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Open source resume templates with JSON-LD (SEO-friendly) support

I don't usually keep track of the projects that I worked on. I have been recently advised to keep resume updated with the projects list. And so I have searched for resume templates and tools.

Indian resume Vs International resume

During the process, I have found that there are vast differences between the format of Indian resumes and International resumes. Indian resumes are extremely verbose with number of projects, team size, client name, etc. whereas international format is more succinct and short. So I was kind of lost in the process in adopting the template.

LinkedIn to the rescue?

No. Unfortunately, LinkedIn format is "common" and is not easy to update. Moreover, these days LinkedIn has become signupware [sic] and so accessing resume is a nightmare.

Enter JSON Resume


JSON Resume is an awesome open source approach for creating resume. I accidentally came across while searching for JSON-LD format for resume. Couple of great features:
  1. Resume hosting (optional). I think, it is better to ignore this one.
  2. CLI tool to create resume JSON structure: resume-cli
  3. Templates or themes support. So number of themes are possible for same resume.
Apart from these, it has good ecosystem surrounding it with different tools and projects:
  1. Tool to generate JSON-LD out of it resumeToJSONLD
  2. Tool to generate JSON Resume from LinkedIn linkedin-to-json-resume
  3. Tool to generate Microsoft Word resumes from JSON Resume data ResumeFodder
  4. Skill set visualization using D3.js SkillSet
I have also noted similar approach from other project json_resume But, it is not using resume schema.

Caveat

Unfortunately, this project is not very active. It doesn't support projects list for Indian context, but we can work around it.

Update (June 11, 2020)

Now open source ecosystem has few other players:
  1. Resumake - has LaTeX support
  2. Reactive Resume - No support for JSON Resume yet and has few active forks
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