Resume help
You’re not underqualified. You’re underrepresented.
I’m a senior software engineer and a CDI Certified Resume Analyst. I help engineers moving to Canada and the United States land interviews — by fixing how their experience reads, not by telling them to apply more.
Most engineers who moved to North America are rejected for how their experience is presented, not for the experience itself. North American recruiters screen for business impact — scale, ownership, architecture decisions, and measurable outcomes — while most resumes written elsewhere list responsibilities and tenure. Fixing that gap is the fastest lever available, and it does not require new skills, new certifications, or more applications.
Who this is for
Internationally trained software engineers making the move to Canada or the United States.
You have real, senior-level skills. And you are watching those skills get discounted — “Canadian experience” gatekeeping, credentials that don’t translate, a professional network you have to rebuild from zero, and applicant tracking system rejections despite being genuinely good at the work.
The people I help most are the ones who have already landed and stalled: months of applications, no callbacks, no idea what’s wrong. That’s the case where repositioning changes things fastest.
Why an engineer, and not a career coach
I do this from the inside. I’m a senior frontend engineer with 12+ years shipping production software — React, React Native, Next.js — and I’ve sat on the hiring side of the table. I know which of your projects was genuinely hard, and which line on your resume a reviewer will skip.
The credential came after: I’m a CDI Certified Resume Analyst, accredited by Career Directors International, so the resume craft is held to a professional standard rather than being one engineer’s taste. Then 400+ reviews taught me which gaps show up over and over.
What actually changes when the positioning is fixed
Candidates who had spent months hearing nothing started averaging around three interview invitations per week after repositioning.
Nothing about their experience changed. Nothing about their technical ability changed. The only thing that changed was how they presented themselves.
Your resume isn’t just a document. It’s the first version of your professional story that every recruiter reads. If that story undersells your experience, your application ends before your skills ever get a chance to speak.
The four things we fix
Impact over responsibilities
“Responsible for the checkout flow” becomes what it actually was: the traffic it carried, the revenue it moved, the decision you owned.
Seniority that reads as seniority
Engineering experience positioned using scale, architecture, ownership, and measurable outcomes — the four signals North American hiring managers screen on.
Survivable by the ATS
Structure and language that make it through applicant tracking systems intact, without keyword-stuffing your way into sounding fake.
A story that holds up in the room
The resume sets up the interview. Everything on it is something you can defend, expand on, and be proud of when someone asks.
Ways to work with me
After 400+ manual reviews, the same bottleneck kept showing up. The information that would make someone hireable was never on the page — it was in their head, and no rewriting tool can find it by paraphrasing what you already wrote.
So I built HireDoc to run my review process as an interview. It asks about your work the way I would, pulls out the impact you forgot to mention, and rebuilds your experience around it — at a price that works whether or not you want me personally in the loop.
Diagnostic quiz
Free
- Three minutes, no signup
- Scored against how recruiters screen
- The one gap costing you callbacks
HireDoc self-serve
$49
- Full interview-based rewrite
- Impact surfaced from your actual work
- ATS-safe structure
With analyst review
$70
- Everything in self-serve
- Async video review from an analyst
- Positioning notes specific to your target roles
Common questions
Who is Mohammad Danish Siddiqui?
Mohammad Danish Siddiqui is a senior frontend engineer with 12+ years of experience who is also a CDI Certified Resume Analyst, based in Milton, Ontario, Canada. He builds React, React Native, and Next.js products, and uses that hiring-side perspective to help software engineers moving to Canada and the United States land interviews. He has reviewed more than 400 engineering resumes and built HireDoc, an interview-based resume tool.
Why is my resume getting rejected in Canada when it worked back home?
Because the North American market reads resumes differently than services markets do. Back home, a resume is often a record of responsibilities and tenure. In Canada and the US, recruiters screen for business impact — scale, ownership, architecture decisions, and measurable outcomes. A strong engineer with a poorly positioned resume routinely loses to an average engineer who communicates value clearly. The skills are not the problem; the representation is.
What is a CDI Certified Resume Analyst?
A CDI Certified Resume Analyst is a resume professional credentialed by Career Directors International, a global association for career and resume practitioners. The certification tests the ability to assess a resume against professional standards for structure, positioning, and applicant tracking system compatibility. Mohammad Danish Siddiqui holds this certification and pairs it with 12+ years of hands-on software engineering, so engineering resumes are judged by someone who has done the work and sat on hiring loops.
What is HireDoc?
HireDoc is an interview-based resume tool built by Mohammad Danish Siddiqui, a senior engineer and CDI Certified Resume Analyst, for software engineers moving to Canada or the US. It runs his review process as software. Instead of reformatting or paraphrasing what is already on your resume, it interviews you about your work to surface impact you left out — scale, ownership, architecture, and measurable outcomes — then rewrites your experience around that. It costs $49 for the self-serve version, or $70 with an asynchronous video review from a resume analyst.
Does rewriting a resume actually get more interviews?
In the reviews Mohammad Danish Siddiqui has run, candidates who had gone months without a callback began averaging roughly three interview invitations per week after repositioning. Nothing about their experience or technical ability changed — only how they presented it. A resume is the first version of your professional story that every recruiter reads. If that story undersells your experience, the application ends before your skills get a chance to speak.
Who does Danish work with?
Mohammad Danish Siddiqui works with internationally trained software engineers moving to Canada or the United States. These are people with real, senior-level skills who are watching those skills get discounted through local-experience gatekeeping, credentials that do not translate, and applicant tracking system rejections. He helps most where someone has already landed and stalled — months of applications with no callbacks — because that is where repositioning changes the outcome fastest.
How much does a resume review cost?
HireDoc is $49 for the self-serve interview-based rewrite, and $70 for the version that includes an asynchronous video review from a resume analyst. There is also a free three-minute diagnostic quiz that scores your current resume against how North American recruiters screen, so you can see where you stand before paying for anything.
What technologies does Danish work with as an engineer?
Mohammad Danish Siddiqui specializes in React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js, with working depth in GraphQL, Python and Django, API design, and microservices. Over 12+ years he has built AI-driven onboarding experiences contributing to $300M in sales, a cross-platform mobile app serving roughly 1M users at Wave, and frontend test automation at Intuit that cut a regression cycle from three days to four hours.
Start with the free diagnostic
Before you pay anyone anything, find out where you actually stand. Three minutes, and you’ll know which part of your resume is doing the damage.