Aidan Sawyer

Description

short

store and export information about my education, work experience, projects, and goals.

long

This repository is meant to act as both:

• a central hub to store the data objects about my personal and professional career in one location.
• a repeatable and simple way to generate PDF resumes without dealing with formatting hassles (allowing me to only update the json and run a command)
• a simplified way to host/serve resume info and pdf download on my site.

Content

As a "resume", the repository is meant to store information relevant to my work and career. Following the traditional divisions as well as those I found most desirable to my site, the information is stored as follows:

file	description
experience.json	jobs i've had in a number of fields
education.json	formal schooling i've completed
projects.json	software projects i've worked on over the years
additional.json	listing of languages, skills, interests, and links that didn't fit elsewhere

How to Use

Getting Started

Clone the repository or download the zip from the master branch

$ cd ~/your/projects/folder
$ git clone https://github.com/atla5/resume.git

This project runs on python 2.6 - 3.5 and requires pdflatex as a helper library.

I use/prefer macs, so the commands are in/for that. I'm sure you could get it running on PC or linux, and if you do, please send in a ticket or Pull Request explaining how you did.

For mac, make sure you have homebrew package manager installed:

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

And use it to install the basictex brew cask.

$ brew install basictex --cask

Running the Builder

The main script for this repository, responsible for reading the json, populating the new .tex file, and outputing the actual .pdf at the end is in src/build_resume.pdf:

$ python src/build_resume.py

Once you run it, look in the ./build folder to find the following main outputs:

• Resume_NAME.pdf
• CoverLetter_NAME
• References_NAME.pdf

Rolling Your Own

You probably don't just want to build my resume, so if you'd like to create one that looks like it but contains your own information, simply edit the .json files in the data/ directory.

If you don't like how I laid out my json schemas and want to fiddle with how the information is stored, look into editing the src/update_values_helpers.py methods.

More extensive edits can be made to the content of the resume by editing build/resume.tex directly. The .tex is similar to most other markup once you get the hang of it, and doesn't take you long to learn.

If you'd like to make changes to the styling of the resume, you're looking at changing the build/resume.cls file, and more power to you. I've yet to wrestle that beast, and will not be able to provide you much assistance (at least yet).