Turn your GitHub Page into a Personalised Resume

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A little while ago, I decided I wanted to update my CV, and figured given I was in tech it made sense for my CV to be online.  I was aware of GitHub Pages - which give you a nice looking URL which seemed like a perfect location for my tech CV.


http://robhinds.github.io/


Once I had it looking pretty decent, and updated to modern Bootstrap styling so it was fully responsive, I thought I would stick it on GitHub, as a GitHub page.  GitHub provides support for everyone to have a free hosted page with normal HTML/JS resources etc (which is pretty nice of them!) and gives you a nice, share-able URL like http://{username}.github.io.

Whilst I was reading about GitHub pages, I noticed that they have native support for Jekyll - which is a static HTML generator tool for building websites - which is when I had my second realisation of the day - I could make my CV open-source-able by making it a configurable Jekyll projects that lets users just update some config in their GitHub account and hey-presto, have a nicely styled, personalised tech CV!

So I started porting it over to Jekyll: which just involved moving the configurable, user specific items into a config file (_config.yml) and then breaking the HTML sections into fragments to make it more manageable to understand what is going on.  The idea of Jekyll is pretty straight forward - its just a simple tokenised/template approach to putting together static HTML output, but it does work well and I really didn't find myself wanting for anything in the process.  The GitHub native support was also really nice, all I needed to do was just upload the source of the project to my GitHub account and GitHub handled the build and serving of the site out of the box!

And that's all the configuration it takes! The YAML format is pretty readable - it largely just works with indenting, and hopefully taking a look over the nested sections of data, its fairly easy to understand how you can modify parts to make it customise-able.


You can see my GitHub CV page here robhinds.github.io - Out of the box you can configure lots of aspects: custom text blocks, key skills, blogs, apps, github projects, stackoverflow, etc.

How can you have a custom GitHub CV?

It really is super simple to get your own GitHub CV:
  1. Create a Github account (if you don't already have one)

  2. Go to the project repository and fork the repository

  3. Change the name of the repository (in the settings menu) to {{yourusername}}.github.io

  4. Edit the /_config.yml file in your repository - it should be pretty straight forward as to what the links/details are that you need to add.

  5. Visit your new profile page: {{yourusername}}.github.io and start sharing it!


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