Generate professional resumes with ease using AltaCV and AwesomeCV LaTeX templates in a type-safe Kotlin DSL.
This started as a side project to explore building DSLs with Kotlin. Many of my friends are amazed by the quality of LaTeX in the compiled PDF but struggle with LaTeX. So, I built this library to make LaTeX-based CV generation easier and more customizable for developers.
✅ Template-Based CV Generation – Supports LaTeX templates (AltaCV/AwesomeCV) for structured CV generation.
✅ Kotlin & Java Support – Designed for use in Kotlin, but Java is also supported.
✅ Customizable Templates – Define your own LaTeX structures for flexibility (tuning parameters without altering template code).
✅ Separation of Data & Presentation – Focus on your résumé data, forget LaTeX commands
✅ Simple Integration – Can be used in web services or standalone apps.
✅ JSON & YAML Serialization – Save your résumé in JSON and YAML representations, useful for web services
This package is available on Maven central.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.melkassib</groupId>
<artifactId>cv-generator-latex</artifactId>
<version>0.2.0</version>
</dependency>dependencies {
implementation("com.melkassib:cv-generator-latex:0.2.0")
}- Create a repository based on this template: cv-generator-latex-template
- Start writing your résumé using your preferred language:
- Kotlin:
src/main/kotlin - Java:
src/main/java
- Kotlin:
- Use the following Overleaf templates to compile your generated LaTeX résumé:
- AltaCV: Template Link by LianTze Lim (liantze@gmail.com)
- AwesomeCV: Template Link by Claud D. Park (posquit0.bj@gmail.com)
You can find the generated files in the docs/examples folder.
altacv {
config {
photoShape = PhotoShape.NORMAL
theme = PredefinedColorPalette.THEME1
}
header {
tagline = "Your Position or Tagline Here"
photo = Photo(2.8, "Globe_High.png")
userInfo = AltaCVUserInfo("Your Name Here", linkedSetOf(
Email("your_name@email.com"),
Phone("000-00-0000"),
MailAddress("Address, Street, 00000 Country"),
Location("Location, COUNTRY"),
HomePage("www.homepage.com"),
Twitter("@twitterhandle"),
LinkedIn("your_id"),
Github("your_id"),
Orcid("0000-0000-0000-0000"),
UserInfoField("gitlab", "\\faGitlab", "https://gitlab.com/", "your_id")
))
}
sections {
section("Experience", firstColumn(1), Divider) {
contents {
event("Job Title 1") {
holder = "Company 1"
location = "Location"
duration = eventDurationStr("Month XXXX", "Ongoing")
description = listOf(
Item("Job description 1"),
Item("Job description 2"),
Item("Job description 3", false)
)
}
event("Job Title 2") {
holder = "Company 2"
location = "Location"
duration = eventDurationDate("2023-10", "2023-10")
description = listOf(Item("Item1"))
}
event("Job Title 3") {
holder = "Company 3"
location = "Location"
}
}
}
section("Projects", firstColumn(2), separator = Divider) {
contents {
event("Project 1") {
holder = "Funding agency/institution"
description = listOf(Item("Details"))
}
event("Project 1") {
holder = "Funding agency/institution"
duration = eventDurationStr("Project duration")
description = listOf(Item(" A short abstract would also work.", withBullet = false))
}
}
}
section("A day of my life", firstColumn(3)) {
contents {
wheelchart(1.5, 0.5) {
item(6, 8, "accent!30", "Sleep,\\\\beautiful sleep")
item(3, 8, "accent!40", "Hopeful novelist by night")
item(8, 8, "accent!60", "Daytime job")
item(2, 10, "accent", "Sports and relaxation")
item(5, 8, "accent!20", "Spending time with family")
}
content("\\newpage")
}
}
section("My Life Philosophy", secondColumn(1)) {
contents {
quote("Something smart or heartfelt, preferably in one sentence.")
}
}
section("Most Proud of", secondColumn(2), ignored = false) {
contents {
achievement("faTrophy", "Fantastic Achievement", "and some details about it")
achievement("faHeartbeat", "Another achievement", "more details about it of course")
achievement("faHeartbeat", "Another achievement", "more details about it of course")
}
}
section("Strengths", secondColumn(3)) {
contents {
tag("Hard-working")
tag("Eye for detail")
content(NewLine)
tag("Motivator & Leader")
content(Divider)
tag("C++")
tag("Embedded Systems")
content(NewLine)
tag("Statistical Analysis")
}
}
section("Languages", secondColumn(4)) {
contents {
skill("Arabic", "Native/Bilingual")
skill("English", "Professional working proficiency")
skill("Spanish", "Limited working proficiency")
skill("German", 2.0)
}
}
section("Education", secondColumn(5), separator = Divider) {
contents {
event("Ph.D. in Your Discipline") {
holder = "Your University"
duration = eventDurationDate("2002-09", "2006-06")
description = listOf(Item("Thesis title: Wonderful Research", false))
}
event("M.Sc. in Your Discipline") {
holder = "Your University"
duration = eventDurationDate("2001-09", "2002-06")
}
event("B.Sc. in Your Discipline") {
holder = "Stanford University"
duration = eventDurationDate("1998-09", "2001-06")
}
}
}
}
}awesomecv {
config {
colorTheme = ColorTheme.ORANGE
isSectionHighlighted = true
headerSocialSeparator = "\\cdotp"
}
header {
photo = Photo(PhotoShape.RECTANGLE, PhotoEdge.NO_EDGE, path = "profile")
quote = "Be the change that you want to see in the world."
user {
firstName = "John"
lastName = "Dupont"
personalInfo = linkedSetOf(
Position("Developer \\enskip\\cdotp\\enskip Cloud Engineer"),
MailAddress("Address, Street, City"),
Phone("(+212) 000-000-000"),
Email("contact@email.com"),
HomePage("www.homepage.com"),
Github("your_id"),
LinkedIn("your_id"),
Gitlab("your_id"),
Twitter("@your_id"),
Skype("your_id"),
Reddit("your_id"),
Medium("your_id"),
StackOverFlow("SO-id", "SO-name"),
GoogleScholar("googlescholar-id", "name-to-display"),
ExtraInfo("extra information"),
)
}
}
footer {
left = "\\today"
center = "John Dupont $\\sim$$\\sim$ $\\cdot$ $\\sim$$\\sim$ Résumé"
right = "\\thepage"
}
sections {
section("Summary") {
contents {
paragraph("This is a paragraph")
}
}
section("Work Experience") {
contents {
event("Software Engineer") {
holder = "TechNova Solutions"
location = "New York, USA"
duration = eventDurationStr("Jan. 2022", "Present")
description = listOf(
Item("Developed scalable microservices architecture for cloud applications."),
Item("Reduced system downtime by 40% by implementing automated monitoring and alerting."),
Item("Led a team of 5 engineers to build a real-time analytics dashboard using Kafka and Elasticsearch.")
)
}
event("Backend Developer") {
holder = "CodeWave Inc."
location = "San Francisco, USA"
duration = eventDurationStr("Jun. 2019", "Dec. 2021")
description = listOf(
Item("Designed RESTful APIs that handled over 1M requests per day."),
Item("Optimized database queries, improving response times by 50%."),
Item("Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Docker to streamline deployments.")
)
}
}
}
section("Honors & Awards") {
contents {
honors("International Awards") {
honor("Winner", "Google Cloud Hackathon", "Online", "2022")
honor("Top 5 Finalist", "Microsoft AI Challenge", "Seattle, USA", "2021")
}
content("\\medskip")
honors("Domestic Awards") {
honor("1st Place", "National Coding Championship", "New York, USA", "2020")
}
}
}
}
}- AltaCV: LaTeX template by LianTze Lim (liantze@gmail.com)
- AwesomeCV: LaTeX template by posquit0 (posquit0.bj@gmail.com)