RenderCV

I never liked the user experience of writing a CV using the traditional tools.

To me, writing a resume should be purely about the content, not the design. The design is mostly standardized and similar for everyone. Yet no tool let people focus solely on content without also dealing with layout and formatting.

Tools like Google Docs, Word, and $\LaTeX$ blend design and content; turning a content problem into a content + design problem.

So, I decided to permanently separate these problems. I created RenderCV, a tool that lets you write your resume content in clean, structured YAML, and generates a professional-looking PDF automatically from it. Want to change the design? Do it in a separate design layer. Want to update your content? Just edit the YAML.

The tool gained traction, receiving 2,500+ GitHub stars and over 70,000 downloads on PyPI.

A friend and I later launched a web app for RenderCV, now serving 3,000+ monthly active users.