Introduction

This project was started with an intention to provide an easy way for students and researchers to create and deploy a delightfully simple website and a résumé based on their profile.

Due to the structured nature of the various jobs and achievements by students or researchers, many developers naturally extended an individual's career fields to create a format with predefined fields (e.g. work, education, publications, skills, etc.) either in YAML, json formats or as html elements and made several web applications to build résumés. Almost all of the résumé builders available online, or the projects that generate résumé from YAML (e.g. basmos/cv), from json (e.g. prat0318/json_resume), or those that aim to create a standard format (e.g. jsonresume/resume-cli) successfully provided schemas and demonstrated with working solutions.

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Due to the wide use of JSON Resume schema, ProfileIO adopted it in YAML format and extended it.

Unlike most of the existing projects, ProfileIO aims to generate website and résumé independently along with providing the required content to seemlessly deploy your website (with automatically linked résumé) using GitHub pages or netlify.

Things to watch out for

In its current form, a basic knowledge of YAML is expected from the user, in order to edit profile_web.yml and profile_resume.yml files. Few web applications will be made available in future to make it easy for beginners to populate YAML document.