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Show HN: Simple Resume – Generate PDF/HTML/LaTeX Resumes from Simple YAML Config
- uhgrippa 10mo agoI 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: jane@example.com 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