A working AU software engineer CV example.
Written for the Atlassian, Canva, Xero, WiseTech and CBA tech tribes. Two pages, acronyms expanded, TFN and PR status noted where relevant for recruiters.
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Liam Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer · Sydney NSW · Australian PR · liam.nguyen@example.com.au · github.com/liamnguyen · linkedin.com/in/liamnguyen
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior full-stack engineer with 8 years across ASX-listed enterprise (CBA — Commonwealth Bank of Australia) and Australian scale-up (Atlassian). Shipped the Netbank credit-card servicing rebuild used by 5.3M Australians. TypeScript, Go, Kotlin, AWS. Australian permanent resident, no sponsorship required.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer · Atlassian Corporation · Sydney NSW · Mar 2023 – Present
· Tech lead on Jira Automation for enterprise customers (12,000+ orgs, A$180M ARR contribution).
· Migrated legacy monolith services to Micros (Atlassian internal Kubernetes platform), cutting P95 latency 42%.
· Mentored 3 engineers to promotion; ran the Sydney office hiring loop for 18 months.
Software Engineer · Commonwealth Bank of Australia · Sydney NSW · Jan 2020 – Mar 2023
· Squad lead on Netbank credit-card servicing rebuild (5.3M active customers). Delivered A$2.1M in FY22 servicing cost savings.
· Led APRA CPS 234 (Information Security Standard) remediation for three tier-1 systems.
· Worked in an APRA-regulated CI/CD pipeline (AWS GovCloud-equivalent, HSM-backed release signing).
Graduate Software Engineer · CBA (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) · Sydney NSW · Feb 2018 – Jan 2020
· CommBank graduate programme intake (18 of 3,200 applicants).
· Rotations across Retail Banking, Business Banking and CommSec.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours Class I) · UNSW Sydney (University of New South Wales) · 2014–2017 · WAM 84
TECHNICAL
TypeScript · Go · Kotlin · React · Node.js · AWS (Certified Solutions Architect Professional) · Kubernetes · Terraform · PostgreSQL · Kafka
RIGHT TO WORK
Australian permanent resident (Subclass 189). No sponsorship required.
What Atlassian, Canva and CBA recruiters look for.
- Right-to-work stated up front. "Australian PR" or "Subclass 189" removes ambiguity for TA screeners.
- Acronyms expanded: CBA → Commonwealth Bank of Australia, APRA → Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, UNSW → University of New South Wales.
- Regulator awareness: APRA CPS 234, ASIC, ACCC show enterprise-grade compliance literacy.
- Impact in AUD: A$2.1M, A$180M ARR — with the "A$" prefix.
- 2 pages. Two rendered pages hits the AU tech sweet spot.
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