For comparison, I set myself up with a LaTeX CV about 20 years ago and have used it ever since. For those occasions that required Word I pasted it from the PDF. I also have a small Makefile to "build" it.

https://flatline.org.uk/cv.tex.txt

The trouble with this is resisting the temptation to make it look ""just right"" and instead go with minimally-altered defaults.