The greatest resume I've ever seen

  • (2021), site is now offline: https://dsresume.com/

    Snapshot (Sept 30, 2021): https://web.archive.org/web/20210930190513/https://dsresume....

  • This is the greatest resume I've ever seen[1]! I'd hire this guy in an instant.

    [1] https://townsquare.media/site/393/files/2013/09/Redmon-Resum...

  • I TOTALLY thought this was going to be an article about Major Hayden's resume:

    Resume as a man page: https://majorhayden.com/

  • I always thought a smoke test related to “where there is smoke there is fire”. Like “where there is an API response, there must be a functioning API server”.

    Is that wrong? I am of course aware you can use smoke to track an air current, but is that the meaning of the phrase?

  • Its a good primer on getting into DevOps, but in today's market you need a lot more experience than this book can give you, especially following all the layoffs.

  • The resume that stands out in my mind was the famous Candy Bar Resume. It wouldn't work in the tech field but (I thought it was) brilliant in the marketing/business field:

    https://www.cnbc.com/id/100482311

    Direct link to image:

    https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/files/20...

  • A good infrastructure guy can translate problem solving and troubleshooting techniques from one domain to the other.

    We're natural general intelligence, remember that part?

  • 2021, so not obvious then, but I wonder when he'll switch back because pay for plumbers is higher than that in IT.

    Plumbing will likely eventually mostly get replaced by robots, but almost certainly they will hold on longer than most IT professionals.