Modern resume template

A clean sans-serif resume with a teal accent and a skills table. Suits tech, design and startups.

What it looks like

A contemporary one-page layout set in Lato: a large name with your headline in the accent colour, a single contact line, and a skills section laid out as a table so it scans in seconds. It takes exactly the same data as the classic resume, so you can try both and keep the one you like.

Same details, other styles

These take exactly the same information, so you can switch without typing anything again.

Classic resume

Goes well with

Cover letter

Use it with your AI assistant

Connect Pressa to your assistant once, then ask for the document in plain words. It asks you for anything it is missing, fills the template and hands you the PDF. To change something later, just say what.

Connect Pressa. In Claude Code run the command below; other assistants that support MCP take the address https://api.pressa.dev/mcp.
Terminal
```
claude mcp add --transport http pressa https://api.pressa.dev/mcp
```

Ask, for example:

You

Use the Pressa template "modern-resume" and fill it with my details. Here is what I have: ...

For developers and automations

Send the fields as JSON and get a link to the PDF. It works without a key for a few documents a day; with a free key you get 50 a month. In n8n this is one HTTP Request node, set up as in the n8n guide.

Terminal

curl -X POST https://api.pressa.dev/api/v1/public_templates/modern-resume/render \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @data.json

Sample data.json

{
  "data": {
    "name": "Alex Rivera",
    "headline": "Backend Engineer",
    "location": "Chicago, IL",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "(312) 555-0142",
    "website": "alexrivera.example.com",
    "summary": "Backend engineer with 8 years of experience building payment and logistics systems in Python and Go. Comfortable owning a service from design to on-call, and at my best on high-volume, event-driven platforms.",
    "experience": [
      {
        "title": "Senior Backend Engineer",
        "company": "Lumen Logistics",
        "location": "Chicago, IL",
        "dates": "2021 - present",
        "highlights": [
          "Rebuilt the shipment tracking service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 900 ms to 180 ms at 40 million events a day.",
          "Designed the Kafka event pipeline that replaced nightly batch jobs, so customers see status changes within seconds.",
          "Led a team of four engineers and introduced design reviews and on-call runbooks; paging incidents fell by 60%.",
          "Moved 30 services from EC2 to Kubernetes on AWS with no customer-facing downtime."
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Backend Engineer",
        "company": "Harbor Payments",
        "location": "Chicago, IL",
        "dates": "2017 - 2021",
        "highlights": [
          "Built card payment and refund APIs in Python (Django) handling $2 billion in annual volume.",
          "Added idempotency keys and retry-safe webhooks, ending duplicate charges during partner outages.",
          "Wrote the PostgreSQL partitioning plan that kept the ledger fast past 1 billion rows.",
          "Mentored three junior engineers, two of whom were promoted within a year."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "projects": [
      {
        "name": "queuewatch",
        "description": "Open-source Go tool that alerts on consumer lag in Kafka and RabbitMQ; used in production by several teams."
      }
    ],
    "skills": [
      {
        "category": "Languages",
        "items": "Go, Python, SQL, TypeScript"
      },
      {
        "category": "Infrastructure",
        "items": "PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform"
      },
      {
        "category": "Practices",
        "items": "API design, event-driven architecture, observability, incident response, mentoring"
      }
    ],
    "education": [
      {
        "degree": "B.S. in Computer Science",
        "school": "Lakeshore University",
        "location": "Chicago, IL",
        "dates": "2013 - 2017"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Fields, sample data and instructions as JSON: GET https://api.pressa.dev/api/v1/public_templates/modern-resume. Source, free under the MIT license, on GitHub.