Meta-Analysis

Am I Crazy for Building This?

I just spent my Thanksgiving break architecting a Python-based ETL pipeline to inject structured data into a WordPress Block Theme, solely to update my resume. Is this over-engineering? Or is it art?

The Symptom

Instead of just opening a Google Doc and typing “Updated: Nov 2025,” I built a system that parses PDFs into CSVs, uses AI to “explode” bullet points into atomic data rows, and then re-assembles them based on a schema.

The Diagnosis: Chronic Product Ops Syndrome. The inability to do a task without first building a system to do the task for you.

The “Cute” Result

But look at this beautiful, structured data. My career history is no longer a flat document; it is a queryable database. I can now ask: “Show me every time I mentioned ‘API’ between 2018 and 2022,” and get a precise answer. That is power. That is leverage. That is… maybe a little crazy. 🍒