Christian Garry – Living CV

A living, self-updating CV and research notebook, powered by my GitHub, LinkedIn, and CV repository.

This site is meant to feel like a cross between a personal research homepage and a status dashboard: featured projects look like little research papers, activity streams in from my developer and professional networks, and the latest CV entry is always one click away.

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🌐 Live Site

Live: https://christiangarry.com/

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✨ Features

Hero & Networks

• Clean hero card with name, roles, and tagline
• GitHub + LinkedIn count chips
• GitHub contribution “Green Wall” banner

Featured Projects

Configured via data/pinned_projects.json:

• Horizontal strip of “paper cards”
• Ivory textured background
• README rendered inside the card
• Lightweight markdown renderer
• Designed to look like academic abstracts

Latest GitHub Projects

• Fetches all repos
• Filters out forks
• Sorted by latest update
• Scrollable card with language, stars, updated timestamp

Latest LinkedIn Post

• Full-embed LinkedIn post
• Height-fixed card that fills with content
• Configured via data/linkedin.json

Latest CV Entry

• Pulled from separate repo: CV/entries/
• Supports YAML front-matter: title, date, cover image, links
• Uses jsDelivr CDN for raw Markdown
• Generates snippet + cover preview
• Links into entry.html for full-page view

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Tech Stack

• HTML5
• Custom CSS
• Vanilla JavaScript
• GitHub API

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Structure

.
├── index.html
├── cv.html
├── entry.html
├── scripts/
│   ├── index.js
│   ├── cv.js
│   └── entry.js
├── styles/
│   ├── index.css
│   └── cv.css
├── assets/
└── data/
    ├── linkedin.json
    └── pinned_projects.json

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Configuration

LinkedIn (data/linkedin.json)

{
  "handle": "your-handle",
  "profile": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/your-handle/",
  "connections": 500,
  "latestPost": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:1234..."
}

Pinned Projects (data/pinned_projects.json)

[
  {
    "owner": "cgarryZA",
    "repo": "ReyrolleGPT-2",
    "title": "ReyrolleGPT-2: Engineering Knowledge RAG",
    "branch": "main",
    "readme": "README.md"
  }
]

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Running Locally

python3 -m http.server 8000

Visit: http://localhost:8000/

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Deployment

1. Push repo to GitHub
2. Settings → Pages
3. “Deploy from branch”, choose main
4. Set root directory

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License

MIT