Delivery Manager Resume:
The Complete 2026 Guide

Format, profile summary, work experience, bullet points, and the technical skills section recruiters screen for. Built from 12 years of recruiting, including many years at Google.

Emmanuel Gendre, former Google Recruiter and Tech Resume Writer

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My experience with Delivery Manager resumes

Twelve years in tech recruiting, including a long stretch at Google, and the Delivery Manager resume has a recognizable failure mode: it reads as a senior Scrum Master who renamed their title in the move to a new company. Hiring Directors of Engineering and VPs of Delivery spot it instantly. What they want is the delivery-engineering proof: the DORA Elite story you built over 6 quarters, the lead-time you bent from 18 days to 4, the blocker-triage flywheel that cleared 92% of issues within 24 hours, the continuous-delivery transformation you coached three squads through, the weekly delivery review you anchor with engineering directors and product. None of that lands when the resume reads as "facilitated ceremonies, ran standups, tracked status."

What hiring teams actually want in 2026 is the delivery-engineering outcome story behind the operations. A Delivery Manager resume reading as "managed delivery, removed blockers, ran retros" without a DORA number, a lead-time trend, or a continuous-delivery transformation you led gets dropped before any conversation happens.

That gap is exactly what this guide closes. Five sections decide whether the Delivery Manager screen even starts, and the rest of this guide goes through them one at a time. The single goal: interviews back on the calendar, regardless of how soft the market feels right now.

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What the Delivery Manager resume guide covers

How I rewrite a Delivery Manager resume

A Delivery Manager resume crosses my desk regularly, through both the resume writing service and the free reviews. The pattern holds: roughly nine-tenths of the page contributes nothing, and the decision rides on five sections only. Going solo? Concentrate effort on those five, leave everything else alone.

Each step has a self-contained section below. Move through them sequentially, apply the edits as you go, and the resume you end up with reads as a different document entirely. The structure:

Step 1 · Delivery Manager Resume Format

The format to use for an
Delivery Manager resume

Knock this one out first: the ATS has to be able to ingest the page.

Most online advice on layouts is noise. The work boils down to one thing: a text parser has to pick up your content and structure exactly as you wrote them, with nothing dropped along the way.

Keywords matter for filtering further down the funnel (that's Technical Skills, Step 5), but parsing failures are what eliminate 95% of resumes before anyone reads a word.

Three short rules cover most of it:

01

Use a text editor (Word, Google Docs)

An ATS pulls text and nothing else. If the file isn't actually text on the page, the parser comes back empty-handed. Lay the resume out in Canva or Illustrator and every line becomes a flat raster image, so the automation frameworks and CI tools you spent hours listing simply vanish. From the parser's view, you submitted a blank document.

02

Single column, plain layout

Pull every column, sidebar, table, and image out of the layout. ATS engines in 2026 still chew them up, and this is the single most common parsing failure I catch in reviews (about three drafts in ten land here). Switch to a clean single-column layout and most of the parsing damage corrects itself.

03

Simple section titles

Use Profile Summary, Technical Skills, Work Experience, Education. Not "Bugs I've Caught", not "What I Bring to Quality". ATS and recruiters both look for standard headings, and a clever label just drops you out of the bucket. Avoid fuzzy ones too: "Core Competencies" lives inside Profile Summary or Technical Skills; "Career Highlights" lives inside Profile Summary or Work Experience.

Unsure how your current PDF holds up under parsing? Run it through the ATS resume checker and look at the extracted output side by side with the page. When the extracted version comes out broken, the bullets aren't the problem, the layout is, and layout is most of how an ATS scores you.

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Step 2 · Delivery Manager Profile Summary

Writing a profile summary
for a Delivery Manager

Whatever you've read elsewhere, no resume should skip the Profile Summary. Juniors included.

If yours is missing, or it's there but weak, fixing it is the biggest single win on the table today.

All the mechanics sit inside how recruiters screen resumes. Quick version: a recruiter runs your resume twice. Pass one prunes the pile to anyone who looks credible for the role. Pass two distills that group into the actual shortlist for interviews.

Pass one is the punishing one: a recruiter cycles through file after file at a sprint, spending only seconds on each. That is where the well-known "10-second screen" stat comes from.

The Profile Summary is your only opportunity to land every cue a recruiter looks for inside that tight window. Stick it and the rest of the page gets opened; whiff it and nothing else carries weight.

Every bullet has a defined role. Below is the playbook I use when rewriting a Delivery Manager profile summary: what each line is on the hook for, plus a worked example tied to a real product.

1

Target job title, overall experience & product scope

Bullet 1 sets the marker: the role you're aiming at, your seniority, plus the delivery scope and company stage (single squad vs multi-squad vs multi-product; engineer count, product line count; Series B/C/D, post-IPO). Add a regulated industry (fintech, healthtech, e-commerce) and a recognized employer if either lifts weight. Read this sentence as the page's top headline: a Director of Engineering clocks it before anything else.

Info for recruiters Target job title Years of experience Delivery scope & company stage Domain & employer
Example Senior Delivery Manager 10 years 6 squads, 35 engineers, 3 product lines, Series D DORA Elite + SAFe RTE, B2C fintech
2

Domain expertise

Bullet 2 covers your domain expertise: the slots that make up the Delivery Manager role profile (laid out in Step 3, Delivery Manager Work Experience). For this role those slots are end-to-end delivery flow ownership, cross-squad cadence and sync, blocker removal and risk triage, delivery metrics and DORA reporting, and stakeholder communication and expectation management. A Director of Engineering walks that scorecard line by line and ticks off your entries. Treat this bullet as your own scorecard and leave no row empty.

Info for recruiters End-to-end delivery flow ownership Cross-squad cadence & sync Blocker removal & risk triage Delivery metrics & DORA reporting Stakeholder communication
Example Lead time 18 → 4 days, DORA Elite Weekly delivery sync across 6 squads 92% of blockers cleared < 24 hours DORA dashboard, monthly engineering exec readout Weekly stakeholder review with Product + Eng
3

Your tech stack

Bullet 3 names your daily toolset: the delivery methodology, the delivery-tracking platform, the DORA-metrics tool, the stakeholder- communication system, and the continuous-improvement framework. The full inventory lands further down under "Technical Skills" (covered in Step 5, Delivery Manager Technical Skills); up here you only call out the daily drivers. For a Delivery Manager that means: methodology, tracking, metrics, communication, and improvement.

Info for recruiters Delivery methodology Delivery tracking DORA metrics Stakeholder communication Continuous improvement
Example DORA, Continuous Delivery, Kanban Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow LinearB, DX, Swarmia, Sleuth Loom, Confluence, Pitch decks Value-stream mapping, TOC, kaizen
4

Collaboration

Bullet 4 covers your cross-functional partnership. A Scrum Master serves between the Product Owner (who owns backlog priority), Engineering and QA (who build and ship), the Engineering Manager (who owns people-leadership and budget), peer Delivery Managers (who share the train and Scrum of Scrums), the Release Train Engineer (at SAFe scale), and business stakeholders (who need predictability from the team). A hiring manager checks whether you carry those relationships cleanly, so name the partner roles and the touchpoints you owned.

Info for recruiters Partner roles Weekly delivery review chair DORA reporting handoff
Example Product Owner Engineering & QA Engineering Manager Peer Delivery Managers / RTE Business Stakeholders
5

Leadership

Bullet 5 surfaces your facilitation leadership. Leadership for a Delivery Manager shows up in the standards you set: the Liberating Structures retro format your peers reuse, the impediment-tracking flywheel you built, the transformation engagement you led, the coaching dojo you facilitated for junior Delivery Managers, and the agile-maturity assessment you authored for engineering leadership.

Info for recruiters Facilitation patterns you authored Coaching dojos you run Junior Delivery Managers you mentor
Example Liberating Structures retro library author Quarterly coaching dojo facilitator Mentored 4 Delivery Managers, 2 promoted to Senior

Delivery Manager Profile Summary Example

Senior, 6-squad delivery org at a Series D fintech (35 engineers + 3 product lines, DORA Elite)

Profile Summary

  • Senior Delivery Manager with 9 years serving a 3-squad Agile Release Train of 24 engineers and 3 POs at a B2B SaaS healthtech under SAFe 6.0, biweekly PI cadence.
  • Strong on Servant-Leadership Facilitation, Agile Ceremonies & Cadence Mastery, Team Health & Engagement, Impediment Removal & Flow Optimization, and Metrics & Continuous Improvement.
  • Day-to-day across Framework (SAFe 6.0, Scrum, Kanban, Scrum@Scale), Facilitation (Miro, Mural, Parabol, Retrium), Delivery (Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence), Certifications (CSM, PSM II, A-CSM, SAFe SPC), and Metrics (EazyBI, ActionableAgile, LinearB).
  • Cross-functional partner across Product Owners, Engineering and QA, Engineering Managers, peer Delivery Managers and RTE, and business stakeholders, owning the impediment-removal flywheel that lifted PI predictability from 60% to 92% and cut lead time from 14 days to 4 over 4 PIs.
  • Authored the Liberating Structures retro library reused across the train, facilitates the quarterly coaching dojo, mentored 4 Delivery Managers (2 promoted to Senior), and authored the agile-maturity assessment for engineering leadership.

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Step 3 · Delivery Manager Work Experience

Work experience on an
Delivery Manager resume

Now back into round two. This is the section that determines whether you get the call at all, and a recruiter actually slows down here. Even so, 95% of the decision still comes from your most recent role.

The logic is simple. Your current job is the truest signal of how you operate today, what you actually run hands-on, and where your seniority genuinely sits. To turn the screen toward an interview, that role has to cover every line in the full Delivery Manager role profile, one bullet per area you already named in the Profile Summary's Domain Expertise block.

1

End-to-End Delivery Flow Ownership

Most Delivery Manager resumes stop at "ran the squads" right here. Hiring Directors of Engineering want the flow-engineering proof: the value-stream map you authored, the bottleneck you identified and cleared, the throughput you raised. Name the squads, the bottleneck, and the throughput outcome.

Techniques Value-stream mapping (Womack) Theory of Constraints (Goldratt) WIP limits & pull policies Flow Framework (Mik Kersten)
Tools Jira / Linear flow boards ActionableAgile, Nave flow metrics Miro for value-stream workshops
Metrics Throughput (PRs / week) Lead time Cycle time
2

Cross-Squad Cadence & Sync

This is where mid-level candidates stay vague. Show that you run delivery cadences that actually move the work: the weekly delivery sync you anchor across squads, the cross-squad dependency board you maintain, the Scrum of Scrums you facilitate. Name the squads, the cadence, and a cross-squad outcome.

Techniques Weekly delivery sync Cross-squad dependency board Scrum of Scrums (multi-squad) Release-train cadence (if SAFe)
Tools Jira Plans, Linear Cycles Confluence cross-squad wiki Miro / FigJam for joint planning
Metrics Cross-squad deps resolved per sprint Sync cadence held (% of weeks) Decisions taken per sync
3

Blocker Removal & Risk Triage

Hiring teams want a real blocker story. Name the blocker register you maintain, the triage SLA you defend, the escalation pattern you use when a single team is stuck. A real blocker outcome (resolved in < 24 hours) lands every time.

Techniques Blocker register & SLA Risk register (RAID) Escalation patterns & cadence Triage prioritization (severity × impact)
Tools Jira / Linear blocker workflows Confluence / Notion risk register Slack escalation channels
Metrics Blockers cleared per week Blocker mean time to resolution Blockers cleared < 24 hours (%)
4

Delivery Metrics & DORA Reporting

Two stakes here: instrumenting the right metrics and reporting them honestly. Show the DORA dashboard you maintain, the lead-time-and-deploy-frequency trend you publish quarterly, the engineering exec readout you anchor. A real DORA-shift outcome lands hard.

Techniques DORA Four Keys (Forsgren / Humble / Kim) SPACE framework (DX, productivity) Flow metrics + DORA blend Engineering exec readout authoring
Tools LinearB, DX, Swarmia, Code Climate Velocity Sleuth, Faros AI for DORA EazyBI / Jira dashboards
Metrics Lead time / deploy freq / MTTR / CFR DORA tier (Elite, High, Medium) DORA dashboard adoption
5

Stakeholder Communication & Expectation Management

Prove you can hold the room when things slip. The weekly delivery review you anchor, the executive exception report you author when scope changes, the customer-success comms you co-write when a release slips. A real stakeholder relationship that survived a difficult release lands hard.

Techniques Weekly delivery review facilitation Executive exception reports Customer-success release comms Expectation reset & replanning
Tools Loom for async updates Confluence release wikis Pitch / Google Slides for exec decks
Metrics Stakeholder NPS / CSAT Reviews held (% of weeks) Exception reports closed
6

Continuous Improvement & Process Optimization

This is one of the clearest mid-versus-senior tells. Show the delivery retro you run with action tracking, the kaizen event you facilitated, the experiment you ran on a team policy. A real cycle-time or throughput improvement from an experiment lands hard.

Techniques Delivery retro with action tracking Kaizen events (Toyota Way) Lean Coffee, Liberating Structures Experiment-driven policy change
Tools Parabol, Retrium for retros Miro / FigJam for kaizen workshops Confluence experiment log
Metrics Retro action close rate Experiments shipped per quarter Cycle-time delta per experiment
7

Team Health & Engagement

Few things separate strong Delivery Managers from coordinators as sharply as this. The eNPS or pulse survey cadence you run, the on-call burnout signal you watch, the team engagement workshop you anchor quarterly. A real engagement or burnout outcome lands hard.

Techniques Quarterly eNPS / pulse surveys On-call burnout watch Team chartering & working agreements Psychological-safety check-ins
Tools Officevibe, CultureAmp, Lattice pulse Polly, Donut for Slack pulse PagerDuty on-call analytics
Metrics Team eNPS / engagement score On-call burnout index (down is good) Psychological-safety index
8

Vendor / Contractor / Partner Management

Companies hire Senior Delivery Managers who can run the contract. The contractor wave you ramped, the vendor SLA you defended, the offshore partner you onboarded. A real vendor outcome (cost saved, SLA held) lands.

Techniques Contractor wave planning Vendor SLA / SOW negotiation Offshore / onshore split design Vendor performance reviews
Tools SAP Ariba, Coupa, Beeline DocuSign, Ironclad CLM ServiceNow vendor management
Metrics Vendor SLA attainment Cost savings ($) Contractor ramp time (days)

Once you address all of the above, the most recent role lands at roughly eight to ten bullets. That depth is on target, not bloat, no matter what the single-page rhetoric on LinkedIn keeps repeating. Recruiters do not grade pages; two dense pages of real content win against a thin single page every time. The thing killing the screen is padding: lines that take up room without saying anything, and cutting padding is what the next section is entirely about.

Step 4 · Delivery Manager Bullet Points

Bullet points for an
Delivery Manager resume

On any rewrite, the bullet section consumes the largest share of my hours. The disciplined method I built to handle it, the Level System, came out of that work and now runs across every guide on the site.

The underlying base isn't fictional: it builds on Google's XYZ formula, then pushes further for power-electronics specificity. The mechanics in full live at how to write resume bullet points.

Best way in: pick any ordinary QA bullet and rebuild it one layer at a time. The framework runs 5 questions, and each answer adds the next layer of engineering depth onto the line.

Walking them in sequence drives the bullet out of generic description and into the framework, CI, and coverage specifics that hiring managers actually evaluate when picking the QA interview shortlist.

  1. 1 Task “What did I work on?” What you did
  2. 2 + Techniques “How did I do it?” How you did it
  3. 3 + Tools “What tools did I use?” Frameworks, data stores, infra
  4. 4 + Method “What method did I follow?” Named methodology
  5. 5 + Metric “What was the result?” Quantified impact
  1. Level 1, Just the task. Pick one specific thing you actually built or owned. This is the base layer, not the final line. Plenty of Delivery Manager resumes never move past it, and that's a big reason so many get filtered before a screening call.

    Level 1

    Just the task

    Owned delivery flow across 6 squads at a Series D fintech.

  2. Level 2, Add the techniques. Name the specific engineering practices the work used: the testing types, rendering modes, scaling tactics, design patterns. This is where the bullet starts proving you understand how the work was done, not just that it shipped.

    Level 2

    + Techniques

    Owned delivery flow across 6 squads of 35 engineers at a Series D fintech using flow metrics and blocker triage.

  3. Level 3, Add the tools. Drop in the named products and versions you used: the framework, the database, the build tool. Recruiters search resumes with technology queries, so the bullet stays invisible without the named stack.

    Level 3

    + Tools

    Owned delivery flow across 6 squads of 35 engineers at a Series D fintech using flow metrics and blocker triage in Jira and LinearB with weekly delivery reviews.

  4. Level 4, Add the method. Name the methodology, framework, or design pattern that guided the work: TDD, DDD, BDD, GitOps, MVVM, CQRS, progressive enhancement, and so on. The hiring manager is usually the one enforcing the methodology on the team, so naming yours shows you fit how they actually operate.

    Level 4

    + Method

    Adopted DORA-driven continuous delivery to own delivery flow across 6 squads of 35 engineers at a Series D fintech using flow metrics and blocker triage in Jira and LinearB with weekly delivery reviews.

  5. Level 5, Add the metric. A number is what lifts a bullet into the top 1%. It pulls double weight: it shows the impact was real, and it shows you measured it on purpose. Skip the number and the line reads identical to every other candidate's.

    Level 5

    + Metric

    Adopted DORA-driven continuous delivery to own flow across 6 squads of 35 engineers at a Series D fintech using flow metrics and blocker triage in Jira and LinearB with weekly delivery reviews, cutting lead time from 18 days to 4 days.

For the full walkthrough, including the trick I use to extract numbers from work that looked unmeasured, see writing resume bullet points. Most Delivery Managers already have the data: lead time, cycle time, deploy frequency, MTTR, change failure rate, blocker close rate, retro action close rate, team eNPS, stakeholder NPS. It just never made it onto the page.

Step 5 · Delivery Manager Technical Skills

Technical skills for a Delivery Manager resume

The ATS parses your Technical Skills section, and some systems use it for keyword filtering. That's why it needs to echo the language on the job description you're targeting.

By now, though, we're down to the fine details. Nailing this section gives you a nudge through filtering and screening, but the real weight is carried by your Profile Summary, Work Experience, and Bullet Points.

Still, the skills and keywords accumulate over the whole resume, so it pays to know what an ATS and a recruiter both watch for. That's why a separate page exists covering every Delivery Manager skill that matters, technical and soft, with a built-in keyword parser that tunes it to a specific posting.

  1. Delivery Methodology

    DORA / Accelerate: Forsgren / Humble / Kim, Four Keys Continuous Delivery: Humble / Farley, trunk-based Lean delivery: Toyota Production System, Womack Kanban Method: Anderson, STATIK, evolutionary change Theory of Constraints: Goldratt, bottleneck management SPACE framework: developer productivity (Forsgren et al.)
  2. Delivery Tracking

    Backlog & flow: Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps, Asana Service management: ServiceNow, Jira Service Management Roadmaps: Jira Advanced Roadmaps, Portfolio for Jira Boards: Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan, custom workflows Docs: Confluence, Notion, Coda Cross-team: dependency boards, working agreements
  3. DORA & Flow Metrics Tooling

    DORA platforms: LinearB, DX, Swarmia, Sleuth, Faros AI Velocity: Code Climate Velocity, Pluralsight Flow Flow metrics: ActionableAgile, Nave, Jira flow dashboards Four Keys: lead time, deploy freq, MTTR, CFR SPACE blend: satisfaction, performance, activity, comms, efficiency Custom dashboards: EazyBI, Power BI, Tableau
  4. Stakeholder & Comms

    Async exec updates: Loom, Slack canvases, Notion narratives Wikis: Confluence, Notion, Coda release wikis Exec decks: Pitch, Google Slides, Keynote, Beautiful.ai Status reporting: red / amber / green, narrative status Customer release comms: changelogs, release notes, banners Workshops: Miro, Mural, FigJam for value-stream mapping
  5. Certifications & Frameworks

    DORA: Accelerate research framework, DORA Foundation SAFe: SAFe RTE, SAFe SPC, SAFe Scrum Master Kanban: Kanban Management Professional (KMP I/II) ICAgile: ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, ICP-LEA Scrum: CSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM, PSM I-III Lean: Lean Six Sigma Green / Black Belt

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Frequently asked

Delivery Manager resume FAQ

Maps to the trains you have run and the increments you have shipped. Below 5 years, a single page usually fits. At senior or lead PO, with multiple PI cycles you have planned, a 3-team train you have aligned, a stakeholder QBR you have owned, and a SAFe or CSPO credential in hand, two pages is the correct call. The "one-page rule" from generic career advice doesn't apply to delivery managers at scale. Padding hurts, but so does compressing a decade of delivery work into a single sheet. My tech resume length framework grows with seniority instead of locking to a page total.

Not by default. The real question is content density. First-time Delivery Managers fit on one page because there is not enough delivery history to fill more. At Senior level, with three or four multi-squad delivery engagements closed, a flow-metrics flywheel you have built, a DORA shift you have driven, and a stakeholder relationship you have held through a difficult release, forcing it onto one page deletes the exact evidence that would open the screening call.

Your most recent role, hands down. Roughly 95% of the screening conversation comes from that one role, because hiring teams open it first to check the delivery scope (single squad, multi-squad, multi-product), the company stage (Series B/C/D, post-IPO), the methodology (DORA, Continuous Delivery, Kanban), and the DORA / flow outcome you moved. The profile summary is second only because it sits above and gets read on the way down.

Keep it single-column: drop the header icons, sidebars, and images, use plain section titles (Profile Summary, Core Competencies, Work Experience, Education), and export to PDF instead of DOCX. Then run it through my free ATS parser tool and check it is pulling out the delivery vocabulary. If "DORA" or "continuous delivery" or "flow metrics" vanishes from the output, the layout is what is broken, not the content.

For 2026, the ones you can not skip are a delivery methodology (DORA / Accelerate, Continuous Delivery, Lean delivery, Kanban Method), a delivery platform (Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow), a DORA tooling signal (LinearB, DX, Swarmia, Code Climate Velocity, Sleuth), a stakeholder-communication signal (delivery dashboards, weekly delivery reviews, status narratives), and a continuous-improvement signal (value-stream mapping, retros, kaizen events, Theory of Constraints). Strong supporting keywords are flow metrics, lead time, cycle time, deploy frequency, MTTR, change failure rate, blocker triage, and WIP limits. Senior candidates add terms like multi-squad delivery, DORA Elite, M&A delivery, and platform delivery where relevant. The full list of Delivery Manager resume skills, ranked by demand, includes a bullet example for each.

GitHub matters when you can show delivery craft: a public DORA dashboard, an open-source delivery-metric library, a Medium / Substack writeup of a continuous-delivery transformation. Conference talks (DevOps Enterprise Summit, LeadDev, QCon) land equally well. For Senior Delivery Managers, the multi-squad delivery engagements you closed and the DORA / flow numbers you moved at past employers carry most of the proof, so LinkedIn plus a one-paragraph delivery summary per role covers it. DORA / Accelerate, SAFe RTE, Kanban Management Professional, or ICAgile certs are worth mentioning when present.

List all three only when each is genuinely reflected in your work. DORA signals you measure delivery the way modern engineering orgs do, Continuous Delivery signals you understand the technical practices behind elite metrics, Kanban Method signals you can run flow-based delivery. The combination tells a hiring director you can sit across DORA-driven measurement, technical delivery practices, and flow-based execution. Where it backfires: name-dropping a methodology you never applied reads worse than not listing it.

Target five bullets, treat six as the hard cap. A paragraph asks a hiring director to read carefully inside a window that exists only for scanning, which never happens on a first pass. As bullets, they pattern-match you against the delivery scope, the methodology, and the DORA / flow outcome in under a second and decide whether the page deserves more attention.

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Emmanuel Gendre, former Google Recruiter and Tech Resume Writer

Emmanuel Gendre

Former Google recruiter · 12 years · 1,500+ tech resumes rewritten

I screen Delivery Manager resumes the same way I did at Google: against the role profile, against the JD, and against the bar real hiring managers set. Everything in this guide is the field manual I use with my own clients.

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