Example Brag Sheet
Here is a hypothetical brag sheet example for a senior software engineer preparing for performance review. This example quantified achievements across the key categories on a brag sheet. It provides substantive evidence of the engineer's technical capabilities, leadership, and impact.
Technical Accomplishments
- Led migration of monolithic app to microservices, reducing deploy time from 1 hr to 5 min
- Designed real-time data streaming pipeline with Kafka and Spark, improving ML model accuracy by 15%
- Reduced mobile app network calls by 50% optimizing caching layer and access patterns
- Implemented WebSocket integration cutting page load times by 300ms
Leadership and Team Impact
- Mentored 3 junior developers through entire software lifecycle, providing code reviews and design guidance
- Led hackathon project building internal tool to automate release process, adopted by org
- Gave training on Kubernetes best practices to entire engineering org
- Worked cross-functionally to build project roadmap prioritizing tech debt reduction
Awards and Certifications
- Completed Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree certification program
- Invited talk at regional Python conference on microservice patterns
- Received company's Excellence in Mentorship award
Performance Metrics
- Mobile app ratings improved from 2.5 to 4.2 stars after launch of v2
- Microservice refactor increased feature development velocity by 40%
- Page views on marketing landing pages increased 150% after redesign
Areas for Growth
- Gain more depth in ML Ops and model deployment
- Take on people management responsibilities
- Learn Go to broaden backend languages
