TL; DR - hrmnjt/resume

I've dreaded the concept of resume in the past as it seems borderline (strong word:) narcissistic. You need to go in lengths to explain all you have ever worked on. I take pride in what I’ve worked on but don’t like the fact that I need to explain it to my employer. I wonder if there were better ways to exhibit this; easier if there was more open source culture.

Nevertheless, In order to make resume fun for me, and to check one of the items in my list, I decided to make my resume using LaTeX (pronounced: LAH-tek)

Why LaTeX?

In past, I'd wonder why all journals and papers published always followed similar pattern and I thought to myself that it would be a criteria to write the journal/paper in that particular format. Researching deeper, I realized the reason it all looks similar was because in academics, people use a different word processing engine - one which came with its own set of awesome features.

• Macros and microtype

• Programmatic approach on visual formatting

• Pixel perfect typography for mathematics (haven't used it yet, but excited)

• Huge community (mostly nerds and geeks)

But the most understated reason that I felt was codifying the document and version controlling. Publishing documents as Git repositories seem like the most natural approach for editing and improving them over time.

How?

I started with Overleaf quickstart which is great resource to kick-start your LAH-tek experience. Although, instead of using their online editor, I wanted to edit the documents at my own terms. I hate putting personal data on servers which I don't trust very well (no offense Overleaf; amazing service!)

Instead of installing the binaries and I chose to go the Docker way

# Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:xenial 
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN apt-get update -q && apt-get install -qy \
     curl jq \
     texlive-full \
     python-pygments gnuplot \
     make git \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

WORKDIR /data 
VOLUME ["/data"]

Steps to build and run

docker build -t latex . 
docker run --rm -i -v "$PWD":/data latex pdflatex YOURFILE.tex

This assumes the file YOURFILE.tex is present in the pwd

Alternatively, you can choose to install the binaries.

Check out the repo: hrmnjt/resume