How do I showcase my backend skills?

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[Deathcauldron]

Best Answer I've heard on the entire internet pertaining to showcasing Backend Developer prowess. Thank you.

[justincook]

I agree that these creative projects will set you apart from the pack, or should I say resume stack. However, I think it is probably crucial to have an app that demonstrates you know rest principles, SQL, authentication, authorization, and data validation as well.

[mawulijo]

Thanks Fred. I've struggled with this thought for a while. You just made my life easier

[knuckleshots]

This is awesome i have struggled with this

[DevTechSpectrum]

And here I was thinking I needed to make a basic CRUD application to even get looked at.

[BionicCyborg]

I am older, pretty interesting I never thought about being clever. I am also not marketing myself for employment. You are saying as a back-end developer it is about building something for efficiency. That makes sense a lot of what I do is connecting data inputs from varying inputs SQL, Rest API with multiple systems and creating a system internal to an enterprise . While that is complex, to market one self something simple useful non cookie cutter code, digestible, not the larger system that I make. Less is more if it is practical and well designed.

[jobhernandez]

Hello Fredrik, I am a self taught programmer. I only went to university for a about a year but dropped out due to illness. in the last two years i have studied, from textbooks, about the core of CS degree inlcuding CLRS, Discrete math, compilers, operating systems, linear algebra and so on. I have solved exercises from these textbooks including a compiler in lisp. was wondering how can a self taught programmer demonstrate that they know some theory? i also have experience with django but i mainly write linear algebra libraries and compilers in my free time. any help will be appreciated. thanks

[HenriqueEC]

In a nutshell, you would need to be able to perceive problems, even the small ones, give them a creative solution, then you need to show it somehow. Am I correct?

[justincook]

Beginner Backend Project: recreate a tdd clone of the jsonTypicode API with SQL to interface with db. No orm! Perhaps put a spin on it, and require authentication to post/put. This means you need a sign up and login route. Get familiar with password hashing too! Don't forget backend form validation!

[therealmujtaba]

Just show something a little different, that's what you mean. If the resume evaluation team see 90% of the 100 of the applicants have done rest api but just few have done something more interesting and useful, then who is going to be shortlisted? You know who. Just try to be the edge case... sometimes that edgecase can be misleading too but at the end you need to be smart on how to showcase and market yourself. Many people have done it but when it comes to communication and team working they just are not fit.

[CrapE_DM]

Sure, those are clever, but other than cleverness, they're not related to back end web.