levineuwirth.org/yaml-source

Levi Neuwirth — CV and Résumé

Single-source pipeline producing two PDFs from a shared YAML content store:

• output/cv.pdf — multi-page academic CV.
• output/resume.pdf — one-page industry résumé.

How it works

Content lives in data/*.yml, one file per logical section. Each entry has cv_visible and resume_visible flags that control whether it appears in the CV, the résumé, or both. The two Jinja2 templates in templates/ render into LaTeX, which xelatex compiles.

Building

make all       # build both PDFs
make cv        # build CV only
make resume    # build résumé only
make clean     # remove build/ and output/
make install   # pip install pyyaml + jinja2 (user install)

Requires: Python 3.9+, xelatex (TeX Live, MacTeX, or equivalent), Source Serif Pro and Source Sans Pro fonts. On most Linux distributions these fonts are in the texlive-fonts-extra or equivalent package; on macOS they're available through Homebrew (brew install --cask font-source-serif-pro font-source-sans-pro) or directly from Adobe.

Maintenance patterns

Add a new publication: edit data/publications.yml, append an entry, set cv_visible and resume_visible as appropriate. Rebuild.

Update a role: edit data/experience.yml. The cv_order and resume_order fields let you reorder per document.

Change the ordering on the résumé without changing the CV: adjust resume_order in experience.yml. The CV uses cv_order independently.

Move a project from "in progress" to "published": move its entry from projects.yml into publications.yml.

Hide something temporarily: flip its visibility flag to false. The entry stays in source, preserving history.

Page-count notes

• Résumé is a clean 1 page. It holds five Experience entries (MARS V, Shu Lab, NeuroAI, xAI, contracting), 3 projects, education, and header. The fit depends on two deliberate choices: xAI is held to a single line (scope line dropped, metrics bullets removed — see below), and the résumé-only spacing in resume.tex.j2 (\titlespacing, itemize spacing, \parskip) is tuned so the last education note lands on page 1. Adding a multi-line Experience or Projects entry will spill onto a second page; when that happens, either trim content or nudge \parskip down (0.1em is the current value; page 1 still reads with air at that level).
• xAI is intentionally de-emphasized. It sits fourth in Experience and is one line that keeps only the grok-code-fast-1 credential. The old scope line and the two metrics bullets (tool-execution / API-usage percentages, hallucination-rate reduction) were removed on purpose to keep both documents' centre of gravity on research; do not re-add them without a reason.
• CV at 4 pages is normal for this level of output. Page 4 is sparse (Languages, Skills, Research Interests); tightening \titlespacing and \parskip in preamble.tex can collapse to 3 pages but tends to reappear at 4 as soon as new content is added.

Design notes

• Body: Source Serif Pro. Headers: Source Sans Pro. Fully black and white.
• Templates use LaTeX-safe Jinja delimiters: %% ... %% for blocks, (( ... )) for variables, %# ... #% for comments. This avoids collisions with LaTeX's own % and {}.
• \entryheader in templates/shared/commands.tex is the unified organization/role/date/location block used by both templates.
• The MARS V and Shu Lab entries have cv_section: research set in experience.yml, which routes them into the CV's "Research Experience" section while they still sit under plain "Experience" on the résumé. Other routing flags can be added similarly.
• Ordering is per-axis. The résumé sorts Experience by resume_order (research-first: MARS V, Shu Lab, NeuroAI, then xAI and contracting). The CV templates render in file order within each section — the cv_order field is documentation of intent, not a sort key, so keep the YAML file order and cv_order consistent when reordering.

File layout

cv/
├── data/              # YAML content (source of truth)
│   ├── affiliations.yml
│   ├── education.yml
│   ├── experience.yml
│   ├── grants.yml
│   ├── personal.yml
│   ├── presentations.yml
│   ├── projects.yml
│   ├── publications.yml
│   └── skills.yml
├── templates/
│   ├── cv.tex.j2
│   ├── resume.tex.j2
│   └── shared/
│       ├── commands.tex
│       └── preamble.tex
├── build.py           # renders + compiles
├── Makefile
├── build/             # intermediate (.aux, .log, rendered .tex)
└── output/
    ├── cv.pdf
    └── resume.pdf