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I used HTML & CSS for my resume: http://thisisbrians.com/resume.html

Dude, take "Skateboard club at Georgia Tech" off your resume. Especially since it looks like you either quit or were kicked out of your role as founder and president after your first year!

That's great if people are viewing your resume online, but the print version looks very ordinary; there's a page break within a block, the format is dull (you even set a print stylesheet), and, for instance, the kerning is mediocre compared to TeX (e.g. in Europe). Your resume even compete on any of the points that (La)TeX is good at.

His resume could look much better; he's using Georgia (a system font) and not using the OpenType features enabled by modern CSS.

LaTeX's hyphenation and math have no (non-JS) match in HTML/CSS, but just about everything else is very matchable. You can enable kerning based on OpenType GPOS, you can control page breaks (with page-break-inside or widows, for instance), and just about anything else that you can think of.

Modern HTML + CSS is amazingly capable, and this isn't fully appreciated yet.

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