Resume Automation

An automated resume generation workflow.

Pandoc is used to generate a resume in multiple formats (pdf, html) from the jsonresume schema.

Demo | Actual Resume

Manual Usage

# clone the repo
$ git clone git@github.com/kencx/resume

# edit schema with details
$ vim schema.json

# generate the files in outputs/
$ make

make will do the following:

• Build the custom Docker image for Pandoc
• Use the built Pandoc image to generate the PDF and HTML resume in outputs/

To build with a different metadata file:

$ cp schema.json custom.json

# make changes
$ vim custom.json

$ docker compose run --rm pandoc --metadata custom.json

How it works

All commands listed below are the raw pandoc commands that will be run in the Python build script.

• All templates are stored in templates/
• All filters are stored in filters/
• All static files (fonts, CSS) are stored in static/
• See defaults.yml for default flags

The PDF is generated from an existing LaTeX template:

$ pandoc --defaults defaults.yml \
    --template templates/resume.pandoc.tex \
    --output=outputs/resume.pdf \
    README.md

The HTML requires two steps:

1. An intermediate Markdown file is generated from an existing Markdown template
2. The intermediate Markdown is turned into HTML with a custom stylesheet and lua-filter

$ pandoc --defaults defaults.yml \
    --template=templates/resume.pandoc.md \
    --output=outputs/intermediate.md \
    README.md

$ pandoc --defaults defaults.yml \
    --output=outputs/resume.html \
    --css static/latex.css \
    outputs/intermediate.md

Future

• Support docx generation
• Generate HTML resume from LaTeX template

Credits

• latex.css
• list-table
• pypandoc
• box-icons