CV-builder

Live site: https://cv-builder.fly.dev/

Enter your personal details in order to get a personalized CV printed as a PDF! Supports export and import as JSON.

Current deployment:

• FE & BE: Fly.io (1 app)
• DB: Supabase

Design Document

Core Features

1. User Accounts and Resume Storage

• User Registration: Enable new users to create an account with email and password.
• User Login: Authenticate users using email and password.
• Resume Management:
  • Save: Allow users to upload or create resumes and store them securely.
  • Retrieve: Provide access to previously saved resumes.
  • Update: Allow edits to existing resumes.
  • Delete: Enable users to remove resumes they no longer need.

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2. Resume Templates

• Template Selection: Offer a variety of pre-designed templates.
  • Resume Creation: Allow template selection when creating a resume.
  • Resume Editing: Allow template selection when editing a resume.

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3. Resume Review Service

AI-Powered Resume Suggestions

• Grammar and ATS Compliance Checks: Integrate language processing tools to check grammar and suggest ATS-friendly formats.
• Enhanced Suggestions: Provide actionable feedback on resumes such as suggesting better phrasing, metrics, weak action verbs and structure for resume entries.
• Highlight Missing Sections: High light missing or incomplete sections of the resume (e.g., experience, education).

Peer Review System

• Resume Sharing:
  • Allow users to share their resumes with others for feedback.
• Reviewer Feedback:
  • Allow reviewers to add comments and give structured feedback on specific sections.
  • Include options for ratings (e.g., 1-5 stars for each section).
• History Tracking:
  • Maintain a record of feedback history for users to revisit.

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Architecture

1. Backend

• Language: Go

• Database: MySQL

  • Users Table:

  CREATE TABLE users (
    id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    email VARCHAR(255) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
    password VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
  );

  • Resume Metadata Table:

  CREATE TABLE resume_metadatas (
    id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    title VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    resume_id INT NOT NULL,
    user_id INT NOT NULL,
    created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    updated_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    FOREIGN KEY (resume_id) REFERENCES resumes (id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
    FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users (id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
  );

  • Resumes Table:

  CREATE TABLE resumes (
    id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    template_name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    data TEXT NOT NULL,
    created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    updated_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  );

  • Feedback Table (for Peer Review): id, resume_id, reviewer_id, comments (JSON), ratings (JSON), created_at

• AI Service: Python-based microservice integrated using REST/gRPC for grammar checks and ATS analysis.

2. Frontend

• Framework: React

• Key Components:

  • Form Component: For creating/updating resumes.
  • Template Selector: Displays available templates.
  • User Resumes: Displays a user's resumes.
  • Review Feedback: Interface for peer review and AI suggestions.

• Template Storage:

  • Resume templates are stored in the frontend as stylesheets and CV components.

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API Endpoints

User Management

• POST /register: Register a new user.
• POST /login: Authenticate user and issue a token.

Resume Management

• POST /resumes: Create a new resume.
• GET /resume_metadatas: Retrieve all resumes metadatas for the authenticated user.
• PATCH /resume_metadatas/{id}/title: Update resume metadata title.
• GET /resumes/{id}: Retrieve a specific resume.
• PATCH /resumes/{id}: Update a specific resume.
• DELETE /resumes/{id}: Delete a specific resume.

Resume Review

• POST /reviews/{resume_id}: Submit peer feedback for a resume.
• GET /reviews/{resume_id}: Retrieve all reviews for a specific resume.
• POST /ai/review: Submit a resume for AI-powered analysis.

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