Ángel Castañeda's Résumé

Last year, I did a favor for my friend's dad and made him a new cv in $\LaTeX{}$. I ended up converting my own cv and have maintained it on and off ever since.

I was inspired by EJ Mastnak to finally do the sensible thing and version control my code instead of making more and more copies of it on Overleaf.

Getting a PDF

This repos is continuously integrated with sourcehut. Binaries are compiled according to the .build.yml file.

Just visit angelcastaneda.org/cv.pdf to see the results.

Or, you can self compile by cloning this repo and just running make to get my cv or make cover to get my (unsigned) cover letter template. I detail dependencies below.

How to make your own:

If you don't know much about git or syncthing or keeping code synchronized together, overleaf is a great place to start learning TeX. If you wanna be cool and compile your own code, you gotta install packages first.

On arch, I ran:

$ sudo pacman -S texlive

Make a basic main.tex file like so:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\title{My Awesome CV}
\author{John Smith}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section*{Skills:}

\begin{itemize}
  \item coding
  \item presenting
  \item counting money
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

Then compile with:

$ pdflatex main.tex
# ...a bunch of output...
$ ls
main.aux  main.log  main.pdf  main.tex

there's a bunch of output files like main.log and main.aux that get made, but they're usually debugging your broken code. open main.pdf to see the end product. ( I do wanna add that in my case, pdflatex runs twice on main.tex to generate those output files to make my pdf index toc. )

That's an absolute start, but you can get way into it and make something more customizable than whatever word or google docs could ever do.

Here's the video that got me started and a set of videos showing how cool vim and latex can really be for a resume.

License

This project is under the Zero-Clause BSD license. Check LICENSE for more details.