Projects for Your Resume That Stand Out

A resume line that says "built a weather app" says nothing now. These mid and senior projects are real production problems - the kind teams actually hit - that you fix in a live cloud workspace, so your resume points to work a hiring manager can open and verify.

Why these survive a resume screen

A resume bullet is a claim, and an interviewer's job is to test it. "Built a weather app" invites no questions and proves nothing. "Diagnosed and fixed a connection-pool leak exhausting Postgres under load" invites exactly the questions you want, because you actually did it and can go three levels deep when they push.

24 projects to start with

Build an End-to-End RAG PipelineAI/ML · SeniorBuild an LLM Evaluation Harness (Golden Set)AI/ML · SeniorRoute LLM Requests to Cheaper ModelsAI/ML · SeniorBuild a Tool-Calling Agent LoopAI/ML · SeniorAdd a NOT NULL Column With a Zero-Downtime BackfillBackend · SeniorRefactor Globals Into Dependency InjectionBackend · SeniorRoute Reads to a Postgres ReplicaBackend · SeniorDesign a URL Shortener (System Design)Backend · SeniorBuild a Kimball Star SchemaData · SeniorWire Data Quality Tests Across a dbt LineageData · SeniorHandle Parquet Schema Evolution (v1 + v2)Data · SeniorBuild an Exactly-Once Kafka PipelineData · SeniorShip a Zero-Downtime Blue-Green DeployDevOps · SeniorBuild a Multi-Stage CI Pipeline With CachingDevOps · SeniorStand Up Prometheus and AlertmanagerDevOps · SeniorPackage an App as a Helm ChartDevOps · SeniorDeploy a React App Globally With AWS CloudFrontFullstack · SeniorReplace LIKE Search With Postgres Full-Text SearchFullstack · SeniorLock Down a Namespace With a NetworkPolicyKubernetes · SeniorWrite a Helm Chart for a Multi-Service AppKubernetes · SeniorRun a Multi-Container Pod with a SidecarKubernetes · SeniorSpread Replicas with Pod Anti-AffinityKubernetes · SeniorSecure a Webhook Endpoint (HMAC + Replay)Security · SeniorMove JWT to httpOnly Cookies (XSS + CSRF)Security · Senior

How to put these on your resume

Lead with the outcome and the system, not the tool: "Cut p99 latency 60% by adding the missing Postgres index on a 2M-row table" beats "used SQL." Link the portfolio page so the reader can open the actual fix. One line per project, verb-first, with a number whenever you have one.

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