Resume Redesign

Written on June 10, 2021

The code can be found here the resume is based on Sonya Sawtelle’s.

For the past seven years or so I have maintained a Latex Resume. When I decided to finally overhaul my website I also decided to change my resume over to a simpler setup. I wasn’t sure what I was looking for, but I wanted an option that wasn’t Latex or a word file. In my research I stumbled upon people using markdown and css to render pdfs and html versions of their resumes. The use of a simple markdown page with css theming was similar to what I had just set up for my website and provided the ease of use I wanted.

I decided to use Pandoc to generate a html resume from a markdown page and a css file. Wkhtmltopdf then uses the html file to generate a pdf file of the resume. These two commands are contained in the Makefile along with a command to clean the repo of the generated files.