Colin's Resume

Welcome to my cloud hosted resume!

This template can be used to update your self-hosted website, as well as generate a PDF with the same information.

1. The resume information is stored in a YAML file (resume_builder/resume.yaml).
   • The YAML schema supports profile-based filtering with include_in tags for generating different resume variants (default, technical, leadership)
   • Schema documentation is available in resume_builder/SCHEMA_DOCUMENTATION.md
2. The web design is forked from this repo. Thank you @draco for the beautiful resume template! Please go sponsor them if you are able and find value in the template like I do.

Installation

This template uses two main tools to accomplish the conversion to PDF: Pandoc and wkhtmltopdf.

1. To install, use the package installer that corresponds to your system. For me, I am doing my code editing on Ubuntu Server

   sudo apt install pandoc
   sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf
   

   Thank you to @vidluther for breaking it down in your repo. It was a long google-fu road to you.

2. Update the YAML file at resume_builder/resume.yaml. Yes, it is my resume that you are walking all over. Don't worry, I won't be offended.

   • Look to resume_builder/SCHEMA_DOCUMENTATION.md for additional fields you can use
   • Use include_in tags to control which items appear in different profile variants
   • Available profiles: default, technical, leadership

3. Run the build script in the resume_builder folder. The names are all generic so the script can be reused.

   cd resume_builder
   ./build_all.sh                     # Build with default profile
   ./build_all.sh --profile leadership  # Build with specific profile
   ./build_all.sh --all-profiles      # Build all available profiles
   ./build_all.sh --help              # Show all options

   • This script will do as it says, build all.
     • index.html for your website home page
     • resume.md to construct the html for the pdf
     • resume.html to construct the pdf
     • resume.pdf to have a pdf resume!
       • this will be in the home directory so that it can be accessed quicker online
     • output/resume.json for API/dynamic website loading

From there, you are off to the races!

Usage Idea

This is how my resume is hosted and deployed at colinmca.com

1. The files are stored in an AWS S3 bucket that has been made public.
   • You can find plenty of tutorials on this online. I think Amazon even has one.
2. CloudFront serves the content and provides SSL encryption so I can have the fancy s allowing people to feel all warm and fuzzy while they poke around.
3. Route53 does all the DNS stuff. Boy was that a pain. And I even bought my domain through them!
4. CodePipeline deploys the content on a successful merge into the main branch of this repo. This was surprisingly easy to set up and makes life WAAY better.

There are plenty more things I would like to do, but hey isn't that the way things always work? Enjoy!