Welcome to the source code for my CV. I chose to write my CV using a web page to give me more control over its look and feel. I wanted to try and create a more interesting CV than your run of the mill MS Word template.
I then decided that if I was going to do this I might as well do it to work on some new skills. I have worked with many javascript UI frameworks over the years but I hadn't done too much with React. I was interested in learning and understanding this framework more. I had worked with React when building my wife's business web page https://tygwynreflex.co.uk/ but having more practice with React seemed like a good idea.
Having built a print version of my CV locally, it seemed like a good opportunity to make my CV stand out more with a web page. Being as it was already a web page in the print version it was simple to just publish this online using GitHub. I made some amendments to the print page to make it more responsive and to add some extra details, like the link that hopefully brought you here 😊.
Having completed these tasks I thought, it seemed a shame to not just show how the page had been built. So I've published a fork of the source code (somewhat anonymised) here. So feel free to browse around.
This page isn't exactly the most complicated interface I've built. It has limited interaction but here are some of the skills I've tried to show you here:
- Basic React and Javascript skills
- Understanding of web page security fundermentals (check out the CSP headers)
- Responsive design, the working page should be accessible from you mobile to your printer to your desktop
- Some simple CSS transitions
Hopefully, you like what you see here. If you want to contact me regarding any of this (and you don't already have my details) then you should check out my LinkedIn profile.