Built a database‑driven CV, references, portfolio and cover‑letter generator in Python — 40 modules, 10,413 lines — rendering six output formats from one 23‑table SQLite source assembled by an 18‑step idempotent pipeline.

Situation. A CV, a reference sheet, a portfolio and a cover letter are the same facts arranged four ways, and keeping them as four documents means every correction is made four times and eventually is not. Three languages multiplies that by three. The failure mode is not that a document is wrong; it is that two documents disagree and nothing says which one is current.

Task. One source of facts had to produce every document, in every language, in every format, with the arrangement decided by code rather than by whoever last edited a file.

Action. The source is a SQLite database of twenty‑three tables — achievements, titles, companies, regions, categories, services, profiles, references, summaries — assembled by an eighteen‑step pipeline that runs from an empty file to a complete database in one command. The steps are ordered and each is written to be safe to repeat, so the pipeline can be run against an existing database without duplicating a row. Forty Python modules totalling 10,413 lines render six output formats from it: HTML, PDF in two variants, plain text, Markdown and JSON, through six Jinja templates and eight stylesheets. Runtime dependencies were held to exactly two, a template engine and a PDF renderer, on the argument that a document generator which cannot be installed in five years has not preserved anything. Targeting is a first‑class concept rather than a manual edit: a profile selects which achievements appear and in what order, so a document aimed at one kind of reader is a query rather than a copy.

Result. Six formats, three languages and five themes come out of one database, and a corrected sentence is corrected once. The cost is that the system is now the only way to produce a document — there is no longer a file to open and edit in a hurry, and adding a language means adding it everywhere before anything builds at all.