This is a simple modular resume builder written in LaTeX. My goals are 1) transparency and 2) modularity.
Almost every time I've needed a copy of my resume, I'd first have to carefully choose which experiences to include and tailor each description to the situation at hand. Sometimes I'd want to highlight my technical skills, but other times I'd be my leadership skills, teaching experience, etc. This meant lots of comments, typos, messy LaTeX, and time spent fudging with formatting.
Taking inspiration from a friend and this clean template, I made this LaTeX class so (hopefully) anyone with basic LaTeX skills can make a clean resume without a nest of comments and commands.
The main structure in the document is two tables, defined by resumeheader and resumebody. Both
tables use the package ltablex (a multi-page version of tabularx). They act like standard
tabular tables, but have X columns which expand until the table covers a specified width (here,
\textwidth).
Inside each table, I define several macros to help with filling table cells. In general, these
macros have the form \newcommand{\NAME_OF_MACRO}[NUMBER_OF_ARGUMENTS]{LATEX_CODE} where arguments
can be referenced inside LATEX_CODE by #1, #2, etc. For example, some defined macros are
\school{NAME_OF_SCHOOL}, \degree{DEGREE}{SUBJECT}{GPA}{DATE}, or
\experience{PLACE/TITLE}{POSITION}{DATE}{DETAILS}.
Finally, I've placed my various positions, experiences, awards, etc. in folders, loaded by
\load[VERSION]{FILENAME}, where the optional VERSION input loads specific versions of the item.
For example in projects/2016-consensus.tex, I have a designfocused version for design-oriented
applications and a general-purpose default version. Under the hood, this uses switch-case logic
from the xstring package and a self-defined \version variable. Altogether, this keeps
resume.tex clean and makes it easy to select which resume items to include.
Don't be afraid of reading/editing resume.cls to understand the existing macros, make additional
macros, adjust the table structure, or play with the formatting. Again, one of my goals is
transparency because LaTeX is so often opaque and hard for beginning users to change.
Feel free to open issues or pull requests, and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.