Professional Resume Template for
Prompt Engineer
Liam J. Sterling
Boston, MA
(617) 555-0145
liam.sterling@proton.mail
linkedin.com/in/liam-sterling | github.com/liamsterling | liamsterling.ai
Professional Summary
Pragmatic Prompt Engineer with 6 years of experience optimizing large language model (LLM) performance and developing complex AI agentic workflows in the technology sector. Direct expertise in designing evaluation suites using LangSmith and DSPy, configuring Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) contexts, and mitigating prompt injection vulnerabilities. Successfully reduced token consumption by 34% and improved model output formatting accuracy from 82% to 99% across 4 production applications. Collaborative partner to software engineers and product managers, utilizing Python and vector databases to scale reliable, enterprise-grade AI integrations.
Work Experience
Prompt Engineer — Aetheria Intelligence
Boston, MA | January 2024 – Present
- Developed 24 system prompt templates for enterprise RAG agents using LangChain and Python, reducing latency by 28% and eliminating hallucinated answers across 15,000 monthly user sessions.
- Built automated evaluation pipelines using LangSmith and DSPy to benchmark LLM outputs, raising compliance with JSON output schemas from 74% to 98.6%.
- Optimized prompt templates for GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to perform few-shot categorization, decreasing API token consumption by 32% and saving $14,000 in monthly operational costs.
- Implemented prompt-injection guardrails and input-filtering policies using LlamaGuard, decreasing successful jailbreak attempts by 99.4% during penetration testing.
AI Interaction Specialist — Cognitive Stream Technologies
Austin, TX | July 2020 – December 2023
- Designed few-shot and chain-of-thought prompting workflows for customer support chatbots, which resolved 42% of incoming tickets without agent intervention.
- Structured prompt context boundaries and system instructions to handle long-document summarization, increasing data ingestion accuracy by 25% across 500+ client dossiers.
- Coordinated with a team of 6 backend developers to integrate LLM API endpoints into existing Django microservices, accelerating feature deployment cycles by 18%.
- Conducted A/B testing on 15 prompt variants for marketing copy generation, which boosted click-through rates by 12% and improved text relevance scores by 35%.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science
Cascade Institute of Technology · Seattle, WA · 2020
Skills
Prompt engineering, Large Language Models (LLMs), Chain-of-Thought prompting, Few-shot learning, Context engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agent workflows, DSPy, LangChain, LangSmith, Python, LlamaIndex, Vector databases, Pinecone, ChromaDB, Prompt vulnerability testing, Prompt security, LLM evaluation, JSON schema validation, Semantic search, API integration
Projects
Enterprise Semantic Agent Platform
Role: Lead Prompt Designer
Tools: Python, LangChain, ChromaDB, Claude 3
Engineered RAG-based context injection templates that indexed 10,000 internal documents, reducing customer service response time by 45% with 0% critical hallucinations.
Automated Prompt Evaluation Suite
Role: AI Specialist
Tools: LangSmith, DSPy, OpenAI API, GitHub Actions
Created a continuous evaluation pipeline for prompt upgrades, which cut production regression testing duration from 4 hours to 10 minutes and caught 18 formatting errors before deployment.
Certifications
- Vanderbilt University Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT (2023)
- DeepLearning.AI ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers (2023)
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (2025)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (2022)
Additional information
- Languages: English (Native), Ukrainian (Fluent)
- Open Source: Contributor to DSPy and LangChain prompt templates repository
- Availability: 2 weeks notice
Job Market Insights
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Prompt Engineer
Job Market Insights
$120,000
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$180,000
Avg:
$148,000
Growth Outlook:
The demand for skilled Prompt Engineers and AI integration specialists is projected to grow by 32% annually through 2030, driven by enterprise adoption of production-ready generative AI systems. As companies shift from manual prompt design to automated systems and agentic workflows, professionals who combine prompting with software engineering skills are in high demand. While simple instruction writing is increasingly automated by libraries like DSPy, human expertise in safety, evaluations, and domain-specific context design remains critical.
32% CAGR through 2030
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