I Got Rejected for "Not Enough Experience" — So I Built My Resume as Infrastructure

Let me paint you a picture. It's 2024. I've been in IT for 14 years — Flash games at 13, mobile GameDev, frontend, fullstack, and for the last few years, DevOps. I've managed 750+ servers with Ansible, cut deploy times from 8 minutes to 2, saved ~$250/month on AWS costs through Terraform optimizations. I've shipped games with 100M+ downloads. I have an Upwork Top Rated Plus badge. And HR keeps telling me I don't have enough experience. Not because I'm unqualified. Because my resume didn't tell the story right. Because I was sending a Google Doc that tried to be everything to everyone — and ended up being nothing to anyone. So I did what any reasonable DevOps engineer would do when faced with a tooling problem. I over-engineered a solution. The Actual Problem Here's what my resume situation looked like before: One Russian .docx for local job applications One English .docx for international / remote A "DevOps focused" copy somewhere A "GameDev focused" copy somewhere else A file literall