Milton, Ontario · Canada
A senior engineer who’s also a certified resume analyst.
I’m Danish. 12+ years building React and React Native products in production — and a CDI Certified Resume Analyst who has read 400+ engineering resumes. I help software engineers moving to Canada and the US land interviews.
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Mohammad Danish Siddiqui is a senior frontend engineer (12+ years in React, React Native, and Next.js) and a CDI Certified Resume Analyst based in Milton, Ontario, Canada. He has reviewed more than 400 engineering resumes and helps software engineers moving to Canada and the United States land interviews. He also built HireDoc, an interview-based resume tool for engineers making that move.
- Shipping software professionally
- 12+ years
- Engineering resumes reviewed
- 400+
- Sales influenced by experiences I built
- $300M
- Users on a mobile app I shipped
- ~1M
Why take resume advice from an engineer?
Because I’m not a career coach who learned tech from the outside. I still write production code. Over 12+ years that has meant AI-driven onboarding experiences contributing to $300M in sales, a cross-platform mobile app serving roughly a million users, and frontend test automation that cut a regression cycle from three days to four hours.
The certification came later. I’m a CDI Certified Resume Analyst because I wanted the craft of resume writing held to a standard, not just my opinion as a hiring-side engineer. The combination is the whole point: when I read your resume, I know which of your projects was actually hard, and I know how to make a recruiter see it in six seconds.
Why good engineers get ignored here
“Back home, I got interviews in weeks. In Canada, I’ve been applying for six months without a single callback.” That is the most common message in my inbox, and almost every time, the problem isn’t a lack of skill.
It’s a lack of representation. The North American market reads resumes differently than services markets do. Back home, a resume is a record of responsibilities and tenure. Here, recruiters screen for business impact — scale, ownership, architecture decisions, and measurable outcomes.
A great engineer with a poorly positioned resume loses to an average engineer who communicates value clearly. Most people respond by applying more. That’s not how this market works.
I know because I made the move myself. I came to Canada as an experienced engineer and found out the hard way that strong skills don’t automatically translate — nobody warns you on the way in.
Ways I can help
Score your resume
A diagnostic that grades your resume the way a North American recruiter actually reads it, and tells you which gap is costing you callbacks.
Rebuild your resume
I built a tool called HireDoc that runs my review process as an interview — it asks about your work instead of paraphrasing the page, then rebuilds your experience around the impact you left out.
Read the playbook
I write about both lanes: senior engineering craft, and the North American job search for engineers making the move.
Six months of silence is not a skills problem
Score your resume the way a North American recruiter reads it, and find the one change most likely to get you a callback.
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