Free CV Maker — Typst Template

A free, open-source CV template for developers (and anyone else looking for a job). Written in Typst using the modern-cv template, with a GitHub Actions workflow that auto-builds your CV to PDF, attaches it to a rolling GitHub Release, and publishes a live preview on GitHub Pages.

Tip: click the green Use this template button on GitHub to create your own copy of this repo. Then follow the steps below.

What you get

• A clean, single-page developer CV in PDF — no fiddling with Word margins.
• One source file (cv.typ) — edit text, push, get a PDF.
• Auto-built on every push: https://<your-username>.github.io/<repo-name>/ always shows the latest version.
• A rolling latest GitHub Release so anyone can download the PDF from a stable URL.
• All fonts vendored — no internet required for builds.

Quick start

1. Click Use this template → Create a new repository.
2. Edit cv.typ — replace the placeholder content (Jordan Rivera, Lumen Labs, etc.) with your own.
3. Commit and push. GitHub Actions takes ~30 seconds to build and publish.
4. Download from the latest release or view online at the Pages URL.

Editing the CV

All content lives in cv.typ. Each role follows the same pattern:

#resume-entry(
  title: "Company Name",
  location: "Job Title",
  date: "YYYY – YYYY",
  description: "Team / product area",
)
#resume-item[
  - Bullet point one — what you did and the impact.
  - Bullet point two — quantify when you can.
]

The author: (...) block at the top of cv.typ controls your name, contact info, and links (LinkedIn, GitHub, personal site). Update those first.

Building locally

1. Install Typst (one time):

brew install typst        # macOS
# or see https://github.com/typst/typst#installation for other platforms

2. Compile or watch — fonts are vendored, no download needed:

make build   # one-shot compile → CV.pdf
make watch   # auto-recompile on every save

3. Open CV.pdf in your editor or PDF viewer. With make watch running, it auto-refreshes within ~100 ms of each save.

Run make help to see all targets.

Fonts

All required fonts are vendored under assets/fonts/ (~3.2 MB, all OFL-1.1 licensed). See assets/fonts/LICENSES.md for details.

One-time repository setup

After your first push, enable the auto-publish features.

1. Open your repo on GitHub and click Settings (top right of the repo).
2. In the left sidebar, click Pages (under "Code and automation").
3. Under Build and deployment → Source, open the dropdown and select GitHub Actions. There's no save button — selecting it enables Pages.
4. Still in Settings, click Actions → General in the left sidebar.
5. Scroll to Workflow permissions, choose Read and write permissions, then click Save. (This lets the workflow create the rolling latest GitHub Release.)

Once over, your CV will be live at https://<your-username>.github.io/<repo-name>/ and downloadable from the latest release. Every push to main after this republishes automatically.

License

The template files in this repo are MIT-licensed — use them however you like. The modern-cv Typst template and the bundled fonts have their own licenses; see their respective sources.