Resume

Looking for my resume? Shoot me an email and we can talk.

Found this site from my resume? Welcome! If you'd like to verify that the owner of this site sent you that resume, I keep a list of SHA-256 hashes of my resumes and you can use the below tool to check if the resume you got is on it. It's not as fancy as a proper signature check, but it's dead simple and works. This allows me to provide verification that a resume you received came from me, without me doxing myself with the more sensitive information that some iterations of my resume contains.

What's an SHA-256?

SHA-256 is a popular hashing algorithm. What's a hashing algorithm? A hashing algorithm is a program which takes any kind of data, and produces a fixed-size output for that data. There's lots of research which goes into deciding what makes a hashing algorithm good. For example, given any input, a hash of that input should look random. Hashes of similar inputs should appear random to eachother as well. The same inputs must always produce the same outputs. It's better to read the wikipedia page on hash functions than to have me continue.

The result is that when you upload my resume, I have a small program which runs in your browser and will calculate the SHA-256 of that file. It might look like 4f29b995c3658ea608c7ede1f974e80090827f0fd97f58a9e4696e19083e2322, that's the hash of the file represented in base 16; it's just a number. This is then compared against a list of known good hashes I keep at https://ttamttam.com/assets/json/resume-hashes.json. If the hash is on the list, you get a green checkmark. Otherwise, you get a warning.

Note that if your ATS (Applicant Tracking System) tries to do any kind of postprocessing on my resume, it won't work. You can always get in touch if you'd like further verification.