LaTeX Resumes from Simple YAML Config(github.com)

Show HN: Simple Resume – Generate PDF/HTML/LaTeX Resumes from Simple YAML Config

https://github.com/athola/simple-resume

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I know I know, yet another resume generation project. The ones I've encountered built in python are either inactive or didn't quite address what I wanted in a quick generation engine to update my resume for different job postings. I became frustrated with other tools and declined to pay money for an online service, so here we are.

This is a CLI tool which allows for defining resume content in a single YAML file and then generating PDF, HTML, or LaTeX rendered resumes from it. The idea is to write the configuration once, then be able to render it in a variety of different iterations.

Some key details:

It comes with a few templates and color schemes that you can customize.

For academic use, the LaTeX output gives you precise typesetting control.

There's a Python API if you want to generate resumes programmatically. It's designed to have a limited surface area to not expose inner workings, only the necessary structures as building blocks.

The codebase has over 90% test coverage and is fully type-hinted. I adhered to a functional core, imperative shell architecture (after reading a recent post about it here!)

Example YAML:

  template: resume_base
  full_name: Jane Doe
  job_title: Software Engineer
  email: [email protected]
  config:
    color_scheme: "Professional Blue"

  body:
    experience:
      - title: Senior Engineer
        company: TechCorp
        start: 2022
        end: Present
        description: |
          - Led microservices architecture serving 1M+ users
          - Improved performance by 40% through optimization

Generate with:

  uv run simple-resume generate --format pdf --open