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Best CV

The dossier that reaches the table.

Not a pretty template. The document that survives Workday, a committee, and a printer. Import what you have, sharpen the tone, score the fit, emit LaTeX or PDF.

The document

Best CVCompiled via XeLaTeX · AltaCV

Alexandra Vance

Chief Technology Officer / VP of Engineering

London · Zurich · direct@avance.io

Executive summary

Technology executive, 14 years directing high-availability platforms and organisations of 90+ engineers. Capital efficiency, SOC-2 governance, 35% reduction in cloud spend.

Selected leadership

VP of Engineering · Global Systems · 2021 — Present

Architected a multi-region cloud migration: 99.995% SLA and $1.8M recurring annual savings.

Scaled engineering from 25 to 90 with 94% retention.

Director of Platform · Northwind · 2017 — 2021

Collapsed 11 critical services onto a single observability plane; cut incident time-to-diagnose by half.

Education

MSc Computer Science · ETH Zürich

Competence

Distributed systems · Multi-m$ P&L · Enterprise AI · SOC-2 / ISO 27001

Magic Wand

The same fact. Different authority.

It does not invent titles or numbers. It rewrites the bullet with an impact verb, a metric, and an owner — the tone a committee does not skip.

How it usually arrives

Responsible for leading cross-functional teams and passionate about technological innovation in fast-changing environments.

After Magic Wand

Led a multi-region cloud migration for 90 engineers: 99.995% SLA and $1.8M in recurring annual savings.

ATS audit

What the parser indexes. What the committee reads.

Linear structure, heading hierarchy, and keywords from the posting. The score is not decoration: it is the difference between the table and dying in Taleo.

Alexandra Vance

Architected a multi-region cloud migration: 99.995% SLA and $1.8M recurring annual savings.

Scaled engineering from 25 to 90 with 94% retention.

Workday extract
Name
Vance, Alexandra
Title
CTO / VP Engineering
Dates
2017 — Present
Tokens
SLA · SOC-2 · P&L · multi-region
Hierarchy
Intact · 0 parse errors

Emission

It leaves the printer the way it left the compiler.

AltaCV or ModernCV in XeLaTeX, editable .tex, or vector PDF. No broken columns. No stray bullet shoved onto page 3.

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{altacv}
\name{Vance}
\tagline{VP of Engineering}
\cvsection{Leadership}
  • AltaCVXeLaTeX · two-column executive
  • ModernCVXeLaTeX · classic academic
  • PDFVector · print-grade
  • .texSource you can keep

Who it’s for

Anyone who cannot afford a template résumé.

Leadership, architecture, consulting, bilingual pipelines. If you already have a Word or PDF, start there. Guest to explore; account to save.

  • C-suite and board candidates who need a quiet page, not a banner.
  • Senior engineers who want LaTeX precision and measurable system impact.
  • Consultants who must show governance, budget, and ROI in one leaf.
  • Cross-border talent that needs the same dossier in ES and EN.

Decision table

Bring the document, not the template.

Import the file, run Magic Wand, score the posting, export. If something feels off, the lab listens.

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Technical sheet