Engineering Teardowns & Research

Qurtesy Engineering & Document Insights

Deep-dives into Applicant Tracking System (ATS) mechanics, PDF coordinate geometry, document parsing failures, and how to build resumes that both algorithms and humans read perfectly.

Technical teardown comparison showing spatial baseline clustering collision in a two-column layout versus monotonic single-column ordering

ATS OptimizationResume Engineering

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Why Your Beautiful Canva Resume is Getting Auto-Rejected (An ATS Teardown)

A technical teardown of the coordinate math, rasterization, and baseline clustering traps in Canva and Figma resumes that cause ATS auto-rejections.

Souvik Dey

Mar 8, 2026

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