOps best practices and scale
The Results
After Resume Scorer
Applications18
Interviews7
Interview Rate38.9%
Timeframe3 weeks
Interview Rate Increase
+1241%
Increased from 2.9% to 38.9%
Landed Job
Airbnb•DevOps Engineer•$175,000 + $60,000 sign-on bonus
"I was stuck in sysadmin roles because my resume sounded like a caretaker, not an engineer. Resume Scorer helped me highlight my automation work and cloud skills. The difference in interview callbacks was immediate."
— Daniel Park, DevOps Engineer at Airbnb
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