y4rb 0.1.1

Yet Another Resumé Builder

y4rb — Yet Another Resumé Builder

Resume builder that turns a YAML file and an HTML/CSS template into a PDF. You own the design — y4rb connects the data to the template and handles rendering.

Install

pip install y4rb

Or download a standalone binary (no Python required) from Releases. Verify the download against checksums.sha256 in the same release.

Quick start

y4rb init my-resume
cd my-resume
y4rb preview        # live-reload browser preview at localhost:8080
y4rb render         # export resume.pdf

Resume data

Edit resume.yml in your project:

name: Jane Smith
title: Senior Software Engineer
email: [e-mail]
phone: "[phone]"
location: San Francisco, CA
links:
  - label: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/janesmith

summary: >
  Experienced engineer specialising in distributed systems and developer tooling.

experience:
  - company: Acme Corp
    title: Senior Engineer
    location: San Francisco, CA
    start: Jan 2021
    end: Present
    highlights:
      - Reduced p99 API latency by 40% through query optimisation
      - Led migration of monolith to microservices

education:
  - institution: State University
    degree: B.Sc. Computer Science
    start: 2014
    end: 2018

skills:
  Languages: "Python, Go, TypeScript"
  Infrastructure: "Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS"

All top-level fields are optional.

Tailored variants

Keep a master resume.yml and job-specific copies in tailored/:

cp resume.yml tailored/acme-backend.yml
# edit the copy
y4rb preview --resume tailored/acme-backend.yml
y4rb render  --resume tailored/acme-backend.yml --output acme-backend.pdf

CLI

Command	Description
y4rb init [dir]	Scaffold a new resume project
y4rb preview	Live-reload browser preview (default port 8080)
y4rb render	Export to PDF (default resume.pdf)

All commands accept --dir/-d to point at a project directory and --resume/-r to select a YAML file.

Template

The generated project includes a ready-to-use template. To customise:

• Layout — edit template/resume.j2.html (Jinja2; resume data available as {{ resume.field }})
• Styles — edit template/style.css (inlined at render time)
• Head — edit template/head.j2.html for fonts, meta tags, etc.

License

MIT