AltaCV

Two-column CV by LianTze Lim with FontAwesome icons, color accents, rating bars for skills/languages, and a distinctive sidebar layout. Great for engineering and data roles.

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% Standalone approximation of AltaCV. For the full class,
% download altacv.cls from https://github.com/liantze/AltaCV
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontawesome5}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{paracol}

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\pagestyle{empty}

\definecolor{primary}{HTML}{2E4057}
\definecolor{accent}{HTML}{D65D20}
\definecolor{heading}{HTML}{4E5C65}
\definecolor{bodycol}{HTML}{2B2B2B}
\color{bodycol}

\titleformat{\section}{\Large\bfseries\color{primary}}{}{0em}{\textcolor{accent}{\faCircle\quad}}[\color{primary}\vspace{-2pt}\titlerule]
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{10pt}{4pt}

\newcommand{\divider}{\textcolor{accent}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}}}

\newcommand{\ratingbar}[1]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline]
  \foreach \i in {1,...,5}{%
    \ifnum\i>#1
      \node[draw=primary,circle,inner sep=2pt,fill=white] at (\i*0.25,0){};
    \else
      \node[draw=primary,circle,inner sep=2pt,fill=primary] at (\i*0.25,0){};
    \fi
  }
\end{tikzpicture}%
}

\newcommand{\cvevent}[4]{%
{\bfseries\color{primary}#1} \hfill {\small\color{accent}\faCalendar\ #2}\\
{\itshape\color{heading}#3} \hfill {\small\color{heading}\faMapMarker\ #4}\par\vspace{2pt}
}

\begin{document}

{\fontsize{32}{36}\selectfont\bfseries\color{primary}First Last}\\[2pt]
{\Large\color{accent}Senior Software Engineer}\\[8pt]

\columnratio{0.65}
\begin{paracol}{2}

\section{Experience}
\cvevent{Senior Software Engineer}{Jan 2022 -- Present}{Stripe}{San Francisco, CA}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=1pt]
  \item Led billing service migration to microservices, cutting p99 latency by 42\%.
  \item Designed rate-limiter handling 2.4M RPS.
  \item Mentored 4 engineers; 2 promoted within 18 months.
\end{itemize}

\cvevent{Software Engineer}{Jul 2018 -- Dec 2021}{Airbnb}{San Francisco, CA}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,itemsep=1pt]
  \item Shipped payments integration for 3 new countries.
  \item Reduced checkout abandonment 11\%.
\end{itemize}

\section{Projects}
\cvevent{OpenRatelimit (OSS)}{2023}{Go rate-limiting library, 2.1k GitHub stars.}{}
\cvevent{Paperhouse}{2021}{React Native reading app, 40k downloads.}{}

\section{Education}
\cvevent{B.S.\ Computer Science}{2014 -- 2018}{Stanford University}{Stanford, CA}\\
GPA 3.84. Minor in Math. Honors thesis on consensus protocols.

\switchcolumn

\section{About me}
8+ years building distributed systems. Payments, billing, infra. I like
well-structured code, rigorous postmortems, and mentoring.

\divider

\section{Contact}
\faMapMarker\ San Francisco, CA\\
\faMobile\ +1 555 123 4567\\
\faEnvelope\ \href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]}\\
\faGithub\ \href{https://github.com/you}{github.com/you}\\
\faLinkedin\ \href{https://linkedin.com/in/you}{linkedin.com/in/you}

\section{Languages}
English \hfill \ratingbar{5}\\
Spanish \hfill \ratingbar{4}\\
Mandarin \hfill \ratingbar{3}

\section{Skills}
Go \hfill \ratingbar{5}\\
Python \hfill \ratingbar{5}\\
TypeScript \hfill \ratingbar{4}\\
Rust \hfill \ratingbar{3}\\
Kubernetes \hfill \ratingbar{5}\\
AWS \hfill \ratingbar{4}

\section{Certifications}
\faCertificate\ AWS SA -- Pro (2023)\\
\faCertificate\ CKA (2022)

\end{paracol}

\end{document}
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