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The CI/CD Résumé Project

We all know the pain of continuously updating our résumé: applying the ideal format, trimming the fat, keeping track of pertinent details, researching trends, etc. If only there were a way to separate the content from the format, allowing you to distribute the résumé with a variety of formats that pull content from a centralized source with a standardized format!

As an automated focused technologist, this idea led me to a fun realization: a DevOps professional ought to have a deployment pipeline for their résumé!

Requirements

In order to fulfill my goal, the résumé must adhere to the following:

• Be well documented!
• Produce a web friendly résumé.
• Produce a PDF résumé for distribution.
• Have a single source of truth.
  • This means that the content must be separate from the format.
• Have a pipeline to automatically publish the various forms of my resume.
• Support the Konami code.
  • I honestly have no idea why this is a criteria, but as a nerd it just feels right!

Technologies

The current iteration of this project can be found here along with the architectural diagram, pipeline overview, and any supporting documentation. But at a high level this project uses the following technologies:

• Git
  • version control
  • hooks
• GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitHub Pages
• Bash
  • Automation
• Python
  • Templates
• Docker
  • Runtime environment (PDF generation)
• DockerHub
  • Container registry
• HTML/CSS
  • Web content
• Javascript
  • EventListener (monitor keystrokes)
  • Ternary operator (monitor state)

Résumés should be Nerdy!

I have interviewed many candidates in my career and I realize that in today’s world of ATS and centralized web behemoths this is not the “proper” approach, but I believe that a résumé should have personality and reflect the person and their approach, not just list accomplishments. Because at the end of the day people hire people, not perfectly formatted lists.