markdown-cv

A curriculum vitae maintained in plain text and rendered to HTML and PDF using CSS.

To checkout the result please go to this website

Extra information

For more details, see the project page, or the blog post on why I switched to markdown for my CV.

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Customization

Simply fork the markdown-cv repo

and edit the index.md file directly in Github

adding your skills, jobs and education.

Distribution

To transform your plain text CV into a beautiful and shareable HTML page, you have two options:

I. Use Github Pages to publish it online

1. Delete the existing gh-pages branch from your fork. It will only contain this webpage. You can either use git or the Github web interface.
2. Create a new branch called gh-pages.
3. Head to yourusername.github.io/markdown-cv to see your CV live.

Any change you want to make to your CV from then on would have to be done on the gh-pages branch and will be immediately rendered by Github Pages.

II. Build it locally and print a PDF

1. To install jekyll, run gem install bundler jekyll from the command line.
2. Clone your fork of markdown-cv to your local machine.
3. Type jekyll serve to render your CV at http://localhost:4000.
4. You can edit the index.md file and see the changes live in your browser.
5. To print a PDF, press ⌘ + p. Print and web CSS media queries should take care of the styling.

Styling

The included CSS will render your CV in two styles: s

1. kjhealy the original default, inspired by kjhealy's vita template.
2. davewhipp is a tweaked version of kjhealy, with bigger fonts and dates right aligned.

To change the default style, simply change the variable in the _config.yml file.

Any other styling is possible. More CSS style contributions and forks are welcome!

Author

Eliseo Papa (Twitter/Github/Website).

License

MIT License