Hey, it’s Lefteris 👋 I’m the voice behind the weekly newsletter “The Cloud Engineers.”
Everyone tells you to “build projects” to stand out. But most portfolio projects are the same tired to-do app or a static site that says nothing about you as an engineer. In 2026, a fast way to make a hiring manager stop scrolling is to show you can ship a real-world project, like the serverless GenAI application we'll build in this article.
The good news: you don’t need a GPU cluster, an ML degree, or months of work. With AWS Lambda and Amazon Bedrock, you can build a genuinely useful GenAI app in an afternoon which is fully serverless, pay-per-request, and free-tier friendly.
So let’s design one. We’ll build a tool that enhances your CV. You give it a job description and your rough resume bullets, and the app rewrites them into sharp, tailored, results-oriented bullet points using a foundation model. It’s useful, it’s self-referential, and it demonstrates the full serverless-GenAI stack.
This article…
