What You Need for a Great Developer Website, GitHub, and LinkedIn

Your LinkedIn profile, your GitHub portfolio, and your personal developer site all support your resume. Here’s how to stand out.

Your website doesn’t need to be this fancy, but good design never hurts. (Photo by Nagara Oyodo on Unsplash)

In this article, I’m going to discuss exactly what makes a great developer website, GitHub portfolio, and LinkedIn profile. I’ll share what to avoid — things that are a waste of time, red flags for employers, or will raise the wrong kinds of questions about your professional experience.

If you’re starting from scratch — with just your resume and maybe a few portfolio projects for GitHub — it will take about a month to launch all 3 of these projects. Your website will take the most time. (If you’re not a frontend engineer — you might be able to skip a personal website entirely in favor of another portfolio project of your choice.) Your GitHub portfolio is going to be surprisingly easy, since there isn’t much you can add to your GitHub profile, and your LinkedIn profile will be almost exactly the same as your resume, except for a few tips that will help you stand out there.

Why a Website Makes You a Memorable Candidate

Of course, if you’re a currently-employed developer with years of experience with a specialist tech…