Resume of Ben Friedland

http://www.bugben.com

My career, as a git commit history.

I've tried a couple iterations at my resume, an XML persisted solution way back in the 90's, a database persisted Django project (https://github.com/ben174/bugben/tree/3.0), and now I'm trying to simplify it by using a basic filesystem structure, with a git repository to maintain version history.

Looking for the old Django Project? Branch 3.0

The Renderer

I've created a separate Python project renders this resume to various formats. HTML, TXT, PDF, etc. The goal of this project is to create a standard format for a Resume repository and this Renderer could be used and expanded on to render your repo.

https://github.com/ben174/resume-renderer

The rendered output:

http://www.bugben.com

Directory Structure

The creation date of each subdirectory in the Git history represents the start date in my lifetime (i.e. started the job, created the project, started using the skill).

A pseudo git-log, a timeline of my career:

*   08aeead Started working at 'Clutter'
|\  
| * 15e6b24 Began using Django
| * 96e1c27 Began using Angular
| *   45dc382 Started Project 'ShowerTexts'
| |\  
| |/  
|/|   
* | 86d8344 Started working at 'Shape Security'
* | 5ecbe26 Began using 'Selenium'
* | 3792057 Began using 'ReactJS'
| * b34098c Started Project 'Rick Roulette'
|/

File structure

Each subdirectory contains files detailing itself.

NAME.txt

A file containing a friendly name of this particular entry, e.g.: Riker Ipsum. While the directory name should be indicative of what this entry represents, the renderer uses this string to make a more friendly name to output on the resume.

README.md

Contains the basic body detailing the entry itself. For experience, this contains my job title, and some accomplishments. Keeping this in a README.md is handy because GitHub will display this markdown when navigating the repo.

LOGO.png

A logo representing the entry (company logo, project logo). The renderer will render this logo next to each entry.

Experience

Each directory in here is a single position I've held. The date the directory was created is the start date of the position. A single file titled DEPARTURE is committed on my end date at that company. It can optionally contain some text with details on the departure, e.g.: Fired for stealing stationary.

Projects

Open source community contributions go here as directories. They can optionally contain a 'src' submodule which links to the repo which hosts the project.

.gitmodules

[submodule "src"]
    path = src
    url = https://github.com/ben174/bugben.git

ORDER.txt

Since some of my projects are more notable than others and I'd like to be able to order them, the Projects directory has a ORDER.txt file which contains the directory names in the order they should be rendered on my resume.

Expertise

Fields of expertise go here as directories, e.g.: Web Development, Operating Systems. Within each directory would be several files for each particular skill, e.g.: Python, HTML. The creation date of this file determines when I first started using that skill. The renderer may use this to add weight to individual skills based on the number of years I've used them. Optionally some text within the file can describe where I've used it and how comfortable I am with it.

SUMMARY.md

A simple markdown-formatted profile summary which is rendered at the top of my resume. In my case, I like a concise bulleted list outlining some of my skills and accomplishments.

LINKS.md

A simple markdown-formatted bulleted list of important links. Such as my Home Page, LinkedIn profile, and GitHub page.

EXPERTISE.json (Deprecated)

A json structure (This has been deprecated in favor of git commit history):

[
  {
    "category": "Web Application Development",
    "entries": [
      {
        "title": "Python"
        "years": 5,
      },
      {
        "title": "Django"
        "years": 4,
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "category": "Databases",
    "entries": [
      {
        "title": "MySql"
        "years": 5,
      },
      {
        "title": "PostgreSQL"
        "years": 4,
      }
    ]
  }
]

Tests

Tests will assert that:

• I am currently employed

• I'm actively working on a project

• I've made some community contributions recently