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CTRL + CV: Scraping my own website because hiring portals are terrible

As a devops contractor, I was coming to the end of a long-running engagement so I decided to freshen up my professional profile. However, with 3 sources of truth (website, CV, LinkedIn...) and the possibility of having to submit my data to janky portals, I decided to look into autogenerating my CV from my website.

I did this in a very simple way, using CSS print stylesheets for print styling, with Node's Puppeteer generating a PDF version.

In this video I also vent some frustrations that many software professionals have with the recruitment process; don't take it too seriously though!


Gavin Davies Limited / Blog